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    Schools Grad School Admissions for Physics with Low GPA

    I will complete it. I'm doing much better in my classes now then I was as a freshman. Getting C's then and now all B's in physics and A'a in astronomy classes. And the work has only gotten harder. So I'm confident I can put in the work to keep up.
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    Schools Grad School Admissions for Physics with Low GPA

    It would be a Phd physics. I also have a background that I could apply for a Phd in Astronomy as well. I don't know if it's anymore likely. Talking to the physics professors here at UF, they say the average to get into grad school is 3.2.
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    Schools Grad School Admissions for Physics with Low GPA

    Hello all, I am entering my senior year. I have a over all gpa of 3.3. My subject gpa currently is 2.83 due to some bad classes my freshman year. I have 6 classes left towards my major so I have a chance to bring up my major gpa. But I study and work hard as it is, and can't get an A in my...
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    Schools Is research experience necessary for a successful PhD application?

    Any helpful advice when it comes to preparing for the physics GRE?
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    Schools Is research experience necessary for a successful PhD application?

    Thanks Jack476, MisterX, Choppy, and Vanadium 50, you guys really gave some great advice and tips on what to do, I appreciate it very much, and I will still try to get into research here at my own school first, but I guess I'm going to have to get some things in order so that I can apply to a...
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    Schools Is research experience necessary for a successful PhD application?

    Hello everyone, I was just wanting some opinions, and advice would be even better. I'm a physics major, at a good university. GPA 3.3 and will be raised after this semester. my LOR will be average, I have one professor I took for several classes that knows me well. haven't taken GRE yet, I...
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    Block on inclinded plane, and falls

    Homework Statement A box of mass M, is falling down a ramp with velocity v1,the ramp is inclined at 60 degrees, the momentum is mv. The force on the box is gcos 30. The time it takes to reach the bottom is t1. Then the box falls off the ramp with a velocity v2, it falls some distance h. The...
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