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Hi all, thanks a lot for the explanations. I was able to follow the rest of the explanation in the text-book once I was able to make sense of that step.

The working out suggests first equating ## \sqrt{i} = x + iy ## and suggests that squaring and equating real and imaginary parts of both sides results in ## \sqrt{i} = \pm (1+i)/ \sqrt{2} ## Squaring both sides results in: $$ i = (x + iy)^2 $$ $$ i = x^2 + 2ixy -y^2 $$ equating real parts...

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I’ve gone with Riley, Hobson and Bence mainly for the fact that it comes with a student solutions manual. I’ll see how I get on and might supplement it with Martin and Shaw as one of you has pointed out that it's a bit lower level than Boas. Luckily these...

Hi, I'm a graduate with a BSc in Physics and MSc in Systems Engineering which I graduated from about 10 years ago. I'm trying to do some prep work in Mathematics with the intention of potentially doing an MSc in Computer Science, but also out of an interest in working through some of the...

Ok that makes some sense. Thanks for clarifying.

Hey, thanks for your response although it is a little too technical for me as its something I interested but don't really have much knowledge of. I will have a think on what you said later though. About the bit of my response you quoted, what I meant was... Firstly, when you mentioned...

I'm a bit confused about this point. Are you saying the attacker sells the reserve at a higher price then he bought it? If so, does that mean reserve price necessarily goes up as a currency devalues? What's to say investors won't instead buy a different currency or commodities using the currency...

Try and find some undergraduate research opporunities and see how you do in them perhaps?

I'll give it a go but let me say firstly I'm just doing it so that hopefully someone corrects me and I learn from it rather than any real understanding. Essentially what it says is that while at first glance auctions of bonds seem to be going succesfully it not really true. Auctions actually...

Durham University and Imperial College London are very good for physics. Imperial is amazing for Mech. Eng. arguably as good if not better than Cambridge. Not sure if that includes Mechatronics though. I'd say go to Imperial if you can't get into Cambridge and perhaps even if you get a place at...

Thanks for the advice guys. And a very useful site mal4mac, wish I had come across it earlier. Anyway I've decided to apply to a few jobs requiring 2:2 on the off chance I might get one. More likely options seems to be that I'll go on to do an MSc and apply for graduate placements next year...

Another problem I have is that the application deadlines have passed for most places. I was originally on the four years undergraduate masters, and failed to get onto the fourth year. So, I'm relegated to applying for next years batch. So a Master's was one way to strengthen my case for next...

lol, like the joke Matlab dude. And the grading system is one used in UK. Grade Average 1 70%+ 2:1 60-70% 2:2 50-60% 3 40-50% No Honours <40% Thing is, in UK many a job asks for a 2:1 minimum. So my question...

Navy not really for me. So, short of doing another undergraduate degree there's nothing I can do?

So, no one has any idea on how to make up for poor performance at undergraduate level? 1 option I was considering is the Pg. Dip. in Physics at UCL. Assuming satisfactory performance in the exams one can complete a project in the summer and obtain an M.Sc. in Physics in the same year. Any...