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Can anyone reccomend a good introductory text on tensor analysis? My college has neither a GR nor a tensor analysis course but i'd still like to read a good introductory text to prepare for an independent research project.

I'd say try to have some idea what you'd like to do before and in the early years of undergraduate college. Nobody plans out their entire college career ahead of time (in fact such a task is probably impossible), but it definitely helps to spend some time thinking about it. Also, when you look...

SSH'ing to a larger, linux-based campus computer is exactly what I had planned on doing, but downloading an open source feature such as cygwin to try out smaller programs is more what I wanted a notebook for -- that's what my academic advisor does and it seems to work quite well for him. I was...

I am an undergraduate physics major preparing to enter my senior year. My college requires all physics students to complete a significant and original piece of research; mine will be an examination of the antiferromagnetic Potts model using the multiple histogram method. Much of this and the...