My god... Glad someone asked. I've also been searching for the errata but with no luck. I really hope someone could compile or the publisher should have been more responsible with this since they are destroying a gem here!
The students are regular physics majors in their sophomore year. I guess most of them would go to grad school so teaching the correct concepts is a must. I myself learned the material in a very scattered way so I'm asking whether there are books that teach these materials more or less in one...
Oh... That sounds really bad, really really bad, that will allow for many confused students and misconceptions to spread more. I thought I was just choosing the wrong books to study on, well, how should one study QM then in order to avoid those pitfalls, example the wave particle duality, etc...
I have been plagued by modern physics and quantum mechanics books before that employ the traditional approach where they start from Photoelectric effect, Blackbody radiation, etc. (This is really not an issue but in fact illuminating since it shows how old QM developed) until you read about...
Yes, I have seen some very interesting professors in Germany so I wanted to apply there. So what do you think I should do in order to join a group? Are there programs in Europe where you can take classes (to fill the my deficiencies) while working in a group (at the PhD level)? I really believe...
I got my degree in Taiwan, but I don't understand what does it have to do with the educational system, I think the important thing is what I have at hand now and what I should do next.
I've completed my education at the masters level, my research was on inflation, so most of the papers I read are on cosmology. I plan to pursue a PhD on quantum gravity, e.g. I'm interested in doing loop quantum methods with regards to horizon entropy. But based on my background, I still think I...
I've completed a masters degree in physics and my research was on cosmological inflation, though knowing some basic GR (Hartle, Schutz, Ohanian) and cosmology (papers), I haven't had any formal course in QFT, I'm now halfway through QFT by Blundell so nothing profound there, now I wanted to get...
I'm sorry, I've read my answer to part a) again and it should have been "the distance between balls will decrease during the upward trip". As for part c) I still don't see what you want me to think, based on my understanding there shouldn't be any difference between upwards and downwards as...
Well, I think the authors implicitly assume that the gravitational acceleration is approximately constant throughout. So talking about interstellar space is out of the question.