Even if I skip some classes there would still be a huge amount of time wasted for numerous reasons. I've been there for 1 painful unproductive semester. I'd like to point how unproductive the last 3 years already were because of high school that was even worse.
I'm a self learner. I've been programming since I'm 10 years old. I'm cursing Electronics and Computer Engineering on the best university of my city. But there are many problems. 40% of the curriculum consists of things I already know, 40% consists of things that are either irrelevant for me or...
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This is a new of a girl who is said to have discovered a new nanoparticle that could help on the cure of cancer. They mentioned she was reading graduate level bioengineering papers since 15. Well, where she got...
Jorris, you got me wrong again. I was talking about the volume formulas, and my methods were limited to basic volumes of very limited shapes. Just that it had some of the essence of calculus on it - calculus is the intuitive way to calculate volumes. Now that I think about it, though, perhaps it...
This was very intuitive for me? I never used those formulas, but some weird methods I made up to calculate volume on high school, that kind of resemble calculus. But what is the intuitive way to calculate a volume, then? And why do you have to make the same kind of exercise several times? It's...
It's all useful but obvious? You really need to tell someone how to calculate the volume of a solid? And L'Hospital, well, just tell me once that it can be used to evaluate indeterminate limits, bother to explain why (it didn't and I still don't know!), give me one exercise per typical case and...
Why can't you simple draw a line charting it's trajectory? Is it a particle? If I freeze time, will I be able to see where it is?
I don't believe in smartness but thanks for the estimative. If this is so, then there's no problems. But can you advise me on books more compact than stewart on...
But understanding the math if you have no clue of what happens there has no meaning. First you observe how something acts and then you use the math to describe it precisely. It is not the opposite. But if the pre-requisites are just what you said, I'm okay with it. I think I can get it in 2...
Modeling it on my computer, so I can see it happening. For example, I create 2 hydrogen atoms. I can see a point indicating the position of the nuclei, clouds showing the orbitals. Then I can see the atoms slowly approaching and their molecular orbitals forming as they bind. I'm not sure this is...
Hmm this is pretty actually, but why this? Ans426 just asking. As you understand QM, do you consider yourself to understand an atom? Can a QM expert predict if a chemical reaction will occour (without using chemistry/testing on lab)? What would you tell me if I asked you what is the path of the...
Actually I can't, but I just started studying differential equations so it's good news.
A few atoms on void means, for instance, creating two hydrogen atoms in an empty space and watching them react (that is, visualizing the nuclei, the electronic clouds)? Even if aproximately. Is this absurd...
Ans426, if I can watch QM happening on my eyes, will not it give me an insight? For instance I always tried to find a program that would allow me to create a few atoms on void and watch them interacting. This would be awesome. Of course I never found one, but I was not sure if it was not...
The classical world is not easy too, we are just used to it. Well I'm already advancing every day on the math, but I'll be very sad if when I finally get into QM I realize I could have understood it just with what I know today.
What are the pre-requisites of QM by the way? I'm stuck into that...