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Let me clarify. I've taken a thermo course that had some aspects of stat mech, but I haven't taken the standalone stat mech course. I'm wondering if the one course is enough or if I should take the dedicated stat mech course. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if it's offered in the first semester...

Hi, I have one year of undergraduate classes left. I am trying to figure out how best to prepare for my applications to an AMO physics program (hopefully highly competitive). My first question is: how much importance can one class have? Maybe I am stressing too much about trying to make myself...

I am trying to work through a problem in the textbook "Particle Physics in a Nutshell." However, I am realizing how little I actually understand about working through problems involving quark color pairs. Given in the problem is the meson color singlet 1/\sqrt{3}(r\bar{r}+g\bar{g}+b\bar{b})...