Recent content by Xelikai

What is the reputation of Lehigh in the Physics community? They are a school I've considered, and I'm going to their table at a college fair this week. What are their big programs? I know they are an amazing engineering school, but I haven't heard much about their physics program.

I would probably want to have no more than thirty, though twenty would feel better, I think.

I'm just worried about not enriching myself/not being able to work as close with the professors. I feel like being in smaller classes nurtures education more. Personal preference I guess

The only thing I'm worried about with Penn State is the large student size. Like I said in the OP, while "top" or "elite" schools are nice, I would rather be in an environment where I can push my own understanding of the material to new heights. Large student size makes me worried that maybe I...

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So after doing some (superficial) research into top school, I have put together a list of schools that I found consistently fell in top spots, though some of them may be less competitive. I did not discriminate based on location, simply on multiple appearances on lists that ranked schools based...

Yes, and the problem I always see with them is that they always come up with Ivy League schools (Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, Yale, etc.). I'm looking for lower schools that may be less competitive.

Hello, I am a high school junior looking at going into a career in physics. Over the past few years, I have found that I enjoy physics, specifically in "understanding" the atom, and the mind boggling ideas of what happens at that level. I think I want to study particle physics or quantum...

So based on the responses, I've come to the conclusion that I will be doing two-three sets of tests on these notes. I found a teacher at the print shop of our high school who has the Pantone color charts, and has agreed to let me use them. Second, this weekend I will be looking for local Paint...

So assuming that the actual color of red is the wavelength of 620-750 nm, the average wavelength of red, or the "purest" red, would be a wavelength of 685 nm. So if I could graph all of the wavelengths on a graph of x=wavelength and y=intensity (i'm not sure how I would measure intensity), then...

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but since I'm new here i'll post it here until someone tells me it should go somewhere else. Anyway, I am currently wondering how to measure the color of some post it notes. It started as a friendly argument as to which post it pad was more red...

I have found that math becomes easier and less of a chore when you treat it as a method instead of an end. It's just the logical answer of what makes sense. Math isn't a bunch of rules, it is process of understanding. You slowly learn all the pieces, geometry and algebra, and then in calculus it...

It's hard to say that I "started" learning physics, due to the fact that I'm simply a high school student who has yet to take a physics class (our school cut 9th grade physics, so it is now a senior year elective) however I can say that I got interested in it because of my passion for...

Hi, I'm new here, and I love science, specifically physics