Recent content by XGWManque

I have an undergraduate degree in physics, but that was several years ago. It depends on what you mean by stick. I remember Maxwell's Laws and what they mean. From a mathematical perspective, when I hit Chapter 3, I can probably re-learn how to do a basic separation of variables with a couple...

OK, thank you for all your help. I slept on it some and decided to continue on with Griffiths for the time being, because things are going fairly well and I don't want to mess with a good thing for now. I'll see how things proceed over the next few months. If it becomes apparent down the road...

Well... yeah, that is another issue, considering I have had shoddy study habits all my life. I am doing my best to schedule a daily routine to my work. Not as easy as it should be with the pandemic going on, but possible. Combining exercises with Feynman processes where I try to teach the...

Absolutely! Sorry, I should have made this clear: I am using more tried and true methods like seeing a professional for the most part. But as another poster here commented, having a purpose to your days is nothing to sneeze at in terms of psychological effect. Put another way: would getting...

Hello, So, I'm looking for some advice from people here who have experience studying physics outside of an academic program. Recently, I've started Griffiths E&M. Although it hasn't been long, I've been having an absolute blast: like, heart-fluttering, "helping me with suicidal depression"...

You are probably not going to see this, given that you haven't been active for a while-from what I can tell-but if the offer is on the table, let me know.

We're all ignorant. Just on different levels. :)

A "welcome" would be nice, people. :wink:

This is not *at all* a rigorous, well-thought definition, but... I personally like to think of it this way: whenever a linear operator acts on some vector space, it transforms the vector subspaces inside, right? There might be some subspaces that aren't rotated or manipulated in any other...

I suppose it is only polite to post an introduction here before I get to business.