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TL;DR Summary: Passionate about math and excels at it, wants to be challenged but prefers the chaotic enviorment of my peers on the standard track Hi there! I am currently a high school freshman in algebra 1B and I love it, but i find it very easy and slow-paced. I understand concepts quickly...

Moderator's note: thread split off from https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/why-should-the-copy-constructor-accept-its-parameter-by-reference-in-c.1049624/ That is true, but I am continually surprised and impressed about how much C++ is in C if you just know where to look, "struct" has almost...

This semester I am taking calculus 3 and ODE, along with an intermediate CS class and a general elective communications course. I'm wondering how difficult these two will be when taken together. I took Calc 2 the semester prior and got an A, but have never taken 2 math classes simultaneously...

So, my approach and solution are as follows: $$ [x * y] = \{ z \in M : z \sim (x * y) \} $$ Since we know that ##a * b \sim a^{\prime} * b^{\prime}## we can rewrite ##z## as ## x^{\prime} * y^{\prime} ##. Plugging this in yields: $$ [x * y] = \{ x^{\prime}, y^{\prime} \in M : x^{\prime} *...

I am currently in a college. And the college that I am currently at doesn't offer the class online. Can I go to a different college to take the classes online, and still be at the same college I'm at? I need the class online, it makes my school life and work life function more smoothly.

Hi everyone, Hopefully I'm writing this in the correct part of PhysicsForum. Here is my problem: I'm really struggling with my programming class (basics of python3 - loops, dictionaries, numpy). What I did this semester: 1. Participated in every class 2. Solved everything our course offered...

I was in graduate school for an Applied Physics PhD program for 3 years, where I got my Master's and took all the required classes for the PhD. I left because I wanted to try my hand at teaching, and I LOVED it. Now I am 34 years old, and I am wondering if there is any possibility of going back...

The definitions of them seem like arbitrary choices or an abuse of notation. I wonder what the reasons behind the definitions are. Thanks. PS. My instructor said such defs simplify the process of solving modular equations.

Considering I barely passed summer semester with embarassingly terrible grades (which was only 2 months long and exams are on campus and were binary multiple choice question meaning no partial grades so you either know it or you don't and there is no close in science) are as follows: Course...

Hi! I recently noticed I have really big problems concentrating when attending my college lectures (1year). Let me give an example: I come to the physics lecture and I'm totally engaged in the lecture material. But after 20min I start to lose interest and I have to physically force myself to...

I'm looking at a script and it begins with class Solution(object): def lengthOfLongestSubstring(self, s): but what is the point of line 1? I've tried reading, and am pretty confused. Also, what is the purpose of "self" in the function? At some point later the script writes ob1 = Solution()...

Why are struct use for linked list and classes used for binary tree. honestly what is the different between a class and a struct? I have a teacher one tell me that a class was a struct on steroids. but what does that really mean ?

Hoping to start a discussion on a topic that seems rarely discussed here. In your direct or indirect experience, how commonly do students cheat in college classes? In what situation does cheating occur commonly? Did it occur in undergraduate or graduate school?

May be a dumb question, but I know very little about online classes. My main question is, and I assume it does vary depending on a number of factors, but in general, is it possible to complete online classes while working a full time job with sometimes up to 80 hours a week or more. For...

The book I am using has a number of exercises like this: If G is a p-group, show that G cannot have exactly p+1 conjugacy classes. If G is a p-group with p+2 conjugacy classes, show that the order of G is 4. I can never solve any problem that involves connecting the number of conjugacy...

Hello Forum, In Python, methods are functions which are defined inside a class. Python has many reserved keywords and built-in functions like print(), add(), type(), etc that we commonly use even when we don't create classes, instances, etc. Whenever we use an operator (like + or - ) or a...

I started to learn classes in python and I am looking for problems about them. Are there any good online sites that I can find problems about them. If they also contain solutions, that would be great, but if not that is also okay. Problems can have the form like An administrator is a special...

Hi I am integrating my program into using different Classes. I have been trouble shooting for a while and I am stuck on this error and I don't understand the problem even reading online. I am using two Specification files with no Implementation files. I just want to make it easier with less...

I'm not a newbee to C++ but I've been out of the loop for a while. I know it's discouraged, if not directly a no-go, to derive from STL classes. Something that has to do, if I remember correctly, with the STL classes having no virtual destructors. It will work in the short run but may...

My question is how to show ##\mathcal{F} \subset \sum'##. Here is my work for the problem: Proof of hint: First we'll show ##\sum## is a monotone class. Let ##(A_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}} \subset \sum## and ##F \in \mathcal{F}##. There are two things to verify. Suppose ##(A_n) \uparrow A =...

I'm nearing the end of community college, 2 more semesters to go to finish up math and physics major classes. I took differential equations and physics 1 (mechanics) this semester - found ODE easy and intro mechanics challenging; I tend to do well in math classes, but am not the most talented...

Okay so which 4 classes would you recommend me to take? I am only wanting to teach high school astronomy LOL however, I have to pick 4 classes from here. Easiest classes would be?

There are plentty of textbooks and online papers that talk about the energy momentum tensor, but they all look to me as if they're only covering the very introductory aspects of it. To put another way, it seems that there's much more to be learn. I would like to know if university physics...

Hi! I'm unsure of what major to pick as an undergrad (physics vs. quantitative biology vs. mathematics), but I'm not too worried at the moment about the major at the moment - I'll do an evaluation at the end of this semester to determine where my strengths and interests are. What I'm more...

I am studying Choquet-Bruhat's Introduction to General Relativity, Black Holes and Cosmology, and I don't follow the hint in Exercise I.2.1: Exercise I.2.1 Let U,V be open subsets of R^d. Prove that a C^1 diffeomorphism f:U-->V with f of class C^k is a C^k diffeomorphism. Hint: ##\partial (f...

Which are the physics topic included in GRE classes?

I think the concept of memorizing (at least in the pure sciences) is not correct at all. I think it requires pure logic and skills over anything else. Memorizing is just 1 percent of the deal. I am a BSc first year student and I got an A in Zoology-I despite not having a photographic memory. I...

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I am taking next semester Differential equations, University physics 2, Electrical circuits class and lab and an Introduction to engineering course at a community college and I am planning to work part time. Is it a good idea or at least doable to do those classes and take a part-time job less...

I teach group theory for physicists, and I like to teach it following some papers. In general my students work with condensed matter, so I discuss group theory following these papers: [1] Group Theory and Normal Modes, American Journal of Physics 36, 529 (1968) [2] Nonsymmorphic Symmetries and...

Upon entering my first physics class, I've noticed that taking notes is radically different than in any other class. It seems that during lecture one has two options. Option 1: Don't take very many notes at all, and instead focus on the lecture. Option 2: Take good notes, and miss what the...

I'm having quite a bit of difficulty in my college's intro honors, calc-based physics class. I want to find some good resources, either online or text, to assist with learning the material. The issue I'm having is that most resources I find are either not in depth enough, or they're just as...

These are the classes I have decided so far for the next semester. Every prerequisite listed is a class I have already taken: Statistical Inference Sampling and parameter estimation, tests of hypotheses, correlation, regression, analysis of variance, sequential analysis, rank order statistics...

Hi, I'm starting my undergraduate physics degree this Monday and I'm trying to make up a good system of how I'm going to learn efficiently. This is what I came up with so far. The courses at my uni don't always follow a textbook, just parts of some, so I'll ask the lecturers about these and...

To preface, I'm starting my Physics degree this upcoming semester. For the past year, I've been doing all of my generals while I took care of the mathematical prerequisites for the degree (College Algebra Preparation Class, College Algebra, and Trigonometry). Now that those are complete, I can...

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I plan on taking a multitude of AP classes next year. I would like some books that I should buy for good study.

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...

So I finished my first year of college and I'll be transferring to a new college where a C or better is required. However my Intro to Anthropology(100) class I had an absolutely terrible professor who gave me a C- and so now it won't transfer and I'm out of $1,400. So my question is am I able...

I have spent the past few months incredibly conflicted. I just finished my freshman year of undergrad (at a 4-year American university) and I have discovered Biophysics, a field which I really want to pursue. However, I still love math and want to continue with my Applied Math major. I'm afraid...

Hello, I would like to find explicit calculations of Chern classes on various bundles. I mean examples where the steps are worked out explicitly, in terms of explicit connections. I have only found abstract and non explicit "examples". I only really understand things when I can work out...

I am a math major with a concentration in Pre-Medicine and I am setting up my program for next year. I was wondering if taking Bio w/ a lab, Chem w/ a lab, Calc II and Linear algebra is just an unrealistic idea.

In the book 'ZERO THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA' Charles Seife says, "Because ratios were the key to understanding nature, the Pythagoreans and later Greek Mathematicians spent much of their energy investigating their properties. Eventually, they categorized proportions into 10 different...

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...

Since the semester has started, I've found myself regularly behind in my math classes. I usually stay a lesson ahead, but these classes have a lot more material and go much faster, so I'm taking a beating. The material isn't hard, but the notes are what's killing me. In one of the classes, we...

I'm not if this is the right place for this, so mods can feel free to move this. I'm a part-time student going into my second semester of 300 level physics class. This past semester I oscillated between feeling just fine and questioning whether physics was right for me (usually around test...

Homework Statement Write a BinaryTree Class using these specifications: A Class Node represents a standard node of the tree with fields and a constructor like given below: int start, end; const Complex* value; //I will provide more information about Complex later because that was the...

Homework Statement One company offers 45 minute classes at 12$ per class. If the number of minutes Randilf spent during Yoga this month was 132 greater than the number of dollars he paid, how many classes did he attend? Homework Equations No standard eq The Attempt at a Solution First class...

Hi PF! :') Ultimately, I've taken zero AP classes in my entire time in high school and, at first, I didn't see this as a problem. But now there are a couple of people who've told me otherwise (in terms of getting into college for undergrad). SO, if I take calc III at my local community college...