Experience Definition and 435 Threads

In order to give a quick background: I am a first-year university student. So far pretty much all I have been doing is to study from textbooks, solve problems, etc. Thus I have been able to attain A's in all exams so far. Yet, the question pops up whether it would be more beneficial (beyond the...

I'm filling out a webform application for a position as a Financial Analytics Analyst/Developer The job requirements list: "At least 1 year experience in mortgage servicing, fixed income, financial engineering, or quantitative analytics" The webform actually asks about the amount of...

Homework Statement "Cars with wide tires experience more friction than cars with narrow tires" Homework Equations Is that statement true or false? What are the advantages of wider tires? explain! The Attempt at a Solution I think that they experience the same friction because...

Hi all I was wondering if Top programs are more accomedating to those with some work experience before applying. I want to try for the top ie MIT, UCs, Stanford etc... but I definitely would like to work for a bit before conintuing on to grad studies. Is it less competitive for these...

so I recently visited a grad program Open house but didn't get a chance to meet some faculty whose research I was interested in and didn't get to meet their grad students. Would it be appropriate to email those grad students to ask how they like working for their PIs and what their opinions...

Alice is free-falling towards the event horizon (EH) of a black hole (BH) large enough such that local tidal forces are negligible. Bob is sufficiently ("infinitely") far away such that he is unaffected by the BH and inertial. Bob's view of Alice is well established: she will appear to slow...

Graduate School--Yale Experience Hi there, I was wondering if I can find any member that goes/went to Yale University for a graduate program. I got accepted into Yale and Michigan for the PhD program in experimental Nuclear Physics/HEP. Though both are equally renounced and are offering kinda...

As a final year BEng Civil Engineering undergraduate, I currently hold an offer to do a fully funded PhD in Computational Engineering. I should be 23 by time I finish this. Should I opt to not remain in Academia, and with virtually no industrial experience, what sort of decent paid work could...

I go to a big school with lots of physics research available. I started in a group at the beginning of this year, and I'm a junior and have good grades. From looking on different REU program websites it seems like a lot of them seem to want people with limited access to research at their...

Has anyone had sleep paralysis before? I experienced my first instance of sleep paralysis last night and it's extremely odd. My eyes were completely open and I heard the voice of my brother, and the noise of my other brother running downstairs, this was all accompanied by zippers opening and...

Do you think that they are better at teaching the course or worse at teaching the course, as compared to newer professors who might have taught the course for only a couple of times? Obviously, I realize that there is no clear-cut relationship. *But*, there are certainly patterns to look for...

I'm coming to the end of my chemistry degree (in the UK) and I've been looking into applying for jobs as a trainee patent attorney. I'm hoping that someone here can give me some valuable advice. Am I a suitable candidate? What's the competition like? - My degree is a BSc in Chemistry, this has...

Hello all! I am about to graduate with a BS in engineering - electrical. For my major, it was required we take an introductory C# course. All I really got out of that was how to use for and while loops and if statements, and a little logic. There were topics on more involved stuff like...

More specifically, consider a Hamiltonian with a changeable parameter a. When changing a, the ground state of the system will change. In some cases, one phase crossovers to another, like in other cases, there's a phase transition. What factor determines the difference? Actually I am now working...

Who here has seen it? I saw it today in 3D imax. After my eyes stopped hurting I rather enjoyed myself. Not a bad way to get back into the series.

Hello All, I currently hold an AAS degree in Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) and am working towards a BS in EET with an option to take the remaining classes needed to get a post bacc degree in EE. Both programs are ABET accredited, and the school I attend is part of the state...

Hi, I have two majors ,one in Physics and the other is Electronics engineering.I have 7 years of work experience in Embedded systems and firmware development. I want to do MS from a reputed US university( like Stanford ,University of California Berkeley etc). Do you think I stand a good...

Hey everyone, I am in grade 12 in Canada and will be applying to universities soon and am conflicted between which engineering program to go to. I'm trying to decide between the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo. It seems that UfT has a better world-wide reputation as it...

Hello, first of all I want to say english isn't my primary language (I'm from Quebec), so I'm sorry if you have trouble understanding me. I will be attending university next year (I think this is what you guys call undergrad school in the US, with one less year since we have "CEGEP" between...

hi all- having a strange (perhaps expected?) problem inserting a BBO into the optical path of a TiSaph fs laser. the issue is that i can achieve strong SHG output, but only with *severe* spatial distortion of the pulse shape. has anyone had experience/encountered this issue in an...

Heh, I bet this product will do extremely well. It almost looks theraputic. https://www.buyeasyfeet.com/ My mother has some pretty serious physical disabilities. I'm going to send her one of these. In fact, I'll probably get one for Tsu and I to try as well.

Homework Statement Assume a particle of mass m which is free to move on the plane x-y. The particle is experiencing a force F = −kr towards the origin. Find the equation y = y(x) that describes the motion of this particle on the plane. Homework Equations F = ma = -kr r(t) =...

Hi all. I'm considering being a tutor for my dept and later on taking up a TA position. I do enjoy teaching, but it's a time commitment. Would such teaching experiences help me in applying to grad schools? Thanks!

Before I begin, immediately after I saw my first two sightings and after reporting them to nuforc and mufon, I started refining my experience by writing thoughts down to the best degree humanly possible. Take in consideration, what I saw was not supposed to exist and I am describing how it...

I have two questions related to my experience. I don't know whether others experience it too. 1. Sometimes when I exert (force) with maximum capacity for an interval of time, I see Silver/Blue coloured moving micro-organisms in air. I feel slight dizziness at this time and this usually...

Hello everyone, I'm a 16 year old physics and mathematics enthusiast who's just moved to NYC, and will be getting my IB in Physics when I graduate from this new school. I do independent research heavily when I'm not doing schoolwork, and I've been wondering if there are any locations within or...

I. Overview Another SA asked me to elaborate on a remark I made to the effect that frequency shift phenomena always (even in Minkowski vacuum) involve at least the following ingredients: two (proper time parameterized) timelike curves C, C' an event A on C ("emission event") an...

I am a high school student (just graduated) from the Netherlands who is going to the International Physics Olympiad next week. I am happy I‘ve got here, but also feel I’ve been wasting a lot of time doing things that are beyond my level. I just wanted to share my experience here. I’ve never...

I have been looking around on the web, including this forum, regarding the question: "does a photon experience the passage of time?" reputable sites, including this one, and quotes from reputable people, seem to disagree. is the answer, "we don't know?" the implications of a photon...

Will gravity waves theoretically experience a doppler effect for bodies in relative motion to the source?

Hi, I'm a Year 12 student in the UK looking to do Physics (Theoretical/Astro) at uni in sept' 2011. A lot of the unis I've looked at so far, predominantly Manchester and Imperial, have mentioned on their websites that work experience can give you the edge, especially as it is so hard to find for...

Do You Experience "Number Forms"? A "number form" is an involuntary chart, of sorts, that pops into some people's minds when they consider things like calendars (months, days), times of day, the alphabet, or even just numbers from 1 to infinity. These "charts" have their elements grouped...

I just graduated with my BS degrees in physics and applied math this December 2009. After taking a few mechanical engineering classes, I'm certain that I want to enter pursue a career in mechanical/aerospace engineering. I'm especially interested in working with aircraft, missiles, satellites...

Homework Statement In an amusement park ride called The Roundup, passengers stand inside a 17.0m -diameter rotating ring. After the ring has acquired sufficient speed, it tilts into a vertical plane. Suppose the ring rotates once every 4.80s . If a rider's mass is 52.0kg , with how much...

Is it because the speed of light is only achieved in vacuum, whereas light which travels through the universe is traveling through a medium and therefore light is not traveling at the speed of light? Just doesn't make sense to me that a mass-less particle (photon) which should not...

I'm a junior in college right now (planning on a 3.5 year graduation), majoring in engineering physics at a very good school. I've got a great GPA because I work hard during school, but I've got no research experience and no good work experience (my last two summers weren't spent very well) so...

For those who don't know, here's the Wiki on geta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geta_%28footwear%29 I was thinking about buying some for the sake of my feet. I stand all day at work and it's taking quite a toll on me. I've tried the various inserts for my sneakers and their mats, but they...

Hi PF, I am an undergrad who recently started getting much more involved in his research (basically I am a HEP code monkey). Anyways, most of the technological aspects of the work were completely unknown to me, I started from scratch. And I found that, looking for the answer to one glitch...

Mechanical Eng. with no experience ! I just got my BS in mech eng. But I do not have any work experience related to Mech Eng. what should I put on my resume?? Will employers even bother to hire me ? (my gpa is 3.4) Any suggestions would help.

Hi. This is a very helpful forum, but your latex feature hinders this. It's very tedious to use, and for a particularly symbol/equation heavy question, the asker (like me) is often put off having to spend another 20mins getting the question set up to ask. And not everyone has a scanner so...

I'm currently in my senior year of EE and still can't find an internship. I am set to graduate next fall with no issues. I really (really really) want to get a masters in furthur EE courses but have heard of people having problems finding a job with too much academia and not enought...

I'm nearing completion of my undergraduate education, and despite my initial excitement about physics, I seem to have hit a wall and been completely demotivated. I want to go on to graduate school in physics, but my undergrad experience has me second guessing this desire. I've been met with...

I recently read an article about Joseph Kittinger which stated that in a skydive, he was subjected to a G force of 22 m/s^2. Disregarding fluid resistance, don't objects in free fall always experience one g?

Warning: mature subject matter! It was my birthday yesterday and I got a special unexpected gift. Kinda of embarrassing to ask a doctor especially if it's not something dire, so I though maybe I could ask you guys. I was given a special massage...orally...Which for me is extremely you...

Homework Statement A bird stands on an electric transmission line carrying 2210 A, as seen in the figure below. The line has 3.32E-5 Ω resistance per meter and the bird's feet are 3.80 cm apart. What voltage does the bird feel? Homework Equations R=sigma(L)/A I=V/R The Attempt at a...

Does any here have experience with antidepressants? How long have you taken them? Do they make it harder for you to think? How effective have they been for you?

Today I was at our bookstore grabbing my copy of Goldstein and Jackson for THAT semester of grad school and I decided to pick up some notebooks and paper too. I've come to realize that I've become very picky about paper and pencils! I look back on my undergrad work and I can barely read any of...

Hey all, I just graduated from a small-ish northeastern private liberal arts university known more for it's law and communications departments than it's science education. It's a fairly respectable school but a small physics department, about 50 students in total. I plan on taking a year...

I'm a 20y.o. physics student at the university of durham UK. I've never had a job, so I reckon by the time I graduate etc. it'll be hard for me to get started with a career because of my lack of experience. The job market isn't exactly fruitful at the moment, people are being laid off...

I am going to transfer from a CC to the state flagship university