Experience Definition and 451 Threads

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

Does a photon experience time or space? I have follow up questions for your answer

Hi, I don't mean to bash hard working undergrads but I would be curious to hear other peoples worst/dumbest/funniest teaching or marking experience. I'll start things off with a quick one: -I was once marking the hwk assignment of a first year physics class and one particular...

http://www2.studentsreview.com/articles/article.php3?article=how-to-choose-a-career.txt According to this article about choosing your major in college, it states that the experience curve for engineers is flat compared with professions that require lots of experience like MD's. I am a...

When studying advanced mathematics and physics do you find that your brain is quickly able to understand new concepts and complicated looking math equations on the page? Is anyone here actually able to pick up a book, say "Linear Algebra" and read through it understanding it easily like a...

Graduated with a BSME last year and have not had any luck finding work. I was wondering if it is possible to take the exam and have the license activated when I acquire the neccesary experience? I have also heard that in the state of Nevada, work experience is not required; does anyone know if...

Hello, I'm in the process to apply for several jobs tomorrow and next week. I have two strong internships even though they are unpaid. In the linguistic sense; I was working in demanding tasks. However, can I say in my cover letter that I 'worked' or should I explicitly say I 'interned'? In...

Just saw Star Trek like an hour ago with my friend and it was great! :biggrin: I've never actually seen the show but I think I can make time. How did you guys like it?

I have had a question in my mind for the last while that frankly I don't have the education to even try to answer. (read why not to join the military before university). Considering our understanding of physics, do we have freedom of choice or are all things that happen following a kind of...

Electric Motorbike Does 0 to 60 in Under One Second! http://gas2.org/2009/04/27/electric-motorbike-does-0-to-60-in-under-one-second/ "...All this gives the driver a G-force three times more than that faced by a skydiver during freefall!" Isn't that ... zero?

ok I'm beginning to read a bit of kant... so what i understand is that we can only GAIN KNOWLEDGE by using concepts and applying it to experiences. it goes to say that we can not know god in this case because we can never experience god? a question someone asked me when i was discussing...

I'm a physics student facing unemployment for the coming summer. I made it to couple of interviews but it seems that didn't get the positions because of lack of actual real world programming experience even thought the positions were aimed for a physicist. Well, I thought that now that I have...

UT's nuclear engineering program? How is UT's nuclear engineering program? What is the cost of licing like there? I am thinking about transfering there because it may be cheaper tuition than where I am at now.

I was thinking about buying some text for my own enlightenment but I cannot afford even most of the used text. However, I have been seeing plenty of international editions really cheap. What I want to know is has anyone had good experiences with international editions? i.e. they aren't lacking...

I'm currently in college studying mechE and physics and currently making plans for summer. I can't take classes and I already do have a job but I am looking for something perhaps engineering-related? My dream would be to take an internship but I'm only going to be a sophomore and have little...

Everyone seems to say that experience is more important that education, but they also say that education is the key to success. Employers want experience, but people with MSs and PhDs get paid more than people with BSs. People with BSs get paid more than people with a high school degree, and...

Hello First off, a little background information. I'm a second year physics major planning to go to grad school, so I'm looking to start doing research (preferably this summer). The trouble is, I've only taken intro physics courses so far and am not close enough to any professors to ask for...

Hi everyone, I am currently writing my personal statement for the application to grad school in pure mathematics. I am aware that grad school comitees usually want to hear about the specifics of your research experience: the project, your role in it, etc. However, my only research...

I am a senior computer engineering major at a university in the US. My overall GPA is 3.4 and my major GPA is 3.85. I've had two summer internships and one 6 month co-op. I'll be going to the workforce as engineer to one of the companies that I've worked for right after graduation. After...

Einstein espoused in many of his essays the opinion that there is no logical and direct path from from the world of experience to a set of concepts to describe and understand/organize that experience. The concepts and ideas that we use to describe nature are free creations of the mind. For...

I'm started college in September and I have a bit of a headstart since I've already studied chemistry and I noticed the teacher was teaching some inaccuracies to the class (for the sake of simplicity?) and I wasn't trying to undermine him or anything but I cleared it up and said how it really...

I sent an article to ApJ for a while ago. This article is a summary of the results of my research in a relevant subject. It was sent 1,5 months ago. The answer from the editorial board so far is that it is in progress. How long does it usually tend to go from it is submitted until we get a...

Hello all, I'm a long time lurker, first time poster. At the moment, I'm writing the essay for my college application (I know, I know, but please read on). I'm transferring from a community college, and I decided to transfer as a physics major. In a nutshell, I'm trying to come up with...

With supplemental summer coursework, I can finish a degree in physics and engineering in four years. If i decide to finish with this route, I will surely have little to no research experience as an undergrad. My academic goal is a phd. I know how important research experience is for phd...

It is said that the electrons in heavier atoms have speed close to that of light and therefore undergo relativistic effects? May I ask why is this so? What is it in heavier elements that caused such a change to the speed of the electron? Is it related to the energy-mass equivalence formula?

Hello, anyone with some experience in Comsol? I have a few basic questions on the RF module thanks!

Do you find these creatures attractive? i think they have been made into a parody of what the chick/arty people think is cool. And the way they walk what the, who thought that up? And the clothes? a lot of them make the wearer look a real plonker. Yes i watched a fashion show on tv and...

This question arose when I read the Rietdijk-Putnam argument or "Andromeda paradox". Let's arrange two inertial frames of referance like usually, S being considered stationary (could be you sitting in a chair) and one that moves with a relative velocity v with respect to S, S' (a guy walking...

Hello, I just graduated from Penn State this past May with a bachelor's degree in math and a minor in psychology. I tried out the NYC Teaching Fellows program for a few months, but I've recently quit my job there. As I'm still living in the city, I was wondering what sort of jobs might be...

I got my B.S. in mathematics from a no-name university, thought that engineering would whet my appetite for physics, took a few chemical engineering and materials science courses, and am now in the non-thesis no-research M.S. materials science program at the University of Florida. I have no...

From Newtonian theory massless particles wouldn't experience force of gravity. Then from General relativity prospective gravity is ripples in space time due to a massive body so other objects move in the straight path in this curved space-time hence this objects appears to move in a...

Does anyone know if it is worth doing both Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering? Does it help or hurt? Anyone know of a person who has done this and what was there outcome.

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Homework Statement For U(w)=sqrt(w), prove that U(pie(x)+(1-pie)y) > pie*U(x)+(1-pie)U(y) Homework Equations sqrt(x)=x^(1/2) The Attempt at a Solution I have: sqrt(pie(x)+(1-pie)y) > pie*sqrt(x)+(1-pie)sqrt(y) so... (pie(x)+(1-pie)y)^(1/2) > pie*(x)^1/2+(1-pie)(y)^1/2...

Im a first year engineering student; just about to start my second semester infact. I've been thinking, and i thought that i should really be starting to get experience other than the theory i learn at uni. Things that will make me more attractive to an employer when it comes time to finish my...

About a year and a half ago, I had an MRI. During the scan something very strange kept happening. The procedure was actually a series of many scans - it took over an hour to get them all done. Before each one, the tech would go through a procedure he called tuning. The machine would hum...

Hello, I am going into my senior year and am wondering if I can get into grad school... I know I am not getting into a top 10 school, I would like to go somewhere like U. of Colorado. I have a 3.6 GPA, and from pretests I expect to get between 650-750 on the GRE. However, I have not been...

Hello, everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster. Has anyone here had any experience in the field of geophysics? I'm trying to decide on an undergraduate major that would best prepare me for graduate studies in environmental science.

question...based on real experience! Hi everyone OK... I was frying eggs and was using an old frying pan with a metal handle without any protection so when the pan get hotter and hotter so does the handle. When I finished using it i tried to cool it down by pouring water on top of it...

[b]1. Six dogs, each having a mass of 32 kg, pull a 325 kg sled horizontally across ice. If each dog applies a force of 86 N [fwd], what average acceleration es the sled experience? Assume that friction is negligible. Equation: F=ma My solution: 6 x 86 N= 516 N F=ma a= F/m a=...

Hi there, If you have done any undergrad research in physics or science, can you share your experiences. What were the major problems you faced during your first research experience? How was the work load? Generally, how many hours did you work in a week? What was your research goal and how...

stupid question, but why don't low mass stars experience nuclear burning beyond helium burning? I mean, after the helium's been exhausted, what's to stop the carbon core from contracting enough to trigger Si burning (or whatever element comes next).

Does anyone have any experience with the program 'Gaussfit' I am writing a code, but get a lot of problems and there is minimal help from the authors website. Could anyone suggest another place to gain troubleshooting knowledge? Original website : http://clyde.as.utexas.edu/Gaussfit.html

Call me crazy, but I have a hard time with 'we don't know how it works, but it works great! (Buy it!)' http://www.thewineclip.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=home

Ok, my major is applied math so I'm obviously going to end up in a scientific or statistical application based job latter on. Does having working experience that doesn't relate to jobs similar to the types aforementioned hinder my prospects later on? I'm thinking that I could get a job over the...