High school Definition and 720 Threads

I'm planning to go into medical field, so I'm thinking a science major right? Right now I am in year 3 high school. Math isn't my greatest but I must say I'm decent but in science(I've only take chem 11) I think I'm above average. Now year 4 is quite near (after this summer) and these are my...

Let me start by giving a bit of background information about myself: I'm 24 in April. I'm a business student. When I first started college, I chose business because I really had no idea what to do and business was the route I took for safety. Flash forward to the present, where I've been in...

So this summer I'm thinking about taking some community college classes so my summer isn't a total waste. I've taken precalc, ap physics b, and ap chemistry. I'm just wondering if anyone has any ideas of which classes would be mo Applied Physics General Physics and Calculus 1 College...

In case you missed it, here's an informative article from this month's Physics Today. http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_62/iss_2/40_1.shtml Zz.

Since some of you are high school students and may be contemplating it, I just wanted to share my opinion - don't do it unless the grades are perfect! If I could go back and change anything about high school, it would be NOT doing this. I took a bunch of classes in 11th grade and got credit from...

Besides the PE teacher. I want to major in Engineering or Physics, and I plan on applying to Cornell University. Does it matter which teacher I choose (e.g., precal teacher vs. English teacher)? Should I just stick to the math/science teachers since it'll show I'm more math/science...

Me and my friend love physics/math and we're interested in going to a summer program to learn more. Does anyone know some good ones?

I'm studying pure maths/numb theory for the first time (independantly, and from a shallow, brief-ish book with no given solutions, so i have no one else to ask :P ). I just started a day or two ago. The book leaves Induction till a little later, so this should be proved directly, or maybe by...

Homework Statement x1000 = x(2x)500-2998x2 Okay. This is difficult. It is easy to notice that the solutions are x=0 and x=2 but how do you prove that? I have tried to resolve it in different ways with no luck at all. Maybe I haven´t noticed something. Any ideas? This is Finnish final...

hi I am new here, but I signed up to ask this question. I was looking at a high school physics exam from last june and one of the questions seems to me like it's unfair. I think they didn't give enough information to solve the problem. here it is; An 80-kilogram skier slides on waxed skis...

Homework Statement I just did this question, and I just want to make sure I did it right... Can u run through it and notify me of any errors? Homework Equations Here is the question: http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/lanvin12/333-1.jpg The Attempt at a Solution this is...

My department is seeking some leads for a good high school physics text that can be used for our AP Physics students. We are looking for something therefore that would be Calculus based. Do any of you have any good leads on this topic? Thank you! gb

For this year's science fair, I was thinking of replicating the Miller-Urey experiment, using a mixture of gases found on other planets, to determine which one has the most life potential. The problem is getting started. I would really appreciate some help on materials, methods, and building...

Advanced Physics (Advanced Science) by Steve Adams & Jonathan Allday from OUP Oxford: and Physics (Collins Advanced Science) 3rd Edition by Kenneth Dobson from Collins Educational: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0007267495/?tag=pfamazon01-20 Does anyone know any of these books? I find them very...

Bumper Project: Need help with equations used. I was recently assigned this project for my honors physics class. I don't want any help with the design itself of the bumper I was just wondering if I could have help identifying different equations that would apply to this.1. Problem Statement...

Okay so I really, really liked Physics pre-ap last year. We had a great teacher, and I understood everything. Fast forward a year later, and that teacher left, and the new AP teacher is okay. He's a great guy, but I can't really grasp the way he teaches. Last year I was in AP Chem, and hated...

Find the derivative of y=(3x+4)^5/(2x^2-3x)^6 Some how the answer is simplified to 3x(6x^2-59x+24)/(2x-3)^7, I don’t know if I just copied it down wrong or I’m doing it incorrectly. Some assistance would be nice. I changed the equation to y=(3x+4)^5*(2x-3x)^-6 and used the product...

Saturday night was the 40th anniversary reunion for my high school graduating class. I went out of curiosity to see people that I only vaguely remember and who only vaguely remember me. I was a small kid and there were only two other kids that I could wrestle with. Both were there. One of them...

Stuck on this problem. I think acceleration is about 0.4m/s^2, but having the worst time trying to find direction. I think the sine or cosine law is supposed to be used?? Here's the question: http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm286/lanvin12/physics.jpg

Hi all My post-secondary desires have been to study electrical engineering. I think I have the mental capacity (and the rare love of math--> at least rare in my school) to get me through some sort of engineering course in university, and I have always loved... Connecting electronics together...

Hello ya'll, new to these forums but I've been reading around and enjoyed what I've read. Wanted to get some feedback about some classes coming up this semester. I'm a Sr. high school student, and will taking one class at the HS (AP Bio), and 4 at a college nearby. I took AP Calc BC and...

Throughout my life, I've heard and read many people assert that the jocks in high school (football players, basketball players, and wrestlers more so than other sports, I think) almost invariably wind up having minimum wage, menial labor type of jobs when they go into the real world. And people...

While many in GD know me fairly well, I thought I'd make an introduction here, as next year I'll be taking AP Biology as a high school sophomore and know I'll be here A LOT.

I am looking for a suitable text for a short course that will be taught over a 16 week period. Students will take this nation-wide to compete for cash prizes and a college scholarship. Each year the subject matter is different and this year, it will be nuclear physics and chemistry. I am...

Due to the suggestion by Crosson, I'm making another thread. Basically, I'm curious what I can do to study physics and anything else I might need in high school. Science Courses I've Completed: -Physical Science ( elementary Chemistry + Newtonian Physics basically) -Biology -Chemistry...

Relative Velocity & Vectors I have the below question for Summer Physics (basically just taking physics over the summer instead of during the year) I completed part A by doing Y-component for mee eun is 15sin30 and x-component is 15cos30. For Lokesh I got 20sin50 for the y and 20cos50 for...

Hi, my name is Peter Heuer, I am a high school student and an avid reader of physics forums :) I have been working with two friends over the last year and a half to build a small cyclotron to enter in a science fair. We have completed our design but are having trouble funding the project...

Next year (senior year) I'm going to take physics, but, quite frankly, I can't wait until then. Summer fast approaches, and I'll have a three month break to allocate my time to studies to 'get ahead' and squelch my lack of education with respect to some subjects. I plan to dedicate an hour or...

Did anyone here participate in high school policy debate? Best activity ever. It makes you think so fast and so cleanly. I miss it so much.

High School Student failing pyhsics --- could somebody please helpme w/ my homework? i am so desperate and i have no idea how to interpret anything let alone be able to solve a problem. help would be very much appreciated. i am an A student with an 58% in this class. i really need the help.

Hi guys. I need a few equations to complete a table. I am given numbers for: Fg (N) h (m) Fa (N) d(m) and I need to find: Work Output (J) Work Input (J) Effeciency If anyone has those three equations I could use it would be greatly appreciated.

I have been very bored at my high school. I took the hardest math and physics classes at my high school my freshman year (Calc BC and Physics C:E&M/Mechanics) and I am now a sophomore taking classes at the community college. However, I have pretty much exhausted the courses there. Given my...

I am only a freshman in high school,so i know i have a lot of time to think, but i was thinking about studying physics or astro physics in college. However, I am good at math, but not amazing. This year i am taking geometry, as a sophmore i will take algebra 2, as a junior i will take...

Hey everyone. I’m in high school Physics and I need some help. We are in a unit involving gravity, mass, and radius and heights of Earth. Here are some equations and givens we have to help: M1g= (Gm1m2)/r^2 G= 6.67 x 10^-11 R= 6.38 x 10^6 V= Square root of (Gmp/r) T= Square root of...

So, I am a sophomore at a Math/Science Magnet school and I am considering applying to colleges a year early and relinquishing my right to obtain a high school diploma. I scored 2300+ on the SAT I. I also have 800s on the necessary SAT IIs, so the standardized testing crap is out of the way. I...

How much does high school contest skill improve your grades in university math courses? Currently I find that all the contest tricks that I've learned play almost no role in my university courses, and studying my textbooks is all that matters now. Any clever thinking I had for those contests...

Hi, I have a definite interest in mathematics and physics...it has long been a dream of mine to become an astronomer instead of an astronaut. But I wonder if it's too late for me to do that. First you should probably have a little background information. I'm a 20-year-old high school...

Hi. This may not be the best place to ask this, but I have a friend who is very interested in quantum mechanics and is trying to learn a lot of it on his own (he's told me that he knows the equivalent of someone who has taken 6 months of a quantum physics 101 course). We're both freshman in high...

Ok I am new to physics forum but I am sure if I am going to get help ill probably get it here, this problem has gone UNSOLVED by everyone who has tried it to include my physics and calculus teacher. Here is the problem: There is an object 10 Earth radii from the CENTER of earth, it is...

I am currently a junior at a high school, and I've been recently scheduled for my senior year in hs. Anyway the classes related to physics i took are, I took Calc AP, Phys AP, Chem AP. They are AP, they should cover me and prepare me for physics in college right? I hope so. After reading...

is it a good idea to, let's say, stay in a high school where your grades are high and you're highly ranked because all the other students don't care about their education and the teachers don't as well, as opposed to transfering to a different high school where you can actually learn something...

Hello, Since few days, I was looking forward to start some pre-calculus classes...but I am kind of confused with the 'types' of classes offered. Oh and I am in 9th grade...prob. I'll take it next year(its not available in my school, I will probably have to learn somewhere else,can anyone...

Hey there, I am high school student in South Africa, and I'm passionate about maths. I'm not too sure why, but it's fascinating. In South Africa we don't do courses, we follow a set curriculum, and we have a program similar to the AP program in the US, which I take. I'm in grade 11, and...

i'm in last year of high school and it's time to decide a career path. I'm mostly into biology and chemistry. can anyone of you tell about the jobs i could get in these fields. i already know some which interest me such as biotechnology, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering...

As the title says I'm a sophomore in high school (15 years old) and I absolutely love theoretical physics, math (as a whole) and computer programming. I've begun learning C/C++ by myself and am completely enthralled with it. I'm currently in a chem I class and an algebra II class, where we're...

I have already been accepted to a school and have decided to study Chemical Engineering, but I'm wondered if I will be prepared enough to succeed. The farthest that I've gone into math and science courses in high school is; Physics 1, AP Physics B, Calc 1, and AP Physics C, and only chem 1...

[SOLVED] high school calc problem Homework Statement If an object moves along the y-axis (marked in feet) so that its position at time x (in seconds) is given by the indicated function; y= (x^3)-(9x^2)+15x; Find when v=0 Homework Equations v=y prime, and i already have...

I am in high school chemistry and we are learning about gases. Do gases expand indefinitely? Or at least until the gas is evenly distributed throughout all the other gases that are present?

Homework Statement A superball with a mass of 83.6 g is dropped from a height of 3.1 m. It rebounds to a height of 2.5 m. The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2. What is the change in its linear momentum during the collision with the floor? Answer in unit of kg m/s...

hi, I am at high school level, I just started with vectors,but topics given in my school books didn't seem enough to me, they are just too brief and unorganized. could anyone tell which book could best for me, to study vectors?