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I am getting my BS soon, I'm okay with going on to get my Masters if I want to do Medical Physics, but I'm not too keen on getting a PhD. I do not want a teaching job. Can anyone explain life after college to me if you want a job not in teaching or grad school? I'm pretty clueless.

This is a little long but bare with me, I need help from some experts. So I left high school when I was 15. Not because I was stupid, dumb, illiterate or whatever, it's because I was bullied. But I won't go into that. I made a career decision at 17 that I would be a custom motorcycle builder...

I am trying to decide between Physics or Engineering or maybe something else for my major in college next year. I'm very interested in physics, and figuring out how the world works. I like to find completely new solutions to problems, as opposed to working off of other previous solutions...

Assuming it were possible, how would you go about it? Lightspeed spaceship? Wormhole? Superman gravitational reversal?

Hello everyone, I am about to finish my master in mathematics and I was wondering if you give me some advice about the problem I face. Actually I ve been thinking of what I am going to do with my master degree and I have come up with two options so far: 1- get a job in a...

Homework Statement An office furniture manufacturer that makes modular storage files offers its customers two choices for the base and four choices for the top, and the modular storage files come in five different heights. The customer may choose any combination of the five different-sized...

I'm doing Physics, Maths and Further Maths for A Levels. I'm planning on doing Theoretical Physics in University. I had A* in Maths and A in Physics for GCSE's. I'm wondering if I should choose another subject? If so, what? Would computing be a good idea?

I'm doing Physics, Maths and Further Maths for A Levels. I'm planning on doing Theoretical Physics in University. I had A* in Maths and A in Physics for GCSE's. I'm wondering if I should choose another subject? If so, what?

I work for a research group at my university. We are considering the use of a hot-film sensor array to characterize flow over our a portion of an airfoil in the wind tunnel. We are looking for something like the http://www.taosystem.com/products/senflex/" sensors offered by Tao Systems. I tried...

I am coming towards the end of my BS in Electrical Engineering, and I have decided that I want to earn my PhD in Engineering when it's all said and done. I want to go to a top tier grad school program for my Masters and PhD but my family and I will not be able to really afford that. I also...

I got a bachelors in physics in '08 at an upper liberal arts college. Intended to take a year off but fell into a depressed rut (father died, girlfriend left, etc etc) and just worked a low-skill job / volunteered / played wow for two years. Cleaned my act up a year ago. I'd surfed through...

Ok so here's my summarized story. At the end of summer should be the start of my Senior year, but i dropped out and started college a year ago. I taught myself Calc I in two weeks while taking 18 credit hours and CLEPed out of it my first semester and received a 99.4% in Calc II the next...

Hey there, I'm majoring in physics/educational physics with a concentration in astronomy I'm planning on getting my phD but i also want to know if there are any career options for people with a B.S. in physics/educational physics? I'm only asking because i need my first pay check in order to...

Just wondering what I could go into for grad school with a ME undergrad? I really enjoy physics, but I want to be more "hands-on" for my career, but at the same time I want to be able to freely communicate with professional physicists. Is there a website or something that lays out graduate...

I have third (and final) round of interviews scheduled for next week with Qualcomm. The Qualcomm job is full-time, and in Colorado. In short, it's my dream job. Medtronic has been calling me and asking if I am interested in a job opportunity there, a contractor position which is less...

Hey guys, I'm currently looking to take Physics I over the summer to get into AP Physics II C next year, and due to my schedule over the summer with multiple tennis camps and such, I cannot take it at my local community colleges because the professors will not let me miss X number of days...

hi I'm making a script for calculating ray paths in the subsurface using kinematic ray tracing. To my disposition I have a velocity model given on a 2D grid. I'm having troubles understanding how to use Options in order to specify the borders for when the ode23 function is supposed to...

So I just completed my second year in the physics program at my university. Unfortunately, I received a C in both my Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Physics class, although I did get an A in my computational physics class. With a semester of foreign language, intermediate lab, quantum, and...

Hi, I'm deciding whether or not to take AP Stats. I will be taking Honors Physics and AP Calculus AB and AP Latin. I've read that only Calculus-based stats is useful for Engineering. I don't want to take all three courses because I don't want to kill myself. Is AP Stats absolutely...

Aside from some math courses I would be missing, would this degree suffice to get me into an electric engineering prog or something similar? http://www.apu.apus.edu/academic/programs/degree/1278/bachelor-of-science-in-information-technology

I am a person who likes studying about fixing,joining and playing with objects. However cnsidering the many merit points that computer engineering has over electronics engineering(in terms of salary,placement,level of diff.)..I'm confused. Also the fact that comp engg. has some amount of...

I was worried that I will not find a job this summer, so I took the first offer I got. (freshmans and sophomores, please don't make the same mistake, evaluate all other possible actions) But the more time I spend doing my job, I realize just how far away from what I intend to do this job...

These are some notes of the observations I've made over the past few months looking for jobs. This might be useful for someone else but keep in mind it's rather focused around my personal situation and preferences. I did my PhD and postdoc in theoretical condensed matter physics, mostly DFT /...

Hi everyone, just kind of a general question here. I'm a physics major undergrad at Texas Christian University. I'm also minoring in Japanese, and will be close to proficient in the language by the time I graduate, including hiragana, katakana, and kanji writing systems. In general, in the scope...

I'm about to graduate with a BS in Physics and am currently trying to decide which graduate school to attend. I'm trying to decide between four right now (UIUC, U of Michigan, Northwestern, and Indiana U). I'm not completely set on an area of research yet, and I'm trying to consider the various...

I'm a junior in high school and I'm planning to be an engineer when I grow up. Below is the schedule for senior year and I am wondering what classes would be the best choice for being an engineer. Honors English 4 Calculus AP Physics B AP Psychology AP Macroeconomics Fine/Applied Art (Needed...

I guess that would be kinda pointless seeing as you already have a job. But can you still audit?

So summer schedules came out today and they completely messed me up. I was planning on taking Circuit Analysis I, Philosophy, Intro Engineering, and Linear Algebra. Now I'm an EE major but my school does not require Linear Algebra, however I felt like I was missing something by not taking it...

Hello PF, i have been registered here for a couple of months now and i like to read the forums but since my english is not very good I am not an usual poster. I have 17 years old and i like maths, physics and computers in general so i decided to study an engineer degree. I'm living in...

So I want to be a physicist. Avoiding false modesty, I'm pretty good at it, probably the best in my year in physics and possibly math. I never have problems learning, unless the material is shallowly presented and I reject it, which has happened in many of my classes, unfortunately. I've taken...

I was just wondering what my options are for internet access. Things I've tried: Dial-up (unlimited monthly data WOOHOO! but at the max speed of 56kb/s it's only 14MB...) Satellite (sucked tremendously, 200MB daily download limit) Verizon mifi (currently using, still pretty bad, 5GB download...

By fall-back career options, I mean non-academic. Assuming a PhD, which field 1) pays more? 2) has the most jobs available? Thanks!

Hi all, I'm currently studying Physics with Astronomy and Space Science in my final year. I've decided not to go for the Honors degree so I will be graduating with a general one in a few months. I'm sorry to admit that I didn't enjoy studying this (although I love the astronomy side of it...

I am currently an undergrad in an applied mathematics program. I am afraid that my degree is a jack-of-all-trades master of none type of degree, and was wondering what different types of subjects I could pursue in graduate school. I am not interested in obtaining a PhD. I am primarily...

What is this class like? Is it very hard? I took an intermediate macroeconomic theory course a couple of semesters ago. One of the prerequisites for this class is Probability. I will be taking that next semester. I wonder if I could take these two classes concurrently.

Hey all! I am a sophomore Physics major and recently I was able to listen to a lecture about Medical Physics. It really grabbed my interest, much more so than any other lecture about research/work in Physics. I am just looking for as much information as possible about this field. How much...

Hi, I am a physics major graduate and i what to do a masters preferably in engineering and i would like some suggestions on the possible courses i can do. Thanks

This may have been asked before but I am going to ask anyway. I am currently studying a BS with a major in Physics. I'm in my second year and have taken maths, physics and computing courses. I am very interested in computing and mathematics and enjoy learning about physics. Basically I am...

Hello everyone, I recently was admitted into a Master’s program in Applied Physics here in California and am interested in knowing more about what Medical Physics is as far as a career route for me. I am starting the program this spring’11 semester. Any info will be greatly appreciated...

Ok, I was somewhat interested in finance when I was in high school, and I went to a community college and found the business classes very boring, so I started taking math and science classes, which I liked. I took up to Calculus 2, and some programming classes, and engineering physics I, and...

In June I signed up for a martial arts class using my Chase BP credit card. The employee who signed me up told me there is a $150 sign up fee and $100 monthly charge if I decide to come 3 times a week and the days could be any three days of a week. I agreed to that. $150/month if I decide to...

For the last year I have been upgrading all the courses I would need to get into engineering. Fall: Math 10, Physics 20 Winter: Math 20, Physics 30, Chem 30 Spring: Math 30 So looking at my schedule I didn't think I could get Math 31(calculus) this year. However looking at the BSc...

Hi, I am making a device with 8 INPUTs that will be connected to a long (5-25m) UTP cable running trough an elevator shaft (some interference, I imagine). Could you propose what kind of filters should I use on my inputs. The thing is, the HIGH level on these cables will be 12 to 19V but I need...

I'm about to enter my freshman year of college, and naturally I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do after college. I'm going into chemical engineering, and I really want to work with environmentally friendly means of production. Ideally I'd like to work with the research aspect of...

At work, I often have to download .tiff files to work with drawings. Sometimes when searching through these drawings I have to download dozens of these files rapidly just to shuffle through them. Every time I click the view button, IE gives a pop-up saying that the website is trying to download...

I have a question about grad school prospectus after earning a B.A. in Mathematics (for prospective 5-12 teachers). The B.A. curriculum consists of Calculus I-III (standard three semester sequence), Linear Algebra, College Geometry, Abstract Algebra, Probability and Statistics I-II (two semester...

Hi, I am currently finishing my third year of a four year Astrophysics degree at The University of Liverpool. I hope to go on and start a PhD the year after I finish my degree. I hope to finish with a high 2.1 or possibly a first. I am considering looking to study in the US, I wanted to ask a...

Im trying to check my answers to a problem, and in the past I've used a 3d grapher to graph functions like f(x,y) = whatever. but now i need to find a tangent plane to a surface at a point. the surface is: x2y+y2z-z2x=1but i don't know how to go about graphing something expressed that...

I'm a high school student from the Netherlands. I'm currently 17 and in my final year of high school. Recently I've become very interested in physics. It really is a new interest among many of my other interests (classical music, literature, even debating and politics), but I would like to learn...

I am a senior in high school this year and am thinking about majoring in pure mathematics. If I do, what types of jobs would I be able to get with a BS or MS? If I do go pure math, is it better to get a teaching degree or to double major (if I do it would most likely be astrophysics related). I...