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I'll be entering my last year for my BS degree in physics this fall. I have Solid State lecture and Solid State Lab lined up for my physics courses. My friends are taking graduate level Quantum Mechanics. My reasoning is "I already know what QM is, but not SS, and I have to take QM anyway...

Hello, I am trying to come up with a good senior project for my physics degree. I am really interested in PV and I have spent a lot of time researching the literature and whatnot but haven't been able to come up with an original idea for a project. My first idea was improving the efficiency of...

How much will linear algebra helped you with quantum mechanics? How difficult is quantum mechanics compared to the rest of the physics courses you take as a physics majors. Do most of you struggle with grasping the new intuitive concepts like probability dominating determinism rather than the...

Hi, I'm in kind of a weird situation. I am senior in high school and my grades are pretty poor right now, my last quarter is just beginning but grades go on transcripts on a semester basis. This is mostly because I hate to do assignments like make board games and posters etc. so I don't. There...

Let say you now have a chance to choose an advisor for undergraduate research. would you choose a junior or a senior faculty? It seems that junior faculties (esp those haven't got tenure yet) would be more "hard-working" and very research oriented, so may be more productive. But senior faculties...

Hey I ve been thinkin of my senior project. as long as my interest is communication, i will go with wireless stufss. I need your clues and ideas regarding nature of project and brainstorming

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...

I'm a senior in High School, and took BC Calculus as a Junior and this last semester a 1-semester Calc 1&2 honors class, mainly for those those who took AB in High School at the University of Utah. (It's surprising how bad you can do on the AP test and still get a 5). I'm signed up for the next...

Hello, I know this sounds bad because I don't know what I want to do for a senior project, but I am looking for some guidance and advice. I have seen many of my classmates waste so much time on unimportant and useless research and I don't want to do the same. I realize that at this point I...

I see people say they get 5's on their AP classes their senior year. The exam for the class is at the end of the year and you apply for college in the fall. How do colleges know what you take your senior year and what you got, if the school year isn't over. Do they just ignore the last...

Ok. I have to decided on which path to take next year. I want to be a mathematical physicist. I'm going into my senior year, and I have almost literally taken every math class offered. I took 8 pure math classes last year. I've taken the 1st year of physics too. Next year I can take...

I'm a senior in college that just switched from a Bio major to a Math major. In the fall, I'll be taking: Discrete Math Number Theory Electrodynamics & Kinetic Theory Piano Speech I have a summer to prepare for the two math classes and one physics class. Do you have any tips on things...

high school senior here looking to major in mathematics/physics; in a dilemma and looking for assistance (I have a few questions). I haven't taken my SAT yet. Would it be benificial for me to take it now in my senior year in hopes of being able to attend a different school - even...

Here's part of an email I just got about this week's seminar at my university. I read through this, and I was wondering if this is something that might really be built someday. It seems that it is just a bunch of ideas combined so that everyone in the senior design has something they would...

I don't ever want to see another draft in this country. "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential Democratic lawmaker on Sunday called for reinstatement of the draft as a way to boost U.S. troop levels and draw a broader section of the population into the military or public service. U.S. Rep...

Hey all; None of my EE classes cover vac tubes since they're largely obsolete. The thing is, for my senior design project (I have a year or so, no rush.) I'd like to build an audio amplifier. From experience I know the advantages of vac tubes and am willing to put up with the drawbacks...

Hello everyone! I'm a senior in high school, new to the forums and need some help, mainly because I got a 59% on my first test :rolleyes: I am a physics newbie and need a lot of help :cry: For starters, I have a couple questions here that i would like help with. 1)A photographer in a...

I am taking a control class right now, which I find quite interesting. I had an idea for a senior project where I'd design and build a machine that allows one to hook up a motor and it will compute the torque/voltage transfer function or the angular speed/voltage transfer function of an...

This year, I am entering my senior year in high school. I plan on majoring in physics, but I'm having some trouble deciding where to apply. Obviously, I'm not going to decide where I go to college based solely on advice given in an online forum, but I'd appreciate a couple nudges in the right...

I need a senior project for a computer engineering course. I also need a project for a seminar course with an emphasis on community service ... overlapping of projects is sort of allowed, but can you think of ways how i could possibly combine computer engineering with community service? Hmm ..

Hello Everyone! I'm a newb to these forums, and I'm having some difficulties with my senior thesis and was hoping someone here might be able to help or at least point me in the right direction. I have the following PDE system: dx/dp = - g(s) * dy/ds dy/dp = g(s) * dx/ds with initial...

i am a rising senior majoring in computer engineering. i fell extremely sick, and I just recovered from my sickness. I lost the internship that I had, because it took me 5 weeks to get better. I still have more than two months of summer left! is it too late to apply for internships/research...

Since senior year of HS is wrapping up, my AP physics class is having a party tomorrow and I don't know what to bring. I could bring cookies, but that seems a little plain. Does anyone have any ideas?

The Evo child is graduating from high school this year. She'll be moving away to go to college in the fall. <sniff> Here's the dress she picked out for her senior prom. I don't know if I feel like crying because it's her last high school prom or because I just saw how much that dress cost...

Hey, I am supposed to do a senior project over any subject so I decided why not do it on something I love, Physics. My only problem is I don't really have any good ideas for what my project should be based on. I thought about doing the unrealistic aspects of movies that are based on physics...

I am writing my senior thesis (I am an undergrad math major at UCSB) on Dirichlet Series, which are, in the classical sense, series of the form \zeta (s)=\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{a_k}{k^s} where a_k,s\in\mathbb{C} and are more generally given by (whence the name generalized Dirichlet...

What type of electronics project did you design? What do you think would be a good project? Right now I'm leaning towards a wireless project.

I am entering senior year in a Private High School and I feel a little trapped. As my old School Counselor has retired, my new counselor doesn't have the feel for my wants and needs. I was wondering if some people on this MB could give me some advice. Of course I am not going to take each...

Hi, I am coming into my senior design project and I have a question. Originally, my group was going to design a new cylinder head design without using poppet valves. Being that we only have 15 weeks, we figure we don't have nearly enough time. Wanting to keep an automotive related project, I...

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dont know if this is the right forum, but... For my undergraduate degree I have to take three senior electives of my choice. There are 38 courses in 13 concentration areas, but I only have interest in a handful; -------------------------------------------------------------...

Its come time to choose classes for senior year, there are some art classes i want to take and would like an easy schedule senior yr, but would anyone here reccomend AP Calc: AB(BC is harder), AP Chem, AP computers and an advanced physics topics class for someone who wants to major in Physics in...

Need Help: Looking for college level proffesor or someone "qualified" to interview Im doing my senior project on Rail Guns and as a requirement I need to interview "qualified" people, asking them questions pertaining to my project. I'm looking for atleast one person to interview, 2 would be...

Does anyone have a good idea for a senior project to do involving physics or astronomy/cosmology, or possibly both? Any suggestions are much appreciated.

A local university mechanical engineering department has a program for undergraduates in which the students are given a "real world" project. The project is funded by local industry, and the company I work for is interested in funding such a project. The project costs our company $1500 with...

I'm a high school senior who is interested in engineering. I am taking Calculus and honors physics and earn solid grades. I am helpless :confused: when it comes to my future though. I have no idea what field to go into. I hear Electrical engineering has a good outlook but I have no idea...

Is there any way I would be affected if I took the SAT at the very beginning of my senior year?.. would my chances of applying to colleges be gone that year?... Is there really any reason why I should not take it then?

Hello everyone, I'm a bit of beginner to the more complicated algebra and geometry. I am going into grade 12 next september, but I'd like to get a headstart on the material, and I am wondering what introductory "advanced" (for say) Algebra books were of benifet to you. A first year university...

I have to take a Physics Project course where I would have to undertake a reserach endeavour whilst being supervised by a Professor at the university...any suggestions as to what this endeavour could be? This is a senior level underdergraduate course and my interest is in particle physics...

I say without a doubt, Senior Citizens. I are one. I am so Smart. Ask any question and I can give a good answer. I am filled with wisdom! What a feeling! I bet you think you are smarter. But really, who is SMARTER wiyh regards to Generation? An example of being so smart: if you add 2...

I am new here. I was hoping to get someone to help me. I am a senior in High School. I am hoping to get into Physics and Mathematics. I hace tried to find some good reading material for these subjects. I haven't had much luck due to the fact that I am in the middle of a technology black hole. If...