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Hi I am a yr 1 undergraduate law student (LLB) considering transferring to physics. Physics was my favorite subject in high school. My worries: not sure if I can master uni math. High school math is okay but I was not the smartest student in math. I am not reading physics in my free time. I...

Hello, I'm not familiar with basic statistics exercises using pie chart and I'd like to know how i can solve this one: in a faculty science of 3000 students, some are in biology, some in physics and some in chemistry as shown on the pie chart. I can for sure tell that 1500 students are in...

It's very quite easy to fail students who has an F. But,however how do teachers deal with students who are close to passing? What if the student has a 67% as their grade? Do you bump their grade to a 70% or you let them make up work?

a class has 9 students who are to be assigned seating by lot. What is the probability that students will be arranged in order from shortest to tallest? (assume that no two stusents are the same height.)

Hi I'm doing A levels now and I'm planning to go to University of Toronto next year September for engineering science, my question is what are the grades needed for my AS and A2 level to get into engineering science? My trial results are A in Chemistry and Math, A- in physics and B in biology.

Hello,I have been accepted for a physics teacher position in a high school. This would be my first job ever. I taught "tutored" students before in my home university for two semesters, and I think I am a good teacher. But, I feel that teaching high school students is totally different. I am not...

During a school event, there were 8 times as many pupils as teachers and there were three times as many boys as girls. There were 70 fewer teachers than boys. How many people were there at the school event? My answer: is there a better way to do it. We know that pupils are students Students =...

It doesn't have to be just yelling, but any other kind of abuse-- talking down at them, shaming them etc. When I say students, I specifically mean the graduate and undergraduate students who do research under the professor. While I have never personally encountered such a thing, I've heard of...

There were m pupils in a class at first. After a week, 4 more pupils joined the class. a) Find the number of pupils in the class after a week in terms of m. my answer: m + 4b) There were 40 pupils in the class after a week. How many pupils were there in the class at first? my answer: no...

I am in the rather unique and exciting position of being able to design an extension curriculum for some gifted Physics students who are in their final year of high school. The goal of the curriculum is to help prepare them for university physics with tools and ways of thinking, without just...

Hey, I have been told to study calculus following Spivak's book. I was in an Engineering program and I have moved to a Physics one, and I want to retake calculus to really get good at it. The problem is, Spivak's seems to me like it's very proof based, and I'm having a hard time even with the...

Hello, I'm curious on what the forum thinks on this topic. At the physics department there are dedicated math courses for physics students but physics students can also opt for pure math courses with math majors. I opted for the latter and am having difficulties though I am enjoying the...

Hi, I've heard that Harvard and MIT students have an average IQ of 145. It looks very odd to me because I think it's ridiculously high. In my University the average is said to be around 123. Does anybody have any recourses about this topic? I'm trying to decide whether to have MIT as a goal, or...

Hey! :o A teacher wants to find out if the order of the exam tasks has an impact on the performance of the students. Therefore, he creates two versions ($ X $ and $ Y $) of an exam in which the exam tasks are arranged differently. The versions are randomly distributed so that $ n $ students...

Hello. I'm looking for recomendations on what would be the two best handbooks of physics to buy, one for undergrads and another for graduate physics students. The purpose is for the handbooks to cover undergraduate and graduate theoretical physics, with details on the core subjects. Thanks in...

Hello, what are some advice you think are for incoming students to school, it can be any school level whether it is high school college or otherwise.Personally I would like any advice on what college is like as well as how to make the most of college, but post whatever school related advice you...

I am a junior in high school and I am wondering if there are any internships or research opportunities for high school students. Thank you!

I believe this could be interesting to many people here who are interested in quantum theory but are not (yet) professional physicists: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1803.07098

Howdy folks, I took a course way back in undergrad on the fundamentals of energy sustainability, so I have a good preconception how how hydropower works in general, but not in detail. So when my little sister (grade 7) came to me asking for help on a hydroelectric dam project, then I thought it...

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-caplan-education-credentials-20180211-story.html From this weekend's LA Times: continued in article... I see this all the time with friends and even myself at times (I've used RateMyProfessor to weed out certain professors). What do people think...

Hi, First of all, sorry for the title that sounds like a clickbait. Wasn’t intend to but well.. Don’t really have idea for a good title. Anyway, I need some help. I’ve struggling for a year now, wasting every bit of my time fighting for some science scholarship to study for Bachelor degree...

https://backdoorgraduteschooladmissions.quora.com/Mastering-lower-division-mathematics-courses-especially-for-computer-science-majors The above link has a list of free online material to learn a lot of the math required in computer science. I'm already a 4th year undergrad, but I didn't learn...

I am an undergraduate physics student studying in UK. I hope I can continue study to PhD in the future, and I heard that I have to or better to apply a research internship in summer in order to go further study. But I have no idea how to apply and what I need to do in the internship. Since I am...

The House Just Voted to Bankrupt Graduate Students Harvard Crimson Arstechnica This seems very troubling. It seems like it could take a grad student's income from barely livable to unlivable, and possibly result in a massive reduction of graduate students. This would have ripple effects on the...

I learned form internet that in the US students ask money from banks to study what they want. My question is, how many student in percentage do this and have debts to pay after university ? How easy is to pay back the money they asked ? There are universities that doesn't worth money? Thanks.

Homework Statement 1/4 of all the juniors and 2/3 of all the seniors are going on a trip. If there are 2/3 as many juniors as seniors, what fraction of the students are not going on the trip? Homework Equations Simple fraction based equations. The Attempt at a Solution Not Going to Trip =...

hi all, I am a researcher at university and I have several bechelor and master thesis students every year. Very often, I struggle to convince students to carry out a good literature review and from their thesis, I do not get anything I have not seen, because they only read the first google...

This semester I'm teaching a thermofluids course to students with a major in electronics engineering. The subject covers thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. The motivation is to help the students to solve thermofluid problems that arise in their field. For example, the design of...

Most people don't get to cal 1 in high-school by the time they are seniors. People are excepted to get ready for cal 2 by the time they get to college. People don't get to cal 1 because they don't study at their home. However, in my personal opinion, is homework a mistake to give to students...

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Why do you think students fear and struggle so much with math, particularly word problems?

Hi everyone! I'm not sure if it's a good place to post it, but I'd like to ask for your advice on good ways to search for research students (interns, summer scholars, PhDs etc) other than from within my teaching classes or through research collaborators? Established academics often get emails...

This book is too expensive for me to buy. Can someone share ebook/ pdf?

A={0,1,2,3,4,5,--------,99,100} 201 students are attending a math test ,the score of each student can be found from set A,if S represents the total scores of all 201 students,please answer the following questions (1) if S=9999 prove we can find at least 3 students having the same score (2) if...

Homework Statement In how many ways can 2 females and 3 males be selected from a class of 30 with 20 female and 10 male students? Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution I saw this as a two step process. Step 1 being I have N1 ways of choosing 2 females and step 2 N2 ways of choosing 3...

Based on an incorrect understanding of special relativity a) Pick a problem from a textbook, and come up with a different answer than the textbook does. Additionally, do one or both of the following: b1) Argue that the textbook answer is wrong and you are right b2) Argue that there is an...

Currently I've enrolled in the master program of medical physics, particularly I'm interested in the field of nuclear medicine. Does anybody have the information about an internship or a short international school program for student of medical physics, especially for master student ? Thanks...

I'm a physics teacher and I've found it hard to explain motor's working to a couple of students.

Hi everyone. I wanted to pose this question to those who are currently working as mathematicians (faculty members or postdocs, or those who finished their PhD and are working in industry), or current PhD students in math. Did you double major in mathematics and physics in your undergraduate...

Hello all, I wonder how professors of some fields that have no demand in the job market deal with this fact with their students, especially if they ask? Thanks

As an adjunct professor, I teach a physics laboratory class on a Saturday morning at a public university. I have taught the class a couple of times and every semester students are perpetually late. There is the occasional student that has had car trouble etc. which is understandable as it is...

I need to introduce Simple Harmonic Motion to a group of high school students studying physics. They don't know anything about differential equation except the method of separation of variables. Also, they have limited knowledge on complex numbers like eiωt. However, I don't want to just give...

Was surprised to read this news story from South Africa. I guess this is what happens if your science education isn't poor. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lecturers-fear-worst-as-students-add-african-science-to-demands-wncgpq5fm

In a class, the mean of boys' mark is 7.1 while the mean of girls' mark is 8.1. Their overall mean is 7.5. If there are 40 students in the class, determine: a. The ratio of boys and girls b. The number of boys and girls I got this question from someone I tutored. I got the number of boys as 24...

What are the things you wished to know before starting your education in university? Like skills and somethings like that? I'm going to start physics after a year or two, and I want to be ready to start, what are the things I should learn?

This concept, though intuitive to some, appears to be counterintuitive for 20-80% of smart-to-brilliant students I teach. How can the idea of an object having non-zero speed while (balanced) forces act on that object, be conveyed without resorting to just a shuffling of physics terms to give a...

I'm (a music academic) teaching a musical acoustics course to a very mixed group (music students, science students, and neither). Today, I covered the basic concept of simple harmonic motion and how this produces a sine wave pattern of motion over time. In the extra time we had left over, I...

7 University students have to solve 7 hard exercises. In order to save time, they have decided to share them, so that each of them solves exactly one exercise. Then they will communicate via telephone, so as to share the solutions to the rest of the exercises. What is the minimum number of phone...

Is Anybody Reading the Syllabus? To Find Out, Some Professors Bury Hidden Gems (Chronicle of Higher Education) I never used the Easter-egg trick myself, but if I had a nickel for every time I answered a question about something that was in the syllabus (e.g. "How much does this test count...

For all who may be interested: https://indico.cern.ch/event/558022/ It will be most likely more for HS students and laymen than experts or those who are simply curious about the site. Hopefully some students will read this and attend the shows. Edit: For not everybody has to look it up...