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Heyy, quick question. In september I will have enrolled in chemistry program at an EU university. I understand basic calculus, though I know nearly zero physics and my future chemistry program involves two courses of physics, where the primary textbook used is translated Halliday, Resnick...

Hello : from my teaching experience , and also from my own experience as a physics student , i noticed that most of high school student and 1st year university student dont know the amount of study that they will need to do every year , and the media is reflecting that studying in a university...

At university for physics and math, do you use notebook or loose leaf papers(binder,pocket etc)? For Physics I mean any branches of physics(engineering, classical, quantum, etc...) Explanation? pros & cons?

I found this forum on accident actually. But this is exactly what I need cause I'm an undergrad student.

Haven't seen one of these before. I'll provide the beginning of a story and replies should continue the story as best as possible. Feel free to use generative AI and let's see how humorous people can get. In the depths of the university's physics department, a group of students discovered a...

I'm new to this forum, so I hope I do everything correctly to get an answer because I am deeply in need for some guidance. I also hope I can explain myself in the clearest way. I'm a 20 year old student attending the first year in Computer and Electronics engineering. Since I was in high school...

On Monday evening, student protestors entered an engineering building at Stanford and proceeded to barricade and vandalize it. It is unclear whether they broke in or whether (like most university buildings) is normally unlocked during working hours. According to Stanford's president, "A faculty...

Hi, I need to email a professor but his university automatically rejects email like gmail. What email address domain I can get that can pass through his university spam filter and the email reached hiim? Thank you.

Hello, I'm currently an undergrad physics student at Heriot-Watt University. However, I have the oppertunity to switch to the UoE physics course. I'm not really sure what to do. UoE is generally higher ranked, but I've heard some not very nice things about the STEM teaching there. I've had some...

Hi all can't wait to learn more about physics.

B.Sc., M.Sc. Physics, Universite d'Ottawa, 1983, 1985 Ph.D. Physics, McGill University, 1989. worked at CERN, 1986-1996 I have ~200 articles in the 1980s and 1990's, just a few after that. I am interested in Physics applications of Elliptic functions, elliptic integrals, and math concepts in...

Hi all. I'm looking for some insight from parents/teachers/uni lecturers about predictors that might indicate a student is talented enough to do a Maths degree and excel at it. My little girl is now in year 10 and about to do her GCSEs next year and is trying to figure out what she wants to do...

in the A we need to find the force and acceleration of the system when we pull the lower block and the upper mass starts to move in B we need to find the force and acceleration of the system when we pull the upper block and the upper mass starts to move the friction before the lower mass and...

I am currently a University of Toronto student. I recently had some doubts about how good my school is compared to other top US universities (such as MIT, Princeton, Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, UCLA), even though I did my research before attending UofT, these questions pop up regularly...

TL;DR Summary: Help with final year courses that will help for defense and rocket industry. Hello , what extra courses would be best to help with knowledge in defense/rocket industry as a mechanical engineer in final year. I am going to do thermofluid specilisations for my final year and I am...

TL;DR Summary: The university pure maths courses feel rough and uninsightful, yet exclude (temporally) the possibility of studying good texts. What and how does one study in order to attain such understanding as to be profound, but allowing, by structure, still to follow the curriculum...

Hello. This is Md. Hamidul Haque, a post graduate student at University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Presently I am working at Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory in Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission as a Masters Program thesis student. I am working with neutron spectroscopy and dosimetry...

vA = 3u/4 and vB = u/4, and 1/8 KE is lost. I can't get to these answers however: for the first part, I got to u = vA + 3vB using conservation of momentum, and the fact that particle B is at an angle, hence I would think its momentum should be 10mvBsin(arcsin(3/5)). Doing the same for A with...

Can you give me some advice about what I can do to be distinct in my university major "Mechanical Engineering" thank you

So after Newtonian mechanics and electricity/magnetism, what do physics majors study? Also, is there a textbook you can reference me to that applies to that?

hello everyone, I'm a new member. This is my first time using a forum. I'm in my final year of university. I have joined this forum to connect with fellow physics enthusiasts, learn from your experiences, and contribute to some meaningful discussions. I'm excited to be here.

TL;DR Summary: I could really use some help picking my optional module! [Games Development Programming] Hello all. I just wrapped up my first year of University, studying Games Development Programming in the UK. With the 2nd year starting in September, I wanted to get my optional module sorted...

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I'm a grade 11 student in Canada. I love physics and want to work as a researcher someday. I'll be applying to universities in a couple of months. I'm trying to decide which I want to go to because I like having a clear plan ahead of me. UofT is a great option for me (close to home), but I've...

Evaluate the integral $$\int_0^1 x\left\{\frac{1}{x}\right\}\, dx$$ where ##\{\frac{1}{x}\}## denotes the fractional part of ##1/x##.

Unlike the 2015 outbreak of avian flu (H5N8), the outbreak seen in late 2021 (H5N1) has caused mass mortality for wild birds, which makes the highly pathogenic virus more difficult to wipe out. “Unlike H5N8, this disease is heavily impacting wild birds,” said Johanna Harvey, lead author of the...

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I'm a 17 years old student and I can't choose between studying Physics or Engineering at university, any advice?

I'm completing College (Trig-based) Physics 1301 this week and enrolled in University (Calculus-based) Physics this January. I'm also taking Calculus 1 in parallel. My question is: How similar / different are the two classes, besides 2425 being Calculus based ? Will 2425 (University Physics 1)...

I want to become an astrophysicist, but I don't have enough money to attend a 4-year college once I graduate (may 2024) so my dad said that I should plan on going to a community college and then transfering to a university. Will I still be able to become a physicist if I go to community...

I am in the process of applying to the University of Hamburg. As an international student, I have to get my Indian certificates "converted" to the German system before the application begins in February. The university has released a set of rules for this...

What I think I should do: 1 = 0001 7 = 0111 3 = 0011 First block = 00010111 Second Block = 00110000 Now, I do binary division 00010111/11010 = find the answer 00110000/11010 = find the answer This is what I think I should do, but I am not sure if this is correct. Is this basically CRC? Any...

What I know: Parity check is used to detect if there are errors when transmitting data by adding redundancy bits to the dataword (data that we want to send) which creates a codeword. Then the receiver checks if the 1's are even or odd and based on that, we know that there was corruption during...

TL;DR Summary: Advanced hydrodynamic calculation- University Level Calculate the necessary force of the hydraulic piston to empty the tank located at the bottom in the indicated time. Hi all guys I'm new on this forum, and I write this post to ask you for help on a mechanical engineering...

I'm currently a freshman physics major coming into university from an early college high school, so I was lucky enough to have some experience taking college level physics courses before I came to university. I didn't think that those courses were rigorous enough in comparison to what I've heard...

Hi there. I start my final year of my computer science degree this September and, alongside other modules, will do an independent final year project. I have not had very much CS experience outside my degree so I am a bit unsure what would be feasible for me while not being too trivial such that...

I want to do a masters related to quantum computing from a physics background and my criteria for the place is: 1. A quantum computing group with experimental realizations and industrial ties. 2. A strong theoretical physics department with research in fundamental physics 3. A good chance of...

I apologise if this has been answered before. I am about half way through the mechanics chapters in the classic University Physics I am wondering when I get to the chapters on electromagnetism is it worth reading them if I’m going to be reading Griffiths anyway? Would it be best just to get...

STEM students with high GPAs (3.3+), how do you study for university final exam?

What do we know of a curve(/what can it look like) in R^n if we know that κ1,κ2,...,κn-1 is constant?

Hi guys, M can then be split up into 2 components: the mass of the payload which is known, and the mass of the wing. The wing material has a known thickness and density meaning its mass is given by: surface area of wing* mass per m^2 (mass m^2 is used as density and thickness are known so an...

1) Really messed up my uni life. Indulged into various addictions like addiction of making money online. making free money. wasted almost 3 years of uni life in it. 2.5 years to be exact.. Didn't keep notes of any subject even though i passed subject with ease as I had good track record of being...

I am working through the wonderful book called University physics by Young & Freedman, it’s seems like a thorough introductory textbook. My question is, instead of waiting till the end of the book to branch out into more advanced textbook that focus on mostly one topic for example classical...

[Mentor Note -- thread spun off from a thread in the Advisor forums] Both Feynman and Einstein have famous quotes about explaining physics concepts to those not well schooled in physics.(freshman undergrad and a six year old respectively). Yet both hedged a bit on this: Einstein Things should...

Hello, I'm a first year university physics student, and I'm having a hard time understanding the material, which badly affects my grades. I'm posting this thread hoping to get some tips for how and where to learn physics(reading materials, online lectures) aside from my university lecture, which...

Hi all! During the weekend I exercise with math problems from the Calculus book (LINK - Calculus). Are there any tests which I can take on university level (online or physically)? It would be nice if the tests are recognized/accepted by universities as I consider doing a master-study in the...

Hello I need adviece on how to study for university . I am doing an engeneering course at university and I thought I could write down the info given in the pdf the get some more information on youtube and then I would start solving problems but I did not have success doing that and I just...

If Tl;dr I am struggling in Math 171 and Physics 191 and throwing around the idea of declaring a geology major with an astronomy minor because the Physics major "juice is not worth the squeeze" at my age(29) anyone else out there who struggled with Calculus 1 when they first took it?Hello...

I will be applying to schools for a physics major in about a year or so. And so far my list of Unis consists of ridiculously competitive schools. Of course I realize that this is not realistic for most if not all people. I know about the extraordinary schools like MIT, Princeton, etc. But I was...

This is a question on a past exam at university. The answer was provided (for revision purposes and exam preparation) but I never understood it and it continues to frustrate me because even if I can't come up with the right answer to a problem, I'll at least 'get' (understand) the proper answer...