Diffraction :v: I remember it was quite easy.
What I couldn't wrap my mind around was that stupid interference. I'm glad it's all over.
[QUOTE=Turnips5;33172535]sigh
you know you're in for some shit when the guide for the experiment you're doing opens with "Bad luck: this is one of the most fiddly experiments in the first year lab. Make sure you bring your reading
glasses and headache tablets."
[url]http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzphy11/firstyear/modules/experimental/Experiments/13LaserDiffraction.pdf[/url][/QUOTE]
Yeah I remember the labs having to do with diffraction were quite a pain.
I've already done one double slit diffraction experiment at A-level, I understand the principles fine, I don't wanna do it again :|
Writing a paper due Wednesday on realism and quantum mechanics in New Age spirituality. It's actually more interesting than I even thought it would be. Some of the scientific sources I've found (I have to analyze both scientific and crazy-as-fuck sources) are really interesting.
Do share.
I may when it's finished depending on how much I like it.
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I'll share some of the sources regardless.
It'll be fun to quote you stating the powers of the reiki mind flow in the diseases of the third eye next time you find yourself i na heated discussion about science :v:
took a physics test today, I honestly think I aced it
I finished 15 minutes before the end of class, and most people had to stay after class to finish because they didn't have enough time
[editline]8th November 2011[/editline]
i almost feel bad because i get physics so much better than my classmates
it feels dirty
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;33175170]Writing a paper due Wednesday on realism and quantum mechanics in New Age spirituality. It's actually more interesting than I even thought it would be. Some of the scientific sources I've found (I have to analyze both scientific and crazy-as-fuck sources) are really interesting.[/QUOTE]
Have you seen What the Bleep Do We Know?
That movie...:ughh:
[QUOTE=Mr._N;33175937]Have you seen What the Bleep Do We Know?
That movie...:ughh:[/QUOTE]
I mention it in the paper and yes UGH
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[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;33175865]It'll be fun to quote you stating the powers of the reiki mind flow in the diseases of the third eye next time you find yourself i na heated discussion about science :v:[/QUOTE]
I restrict it to a discussion of realism. It's supposed to be as specific as possible.
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[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;33175899]i almost feel bad because i get physics so much better than my classmates
it feels dirty[/QUOTE]
I know what you mean
People hated me in high school because I was that guy who thought he did terrible on every quiz along with everyone else and then got 104 or some shit.
Today in my physics class:
Teacher reads grades allowed.
Get 96 with a 36% homework grade.
Class looks at you with disdain. Lose all chance of virginity-loss. (Just kidding about the last part.)
I was the guy who corrected the teacher, ask a bunch of stuff, always did the exercises correctly, the one people would ask shit. And I would always score a lousy grade.
v:v:v
Eh. The girl who is my lab partner is like that, kinda and she is probably going to be more successful than I am. Though, what do you mean by lousy grade?
I mean ranging from top of class at some 80% to worst of class to 40%. Don't think I ever ha more than 80%
What is a dual major like?
I have two friends who are dual majoring and it sounds like the just got the general eds out of the way the first two years, then worked on their first major for two years, and then the second major for two years. At least I think so.
Or is it that you work on both at the same time? I'd ask them but I don't have their emails and I'm in class at the moment. The reason I ask is because some guy from a local university was here and I asked him about what he thought and his response was, "THATS IMPOSSIBLE. NO ONE DUAL MAJORS IN TWO HARD MAJORS. I'D RECOMMEND MAJORING IN ENGINEERING OR PHYSICS AND THEN MINORING IN MATHEMATICS."
But he is a chairman of the mathematics department at the university, so I feel like he is somewhat biased about the latter comment, but then again as a chairman he probably knows a lot.
6 years? Sounds like a long time. I'm gonna be in undergrad for five years. Not so bad. Doing math and physics.
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Impossible my dick.
I'm not entirely sure, it was an estimate. It may have been 1.5 years for each major or something. Not sure.
Is that how dual majors are normally done, though? Separately? Or are they normally done together?
A former roommate of mine double-majored in math and physics. He did the classes for each major simultaneously. AFAIK, he's on track to graduate in 4 years.
I am off track only because of class scheduling along with being a transfer student. Completely possible to do in 4 years.
Happy birthday, Carl Sagan.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xtly-dpBeA[/media]
[I][B]B[/B][/I]illions of :toot:'s
At least 4 billion toots. (AKA billions and billions)
Also, what are the 'best' science/math majors at the moment (and predicted to be in the future) with regards to prospects and salary?
P.S.
I was reading something today and one of the comments was about the number of astrophysicists in the United States. Its a low number. The comment directly after stated, "Are you kidding? There is way more than xxxx astrologers in the United States. There are a few dozen astrologers alone in my city."
Hopefully you can notice where the second comment went wrong...
Engineering has more job exits than pure sciences.
Avant-garde technologies like biophysics or nanotechnology are probably a great call.
[img]http://visually.visually.netdna-cdn.com/WhatAreTheOdds_4ebb1b0343634_w980.png[/img]
anyone else think this is kinda dumb
the probability of you winning the lottery is incredibly low, but the probability that SOMEONE's gonna win the lottery is pretty high
Well, yeah, but that doesn't mean that the guy winning the lottery isn't insanely lucky.
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;33216973]Well, yeah, but that doesn't mean that the guy winning the lottery isn't insanely lucky.[/QUOTE]
the only reason he's lucky is because something good happens for that one ticket
there's no similar expectation for being born.
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argh, not to mention the awful use of "basically zero" on that image
nearly as bad as "almost infinite"
Yeah that's a misuse of "almost zero" and I want to beat the person who made it to death with math.
put him in L'Hôpital
All of these chances they specify seem pretty meaningless anyway. Where the hell do they pull these numbers from?
[img]http://puu.sh/8rjF[/img]
speaking of L'Hôpital, I found out you can evaluate f(0) of f(x) = sin(x)/x using Maclaurin's series today
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