Grades are in!

[Celerity]

It really just depends on your major. When I was a freshman doing a physics major and politics minor, I took these classes my first semester:

Applied Electronic Media

International Relations

Calculus II

Physics I Science & Engineering

Humanities I

Oral Communication

Now compare that to my last, crazy semester as a teaching/asian politics double major (no physics ):

Phonology

Problems of English Grammar

Bilingual Education in Public Schools

Japan-China: Problems in History and Culture

Japanese IV

Chinese II

Modern Chinese History

Tang Dynasty Poetry

Really depends on each person and their individual program.

[mya]

You mean that you get to chose what subject you enroll/study in? How do you guarantee inter-schools baselines? How can you compare different school majors?

Here it's all set in stone. With the exception of 1 or 2 minor subjects. Every Engineer school across countryside learns mostly the same thing, excepting late stage specializations.

"When I see (p+3)^3 I think it's: p^3 + 27."

Come on Valek this is easy. You will need to brush stuff up if you going to minor in Physic.

Just think of it as (p+3)^3 = (p+3)x(p+3)x(p+3) . Then you can solve the first pair, then you solve the third ().

But from my view you will not need to be solving much of this in Phisics, you will be solving more advanced stuff like Derivation and Integration.

[mya]

And don't give up. Just wait until you get to cannon ball exercises (classical mechanic). Those are extremely fun.

[f0xx]

Or my favourite - the Fourier transformation

[H&R]

Or my favourite - Functional analysis. Weirdest **** I've ever seen. Makes the fourier transform look normal. I made it a few weeks before I dropped the class

[Dead Voodoo Doll]

You mean that you get to chose what subject you enroll/study in? How do you guarantee inter-schools baselines? How can you compare different school majors?

Here it's all set in stone. With the exception of 1 or 2 minor subjects. Every Engineer school across countryside learns mostly the same thing, excepting late stage specializations.

"When I see (p+3)^3 I think it's: p^3 + 27."

Come on Valek this is easy. You will need to brush stuff up if you going to minor in Physic.

Just think of it as (p+3)^3 = (p+3)x(p+3)x(p+3) . Then you can solve the first pair, then you solve the third ().

But from my view you will not need to be solving much of this in Phisics, you will be solving more advanced stuff like Derivation and Integration.

In most highschools you can pick and choose as well. It's one of the problems. That and the coddling we give to those who haven't been educated enough to keep up.

High schools and colleges in the States are possibly the most varied thing on earth.

[Mindflayer]

Do some linear algebra.

[The-Nameless]

try taking a look at theoretical phyics.

Can someone explain the dual slit expirement. Please. I have tried to think on it and I have 0 legitimate explanations. Freakiest thing EVER.

[killalou]

You mean that you get to chose what subject you enroll/study in? How do you guarantee inter-schools baselines? How can you compare different school majors?

Here it's all set in stone. With the exception of 1 or 2 minor subjects. Every Engineer school across countryside learns mostly the same thing, excepting late stage specializations.

"When I see (p+3)^3 I think it's: p^3 + 27."

Come on Valek this is easy. You will need to brush stuff up if you going to minor in Physic.

Just think of it as (p+3)^3 = (p+3)x(p+3)x(p+3) . Then you can solve the first pair, then you solve the third ().

But from my view you will not need to be solving much of this in Phisics, you will be solving more advanced stuff like Derivation and Integration.

What do you mean "you get to choose what subject you enroll/study in"? Did someone force you to be a ChemE? I would imagine that if you are paying for it you should be able to decide what you want to take.

In regards to the same major I would say generally they have the same program with perhaps a small difference. Schools are funded differently. More schools may provide added benefits and resources that another school may not have. Other factors are the businesses in the area. If schools are funded by a certain industry, they may tailor their programs toward that industry to get more money and land their students jobs. However, generally education wise it's pretty much the same.

[mya]

Good thing i am not into electrical eng. No Furries for me.

[mya]

What do you mean "you get to choose what subject you enroll/study in"? Did someone force you to be a ChemE? I would imagine that if you are paying for it you should be able to decide what you want to take.

Of course not. One applies of free will to ChemE/University combo and the best get in. Then there is a program with set in stone classes. Almost no selections once you are in.

I mean that it appears to me you can chose (in USA) what "classes" or "subjects" (or what ever you call that thing you get a grade on after an exam) you want to take.

[H&R]

try taking a look at theoretical phyics.

Can someone explain the dual slit expirement. Please. I have tried to think on it and I have 0 legitimate explanations. Freakiest thing EVER.

Sending light through two narrow slits close to each other giving a pattern of bright and dark bands on a screen. The two beams, which are in phase, passing through the slits interfere with each other. The bright bands appearing are when a top meets a top, so to speak (think top of a sinus-curve. This is constructive interference), and the dark bands appear when the two beams cancel each other out (top meets trough. This is destructive interference).

That's just basic wave theory though. If you want an explanation including quantum physics, I can't really help you

[killalou]

Of course not. One applies of free will to ChemE/University combo and the best get in. Then there is a program with set in stone classes. Almost no selections once you are in.

I mean that it appears to me you can chose (in USA) what "classes" or "subjects" (or what ever you call that thing you get a grade on after an exam) you want to take.

Ok I see where the confusion lies. Universities here have many programs (Engineering, Chemistry, English, History, Nursing, ect.), it's up to the student to choose which program they want to specialize in. Every program has a set of courses that must be taken in order to graduate. Some programs may allow "options" for a particular course. For example, for EE at my school you could have taken Chemistry 2 (2nd year chem) or an advance math course. I choose to take the math course. These options are determine by the school and vary from school to school.

[Pali]

Sending light through two narrow slits close to each other giving a pattern of bright and dark bands on a screen. The two beams, which are in phase, passing through the slits interfere with each other. The bright bands appearing are when a top meets a top, so to speak (think top of a sinus-curve. This is constructive interference), and the dark bands appear when the two beams cancel each other out (top meets trough. This is destructive interference).

That's just basic wave theory though. If you want an explanation including quantum physics, I can't really help you

Chances are he's referring specifically to how when this is done one electron at a time, the same interference pattern still shows up.

Multiverse theories seem to provide the best explanation that I'm aware of for this phenomenon, that it's the result of interference from the experiment being run at the same time in another universe. I'm sure string theory also provides an explanation, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are a million more hypotheses regarding it. Unfortunately, right now all of these lack any basis that I know of for testing them, so figuring out which explanation is actually likely to be right will have to wait.

[KRins]

My favorite part of string theory is that you can counter any argument with "yes huh" and not be proven wrong...

[Pali]

That is false. String theory makes predictions that are testable in principle, but untestable in practice. They'd require experiments that are orders of magnitude beyond what the LHC is capable of.

[KRins]

If you can't test it practically... then you can't disprove my "yes huh" provided it isn't just a blatantly false statement or testable here in the current reality.

[Pali]

I barely even understand what you mean by "yes huh"... proper grammar is useful when discussing complex ideas.

Effects from events become continuously smaller as the scale you're measuring them at increases. String theory deals with events at the smallest scales of existence - individual effects will be incredibly difficult to discern at the scales we exist at. This is not a flaw of the theory - it just means we can't accept it as accurate yet.

[Mali]

Valek, nice job on the grades.

Mya, Foxx, stop trying to make it seem like you are so much smarter than Valek.

If that were the case, you probably would be out contributing to your field or tending to your own business, instead of trying to undermine his college transcripts.