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Jon Miller
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OK
I did my Qualifier part 1, I will see how I will do in two weeks
tomorrow is part 2, Quantum Mechanics
(the qualifier at maryland is taken after a year of graduate classes)
I am just beginning to study (most have been studying for a month) (well I studied for a bit last tuesday), so what should I study?
what shuold I write down on a peice of paper and put into short term memory?
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Rogan Josh
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It really depends on who is good to work with at Maryland. As a PhD student you want to work with someone who will support your work but not spoon feed you, who is good at publishing papers and is respected in the field.
Who your supervisor knows will be the biggest influencing factor in getting a postdoc at the end of your PhD. Second biggest will be the number of papers you have written.
Which university is it? Maryland U? Johns Hopkins U?
In other words, which of these is it?
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires...s=&sequence=icn
Edit: Oh sorry, I thought you meant ' What shall I study after the exam?' as in a subject for your PhD. But reading it again, I think you mean for the exam. Just ignore me.....
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Jon Miller
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yah
but it is cool
it is over, I failed, with about everyone else who took it (including those who studied all summer)
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Asmodean
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Aarhus, Denmark
Aug 1999
time: 06:30
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Actually serious work is takingplace right now, with the aim of proving Schrodinger wrong.
But yeah...QM makes heads explode.
Asmodean
Last edited by Asmodean on 30-08-2003 at 01:28
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Jon Miller
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well, two of the 5 questions had to do with group theory and string theory (I actually got a good portion of these right)
one question no one even attempted
one I got mostly right (purturbation theory)
one I could quite get started (others couldn't either, but apparently you could do the later parts without getting the first part right, why didn't I look at the later parts?)
Jon Miller
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Jon Miller
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I also had the baness of not sleeping much the last couple of nights
and of not starting to study until 7 am (I studied a bit two weeks ago, but than quit)
(from 7 am until the test I had to shower, get to the test, and have a bloddy nose for 20 minutes)
what was probably the worse was the not getting enough sleep, I was not thinking the learest and so will miss some points on questions that require thinking clearly (the group theory and string theory ones)
Jon Miller
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Jon Miller
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I don't think that WM is that bad
it is just hard to do anything when you are timed and can't look up any equations
Jon Miller
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Jon Miller
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tha should be QM
HJon Miler
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Jon Miller
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advice will be taken
jon Miller
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realpolitic
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Rogue States of America
Mar 2002
time: 21:30
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The physics in college is incomplete starting with Maxwell's original equations, use
quarternions, not complex numbers. Quartnions have 1 real dimension (time) and 3 perpendicular imaginary dimensions (space).
Here's some of the propulsion ideas NASA is working on based on quarternions.
Last edited by realpolitic on 30-08-2003 at 02:13
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Rogan Josh
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Einstein wasn't very good at maths...
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