I recently wanted to ask about a series of questions relating to pretty much the same topic. It was a pretty narrow topic, but I had too many questions to put in one major question. Therefore, I was thinking that I instead write something like this for each title:
"Topic question 1"
"Topic ques...
There is lots of kitchen lore about pans. One popular concept are the "pores" of a steel pan surface, which are the reason why food sticks to the pan when it's not heated properly.
I don't know much about material science, but I know that the "pores" are not real pores, but irregular gaps or ev...
And @Gowtham, you misinterpreted my last comment yesterday. I never meant to bring your eyesight into question. All I meant was that India was making huges strides in its space program and wanted your views as such, as to whether you'd choose ISRO over NASA, irrespective of your eyesight. I'm sorry if you took it in poor taste, although the winking smiley was a bit out of place.. :-)
@KyleKanos Take a look at the main post on meta.se : http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245731/help-us-test-the-stack-exchange-android-tablet-app?cb=1
It says "Help us test the Stack Exchange Android tablet app". Is it an specially for tablets, or for all portable devices ?
@TAbraham The time dilation principle says that if you go faster and faster, time actually speeds up "with respect to you". So, if you had enough energy to accelerate yourself to extremely high speeds (of the order of mllions of m/s), you'd find considerable time difference between what normal people experience and what you do. However, by that time, you'd have gained a lotta mass... so it becomes increasingly difficult to accelerate further..
@Simha Hi! i agree with you when question is about stopping the train . What do you think will happen when its just a hit and go rather than train being stopped ? the impulse(or force) will be same i feel if we are considering a human in the way of the trains . also i did not take anything you said in poor taste and understood wat you meant :P definitely ISRO if i was going to be !
So well, I am an Indian 10th student who has deep love for Physics. Yet, the condition in my country is that you can only do Engineering or Medical Sciences. If you don't you are bound to well you know rest. And I can't take anything other then Engineering due to my parents forcing me. So any branch of Engineering that is very related with mordern Physics and well I want to go to some good space agency. Help is appreciated.
That Engineering this, will be understood a lot by a person of my country.
@d3dxcr I and @Cheeku are doing Engineering Physics at IITB. The program is called "Engineering" and you certainly can pick your courses so that you do engineering, however
i am from India too , and i recommend trying for dual degree programmes in IITs, NISER and few other institutions , though this would probably have stern rejection from your parents
if you are sure about your pursuit of physics then going for pure sciences is better i feel . though the career prospects may look dim to parents compared to say any engineering course , but still lots of prospects abroad i think
bachelors -> Masters (perhaps skip to phd, many do that) -. phd -> at this point you start earning (not just breaking even) -> maybe postdoc -> asst prof -> ...
i myself was dearly interested in going for MSc physics , but couldnt clear JEE, was selected for an interview at NISER ( couldnt attend due to floods) and doing MS in Material science now . so if you have a strong will try to pursue MSc program or even a B.Sc program ,
and very very very tough mentally (from what i see at pennstate) , i did mine at NIT trichy (it was a walk through a park) , but ofc you would learn a lot more in abroad univs and even more practical teaching there . its way more hardwork .
@d3dxcr nuclear engineering will basically narrow down your prospects in future, you may be interested now , but 2 or 3 years later you have no clue what you like then . so taking a broad subject is usually better , but if you are very sure then you can pursue that
@d3dxcr you can get into places like TIFR, IGCAR , DRDO or some other organization of DAE . but is that what you actually want to do ? if you see yourselves as a researcher then this probably isnt that best route . (my sister works in the PFBR project and dad worked at KKNPP) so i have a small idea .
@d3dxcr try to study the rest 2 years without giving much thought and see if you actually still want to pursue physics , you might get new interest within 2 years . ofc you will be preparing for JEE, and whatever entrance exams , If you are very strong-willed after 2 years , you can pursue BSc/MSc dual degree programs in Physics or just BSc program in univs as i have seen many people abroad who finish their bachelors/MSc here, but dont take this an a discouragement in anyway . bye
Let's assume that some scientist discovers a phenomenon that has never been noticed before.
He wants to write a paper about it but he doesn't want to constantly write "effect of change of some properties blahblahblah". Can he therefore name this effect with a name of his choice? For example "Di...
@d3dxcr Whenever you see this: I agree with what @ManishEarth and @Gowtham suggested. But if you're looking for international, I don't know anyone on the path I'm suggesting, but I'll say: Go to Soviet/Balkan: Poland/Belarus/Ukraine/Russia etc. They are the only ones whom I've found hard to defeat in international competitions such as olympiads and physics problem sets
But that may be too stupid as compared to sticking to Engineering Physics from IITB. Seriously, I know infi researchers in India. All agree to what @ManishEarth and @Gowtham have already told you
My point was that the olympiad problems don't quite reflect how good you will be at physics later on, or on the teaching abilities. Highly competitive exams usually only test how good your methods for cracking the exam are.
Given that there are many people from India here talking about education right now, how much competition is there in the system and what do you think of it? I'd be especially interested if you also had some experience with the systems of other countries
yeah , the population explosion that occurred in india basically made the system here really bad . There is not much flexibility, freedom relating to education.
Northern Europe. Lived several years in Asia, and saw many fitting the "Asian dad" meme mentality. I don't know that much about India, but (young) Indians seem to be talking about olympiads and other competitions all the time (something I'd never even heard about until well beyond the age)
a system where a student isnt under pressure to obtain specific marks to be classed as a good student. Most of the stuff here is too much of rote learning .
@Cheeku So the employers equate hard work with high grades which basically means you then apply with your grades to companies? How much does the name of the university matter, or your major?
@alarge see here what i experienced in college is like this -> at end of third year recruiters come to the college . If the pay package is high then they recruit first . the first companies will have a very high cutoff CGPA and the last company will basically hire anyone in that order.
i think the whole "recruitment process" only happens at the first 3 or 4 type of institutes mentioned, okay tuition in india usually means "extra-classes" . so yeah all institutions here do have classes if thats what you mean - and a related tuition fee
nope. all the curriculum is fixed . there are very very few courses that we can study apart from the major called Electives here . but even they are forced/fixed and not actually free
@alarge there have been lots and lots of "discussions", " committees" etc formed but as this country is run by corrupt politicians its hard to repair this system . Here in India the education is seen as business . but lots of changes have been happening steadily . hopefully in 10 years or more this could change .
@Cheeku, PISA's (the study you're probably referring to) a lot of politics. What I most enjoyed was the immense freedom in the curriculum/pacing (especially in uni, but to a lesser extent earlier as well). Anyway, PISA measures the avg. 15 yr old, and that isn't a good predictor for... anything in my experience
@Cheeku I honestly don't know, but a search at SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System for quasi-periodic oscillation would probably give you the right direction.
imagine two trains of different length hitting a human who is standing on the track , will they both impart same force(impulse) ? assume same mass/coach and same speed
i am thinking the length wont matter after a specific number(of coaches) as the rest of the coaches behind wont even feel it . explain considering this not being a simple collision between spheres
There is lots of kitchen lore about pans. One popular concept are the "pores" of a steel pan surface, which are the reason why food sticks to the pan when it's not heated properly.
I don't know much about material science, but I know that the "pores" are not real pores, but irregular gaps or ev...
Let's assume that some scientist discovers a phenomenon that has never been noticed before.
He wants to write a paper about it but he doesn't want to constantly write "effect of change of some properties blahblahblah". Can he therefore name this effect with a name of his choice? For example "Di...
