/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2648009
Ahaha.

>>2648007
We call them that in the physics department.

Also - that's bullshit. They're black because of the absence of light. Nigga needs to get out of that university and start selling crack where he belongs.

God I want to watch Battlestar again...

>>2391424
Always found the idea behind Cerenkov radiation really cool...

>>2391981
String theory isn't a science, it's a religion.

Ancientfag. God I remember my friends telling me about this place when I was in highschool. 4chan followed me through university physics... And now I have like a 18 gig folder thanks to /s/.

Good times.

>>2376316
Word.

We made this joke all the time in Quantum I...

I'm sorry, wasn't there a giant fiasco a little while ago dealing with cold fusion?

>>2364625
First real laugh I've had in a while. Thanks.

>>2360964
They talk about killing the Scottish. That's badass.

>>2358112
>Thismakesmemoist.jpg

>>2360900
McGill definitely is harder. I compared my curriculum to U of Ottawa or Carleton (originally from Ottawa) and their honors course was about the same difficulty as our majors course.

However, the honors course there is fucked up for anyone outside of Quebec. I ended up dropping down to the majors program after a month. I supppose I could have learned Cal III and linear algebra II while taking classical mechanics, but fuck, I wanted to keep my sanity.

UdM is also depressing as fuck.

>>2360877
Jesus Christ, do your own WebWork.

>>2360855
Unfortunately, not all of us are art majors - not everyone teaches with Powerpoint.

Honestly? I usually had a tape recorder so I could just write down the equations and then add in actual English explanations later. Usually it helped if you pen in the times in the recording that corresponded to your notes.

It was useful for physics. Not so much for math, considering mathematicians hate explaining anything. :/

Ottawafag that just finished at McGill. Had a 80 average in Grade 11 and a 92 average in Grade 12.

They don't look at Grade 11. Relax.

>>2359911
Hmmm, it's explained really well in Griffith's Quantum-mech. Do you have that lying around?

>>2359695
You're missing the point. And most likely trolling *but*:

The main goal was to take non-fissible substances and make it possible to use it in reactors. That's all they did.

>>2359694
Really don't know. I went into Medical Physics myself mostly because it still dealt with nuclear technology but was actually applicable for a job.

>>2359656
No one does nuclear research anymore. Pretty much, people only apply there to get accepted into a grad school then immediately switch to a different specialty.

>>2359670
Trolololoooooo

Cider + red beer.

Glows slightly in the dark.

>>2359617
Pretty much. I remember hearing my prof talk about that movie and I was thinking to myself... It wouldn't go more than like... 10 meters into the earth.

But yea, fuck Jane Fonda and her pseudo-science advertisement. Seriously pisses me off.

Greetings from /s/,

No.

>>2359543
Mostly because other ideas came along, such as Supercritical-water-cooled reactors.

But honestly? All the red tape involving anything with the word Nuclear in it. You wouldn't believe the amount of shit you have to go through even in hospitals because we have to manage isotopes. I was up at the nuclear power plant up at Chalk River after they fixed the giant football sized hole in their shielding... All they did was fix it. Not improve it. Because no one wants to write new protocols.

It's also the whole hippy thing with nuclear waste, etc. We do need to find a way to make it more degradable (if possible).