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Originally Posted by OND
If that looks like a nonlinear diff eqn to you, you better spend more time studying and less time on car forums before you start grad school.
Good luck with the applications.
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Meant to write 2nd order linear. This could be deduced when one continues to read and places everything in context. But this should be taken as an excellent example of why the first draft of research/journal articles are never submitted and to further point out the significance of peer reviews being conducted on those submissions.
You are correct differential equations and ones ability to classify each type is an important aspect in itself not just with respect to grad school. I'm am mostly using my forum responses to hone in my communication abilities. One of the biggest issues I noticed in my undergrad experience was that a large portion of both students and professors had poor communication skills when it came to conveying ideas and concepts to others in a digestible way toward a lay audience. After presenting my research to an audience twice and having to write a these paper on that research as a graduation requirement I became aware of the importance to practice this sort of thing.
So by all means if you want to knit pick and correct anything I place out there please do. Better to get these kinks out of the way now than later down the line when it comes to scrutinizing my dissertation or I'm being paid to conduct and present research with an attached teaching requirement.
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Originally Posted by strat61caster
Physicists don't like using numbers or unnecessary constants, that'd fly just fine in a theoretical class as a differential equation as actually finding a solution is "trivial" and it looks just like how I was lectured in my basic physics class in college.
Engineering grad school he'd get a thump for not elaborating.
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That is the truth!! We are highly encouraged to cut as many corners as possible. Me and my fellow classmates would joke around how engineers chop off as many numbers past the decimal point as they can get away with and the engineers would say at least the attempted to plug in numbers and get an answer. :-P
So are all of you guys engineers (OND. Strat61caster, silver supra)? Every job I come across here in the bay area seems to want an engineering degree. Right now my goal is a Ph.D. in cosmology, theoretical gravity or something similar. But I have a couple of friends that just got their masters degree in software engineering a few months ago from san jose state... lets just say their salaries can pay off my student loans, credit card debt and brz loan in less than a year with spare money to play. It honestly has me thinking about a software engineering masters program and just calling it quits.