Re: Seeking the advice of other people
- From: "hhc314@xxxxxxxxx" <hhc314@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Dec 2006 15:31:43 -0800
Puppet_Sock hit it on directly on the head.
Decide on what type of physics that you want to engage in when you
complete your education, then focus on courses that will ultimately be
useful to you in your career.
Assume that you will have interest changes over the years.
I was keen on particle accelerators, so focused on courses that I
thought would be useful such as theoretical and relativistic mechanics,
electromagnetic field theory, electronics, and many of the other things
that Puppet_Sock mentioned.
Guess what, my first employment out of college focused on computing the
burst pressures of glass filament wound rocket engines. (Here a
knowledge of strenght of materials, mechanics, and elementary Fortran
programming helped a great deal.)
On my second job, I designed railway signal and automatic control
systems for rapid transit applications...becoming manager of system
engineering for the firms. (Here a knowledge of dynamics, other basic
physics, and computer programming and system design helped a lot.)
In my last job, for 15 years I managed and contributed to the design of
radar and missile systems like Tomahawk and Over The Horizon Radar.
Here a working knowledge of electronics, basic physics and
electromagnetics helped a lot.) I retired as a senior research
scientist.
My point is simply that unless you fully grasp the basic principles
which are taught to you as an undergraduate, your graduate level
education will be worth little more that a few K$ a year unless you
intend to never leave college, and become an acadaemic. Focus too much
on one subject, particularly the arcane, and your future options will
be very limited.
Then too, you may aspire to do real cutting-edge research, and if you
do it would be wise for you to remain single for life, since you will
alway have to depend on the whims of others for your income, and your
future will totally depend, not on your knowledge of physics, but of
your political ability.
Just my viewpoint.
Harry C.
Puppet_Sock wrote:
rehamkcirtap@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello.[meandering description of situation snipped]
Um. I didn't see any actual questions in there. What is it you want
advice about? Was it that you wanted to know what other subjects
to study?
This is not really possible to answer without more background,
and probably not then unless you have some plan as to what
you are most interested in for grad school.
Example: You are interested in something like astronomy.
So you take some astronomy classes.
Example: You want to do experimental high energy physics.
So you add in something with some practical electronics
component, some kind of electrical engineering, or such like.
Example: You want to go into industry. So you add some
computer classes in there.
Example: You are interested in bio-physics. So you add some
classes in biology.
As such I would prefer any serious suggestions be emailed to me
directly at:
Post here, read here. If it's relevant to post here, the answers will
be as well. This is a news group, and that's how it works.
Socks
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