Jan 22, 2025
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Large Hadron Collider at CERN..
I’m in between semesters right now and getting restless—I really want to dive into some kind of independent research project. The problem is I’ve never done anything like this before.
For now, I’ve started reading review papers on cosmology (which has been super exciting), but I’d love tips on how to actually start an independent research project—things like choosing a topic, narrowing it down, finding resources, or just not getting lost in the chaos. I'm all ears!
Sometimes I really want to pursue Classics and Latin and then I want to pursue photography and art and then sometimes I want to become a writer then sometimes I really want to produce music for the rest of my life then I want to research physics for the rest of my life and then I want to be a teacher and then I wan
Mood for today
".4TeO2-.6V2O5" from my senior exhibition. Vanadium tellurite glass melted in glazed ceramic bowls. Probably my favorite set of pieces from the show.
On 20 May 1899, a group of physicists gathered at Columbia University to revolutionise the study of physics in the United States. Together they would form The American Physical Society, the first organisation of its kind.
Prior to this point, physics was considered a meagre profession in America. In contrast to their counterparts in Europe, American universities valued technological triumphs over abstract research, and refused to provide physicists with much funding. With their colleagues across the Atlantic discovering electrons and X-rays, these 36 physicists decided that something needed to be done.
The society was born soon after. Its first president, Henry Rowland, was renowned for his work on diffraction gratings, and set the society on its path to success.
Image credit: Henry Augustus Rowland (November 27, 1848 – April 16, 1901) and his dividing engine from Popular Science Monthly, September 1903. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Today feels so good!
I worked through almost all of one entire micromagnetics matlab script example and sorta understood stuff!
My desk mate gave me a tasty milk candy from China and we laughed together for a very long time over her confusion in translations from Chinese to English.
Today I am thankful and happy.
Things do be done before 7th Dec for Research Society!
Classical Mechanics
Lagrangian mechanics (the principle of least action)
Hamiltonian mechanics and phase space
Non linear dynamics and chaos theory
Noether’s theorem (symmetry and conservation)
Rigid body dynamics and tensors
Electromagnetism
Maxwell’s equations
Electromagnetic waves and optics
Potential and gauge invariance
Multipole expansion
Relativistic electrodynamics
Optics
Geometrical vs. Physical optics
Fourier optics
Lasers and stimulated emission
Nonlinear optics
Quantum optics
Number Theory
Divisibility and prime numbers
Congruences and modular arithmetic
Quadratic residues and quadratic reciprocity
Prime number theorem and distribution of primes
Elliptic curves and cryptography
Algebra
Group theory
Ring and field theory
Galois theory
Linear algebra (abstract vector spaces)
Representation theory