Most minors are 9 hours beyond your core classes. You might want to check with your college for specifics.i was looking at my schools geology program and they required several physics classes, not sure if it's anywhere near enough to be a minor. working and taking on such a load is going to be hard as shit, without taking the extra classes for a minor i'm already old
i do know that a minor in geology is 18 hours i believe, so i dont see why physics would be any different
That may well be true. One thing to consider is where most of that went or is going: into the ocean (as opposed to Chernobyl where most of it was airborne). There it will be diluted and sink to the bottom. Of course, there is the concern of it getting into the food supply (fish, etc). How many deadly radioactive fish will survive and make it to the West Coast. How many will make it past radiation detection stations before processing? I'm not sure its a significant amount, but I'm no expert on those matters.
Storing and disposal of spent fuel is definitely a big problem area for the nuclear industry. One of the proposed solutions is building more reactors that use the "spent fuel" as a new fuel source. The resultant waste is composed of much shorter lived radioisotopes with less energetic emissions.
As for a breaking point, we have adequate space to store these things. The rate of production is not anticipated to increase drastically in the future. Eventually, we will reach an equilibrium point where production and decay and more or less equal. That will occur long before space becomes an issue.
In light of recent events, it definitely needs re-assessment. This is especially true in areas that are earthquake/tsunami prone. I just attended a meeting in Japan that was partly aimed at addressing this very issue. What we learned is that while we can anticipate the effects of an earthquake on structures critical to shielding, we cannot adequately anticipate after effects. Perhaps the biggest contributor to this mess was the location of the electrical systems at the plants. Are we having this discussion if power doesn't fail at the plants? Doubtful.
So this is more a question of how power is handled, distributed and rerouted during a crisis more than anything. Should spent fuel pool power stations be coupled to the main reactor chamber?
It's natural. I'm quite worried about the situation myself. I do know that the sky is not falling though. Also remember, safe limits are arbitrary but are based on evidence collected to date. Thus they are constantly being revised. The fact that they are being raised during a crisis of this nature should cause some concern, especially if one is not privy to the context under which those changes are occurring.
If you already require some physics classes for your Geo major, doesn't that reduce the burden?
Why do you believe that? Was there something in literature that suggested that this is the case?
Besides the supposed contribution from Fukushima can you name some other sources that contribute significantly to cancer prevalence? It would also help if you elaborated on what types of cancer you are referring to.
Ugh....."preventable". One of the most misused terms as it applies to medical maladies.
Cancer isn't preventable. STD's are preventable. You may reduce your lifetime risk of developing cancer, but there is no known way to reduce said risk to zero (ie prevent it). If you have a method for prevention, I'd be very interested in hearing about it.
Doofenshmirtz is awesome, and Phineas and Ferb is way better than anything I saw as a kid in the 80s, there is hope.
So it goes.
You're likely not going to be able to get a physics minor without some very high level math courses beyond what almost every other program at any school requires (including geology), FYI.i was looking at my schools geology program and they required several physics classes, not sure if it's anywhere near enough to be a minor. working and taking on such a load is going to be hard as shit, without taking the extra classes for a minor i'm already old
geology only requires cal 1 and 2 i think, nothin too hard.
Depends on the school. Jekka was able to get a degree in two similar fields of study because of course overlap but I was unable to add a geography degree even with the overlap I had. I think its a ridiculous policy as I'm learning the same material regardless but it is what it is.
Yeah - thats what I'm saying. Physics will require you to do at least 2-3 more semsters of calc/diffeq/linear (even a minor) on top of the physics classes required. Honestly, even the 100 level physics classes I took had pre and corecs of calc 1 and 2 and would have been MUCH easier with calc 3.
geophysics may be a bit much, i'm not trying to be the worlds next einstein i just enjoy geology and want to do something i enjoy for a living tbh. geologists (without the physics part) still earn really really really good pay in oil and gas exploration.
I recall that E&M and Classical Mechanics required Cal 3, but you don't get much out of CM if you haven't had differential equations.
You might qualify for a minor in math as well.
Halberto might know more than we do here. My knowledge is limited to two colleagues who are in geophysics. They are in oil exploration as well.
All the engineering and physics students at UNM automatically get math minors. Its nuts. Mechanics required Calc 1 as a coreq (just retarded) and EM/Thermo had Calc2 as a coreq. Those classes would have been much easier for me with Calc 3 under my belt before them. However, taking CM before Calc 3 meant I already knew EVERYTHING about vectors.I recall that E&M and Classical Mechanics required Cal 3, but you don't get much out of CM if you haven't had differential equations.
You might qualify for a minor in math as well.
Oil and gas is def where the money is at. The current research project I'm working on is funded by a grant from an oil and gas company (LOL I find the irony of this so awesome).
Yeah, it's the same most everywhere. There's so much math required for those disciplines. I don't think I've met a physics major without a minor in math, except for those going into biophysics.
Integrals are quite necessary for EM, so Cal 2 makes sense.
CM is doable without DIff Eq, but I don't think it's quite as valuable as is needed for physics majors. I think now there's even a special vector calculus class. Back in the day I learned integrals, vectors and tensors in one semester.
A lot of the math will be handled in physics classes, I would think. I'm sure you need single and multivariable calc + ODE, but isn't the linear taken care of in quantum mechanics and probability in statistical mechanics?
Small point here but big implications
Cal 1, 2, and 3 at smaller universities and CC in TX don't have the full range subject matter included at TAMU, UT, TTU or Rice. A lot of vector cal is included in cal 2 and diffEQ in Cal 3 at these schools.
It shown up when transferring courses. I've heard a lot of whines about this over the years.
Oops, forgot that linear is almost always done as two classes: one where you do lots of 2x2 and 3x3 matrices, gaussian elimination, eigenvectors, determinants and then the second when you study finite-dimensional vector spaces, linear maps, direct sums, dual spaces, bilinear forms, etc. The second is the stuff it seems you'd learn in QM, but I guess that's a huge jump if you don't have some experience with the machinery of matrices from the first linear class.
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matrices?! the fuck, that's easy stuff. you lost me on everything else you just said though
BB just being a nerd tbh. Pay him no mind.matrices?! the fuck, that's easy stuff. you lost me on everything else you just said though
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...you're not curious about anything outside of your close-minded, benighted blind ideology.
With all the overly educated horn tooters in this topic you think we would have a cure for autism by now.
God forbid people talk about physics and all the math one would have to study when someone asks about studying physics. The threads can't all be about WTC 7 tbh.
maybe we could discuss the physics of WTC 7 collapsing
Try to leave your religious beliefs out of this topic.
My point is whats the use of tooting your horn how educated you are and what classes your taking if you haven't done shit with all that knowledge?
You think Manny is going to weatherman collage to help figure out a way to bring rain to people in the desert?
You think Agloco is using his huge educated massive brain to cure Cancer?
What has Manny,Agloco,or any other horn tooter in this topic said to help anyone from being contaminated or warned us from the dangers ahead?
Go look at the first topics made when this disaster took place look how Agloco and many others said the radiation will not travel to the US and how safe we are and stop over reacting.
It's a wonder how the guy can still fit in his car with all the crow he has had to eat.
i tooted my horn the other day and prevented a guy from swerving into oncoming traffic.......saving many lives.
That is a prime example of not wasting driving school classes.
yes, i ranked 1st in horn tooting. some thought it was a god given talent but i recall it being the effort i placed on crafting my driving education.
You act like Japanese radiation possibly spreading to the US has caused a nationwide scare with millions worried about the food they eat when it's basically the Alex Jones tinfoil hat crew as the only group who's worried
^well to be honest it has shown up in food, water, and milk across the nation
it all just depends on whether or not you believe that it's still in "safe" levels
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