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If anyone has good teaching experience and is willing to spare the time, do you think you could provide me some basic informal tutoring? Though, seeing as that's possibly very unlikely, do you think you could at least point me towards the right questions to practice from the 50-70 questions a college textbook provides. It takes forever to get through all those and many are too easy, but not discernible to the untrained eye from a difficult question. I am currently using Principles of Physics which is an international version of Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday Resnick and Walker. I would be grateful even for minimum guidance.

Can you say that from personal experience?

Masters or bachelors in a branch of physics will do? Or only masters and above? Just curious.

What I meant to ask was, for being in such a position, you must have PhD, yes or no?

But you're only likely to get a job not related to your degree, with the degree being a branch of physics, if it is a PhD, is that right?

Well, if you remember a while back I posted my ambitions on desire to do physics research as a profession. I've been somewhat off put by what some people on the internet say about how you'll always have to keep publishing to get more grant money from the companies/govt., and you'll be crushed never having more time than to eat and bathe. It's scary yeah but everybody's got to do a job and not every job is cushy. Why not do something you enjoy? I mean yeah sure I could step back a bit but then it becomes totally pointless if I step back to the point where I'm doing a menial, cookie cutter job like everyone else. I mean like absolute engineering where I assume you pretty much get a job description and you apply the methods learnt, which could be described as a cookie cutter mold on a grander scale, and come up with most efficient design for the job. There doesn't seem to be any room for experimenting, exploring new ideas, innovating or discovering something totally awesome to make everybody happier. Please don't take this as me chickening out. I don't care to live in the lap of luxury but I don't want to end up homeless and starved (or uncomfortably close to such a situation) because somebody with a good word put in by the elite or just flat out better by a lot for inexplicable/uncontrollable reasons always manages to take away my desired job in a chosen field regardless of my qualifications in said field in a place where such research could actually be conducted. Also good education isn't cheap. It'd be pretty terrible to get such a degree but never find a job for it. I meant fields in which the results of the research was the base upon which new technology was built, not research which required cutting edge technology to be made for the purpose of performing it.

I can't say never having gone farther than general physics text.

I see... umm how about in order of greatest to least (likelihood of) resulting in new tech?

You mentioned that for quantum physics. I'm aware of that much. Could you at least refer to the other fields as well? I'm still not sure if Particle Physics or Astrophysics have yielded actual tech or just allowed us to satisfy some of our questions on the cosmos on a much more grand/infinitesimal scale.

Maybe but what I mean is currently we can see something like condensed matter physics or more generally materials science yielding products like flexible electronics or those that can interface with biology or Carbon structures to be used for flexible, lightweight but incomprehensibly strong protective layers, even if only as a proof of concept. Whereas (and pardon me if this is wrong because I haven't been keeping up and am not particularly knowledgeable with regards to this) particle physics, while integral to our understanding of universe at the very fundamental levels and basically formulating a theory of everything, hasn't quite yielded any publicly viable product.

I thought I'd post this here since it's not exactly a homework question or discussion regarding a specific operation in a field/subject. Out of the following, which fields gravitate more towards applied physics/engineering (but not necessarily such a discipline)? Or maybe if that's confusing, another way I would ask this is, study in which of the following fields would lead into research on the most cutting edge of technology with a high likelihood of some degree of achievability of said technology within the foreseeable future? 1. Particle Physics 2. Quantum physics a. Quantum information science (computing, information theory, etc.) b. Quantum Field theory/Quantum gravity 3. Nuclear Physics/Engineering/Technology or Solar Physics 4. Photonics 5. Photovoltaics 6. Astrophysics 7. Condensed Matter physics 8. Dynamic systems theory (Control Theory, Chaos Theory, Quantum chaos, etc.) 9. Neural Engineering 10. Study of Complex Systems 11. Nanotech

Sort of quick question, though more engineering than pure science. What is the effect of applying a DSB-SC modulated waveform to a non-coherent/asynchronous demodulator/detector such as an envelope detector or rectifier detector and why would we see such an effect? I tried google for this but I just get explanations for the detectors themselves rather than this particular effect.

Yeah I remember that one. We used it in IB HL physics as a reference on account of it being like that. I would like to hear your suggestions on those other textbooks, however. As long as I don't end up wasting too much time with these mind twisters, though.

So I plan on giving the GRE this year and I was wondering which textbook(s) would be good for it as well as learning physics in general. I've already obtained a copy of one by Randall D. Knight and another by Halliday and Resnick. Are there any others I should look for?

I had a question regarding the graduate physics course. Say if my application is falling just a bit short of satisfactory for any reason, would the mathematics GRE scores sway things just enough in my favour? I know that most schools don't give particular importance to the GREs and even when they do give substantial importance, it is only to the general and the physics GREs. So just thought I'd make sure if giving the mathematics GRE would be worth my while.

Anything else? Communication isn't a problem and I don't think I generally would fall prey to anyone but the worst grammar nazis.

All right. That's good. However, there is still one question. What skills should I develop? I elaborated that question in my original post.

Could you elaborate why I should choose the masters first as opposed to directly enrolling in PhD were I to do that? If I do that where do I go to for it? Is there any reason for America or Europe in particular for further education other than what Klaynos mentioned?

Good day, ladies and gents. I am an Indian student of Electronics and Communications engineering currently studying in India. However, I wish to do research in a field of physics. I'm not sure at the moment of which one since the number of how many interest me is too numerous (however, if you would like to know I will add a list at the bottom). Even more than that, though, I wish to live and earn my income solely for the purpose of researching and learning physics, maybe as much as I can of my field and as much as I can of it overall. Unfortunately, prospects here are limited for further education and research. So I wanted to know how would I exactly maximize my chances of getting my preferred job in a region where an actual attempt at research is made? Grades are obvious. I plan on giving the GRE after getting done with my engineering and then applying to a (hopefully) reputed institute. That much is obvious. One of the things I think would help me more is if I knew exactly what skill sets I should possess and what areas I should have knowledge in. To be more specific what primary (e.g. physics/maths), secondary (e.g. programming), tertiary [e.g. language(s)/philosophy/general knowledge] should I possess that would augment my success at the field itself and when making dealings regarding said field? The reason I am asking is because I've heard it said quite often that while programming is not taught in school as a mandatory subject everywhere, current circumstances have made it almost as basic as mathematics, at least as far as technical fields are concerned. Then on top of that there is the fact that a lot of my education has minor gaps here and there on account of my family having to stay in different countries due to my mother's postings. For example, I didn't even know how to properly apply a limit until recently. Yes I was lazy earlier but since I was starting to see it far too often I realized couldn't do without it. I have also been fairly out of touch with physics proper for a while. So I want to make sure I have the requisite understanding of at least the fundamentals, if not any advanced topics. Don't be shy of suggesting and advanced ones on my account, however. Also if you could tell me a good place to start with (either textbooks or online), I would appreciate it. The other thing is what aside from the whole GRE, getting recommendations and applying to an insitute of my choosing (which is doing well in the desired field), should I do, if anything? Other suggestions and insights would also be highly appreciated. TL;DR - Indian engineering student in India wanting to do physics research for a living. What all should be said and done to ensure this happens? List of desired fields: 1. Particle Physics 2. Quantum physics in general or something specific such as a. Quantum information science (computing, information theory, etc.) b. Quantum Field theory/Quantum gravity (I'm not sure if there is anything to actually research) 3. Nuclear Physics/Engineering/Technology or Solar Physics (I'd love to aid in the research of fully realized fusion reactors) 4. Photonics 5. Photovoltaics 6. Renewable Energy Research in general 7. Astrophysics 8. Condensed Matter physics 9. Physics of computers/information (again not sure if there is anything left to research since a lot of it seems like it could fall into information theory) 10. I'm lumping these together because I'm not sure if there is any actual research into these or if there is any meaningful contribution to be made and some sound a bit metaphysical instead; topics like wormholes, uniparticle physics, theory of everything,string theory, scale relativity, m-theory, loop quantum gravity, causal sets, quantum mind The following are not strictly physics but still sound interesting: 1. Dynamic systems theory (Control Theory, Chaos Theory, Quantum chaos, etc.) 2. Nanotech 3. Materials Science 4. Metamaterials 5. Neural Engineering 6. Study of Complex Systems