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What are the options for living on campus (in general)?

You don't find campus unis in the middle of the big cities -- eg. London, Bristol, Manchester...

 

Places a bit outside are campus based -- eg. Surrey and Warwick spring to mind.

 

Have you looked at how you obtain MoD sponsership? Will you have to apply early?

It's more than likely that you'll follow the "general" engineering courses for the first couple of years -- ie. a bit of each discipline including maths -- then onto more mech/aero based subjects in the 3rd year, with final specilisation in the 4th.

 

Don't pick a course because it's got a gimmicky title -- like "space engineering" -- do it because of the quailty of the institution, even if it's just called, plain old, "Mechanical engineering".

 

Also, Imperial -- do you want to (and can you afford to) live in London for 4 years?

u can go to kingston or cambridge university in london or oxford(new branch) in united states.

Bizarre comment?!?

 

OP -- it may be a bit late now but my advice would be to go for Aero/Mechanical, if you like the hands-on stuff, or Electrical if you've also could a keen interest in Physics.

 

For good engineering depts, I'd check out their research scores (not this year, yet... but from 2001):

 

http://www.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae_dynamic.cfm?myURL=http://195.194.167.103/Results/byuoa/uoa30.htm

 

Also, consider where you'd like to live -- up-North, down-South, or in London...

The good students I supervise always ask if it's OK to cite wikipedia -- I tell them not and point them in the direction of an ejournals resource, such as sciencedirect, from which they can find peer-reviewed references.

 

Or, if it's just basic intro stuff -- towards the library!

Atheists are generally more vocal about their religion than Xtians, Muslims, Druids...

 

Always banging on about not believing in this or that.

 

I'm not surprised by the survey. After all, did not "God Bless America"

<--- is Julius still there

If you want to do any physics or engineering subject at uni, you'll need a-level maths!

 

Probably applies to all other sciences too.

You're writing a thesis in something other than LaTex?!?!?

Well done!

 

(And Latin's overrated )

So where does Jessica Rabbit fit into this... ?

Absolutely no need for a car - although I have one sitting in my gf's drive in England...

Advice is a bit late...

 

...but in my mathematical physics field, I wrote papers as I went along.

 

When it came to writing up, it was a simple case of arranging the papers in some logical order, and writing an Intro/Conclusions.

 

Not only does this have a time advantage, but it means that your work gets peer-reviewed along the way, so makes the defence easier

OK' date=' so got two questions at the moment regarding the use of MATLAB.

 

Firstly:

n=4
x = -n:1:n
y=x.^2
plot(x,y)

is a correct code for plotting x vs. x² however my question is why do you need the dot in the line:

y=x.^2

what is the purpose of that dot? Why can you not just say: y=x^2 ?[/quote']It does the squaring elementwise - this is important with bigger matrices, ie. you may want to multiply each row of a nxn matrix by a scalar stroed in a nx1 matrix using the '.'

Secondly:

x=[0:0.1:pi]'
y=x'
z=sin(x*y)
mesh(x,y,z)

will plot a nice 3D graph of f(x)=sin(x) I've noticed that you must include the dash ' at the end of the first two lines, from experimenting this seems to mean that x and y are processed as columns and not rows. Is this the reason for having the dash and if so how do you know when you need a dash (e.g. for x and y) and when you do not (e.g. for z)

 

Thanks again for the help.

Yeah - the dash transposes the matrix.

 

In your example, the dash means that the dimensions of the multiplication are correct, eg. in your example this ensures that z is a matrix of size 32x32