Physics Thread

Pet · 30-01-2006 5:58pm

I suppose. I know that almost-homeopathic solutions of pollen given over a 3-month period help reduce symptoms of hayfever in summertime, but..I don't understand how actual homepathy can or could work, on a chemical/biological level, at that factor of dilution..

ApeXaviour · 30-01-2006 11:19pm

I really hate statistical thermodynamics. Spending waaay more time on it than any other subject and I still can't answer past questions. I must have a mental block against it, like with programming (oh tg I dont have to do that anymore

). It's those damn summation sigma's I think, I HATE THEM. They make me feel stupid..

Cuckoo / sleepingbeauty.. whaddyis think of that new guy Pethica and his new course mechanics of matter? I have to say I'm pretty damn impressed with him so far. I envisioned hating this subject, and he reminds me of somebody I'm not too fond of. Yet... he keeps your attention, breaks everything down for you so you understand it all there on the spot and even puts in the odd joke or funny anecdote. I've actually started looking forward to his lectures.

sleepingbeauty · 31-01-2006 11:46am

I have to say I prob listen in his lectures more than any other (thats really saying something because generally I dont listen full stop). Seems very easy, I keep expecting to walk in there one day and it gets excrutiatingly hard but hasnt happened yet!! Grr astro lecture in 10mins and didnt do the tutorial questions :mad:

booms mcd · 01-02-2006 3:01pm

got to love wednesdays for getting in at 3 for JS EP. this should be in the woohoo tread though. does ne1 know if Blau has just ****ed off r is there actually a lecture at 4 2day??

cuckoo · 01-02-2006 8:21pm

booms mcd wrote:

got to love wednesdays for getting in at 3 for JS EP. this should be in the woohoo tread though. does ne1 know if Blau has just ****ed off r is there actually a lecture at 4 2day??

shame on me for not even making it to the 3pm. double shame on me if there was a 4pm.

will be in at 9 tmw, will be in at 9 tmw, will be.....

cuckoo · 01-02-2006 10:34pm

"To whom it may concern,

The JS 3014 class scheduled for Thursday between 9am – 10am in the Sniam Lecture Room, will now be taking place in the SFI Conference Room (by Lincoln place gate) between 9am – 10am."

Anyone know where the SFI conference room actually is?

ApeXaviour · 01-02-2006 11:18pm

cuckoo wrote:

Anyone know where the SFI conference room actually is?

Nope, don't care either. Have all the notes from that course anyway. I'll be at the 10pm A&M spectroscopy course however.

If it's by the lincoln gate ask the security guys around there.. Hold on I'll send some texts around and see if anybody knows where it is.

btw cuckoo, there was a double A&M spec lecture from 4-6. though he was sound about it and let us off at 5.30

pseudonym · 02-02-2006 4:42am

ah, you've gotta love nellist and his carefree attitude. or something like that. cracks bad joke. laughs at own joke. leaves microphone on....

ApeXaviour · 02-02-2006 9:29am

pseudonym wrote:

ah, you've gotta love nellist and his carefree attitude. or something like that. cracks bad joke. laughs at own joke. leaves microphone on....

He's utterly refreshing for what is otherwise quite an annoying course. Well at least it was quite an annoying course when taught by patterson. (I'm sure you can imagine)

booms mcd · 06-02-2006 1:50pm

yo those nellist lectures aren't so bad. pity bout the times. too early or late.

nebody think these mathematica labs are the biggest load of b****x.

Nietzschean · 06-02-2006 2:08pm

booms mcd wrote:

nebody think these mathematica labs are the biggest load of b****x.

Ah mathemathica is great apart from its random crankyness, though labs on it is painfull(to teach anyway)

ApeXaviour · 06-02-2006 2:50pm

booms mcd wrote:

nebody think these mathematica labs are the biggest load of b****x.

Heheh.. I went up to mauro's office and turns out I get excempted from them! Was gonna repeat them anyway cos I thought I did terribly in them but nope, 2.1 average.. grand!

cuckoo · 14-03-2006 2:41pm

JS Trinity term timetable is up - no 9am lectures for EP this term - woot.

It's a little messy, lots of the slots are wk 2,4,6. I'll be checking a copy of it daily next term. But, i like the look of it, not too many hours.

JS lab assessments, however, are evil.

ApeXaviour · 16-03-2006 2:58pm

cuckoo wrote:

JS lab assessments, however, are evil.

Yeah.. seems to depend on barkley/espey/donovan/blau's mood (especially espey, man that guy can be an erratic marker). I have my writeups from last year on my maths webpage (that's not been updated since last summer) if you want them

cuckoo · 16-03-2006 7:40pm

ApeXaviour wrote:

Yeah.. seems to depend on barkley/espey/donovan/blau's mood (especially espey, man that guy can be an erratic marker).

word. :mad:

Nietzschean · 16-03-2006 9:10pm

Sure its all physics, how hard could it be?

*hides*

ApeXaviour · 17-03-2006 1:49am

Nietzschean wrote:

Sure its all physics, how hard could it be?

Can't remember you exactly bein a fan of lab write ups tbh.

Imagine them just as first year, but times ten. You're averaging 25-30 hours work per lab report. Then a month later, when you've forgotten everything about it, you get ~30 minute interview ON this lab report where they give you a mark. Each mark is worth 4% of the year!

ApeXaviour · 01-04-2006 5:28pm

Anyone in third year know the story with this? Didn't he say the lecture course was finished!? Yet on the timetable there're more lectures scheduled for next term...

sleepingbeauty · 02-04-2006 7:48pm

ApeXaviour wrote:

Anyone in third year know the story with this? Didn't he say the lecture course was finished!? Yet on the timetable there're more lectures scheduled for next term...

yeah im not sure but i reckon its a mistake because those lectures are deffo over.

anyone know what the deal is with problem solving lectures? the sis system timetable says i have a double py3031 on monday afternoon, but physics site says its just for 4th years? whats the craic? please someone tell me sis is wrong!! (they generally are!)

ApeXaviour · 02-04-2006 11:37pm

sleepingbeauty wrote:

anyone know what the deal is with problem solving lectures? the sis system timetable says i have a double py3031 on monday afternoon, but physics site says its just for 4th years? whats the craic? please someone tell me sis is wrong!! (they generally are!)

Hmm.. that's also a curiosity. However we definitely have (or at least had last year) a py3031 lecture course, and we share this with the fourth years. Since it's not on the dept timetable at all then I'd wager that the sis timetable may actually be the one that's right this time. Though I'm hesitant to believe it.

sleepingbeauty · 03-04-2006 9:00am

aw crap an extra course i didnt know about. ah sure i prob wont go anyway..

Nietzschean · 03-04-2006 9:15am

o **** i forgot term started today......

cuckoo · 03-04-2006 7:58pm

ApeXaviour wrote:

Hmm.. that's also a curiosity. However we definitely have (or at least had last year) a py3031 lecture course, and we share this with the fourth years. Since it's not on the dept timetable at all then I'd wager that the sis timetable may actually be the one that's right this time. Though I'm hesitant to believe it.

so, did the anyone go to that lecture? If the third years had it last year, would they do it again this year round in 4th year? Messed up timetabling this term.

ApeXaviour · 03-04-2006 8:03pm

cuckoo wrote:

so, did the anyone go to that lecture? If the third years had it last year, would they do it again this year round in 4th year? Messed up timetabling this term.

I got the schpeel on it today. It's mandatory for fourth years but all years are invited to come apparently. Last year they actively asked us (JS), now they're not. My friends went today but I didn't. However I hear this tutorial course has been vastly improved so I intend on going from next week onwards.

ApeXaviour · 12-04-2006 2:44pm

The project titles for next year's SS are up.

This one looks very odd for a physics project:

13. Influence of income on cultural dynamics
To be performed at the Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB),
E07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Local contact: Prof P Richmond
Agent models are now widely used to study socio-economic phenomena. In particular Alxelrod has recently proposed an approach to cultural evolution where the agents are characterized by number of attributes, eg religion, race, living preference, etc. The interesting phenomenon that this approach is able to explore is how, as local attitudes converge, global polarization can occur. The aim of this project is to explore the effect of wealth or income of individuals on cultural dynamics and segregation.
Knowledge of C programming is necessary.

cuckoo · 12-04-2006 6:11pm

ApeXaviour wrote:

The project titles for next year's SS are up.

This one looks very odd for a physics project:

13. Influence of income on cultural dynamics
To be performed at the Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB),
E07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Local contact: Prof P Richmond
Agent models are now widely used to study socio-economic phenomena. In particular Alxelrod has recently proposed an approach to cultural evolution where the agents are characterized by number of attributes, eg religion, race, living preference, etc. The interesting phenomenon that this approach is able to explore is how, as local attitudes converge, global polarization can occur. The aim of this project is to explore the effect of wealth or income of individuals on cultural dynamics and segregation.
Knowledge of C programming is necessary.

Is there a linky?

That project does seem a little odd for physics, interesting, but odd. Don't know how many people would have the requisite knowledge of C.

cuckoo · 12-04-2006 6:29pm

Found linky. Well, opened email inbox and found the linky there in an email.

http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/Local/Students/SS/projects/

I think picking a shortlist could be like a game of pin the tail on the donkey, none of them really stand out as being too terrible to contemplate or too 'project, i love you' either.

sleepingbeauty · 12-04-2006 7:29pm

no astro ones yet, though to be expected- espey so damn slow doing things. i want to stay in dub anyway so not to bothered bout them

ApeXaviour · 12-04-2006 7:49pm

sleepingbeauty wrote:

no astro ones yet, though to be expected- espey so damn slow doing things.

Walkin by him to day and he goes "rite dec" to me. Chap's actually pretty sound one-on-one.

Was at commons there yesterday (physoc), yis missed Pete Nellist's talk. Pretty good, turnout wasn't great but he stayed drinking with us afterward for a good while (also meant we had a lot more booze for less people). Pity he's leaving, was quite a slip up of the system that they're letting him get away. Since restructuring his contract has turned to temporary here, and he's been offered a permanent position in oxford (st johns I think?). He's a really nice guy, makes an effort to get to know you like.

cuckoo wrote:

Don't know how many people would have the requisite knowledge of C

Might be a project for the CP people? They'd certainly have it. (edit: nope they have their own project list) It seems almost badly aimed at us, more like a TP's project. But they don't really do final year projects (they do but not proper ones). I'm sure there are some hidden geeks in our class who are real whizzes at programming too

Barry Aldwell · 12-04-2006 10:02pm

ApeXaviour wrote:

He's a really nice guy, makes an effort to get to know you like.

He dragged me up in front of the class once to help him in one of those "Don't panic first years, this all applies to real life, just look at this!" demonstrations. For two of them, now that I think about it. He asked my name, and told the entire class to give me a round of applause, which was nice of him, I guess

(I remain "the guy who had to go up the front in physics" to this day)

Nietzschean · 12-04-2006 10:49pm

ApeXaviour wrote:

It seems almost badly aimed at us, more like a TP's project. But they don't really do final year projects (they do but not proper ones). I'm sure there are some hidden geeks in our class who are real whizzes at programming too

Well someone like me could easily be in your class...lots of physics heads end up having to know alot about puters(one of the big users of the HPC clusters are physics people...)

....Also emm i guess prevous to this year physics types would have all had 161...

Sophie wrote:

i want to stay in dub anyway so not to bothered bout them

Surprised ye arn't going for like a trip to hawaii to the observatories there if they had one

When you heading off to Florida(it is florida innit?) ?

Nietzschean · 13-04-2006 8:33am

Here i was talking to me lil bro and he was wondering , for physics heads where do ye's get yer transcripts? and does it include your grades from 1st and 2nd year from things like chem that ye'd no longer do?

sleepingbeauty · 13-04-2006 10:43am

Nietzschean wrote:

Surprised ye arn't going for like a trip to hawaii to the observatories there if they had one When you heading off to Florida(it is florida innit?) ?

yeah was thinking of it originally but what with florida couldnt really be bothered anymore. going in july, the 13th to be precise! just a 6week thing but all good.

Nietzschean wrote:

Here i was talking to me lil bro and he was wondering , for physics heads where do ye's get yer transcripts? and does it include your grades from 1st and 2nd year from things like chem that ye'd no longer do?

when i applied for the sure thing i got my physics results from the physics office 1st floor sniams...they gave me a break down of physics results including labs projects etc. had to go to the chem office in the chem building for those results, and i ignored maths lol. but maybe for a proper transcript the science faculty office?? i dunno for sure really...

ApeXaviour · 13-04-2006 12:41pm

Nietzschean wrote:

Here i was talking to me lil bro and he was wondering , for physics heads where do ye's get yer transcripts? and does it include your grades from 1st and 2nd year from things like chem that ye'd no longer do?

When I applied for IESTE I went to the science faculty office and they got me a kind of printed thing (looked like a diploma) with this stamp on it and all my grades. It was supposed to prove that I got what grades I said I did. Dunno if that's any use

Nietzschean · 13-04-2006 12:49pm

Hrmmm between the 2 of ye's you've covered all me queries , ty:)

ApeXaviour · 01-07-2006 9:50pm

Anyone know when and or how they announce these? Results are out now there shouldnt be anything stopping them. Does anyone know how they announce them? Is it an email or a notice or what?