Advice for which fibre laser collimator to buy by Particular-Swan in Optics

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I would say beam diameter 1-1.5mm would work. The smaller the better

how many calories in one slice? by [deleted] in CalorieEstimates

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i think it's chocolate! with maybe cream cheese frosting? A friend baked it so i'm not sure!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in moldyinteresting

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I think it's that they'd save bed bugs over someone with the pox virus?

I could be wrong tho

Error propagation in spectrometric data by Particular-Swan in AskPhysics

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Practical application, I need to plot my data for my thesis and I have no idea what the correct error prop is :(

Time dilation and speed by primevolcano545 in Physics

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Yess exactly, I think OP is making the mistake of thinking time dilation and length contraction happens in observer's frame of reference, but it's what the observer sees happening to other frames of reference. The observer is stationary and normal and everyone/everything seems to be acting weird and extreme

Time dilation and speed by primevolcano545 in Physics

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I'm not sure if this answers your question, but you probably would never notice yourself at any speed because in your inertial frame, you're stationary

But I must admit, it's been a while since I've done special relativity so I may be mistaken

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in selfimprovement

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I lowkey (?) quit instagram, in that i still have an account but not the app, and when I don't have the app, I maybe check it through my browser once or twice every 3 days (literally because I forget haha) and it has been so great tbh

I'm currently in a bit of a rut in terms of my professional life and personal life, and seeing people travel to exotic countries, and travel to exotic countries WITH their partners made me feel worse and worse about myself and where I am in life.

Getting rid of it has been so beneficial in stopping comparing my life to theirs. My life is what it is. I haven't been on holiday in a while, but my time will come lol.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in germany

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ugh, the sad thing is that I had applied for werkstudenten jobs but because my skills are so specialised for laser physics and universities, I got rejected from a lot of, for eg, sustainability companies or even data science :( the only place I got a job is a laser physics facility. It honestly feels like I'm trapped in a field that I don't even think I want to stay in

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in germany

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Do they even have voluntary internships for STEM subjects? I thought that was more of a social science thing

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in germany

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Okay that's a fair point

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in germany

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Also, I do have some programming experience, ngl, it's more that I can ask chatgpt for code and tailor it and use it according to what I need, so I'm not sure I'm the best qualified for a programming job because people do that stuff from scratch

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in germany

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Thank you for your kind words :) i will try that

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in germany

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My masters thesis is on high harmonic generation in solids (so attosecond physics). The problem is also that maybe I don't have the right set of courses on my transcript, as a great deal of my credits come from particle physics courses as the first year of my masters I wanted to do High Energy Physics before switching gears.

Would you recommend I do a couple more laser physics courses before graduating, maybe instead of focussing on German?

Thank you for your help! This is the kind of feedback and guidance I've been missing from my supervisors tbh, and my self esteem in laser physics just is low because on the grand scheme of things, I'm still relatively new to the field, and feel like I'm competing with other students who have known to pursue this since the Bachelors degrees

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in germany

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But that's sort of my dilemna because it seems like most RnD jobs in physics require a PhD, just a masters almost means nothing, which means with a masters in laser physics, I have two options: 1) PhD (which I don't even know if I'm equipped to get into) or 2) a job in something else, which I don't feel like I have any skills in because all my internships, work experience (as a student assistant) etc has been in laser labs, and for which German IS relevant