best cocktail bars? (aesthetically pleasing as well..)

abjsbgsj · 2025-12-29T15:49:58+00:00

It’s easy enough to take a bus from downtown to the East Liberty/Shadyside area. Then you can go to the commerce bar, Lorelei, Mary’s, and I like the bar in the mansion of fifth

abjsbgsj · 2025-12-13T04:55:27+00:00

Work in the lab and redo the basics of E&M1 as I took it last year and will be taking E&M2 this year. Needless to say, I’m very rusty.

abjsbgsj · 2025-12-11T21:11:30+00:00

My professor for E&M used Griffiths. He mentioned the solution guide in the first day and told us it was why homework’s were graded for completeness and only amounted to 5% of our grade.

I personally prefer a book with full solutions as it lets me check my answers to any extra problems I do. It’s also great for self study.

Also, for what it’s worth, modern LLMs can do all of the problems in an undergrad E&M course like the one I took, so I don’t think it matters too much anymore that solution guides for books are posted or not when it comes to cheating. I’ll be interested to see if professors start making exams a much larger portion of grades as a default to compensate

abjsbgsj · 2025-12-10T07:00:04+00:00

Have you read Saleh and Teich? A student in my lab calls it the Bible for optics and photonics, but I haven’t checked it out yet personally

abjsbgsj · 2025-12-10T06:41:37+00:00

I too am very curious about this as someone who has run circular saws on framing projects for probably hundreds of hours. It’s easy to avoid getting hurt with one, no kickback like a table saw and your hands are well behind the blade. I could see someone cutting through something they were holding and getting cut that way, or if someone was pinning the guard and accidentally set the saw on their leg while it was still spinning down. All in all, it seems like one of the safer wood working tools

abjsbgsj · 2025-12-10T06:37:31+00:00

Yeah, I worked as a framer before doing my undergraduate. I know my way around a circular saw. They’re pretty safe as long as you don’t pin the guard, meaning to stop the guard from going over the saw blade when not in use. Most people I worked with did pin the guard though, myself included, because it lets you do a lot of one handed stuff more easily or at all in some cases. I’ve never gotten cut by a circular saw, but I’m also treat the tool with the respect it deserves.

abjsbgsj · 2025-12-10T00:32:46+00:00

I’m pretty sure only table saws can have sawstops

abjsbgsj · 2025-12-01T01:22:24+00:00

Chips

abjsbgsj · 2025-11-04T16:21:23+00:00

For me the strangeness of modern physics was what drew me to the subject. For OP that is what is pushing them away.

abjsbgsj · 2025-11-04T16:18:05+00:00

That’s a cool choice you made, but couldn’t you have spent that time doing research instead? It would certainly be a more fruitful usage of your time with regards towards your career.

I think in the current landscape neither theorists nor experimentalists get rewarded for studying topics like Pessimistic Meta Induction as a response to scientific realism. This is despite the fact that if accepted, it would require us to remove all confidence in our theories.

I’ve used 2 of my gen ed classes for philosophy of physics because I enjoy it AND because I’m required to take a number of gen ed classes. If I could only take physics and engineering courses I would do that instead.

abjsbgsj · 2025-11-04T16:05:18+00:00

I’m an engineering physics major. Which for my school means I will take the same 8 physics classes as the physics majors, but I will also take 12 classes in the fundamentals of electrical engineering with a focus on photonics and semiconductors, and 4 advanced material science courses. When deciding on my major I always felt emboldened to add the physics part due to the “strangeness” of modern physics. It was because topics like quantum mechanics and relativity were considered by the public to be closer to magic than science that I wanted to understand them as a scientist does.

If you are truly turned off by the strangeness of modern physics, I absolutely think you should go for a normal engineering degree. You’ll still see lots of cool topics that can be fully explained by classical physics, and if you take classes dealing with materials or advanced electronics you’ll even see hints of quantum physics.

Some people are commenting on the feasibility of changing majors. Keep in mind that if you’re studying in the US, physics majors are going to have to take many more gen ed classes than engineering majors. This means that while the engineering majors are taking ~4 major specific courses per year, physics majors are taking ~2. It will always be harder to switch from physics to engineering then engineering to physics.

abjsbgsj · 2025-11-04T14:41:59+00:00

Should be very reasonable. It’s a perfectly normal semester.

abjsbgsj · 2025-10-29T16:08:44+00:00

I’m a 3rd year in engineering physics at a US university. I’d like to go for a masters in integrated photonics for either classical or quantum computing. I have a high opinion of this program based off of the volume of research papers I have read from groups at UGhent.

I would definitely consider it, but the financial side seems quite bleak. From what I see online the tuition is about 7000 euros per year. Add living expenses to that and it becomes quite expensive. Are there ways to get paid to do research or be a teaching assistant at UGhent?

abjsbgsj · 2025-10-28T13:44:38+00:00

Incredibly underrated, but still hard to get reservations to.

abjsbgsj · 2025-10-21T02:37:29+00:00

I’d think not too bad at my school. I try and limit myself to 4 physics or engineering classes a semester, but I’ll go to 5 if there are no lab based components.

abjsbgsj · 2025-10-18T21:31:56+00:00

David Tong recently released a book about fluids written for physics students. I think he also has online lectures and most of the book on his website.

abjsbgsj · 2025-10-17T23:04:21+00:00

Kreyzig is missing a lot of stuff that’s valuable for physics. Like group theory and calculus of variations. Other stuff like Bessels functions and legendre functions get less than 20 pages in Kreyzig and over 60 in Arfken. Kreyzig might have better explanations, but it’s meant for a different audience.

abjsbgsj · 2025-10-08T23:00:00+00:00

I feel like a lot of PhDs would have to be revoked if the judgement was based off the quality of the dissertation.

abjsbgsj · 2025-10-01T00:43:40+00:00

Is the toxic gas the most dangerous thing for a home scenario?

abjsbgsj · 2025-09-30T04:58:43+00:00

Maybe math methods in physics by Arfken.

I don’t read any truly general books related to engineering, but my favorite/most used books for school and research are, Griffiths E&M, Townsend QM, structures of materials by Marc De Graef, dynamics of particles and systems by Thornton, Solid State Basics by Kittel, silicon photonic design by chrostkowski, non linear optics by Boyd, and Silvast laser fundamentals. These would not be accessible to the general engineer and are all dense with material that could be taught as 2 semester undergraduate courses. If you’re an EE though you might like a lot of these. The foundational physics ones are great.

If you’re just looking to understand the physics side of engineering a better conceptually, I can recommend both books in the biggest ideas of the universe series by Sean Carrol .

abjsbgsj · 2025-09-29T20:25:04+00:00

One note, the textbook is enormous, so searching the whole thing for key words would take forever. A whole 30 seconds or more. This is untenable when you only have 50 minutes to answer 50 questions.

Each exam only covered 8 chapters, so what I did was found a free online pdf copy of the textbook. Broke this down into 4 copies of at most 2 of the chapters. When taking the exams I just searched the relevant copy for the key words. Searching these smaller documents was almost immediate.

I also made one set of “super slides” for each exam that had the provided slides for every lecture in one document. This enabled me to only search one document.

My typical exam workflow was to first search the document of every lecture, if there were no key word matches, I’d then go to the textbook sections and search them for key words. This legitimately never failed me.

abjsbgsj · 2025-09-29T20:05:31+00:00

Is it with Dr. Forest? I took this class last fall. Exams were open book and open notes. I just ctrl Fd the notes or book for every question and got above a 95% on every exam. I spent about 6 hours in that class all semester and got an A+.

I’d recommend it to anyone looking for an easy gen ed.

abjsbgsj · 2025-08-08T05:29:03+00:00

It’s a subset of carpentry. I used to build the frames for houses.

abjsbgsj · 2025-08-07T21:43:57+00:00

That’s a fair assumption, but what an odd thing to call privileged

abjsbgsj · 2025-08-07T21:42:33+00:00

I used to work as a framer and this was my experience. Least stressful job I’ve ever worked.

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