Physics Thread

pseudonym

ah yeah, the christmas party was a laugh, tho i remember hutzlers band being better at last years one in some pub near tara st station. Was great to talk ****e drunkenly to old lecturers tho :eek: . Ah Christmas.
Head was kinda dodgy in 11am QM lecture tho.

Also, McGilps first course is over. Hes such a happy man.

cuckoo

is McGilp going to put his overheads on the web? my attendance for the past couple of weeks has been less than stellar - damn the cold, my colds and 'real life' getting in the way of going to lectures...

ApeXaviour

cuckoo wrote:

is McGilp going to put his overheads on the web?

Nope..

Just the summaries and odd graph he has on now. I recommend getting either the Thermal Physics Kittel or the Mandle book (preferably the former, has different notation but is better over all) and going through it on your own, chapter by chapter. IMHO his notes are structured confusingly..

I've read and taken notes up to chapter 5 from kittel. The subject isn't really that hard when explained well and is pretty damn fking interesting after a while. Really makes you feel that you understand more about the world..

Didn't notice ya in that QM test today susan eh eh?
Twas pretty damn hard.. all very original questions, nothing like past papers or her tutorial q's. Also there were too many for the time given. She apologised for that tho sayin this was an experiment for her. So that's fair enough I suppose. Twas a good exercise though..

cuckoo

ApeXaviour wrote:

I've read and taken notes up to chapter 5 from kittel. The subject isn't really that hard when explained well and is pretty damn fking interesting after a while. Really makes you feel that you understand more about the world..

Didn't notice ya in that QM test today susan eh eh?
Twas pretty damn hard.. all very original questions, nothing like past papers or her tutorial q's. Also there were too many for the time given. She apologised for that tho sayin this was an experiment for her. So that's fair enough I suppose. Twas a good exercise though..

um, yeah. my v bad.

pseudonym

ApeXaviour wrote:

IMHO his notes are structured confusingly..

Id have to say I quite like McGilps notes, they seem to be fairly complete, The notes for the Maths stat phys course are much more scattered.
And hes so damn happy and enthuasiastic.

McGilp wrote:

This is really good stuff.....first principles.....really good physics.....well, I think so....Youv gotta read over your notes.....really good stuff.....good stuff....od stuff...stuff.....ufff..ff....f...f...f

ApeXaviour

pseudonym wrote:

And hes so damn happy and enthuasiastic.

That I will agree on. Lovely chap all round.

But honestly, when it comes to answering past questions, or really following wtf is going on in that course. I would personally advise against his notes (I have them ALL from last year). I use them for reference, that's about it.

On a comparitive basis, start reading thermal physics. Only then you'll see how confusing his notes are. They're not scattered really, just don't leave ya with much of an understanding. I get a headache reading them.

Iggy's notes are the shizzle though. They are so complete and well put together, if you know them well you will be able to answer any question he throws at you. But I don't like him that much..

pseudonym

ApeXaviour wrote:

But I don't like him that much..

He seemed grand last year on the Quantum Physics course, but comes across as a bit of a schoolteacher this year a bit.

Btw, http://www.dedaluspress.com/poets/mcgovern.html

ApeXaviour

pseudonym wrote:

Btw, http://www.dedaluspress.com/poets/mcgovern.html

:eek: Jayzus... Fair play. Knew he liked to dabble in poetry but wasn't aware he was published! That's some diverse intelligence for ya.

Well maybe not. Poetry can be said to only require a spark of creativity. Then it is meticulously gone over again and again with method and critique. Sounds a little familiar

pseudonym

....and if we look at the rhyming pattern in stanza two, some very important physics is revealed......

ApeXaviour

Wow.. The man's a legend. I didn't realise you could make middle-aged hum-drum suburban life sound pretentious

The King of Suburbia

Like any Wenceslas I must look out
beyond the castle gate to know my realm,
with neither page or courtier about
to see me gingerly let go the helm.
Each early morning Saturday I rise
and leave aside the sceptre and the crown.
Unshaven and unshowered, I disguise
the stamp & coin of profile, dressing down
in faded denim of the lower rank.
Long ere the royal princes will awake,
I place a box of empties in the boot
and, setting forth toward the bottle-bank,
seat-belted earl of Park & Close, I take
a twenty-one black wheelie-bin salute.

Pet

cuckoo wrote:

um, yeah. my v bad.

I know the feeling..

ApeXaviour

So did anyone go to the christmas party? Heard it was deadly. Das glitch obviously being the highlight

cuckoo

Wasn't at the party, still haven't fully got my head around the whole 'i'm in a new class thing'. Also, have been feeling like crap for the past week, so had an early night.

It was brought home to me today just how out of touch a week or two (or, ok, three) of less than perfect lecture attendance can make me - i showed up for the 11am lecture in Maxwell today and was all by myself. Is that course finished as well?!?!?

Woo hoo for the extension on the yellow careers book, boo hiss at me for not turning my phone to silent this afternoon. Yes, that was me scrabbling around the floor for the phone with the Futurama ringtone.

PrecariousNuts

I was there, it was even better than last year especially since Weaire at the reception stole one of my friends tuborgs: (****ty) pics (from my phone) are here www.maths.tcd.ie/~dleen/dasglitch . The first one is the best.

sleepingbeauty

Ugh im glad that term is over, 3rd year sucks ass. Im so damn busy all the time. And havent done an ounce of study yet, so thats gonna eat into my precious holdiay time. AND I saw next term's timetable...looks like around 30hrs (compared to like 17/18 this term)...f**cking hell what are they trying to do to us??! Too many early starts and late finishes for my liking. sigh me dont like physics

Nietzschean

i tried to warn ye...3rd n 4th year just plain suck.

sleepingbeauty

you obviously didnt warn me enough ian....all your fault

Nietzschean

sleepingbeauty wrote:

you obviously didnt warn me enough ian....all your fault

Hrmm what if that was my intention? then this would be a success? but is it my intention? What are intentions really? How does one define reality? Should one look to string theory to make such a definintion? Given that we have seen scientific evidence that gravity travel's at the speed of light should most brane world theories be thrown out?

ApeXaviour

Nietzschean wrote:

Hrmm what if that was my intention? then this would be a success? but is it my intention? What are intentions really? How does one define reality? Should one look to string theory to make such a definintion? Given that we have seen scientific evidence that gravity travel's at the speed of light should most brane world theories be thrown out?

Dude... Are you on drugs?

Crash

Omfg sophies returned - terrifying. on a side note, ian might possibly be on drugs. *shrug*

Nietzschean

ApeXaviour wrote:

Dude... Are you on drugs?

Purple.

air_vent

Hee hee , 3rd year physics.
LOved the start of next term , got to get revenge on the full physics people!
PCAM were in the crap house the first term now for the rest of the year we had it easy compared to them!!!

#rd year physics should come with a health warning Half of you lot will fail.

ApeXaviour

Indeed, it's a carbon copy of last year. Hilary term is a btch.

And everyone just thought our year was stupid eh air_vent? Just wait till these guys go to do exams. oh wait... I'M IN THIRD YEAR!

SHIT!

sleepingbeauty

dragging this thread up again.....
ugh dreading this afternoon, really not wanting to go back to college yet. even just one more week would be perfect like! its too comfy in my flat to leave it at the mo.
on a brighter note though looks like we've got Finch lecturing us today, that should wake me up a bit lol

pseudonym

:eek: wow, this thread has been renamed again.

ApeXaviour

Ah... makes no odds on me. I came in all last week anyway and didnt go to lectures (yes realise there were none to go to ). Doin the exact same this week so..

Yeah will make an effort to go to that new nanoscience course. It'll be interesting to see what that's all about.

Also Atomic and Molecular spectroscopy has a new lecturer thanks be to god! Patterson lectured it last year and jaysus his notes were all over the place, hadn't a clue what was going on. So gonna try make those lectures too maybe.

All my SS friends are finished their project reports today and are tearin it up in the pav currently. Might go join them now. Did all I could in the library and sure that's closing now. It'll be good to see the old crew, specially the ones that went to america/germany/belgium for their projects. (Yeah I know... tossers )

cuckoo

Aaaah, a Finch lecture was a nice way to end up the day. What was even nicer was the 3pm being cancelled...

Ok, is anyone else really annoyed by the strange things that sort of over head projector camera thing is doing in the SNIAM lecture theatre? Things zoom in and out of focus.

Nietzschean

ApeXaviour wrote:

All my SS friends are finished their project reports today and are tearin it up in the pav currently. Might go join them now. Did all I could in the library and sure that's closing now. It'll be good to see the old crew, specially the ones that went to america/germany/belgium for their projects. (Yeah I know... tossers )

them n their 'mini projects' bastards...found out yesterday straight after the break i've to hand in me project.....god its not going to be done by then

Nietzschean

cuckoo wrote:

Ok, is anyone else really annoyed by the strange things that sort of over head projector camera thing is doing in the SNIAM lecture theatre? Things zoom in and out of focus.

haha, there's an annoying one in the loyd building too, it keeps turning itself on when it should be asleep, so covers the projecter in a stupid blue light n ye can't see anything....(lecturer uses one of the overhead yokies drawing on transparancies..)

ApeXaviour

Nietzschean wrote:

them n their 'mini projects' bastards...

Right.. five months 9 to 5 working on cutting edge research with phd and postdocs, worth a 1/3rd of your degree mark is mini. :rolleyes:

You may have been joking but I'm looking for a fight right now so...