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Drew Henry
Physicist-in-Training, Libertarian, Drug Enthusiast
I am a second year physics graduate student at USC with an interest in condensed matter theory and quantum computing/information theory. I am also a voluntarist libertarian. My main writing interes...
You can have keyboard shortcuts that do everything. I have a Super+x shortcut for every application that I use regularly (Chromium, Mathematica, Terminal, Gnote, Thunar, Catfish, ...
That depends on what type of physics you intend to do. If you are interested in experimental physics and intend to one day work in a lab then there is a very high chance that you will be using LabVIEW...
Arch Linux was my first (and is also my current) Linux distribution. From my experience, I would say absolutely yes it is a great distribution to learn from. The ArchWiki (in particular the Beginners' guide...
The eigenvalues of this matrix can be found fairly easily by hand using the characteristic polynomial, [math]\det(M-\lambda I)=0[/math]. You should find that this matrix has three distinct, non-degenerate eigenvalues. Because the...
Consider a rod in two-dimensional space. That rod has some length, let’s say 1m. We can represent this rod by the coordinates of its two endpoints in Cartesian coordinates. If we designate one endp...