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Old 12-22-2009, 05:23 PM   #1
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Any Engineering Physics/Applied Physics majors who can present some insight?

Well basically Engineering physics is the major I look forward to doing. I was just wondering for those EP majors what to expect. What have you noticed is different from pure physics classes/Pure Eng classes and EP? Would you recommend EP for the future as in does it have a lot of career choices?
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Old 12-23-2009, 09:01 PM   #2
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I'm very interested in this as well. I'm wondering how competitive an engineering physics degree is for pursuing graduate studies in either engineering or physics. I would assume that a more specialized degree would be better, but at this point my interests are too broad.
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Bump for answer.
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Old 01-02-2010, 10:10 PM   #4
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I'd love to hear an answer to this!
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Old 01-02-2010, 10:38 PM   #5
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As far as grad school is concerned, your specific coursework will be more important than what your major is called. For a graduate physics program, I'd guess you would want to have at least the following...?

- Classical Mechanics
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Quantum Mechanics
- Statistical Mechanics
- Laboratory classes
- Linear algebra
- Differential Equations

Ideally, you'd want more than this. Additional related courses could only help. Then, just demonstrate an interest in and some capacity for research and you should be alright.
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