Physics majors: how do you do it?

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Hitman32
Equations that aren't supposed to be attached to anything in the real world! I'll deal with the real world when the time comes, for now I wish I could just live in my world of variables and numbers.

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." A. Einstein

Actually, I tend to despise math for the sake of math.
Hook it up to some reality and I get interested.

 

[Darien]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1
im a physics major. its not that hard and its just math and math is easy

i woudl kill myself if i was a Comp sci major. i cant stand programming, and something like an english major??? are you serious. what is more boaring then reading all that stupid crap you have to. and majors like Poly Sci, Physh, and Socish are pure crap cause thoes fields are bullshit

Eh...wtf?! Not that hard?

<--- Physics major, getting the heck beat out of me.

I truely, truely hated e&m...stupid waves. Deep quantum material and mechanics are aok with me though



Truely...the crappiest thing I've dealt with Physics so far is my fault. Lost my notebook before an exam...and the exam was pretty much 80% of lecture. 20% from the quantum book. The odds of me getting even 50% are looking slim with that. Couldn't remember everything in lecture. Worst part is I found all my notes the next day :Q



Mmm...but other than that, it's not so bad. As long as you truely understand what is going on, and know what the equations mean, you should be good.



The remarks about the english majors and CS majors and whatnot, I can't echo. While they are easier, they do have relevance. (arguably, you can say physics at this point is bullshit because we don't know for certain that everything "works" -- general relativity is just a theory, and godel's incompleteness theorem says that even in mathematics things cannot be proven using the system alone. Of course, you can retort just by pointing to a computer )

Anything outside science and engineering you can generally pick up (quite a bit...not all, but a lot) yourself with some reading

 

[acidvoodoo]

physics is my favourite subject, though i havent experianced college level physics yet, but am looking forward to it, as high School level physics is too easy for me and i want to know more, more, more. The part that interests me the most in the astronomy part, but it's all goood (cept magnetics).

when i get to university, i'll prolly major in physics or aerospace eng. w/ astromom minor, or, well who knows


PS-i could also not imangine doing any english or language or social science kind of thing in high education, bores the hell out of me, though there are these things called "girls" in those classes

 

[Darien]

Originally posted by: acidvoodoo
PS-i could also not imangine doing any english or language or social science kind of thing in high education, bores the hell out of me, though there are these things called "girls" in those classes

ROTFLOL. Don't expect many, if any, females majoring in something like physics. If you're in it for the chicks, art and humanities are the way to go.

 

[Electric Amish]

Physics was my first true love. I really wanted to be a Cosmologist when I started going to college. Unfortunately there's no money in it and I got sidetracked with these computer thingies...

amish

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Darien

Originally posted by: acidvoodoo
PS-i could also not imangine doing any english or language or social science kind of thing in high education, bores the hell out of me, though there are these things called "girls" in those classes

ROTFLOL. Don't expect many, if any, females majoring in something like physics. If you're in it for the chicks, art and humanities are the way to go.

ahhaha yeah true...but there are some super hot chics in my ee classes....the most fvckable girl i've ever seen in my life is in my class...she's so hot....i got to talk to her cuz i was helping her, but dohh..she already has a kid!? and in EE?!....dang...she's like..a year older than me?

neways..people who's in CS/CE can suck-it! hehehe jk....programming..i hates...EE's coool man....

 

[idNut]

Anyone with high-end education nowadays is respectable. People like John Carmack I respect the most. I want to be around nerds and intelligent people, not morons who simply talk about other people.

 

[SubZeroX]

Arrgggh! I hate physics so much. Especially the electricity and magnetism crap. Thanks to physcis...my MCAT score suffered

But that's over now and hopefully I never ever have to see physics again.

 

[Hitman32]

Originally posted by: idNut
Anyone with high-end education nowadays is respectable. People like John Carmack I respect the most. I want to be around nerds and intelligent people, not morons who simply talk about other people.

LOL, I know exactly what you mean. A lot of morons spend their whole lives talking about other people. Its ridiculous. Its like: "Hello! There are things other than human beings in the universe!"

 

[speg]

Uh oh, my top three university choices were for Physics programs. So assuming I get in, it looks like I'll be studying physics, which is good. But this thread is starting to freak me out about it...

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Hitman32

Originally posted by: idNut
Anyone with high-end education nowadays is respectable. People like John Carmack I respect the most. I want to be around nerds and intelligent people, not morons who simply talk about other people.

LOL, I know exactly what you mean. A lot of morons spend their whole lives talking about other people. Its ridiculous. Its like: "Hello! There are things other than human beings in the universe!"

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -- I forget.

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: gopunk
i like physics.... a lot better than stupid chemistry.

I hate chemistry with a passion. But I have to say that it's amazing what chemists can do given how little they know.

 

[Peetoeng]

I like newtonian physics, beyond that I am as dumb as a rock.

 

[Darien]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: gopunk
i like physics.... a lot better than stupid chemistry.

I hate chemistry with a passion. But I have to say that it's amazing what chemists can do given how little they know.

Hehe, most things chemists started with came from physics. All the bull in many general chem books just generalize or completely shy away from topics physics courses would explain.

eg: planck's constant.



I too hate chemistry. I find it boring. I dont' know why I have to take a year of this. Wouldn't I be better off having to take a year of material science or something like that ?:Q

 

[Dudd]

Originally posted by: Darien

Originally posted by: acidvoodoo
PS-i could also not imangine doing any english or language or social science kind of thing in high education, bores the hell out of me, though there are these things called "girls" in those classes

ROTFLOL. Don't expect many, if any, females majoring in something like physics. If you're in it for the chicks, art and humanities are the way to go.

See, there's a catch-22. While in college, the crap majors are the way to go. However, when that history major gets out of college and can only find work at Taco Bell, while the engineering major is pulling down a good salary right out of college, the roles should reverse, no?

 

[Darien]

Originally posted by: Dudd

Originally posted by: Darien

Originally posted by: acidvoodoo
PS-i could also not imangine doing any english or language or social science kind of thing in high education, bores the hell out of me, though there are these things called "girls" in those classes

ROTFLOL. Don't expect many, if any, females majoring in something like physics. If you're in it for the chicks, art and humanities are the way to go.

See, there's a catch-22. While in college, the crap majors are the way to go. However, when that history major gets out of college and can only find work at Taco Bell, while the engineering major is pulling down a good salary right out of college, the roles should reverse, no?

Haha. There ARE more jobs than just Taco Bell. Most people who earn BAs go on to do other things. Good jobs != engineering.

I guess I'm sticking up for the wrong side of the crowd in a forum filled with math geeks huh.

 

[zephyrprime]

I really don't understand why they make people in a math class do word problems

Because in the real world, every problem is a word problem. I'm totally serious. When any engineer or scientist has to solve any sort of real problem, the equations aren't magically written out for them on the surface of the bridge or particle accelerator they're trying to build.

 

[SubZeroX]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: gopunk
i like physics.... a lot better than stupid chemistry.

I hate chemistry with a passion. But I have to say that it's amazing what chemists can do given how little they know.

If you hate chemistry why is your nic heisenberg? Does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle ring a bell? would that be your real name?

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: SubZeroX

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: gopunk
i like physics.... a lot better than stupid chemistry.

I hate chemistry with a passion. But I have to say that it's amazing what chemists can do given how little they know.

If you hate chemistry why is your nic heisenberg? Does the Heisenberg uncertainty principle ring a bell? would that be your real name?

The Uncertainty Principle is a principle from physics. Specificially, it deals with commutators in quantum mechanics even though it gets reduced to that "delta x times delta p" form for lower level courses.

 

[DT4K]

I thought about getting a physics degree, but decided I wanted a job when I graduated so I went with CS. Worked out pretty good.
I love programming and I'm making good money.
And I finally found a use for recursion. Recursion simply rocks. When you find the right use for it, it is just so damn beautifully elegant.
I was so excited, I called up my old prof who seemed to love recursion to tell him all that stuff we learned wasn't completely useless after all.

I do feel like only a second-class nerd though. Us programmers can't compare to the physics and engineering guys when it comes to the true geekness factor.

Oh, and techie girls rule.
There's just something appealing about a girl who writes her own device drivers for linux.