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Equations can't hurt your feelings (feddit.org)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Its funny bc physics gets so much worse than that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I remember taking the upper level thermo courses for my undergraduate. Through the semester, they introduced a handful of equations for specific scenarios. Then the final was like 4 questions in 3 hours and with the equation for Gibbs Free Energy.

Needless to say, not my best grade

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

We have a shared experience, I do history now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Which equation hurt you? Schrodinger's?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Electrodynamix gonna hurt me in few days

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Lowkey, just differential equations made me want to kms. Shrodingers equation was bad but not so difficult as to be singularly memorable. My memory of my physics courses are a void and I switched my major.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think it was the second semester of quantum mechanics when we got to perturbation theory that I really became afraid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I never even made it to perturbation theory but hearing about it from other physics major was part of the reason I switched to history lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, DEs. ~~What's so hard though, they are just linear algebra on function space~~

Jest aside, yeah mathematical device for physics could easily become quite hard and unwieldy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

just linear algebra on function space

I should strangle you lmao.

Honestly the math just took my passion out of physics. I love how physics explains the world and I love how strange everything is. I love learning about physics but doing it... I used to think I was good at math lol