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Equations can't hurt your feelings (feddit.org)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

And then some asshole goes "ΔxΔp ≥ ħ/2" and you're like "fuck this shit"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

and someoney says btw time is relative

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

That means try with energy conservation, and if that fails you've got a lagrangian to try least action.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Somewhat related:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Time: 2 weeks, take home

Questions: 1, multiple parts.

Open textbook, internet, collaboration with classmates, anything really.

Good luck

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago

The worst is when one of the two questions is an open problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You can rather give 5 years for the last one...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

That's just a PhD

[–] [email protected] 38 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Its funny bc physics gets so much worse than that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 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 10 hours ago

We have a shared experience, I do history now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Which equation hurt you? Schrodinger's?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Electrodynamix gonna hurt me in few days

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 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 10 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 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 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 10 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 9 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What is the sum of newtons second law

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Sum of forces, fundamental problem-solving tool.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago

Isaac Asimov joke.

Back in the day, the astronomy professor goes to the college dean to ask for money for a new observatory.

The Dean blows up at him!

"You science people are always asking for money! Chemistry wants gold! Physics wants a dyanmo! Why can't you be like the math department? All they ever want is paper, pencils and erasers!

"And the philosophy department is even better. They don't need erasers!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

when the prof doesn’t allow a formula sheet on the exam and it’s worth 50% of your final grade

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

We never had formula sheets lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I don't work in mathematics but my work strays into another STEM field, but every now and then I watch this short clip of Sir Andrew Wiles and think "fuck me, maybe it is achievable".

Absolute legend, that man.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Makes me think maybe I shouldn't have chosen math, I am not even 1% as smart as Andrew Wiles

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago

Thank you. I finally have something to show other so they can understand what I feel when I say "Math and I...have an abusive relationship."