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 Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:33 pm
so yeah... I don't know, wanted to share this with everyone, but I've switched to THE DARK SIDE (or the right side, whichever you prefer). I don't know, I liked physics better always. I don't know why I went into engineering in the first place, probably was lured by the money, but decided I was gonna go do graduate studies anyway.
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:23 am
Am I allowed to reply to a statement? whee sweatdrop
I did something similar. I switched from Mech/Aero Engineering to Math/Physics (still undecided between those two).
The reason? I found out that a lot of engineering - the efficiency and quality analysis and control - wasn't for me. I don't want to make things that will benefit mankind, or make a profit...I just wanted to be able to make things that were fun and interesting 3nodding Physics lets me do that.
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:03 pm
Swordmaster Dragon Am I allowed to reply to a statement? whee sweatdrop so maybe that's why more people aren't responding. hmmm I encourage you to have a convo with me about this blaugh Swordmaster Dragon I did something similar. I switched from Mech/Aero Engineering to Math/Physics (still undecided between those two). The reason? I found out that a lot of engineering - the efficiency and quality analysis and control - wasn't for me. I don't want to make things that will benefit mankind, or make a profit...I just wanted to be able to make things that were fun and interesting 3nodding Physics lets me do that. quality analysis and control. well put. there were also no interesting physics courses which I want to take, relativity and quantum. are you going into your second year as well? why don't you do theoretical physics? that way you can do the mathsy side of physics, though r u seriously considering only doing math?
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:03 pm
I was originally going to do math/physics double major, but then I looked at the requirements for doing a double major in those two. 24 courses, not including core requirements. Ick.
I chose to do just math instead because there's no need for it to reflect reality.
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:09 am
Layra-chan I was originally going to do math/physics double major, but then I looked at the requirements for doing a double major in those two. 24 courses, not including core requirements. Ick. I chose to do just math instead because there's no need for it to reflect reality. Sometimes I feel physics is the same.
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:19 pm
Well as far as a physics degree goes if I wanted to do the degree I was planning on in physics then I would essentially need a degree in mathematics once I had met all the prerequisites for the physics courses. I don't remember exactly but I think foundations of analysis I and II were the difference between my planned physics degree and a double major in math and physics. I couldn't stand it if I went to all the trouble to go through all those physics courses and didn't pick up a mathematics degree along the way.
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:55 am
paradigmwind Well as far as a physics degree goes if I wanted to do the degree I was planning on in physics then I would essentially need a degree in mathematics once I had met all the prerequisites for the physics courses. I don't remember exactly but I think foundations of analysis I and II were the difference between my planned physics degree and a double major in math and physics. I couldn't stand it if I went to all the trouble to go through all those physics courses and didn't pick up a mathematics degree along the way. think I'm missing out on something? should I be taking a major in phys and a minor in math? I mean right now I'm going in a program called "physics specialist" which is like, specializing in physics, but, I don't know what the distribution between math and physics courses is like. It never occured to me to ask. weird.
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:43 pm
A Lost Iguana Layra-chan I was originally going to do math/physics double major, but then I looked at the requirements for doing a double major in those two. 24 courses, not including core requirements. Ick. I chose to do just math instead because there's no need for it to reflect reality. Sometimes I feel physics is the same. Yeah, modern physics is really going over the edge. String theory? Loop variables? Or my personal favorite, twistors? Modern theoretical physics is just mathematics with a thin veneer of relevance.
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:05 pm
poweroutage think I'm missing out on something? should I be taking a major in phys and a minor in math? I mean right now I'm going in a program called "physics specialist" which is like, specializing in physics, but, I don't know what the distribution between math and physics courses is like. It never occured to me to ask. weird. It's very useful to have good mathmatical training for physics. I feel I have suffered in past exams because my maths breaks down before my understanding of the physics. Layra-chan Yeah, modern physics is really going over the edge. String theory? Loop variables? Or my personal favorite, twistors? Modern theoretical physics is just mathematics with a thin veneer of relevance. I do like the theorist's trick of being able to do anything they like so long as the observables are measurable: infinite vacuum state energies, infinite bare masses, etc.
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Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:04 pm
A Lost Iguana welcome back, you've been gone a long time >.<
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:45 am
Yeah, I know. >_> I've not really be at the guilds much recently in general.
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