• benignintervention@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      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

    • someacntEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Which equation hurt you? Schrodinger’s?

      • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        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.

          • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            2 months 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

        • someacntEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          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.

          • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            2 months 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

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Difeq is a horrible pain in the ass until it clicks and becomes easier than that stupid non vector geometric integration. Is it really too much to ask to be allowed to stick to matrices and vectors‽

          I’m just grateful I had stats 2 instead of calc 3

  • Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    2 months 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!”

    • someacntEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

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

      • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        To be fair, Andrew Wiles solved a problem that had stood unsolved for over 350 years. The best mathematicians in every generation since the mid 1600s could say the same thing as you! Should they not have picked math?

  • yeahbuddy@discuss.onlineEnglish
    13·
    2 months 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.”

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

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