• benignintervention@lemmy.world
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      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

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      Which equation hurt you? Schrodinger’s?

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        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.

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            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

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          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.

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            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