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      Time: 2 weeks, take home

      Questions: 1, multiple parts.

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

      Good luck

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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

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

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    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!”

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

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

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        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?

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    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.”