Stuck at thermodynamics and can’t even see statistical mechanics at the top of the hill…
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The 0st law of thermodynamics is : You don’t pass on your first try
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
That hill is way too straight. It’s definitely an increasing slope for a bit there. Starting about where they are, electricity and magnetism
JillyB@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Electricity and magnetism got me to change my major from physics to mechanical engineering. I thought I loved physics. Turns out when it’s a bunch of pixie bullshit that I can’t feel or see, I don’t like it so much. Vibrations is the E&M of Newtonian mechanics though. Had to take that one twice.
spinne@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Fucking magnets, how do they work!
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
mathematical insight is a bit like hyperbolic space. the further out you go, there more stuff there just is.
or in other words, if it’s a tree datastructure, the only special point is the point right at the origin. that’s why, if you want to be special, you gotta stay there: don’t learn mathematics at all.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Man, that sure is a weird way to cut a pizza
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Al this to work later in the job with an Excel accountant table.
chgxvjh@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
It’s true because the moment you disengage from math you are back at a level of a middle schooler.
pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You’re gonna wanna zoom out a lot, this is like undergrad up to junior year
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
This feels like a Computer Engineer course outline
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was about to say, looks like my CS courses, apart from Thermo and Topology.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
My CS didn’t have to do physics, or calculus III, or multivar. iirc.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it’s kind of funny how many of the soft sciences are learning all these same mathematics.
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You can learn discrete at the very beginning. That’s the beauty of it. It’s so simple yet so difficult at the same time. Same with number theory.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
one of instructers in CC in adv algbebra class decided everyone should learn up to partial differentials, when they barely touched on adv alg subject. terrible teacher, did he forgot the class he was teacher, or he was using subterfuge to get rid of large part of the class to make it easier on himself.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It might be better to do PDE’s before thermo and electromagnetism
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Loved diffeq. Hated diffeq.
pigup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I miss college
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
wait, is the fact i hadn’t studied linear algebra and multivariate calculus in high school why i wasn’t understanding electromagnetism, and when i understood them enough to teach them in college suddenly electromagnetism clicked?
it was really stupid. I kept forgetting which finger went where on the right hand rule (i have it now, thanks) and then i couldn’t make the math work. every other godsdamned thing in the physics text made intuitive sense but that.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 2 weeks ago
That’s fucking absurd
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thermodynamics and partial diferentials fucked me up so bad I gave up studying physics. I just could not pass
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Fuck yea! Bring it on~
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I was happy until Fourier and Laplace Transforms showed up…
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I remember some of those classes…
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also fine to stop if you know everything you need to know 😀
Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I am not good at maths, the only one here I recognjse is discrete maths. A term I have not heard of since I dropped out of the course that had it as a module in semester one.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Cryptography is a weird include. Everything else is general knowledge but cryptography is a branch off of math.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s “for engineers” listed on there. This isn’t someone taking intellectually challenging and rigorous math courses. It’s training for trademanship. So, it makes sense that it wouldn’t make sense.