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5955799 No.5955799 [Reply] [Original]

I'm really starting to feel like this.

>> No.5955810

You have to want to do good. If you have good drive to learn the subject then you should do fine.

>> No.5955816

Get used to it

>> No.5955837
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>>5955799

>> No.5955855

>>5955799
That is pretty much science in a nutshell

>> No.5955857

Haha excellent. Although, I've had a lot of cool profs that were forgiving on mistakes like these, so long as you used all your equations and concepts correctly.

>> No.5955863

>>5955837
>Dat filename

>> No.5955869

Sorry but if you make that many algebraic error then you are doing something really wrong.
Missing a minus sign in a huge sausage of a formula or shit like that I understand, but even that has a limit.

>> No.5957008

Never give up

>> No.5957067

>>5955799


I didn't feel like that until I got to solid mechanics

>> No.5957071

>17 algebra errors
Yeah, just quit, you're too retarded for physics.

>> No.5957080

If the problem is big enough for that many mistakes to happen, you probably shouldn't be doing it by hand.

>> No.5957104

You have to have a DRIVE to learn a subject

I took ap physics in HS just to try to get the AP credit, i bought a review book for the ap exam and failed miserably because the concepts did not STICK in my head

no drive =/= will not stick in your head =/= will never truly understand the concepts behind it

physics isnt like biology where you learn a definition and regurgitate it for the test

there is only 1 answer to what gets oxidized in photosynthesis

there are 1000 ways to ask an f=ma problem

>> No.5957115

>>5957104
>physics isnt like biology where you learn a definition and regurgitate it for the test
Fuck you, there's more to biology than that.

>> No.5957141

>>5957115

What, chi-square? That's the most complex maths I've ever seen in Biology and my girlfriend is doing a degree in Zoology so I've seen most of their stuff. Aside from the tiny bits of simple maths, it's all regurgitation of facts.

>> No.5957147

>still working out your calculations by hand
>2013

Holy fuck, use some technology sometime.

>> No.5957150

I chortled

>> No.5957155

>>5957147
i dont know about US, but we arent allowed to use calculators, wolfram and other shit in technical unis in pooland, at least as a freshmen

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>>5955799
>Do again for a universe where h = <span class="math">\epsilon_{0}[/spoiler]

>> No.5957545

Matlab son.

>> No.5957546

>>5957533
That sentence gives me flashback from when I was looking stuff into the journals of soviet physics.
Fucking parabolic unit system or whatever that's called...
I'm glad the USSR lost.

>> No.5957547

>>5957071
It's an obvious exaggeration to make a joke, man.

>> No.5957548

>>5957546
What's the parabolic unit system ?

>> No.5957560

>>5957548
I'm retarded it was the Gaussian units system (I think, though I remember another name for it).
Instead of being just a simple units change, you have to change Maxwell equations in order to have your constants in other places.

Which means when you want to go from one system to the other you have to change the formulas.

>> No.5957571

You don't reach mathematical maturity by crying over it.
Also if you have a bad algebraic background you should really get that looked at.

>> No.5957576

>>5957571
I'm pretty sure the author hasn't been studying physics for a long time.
He's one of those webcomics author who preach an academic lifestyle without practicing it.

>> No.5957578

>>5957576
Oh wait I'm wrong, he actually studies.
Guess I confused him for the xkcd guy.

>> No.5957585

>>5957578
Yeah, he has a double degree, he started with literature, got one in physics early on his comic and is married to a biologist.

And even then, I care about him as comic writer, and when I sometimes do not agree with the points he tries to make, most of the time he gets me to laugh and a few times even to think. So he's better than many published, 'paper based', paid comics in my book.

>> No.5957618

>>5957585

Doesn't the degree in literature cancel out the degree in science?

>> No.5957630

>>5957618
No.

>> No.5957649

>>5957618
he fetishizes reading. I've seen worse hobbies.

>> No.5957677

>>5957155
>arent allowed to use calculators
Well that's just plain dumb.
I'm form norway btw.

>> No.5957851

>>5957578
I don't mean to sound like a fanboi, but the xkcd guy DOES have a degree in physics. That must count for something.

>> No.5957857

>>5957851
And a quick google search says he built robots for nasa.

>> No.5957871

>>5957857
That was a long time ago.

>> No.5957872

>>5957857

But he's popular therefore he is a know-nothing fuckass.

>> No.5957887

>>5957872
When did anybody say that ITT?

>> No.5957901

>>5957547
Autism is rampant on /sci/

>> No.5957905

>>5957618
Why are you this stupid?

>> No.5957931

>>5957905

Because I'm on sci and if i don't spout the common talking points I might not be liked amongst my fellow /sci/ users.

>> No.5958094

>>5957887
it's implied. Happens with every popscientist too

>> No.5958175

$x^2$
<span class="math">x^2[/spoiler]

>> No.5958210

real talk

>> No.5958551

>>5957851
then again he did fuck up a calculation about the speed of something being dropped into the ocean right before the bottom by forgetting that water resistance exists in one of his comics

>> No.5958569

>>5958551
never mind that

it was actually about fluid flow rate with several incorrect assumptions

>> No.5958581

>>5958569

>Wardrobe from Narnia dropped into the Mariana trench

>incorrect assumptions

color me surprised.

>> No.5958588

>>5955869
>huge sausage of a formula
ha

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>>5955869
10=zebra
10=zebra

>> No.5958664

I didn't even know you could upload such hi-res. images on 4chan.

>> No.5958694

>>5958581

Well yeah. For one thing, the wardrobe portal to Narnia is a filter that only lets through purehearted children. For another, there is huge discontinuity in time rate, which would dramatically affect any continuous flow.