/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7074768
>tfw you realize that everybody on /sci/ are the washed-up pretentious failures of your high school physics class
>tfw you realize that everybody that responded to this post was just expressing their deeply-sown hatred towards people that were actually successful in something they invested so much into

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Chemistry and Physics are two completely different things.

Chemistry is a science and thus the emergence of abstract concepts in our world.

Physics is still technically a science, but is more like math in the sense that it contains almost completely abstracted laws and properties, and without an application (ie. A ball on a string of r length is flung around at velocity v) those laws are nothing but rationalizations and abstractions.

Chemistry is the emergence of physics concepts on an atomic level, but saying that chemistry IS physics is just wrong because without the model provided by chemists through experimentation the physics concepts would be abstracted.

The same goes for pretty much every science. So long as that science actually postulates a useful concept or model, it still is a useful science in its own sense, despite its "parent" topics.

Scientists are lazy engineers who want to learn and not do anything with it.
This whole "muh pure math and science" and the "but engineers d-don't care bout science!!" is the most fedora argument I've seen on this board that people don't get shit for.
If you actively advocate more lecture time over practical application of what you learned then you might as well have become a psychology major

Copying other peoples' code while the professor sticks a finger up your butthole.

>>7035597
Because it spends most of its time in a laboratory and it works.

Fourier transforms really aren't that hard.
I taught them to myself after not even a half year of MV calc.
The hardest part about them is putting fundamentals like complex exponent form, integrals, and sinusoidal characteristics together. All math is is just putting together a few puzzle pieces to make a bigger chunk of the puzzle.

>>7012005
biology is literally the worst science.
At least psychology has undiscovered things that are relatively interesting
If you aren't directly tied with the food or medical industry you might as well have become a poet.

smbc isn't as bad as people say

Only got up to AP calc 1 in class but on my own went over most everything from the calc 2 curriculum, linear algebra, and some basic topology and manifold geometry.

Probably would've gotten further if I recognized my interest in math any sooner than junior year.

>>6998102
Not necessarily, but the elementary nature of his work made it easier to make strides in his field.
If somebody was gonna do that same kind of advancement, they'd either need to fuck around in their basement a lot longer with a lot more specified material, or discover something completely new that hasn't been previously research (or researched in depth).

>>6983425
>tfw the universe will never accomplish it's mission statement

>>6979389
>NYU, UWaterloo, Princeton, UTexas, NCSU, UNC
>almost no northeastern schools

no

>>6979521
Not OP but if I were designing a curriculum for pre-calculus I would probably make the first month or two of the course advanced algebra concepts like basic combinatorics and summations, followed by a larger unit all about trig functions and trig identities (possibly including complex exponent definitions of those functions), then finish the course with calc fundamentals like limits, sign charts, and block summations.

The whole course would be algebraically rigorous and most of the focus would be on the trigonometry. Trig is really important to calc but I don't think it's worth a whole-year course in any secondary school worth its weight.

No field is "needed" more than others.
Do what you're talented in. People who are more inclined towards STEM should follow STEM careers.
If somebody is talented enough to make a profit off their ability to write, sing, or whatever "artsy" profession then that's good for them, and they should follow that.
I'm all for maths and sciences, but a majority of the people, specifically engineers, just shit on other professions because they're insecure about that other person being better than them at something.

>>6972648
>when a system with laws allows for contradictions and thus everything is permitted
sounds like biochem

Holy shit you'd think that /sci/ would at least have one or two EEs.

>>6962407
connections
a lucky idea
uni with name recognition
coffee
more luck

>>6905041
go into chemistry and biology like the rest of the women

>>6875014
it can't and that's why we have hybrid orbital theory
>>6874825
Magnetic fields are always bipolar according to gauss.
It would be possible, however, to either mechanically or electrodynamically (like flipping the direction of the current in a wire) to keep an object in "orbit" around the object in a circular path.
How do you think em motors spin around an axis?