| My thoughts...
Well, it depends more on what you're interested in than which is harder/easier. IMHO, physics is more math-based than chemistry, whereas chemistry requires learning lots of related but disparate things. I've always done better with math, as my memory for facts isn't that great - and biology was the bane of my high school existence, as it required extensive knowledge of names of organs, processes, etc. I would say that physics is to chemistry what math is to biology, but to a lesser extent... in fact, you could think of chemistry as the arithmetic mean of physics and biology.
And yes, physics does explain chemistry, but then again, physics explains everything. Both are useful, and, in my estimation, very interesting. |