Phys vs Phil major

[OccamsChainsaw95]

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@comfortablycurt

A lot of that comes down to the professor. Physics is a subject that has the potential to be a very dry, dull subject…if you have a professor that doesn’t present it in an interesting, relevant type of way. I’m lucky to have an awesome physics professor, who is VERY enthusiastic about the subject, and always presents it in an exciting way. Our labs are always awesome…and have always kept me very interested. I’d agree with UCB that honors physics would be a good thing to look into. I’ll likely be starting honors physics next year when I start the calculus based university physics sequence.

My lecturers make it interesting and get me thinking but I find the concepts simple and sort of obvious. For example, atm my class is learning about Simple Harmonic Motion (with use of differential equations) and Statics (with equilibrium of a single rigid body under the action of coplanar forces where the forces are not all parallel) but I was able to derive the equations months ago (I’m quite a way a head of my class!). It’s probably the fact that it isn’t a challenge that is making it boring!</p>

<p>What sort of stuff do you do in honours physics? I can’t see it getting much more complicated than using the auxiliary equation for Newtonian physics and finding it’s roots (more difficult if imaginary/complex). </p>

<p>Hopefully I will be allowed to skip on to some harder stuff and can do some grad-level stuff while in my junior/senior years!</p>

<p>Good luck with your new physics sequence, I hope it goes well :)</p>

<p>EDIT: I tell you what I cant figure out though. How to integrate ∫sinh^2 xdx. I know it’s pure math but I can’t solve it intuitively :(</p>