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I thoroughly enjoy physics, especially classical mechanics. It's fun to learn, fun to do labs, and fun to teach. And physics is one of those fields where math is center stage.
This was an unusual thread but I had to jump in!
I thoroughly enjoy physics, especially classical mechanics. It's fun to learn, fun to do labs, and fun to teach. And physics is one of those fields where math is center stage.
If you want to be an astronomer/experimentalist, you'll need to know enough QM to understand spectroscopy because that is almost the only tool you have to study anything outside the solar system. And know enough relativity to understand the relativistic Doppler shift, because all your spectral lines will be shifted.
On the other hand, if you're just going to be a theorist and write MHD models of stellar atmospheres, than you really don't need to know any physics after all.
Physics lover here as well. I am not into HEP, though. I partly blame that on my nuclear physics professor, because I did enjoy quantum field theory a lot (6 months course, first half of Peskin & Shroeder's book). I'm in the group that find String theory more a phylosophy than physics, although I got a couple of friends that are heavily into it.
My main interest is condesed matter, although my heart also warms a lot towards optics (both "classical" and quantum optics, mind you).
EDIT: I find it hilarious that someone likes physics but dislikes QM, relativity and even electromagnetism. There's not that much more, is there? The "truest lie" also known as thermodynamics springs to mind.
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specialize in physics at the university.
i like Quantum Physics.
yep im one u were searching 4
i love physics but hate exam's
exams ruin's science
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