Euro btw, hence masters I have no background in physics but have a masters in mathsSome things I should be wary of? Focus on? Shit that'll be hard?Also any cool specialties I should think about?
attendance? are they treating college like gradeschool now?
>>16948027Engineering colleges are often like this, yeah. The other two unis i went to were "normal" and didn't require attendance, but I think the one I'm going to does.
>>16948027I think that's mostly an american thing.
>>16948024Beware Witten's "because I said so" axiom.
Is that Beabadoobee
>>16948027Been that way for a while. I went in 2013 and you’d fail automatically if you didn’t show up often enough. Didn’t matter what you knew or not.
>>16948041That is what is scaring me the most - even though I have my qualms with maths (hence why I don't wanna do it my entire life), it still made me a mathematician in how I think and how rigorous I am. The culture shock could be hard (and might push me into mathematical physics but there are no opportunities there...)
>>16948073Yes.
>>16948492What do left handed people do in a class with those desks?
>>16948027they're making me take fucking standardized tests in my upper division classses
>>16948035Had it on some classes in Greece on Computer Science. Mainly a couple of classes that were lectured by some insecure middle aged "professor" teaching some shite like EU regulations or how to make new company, if he didn't have attendance nobody would bother appearing on his class.
>>16948114Theres some more rigorous books out there you can study alongside if you want, like just look up <field> for mathematicians. But honestly if you got a good understanding of manifolds and measure theory and put "smooth (almost everywhere)" in some places you can probably fill in the hand wavy gaps yourself without too much trouble.
>>16948024Stick to math. Modern physics is fundamentally broken. Almost everything Einstein published is provably incorrect. We haven't made any progress since Newton, and even his classical physics findings were mostly incorrect (his second law is the only law that holds).
>>16949564Dumbass b/w take. Not having a 100% accurate theory isnt no progress, we have models that can still predict most stuff incredibly well now, and so so many more tools to work with them more easily.
so wait...if time dilation is real and a stationary object moves fastest through time, wouldnt you be able to measure when an object is going fastest through time to establish that its stationary and then establish objective velocity?
>>16949564>Almost everything Einstein published is provably incorrectother way around, everything qft and on is nonsense, including the standard model
>>16949564>Almost everything Einstein published is provably incorrect.Finally a 300 iq take on Sci
it's to protect the ego of shitty lecturers who'd otherwise end up with an empty hall
>>16948970They usually have 1 or 2 special snowflake for lefties desk somewhere in the room, you could also just have your arm elevated. Everyday I am thankful I was not born wrong-handed.
>>16949411Yeah I ordered some mathematicians books, like Charge, Flux, and Metric, should help.I did topology and diff. geometry. Guess it was a good idea.>>16949564Pure maths doesn't have much opportunities thoughever
Im also starting a MSc in physics. I am currently planning my degree. They allow 30 ECTS undergrad credits which I probably need. Here is my current degree plan. Undergraduate coursesAstrophysics 7.5 ECTSSolid state physics 7.5 ECTS Computational Physics I 7.5 ECTS Electromagnetic field theory 7.5 ECTSCore classesQuantum Mechanics II 7.5 ECTSMathematical methods in physics 7.5 ECTS Statistical Physics I 7.5 ECTSClassical electrodynamics 7.5 ECTSSpecialization:Into to Quantum computation 15 ECTSComputational Physics II 7.5 ECTSRepresentation theory for finite groups 7.5 ECTSMaster thesis 30 ECTSOpinions? Is it too basic?
>>16950765I wouldn't take 30cr of undergraduate courses ngl myself.And that's without any background in physics but like undergraduate courses suck ass and won't teach anything is my feeling.Plan is likeQuantum Mechanics 7.5Experimental stuff 7.5Statistical Physics 7.5Spectroscopy 7.5Biophysics 7.5Condensed matter physics 7.5 (hesitating with physics of materials here a lot)Applied optical spectroscopy 7.5Physics and applications of electromagnetic fields and optical materials 7.5And probs some biochemistry stuff if I can especially during Q3 like biophysical chemistry
>>16950777Cool. Me personally, I am not interested in experimental stuff. I am doing my studies online with Linneaus University. I have PhD in non-commutative algebra from my previous studies. Even then they want me to take undergrad courses.
>>16950931I really wanna do experimental stuff actually as I have a heavy background in CS/Numerical Analysis and don't wanna double down on that + kinda hate spending all my time finding random bugs in codeOh I'm gonna be studying in Sweden too lmao. Göteborg. No PhD however and they haven't told me anything about having to take undergraduate courses lol so I won't probably? Gonna study this summer a lot.I am looking a lot at vacancies that interest me and it seems spectroscopy is like a huge boon for so many of them.
