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gibberingmouther
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i started out learning physics for fun with maxwell's equations because partially i wanted to expand my understanding of electronics. i spiderwebbed around on the internet trying to learn the math to understand the equations. i learned some things but i still didn't have it all down before i decided last Friday to start going through a physics textbook i own. I've been making good progress since then working on it each day. i make sure to understand the derivation (algebraically, graphically, and conceptually - whatever that may mean exactly) before i move on to the next thing. so far i have gotten to the section on conservation of momentum and collisions. I've still got momentum (lol) so I'm going to keep going. it's fun! and i still have to take physics for my major so it'll help with that as well.
i'm on page 263 of an approximately 1500 page textbook. i know there's a lot to learn. after you've studied a certain amount of physics and math you develop a familiarity with it. i guess people who go on to do original work in physics (like for a phd) develop that familiarity and know just enough to extrapolate and do some new research? that's kind of how i imagine it working would you guys who know say that is accurate?
anyway, the idea for this thread came from those considerations and finally from looking at this link that contains a list of equations: https://physics.info/equations/
i mean, holy crap! that's a lot of equations. how much of it is feasible to learn? do you skip certain parts of it, like optics let's say, because you don't really need to know it?
i'm on page 263 of an approximately 1500 page textbook. i know there's a lot to learn. after you've studied a certain amount of physics and math you develop a familiarity with it. i guess people who go on to do original work in physics (like for a phd) develop that familiarity and know just enough to extrapolate and do some new research? that's kind of how i imagine it working would you guys who know say that is accurate?
anyway, the idea for this thread came from those considerations and finally from looking at this link that contains a list of equations: https://physics.info/equations/
i mean, holy crap! that's a lot of equations. how much of it is feasible to learn? do you skip certain parts of it, like optics let's say, because you don't really need to know it?