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Bored with physics- inspire me!!
With all the rearranging equations and past papers I can't really remember why I used to love physics- and science in generall. 
Help me out- tell me why you love physics?
Help me out- tell me why you love physics?
I love physics because it constantly amazes me. For example, I recently found out that some electrons spend most of their time INSIDE the nucleus in large atoms. Awesome things like that keep me going when crappy stuff like electromagnetism gets me down.
Also, I love physics because it is the subject of intellectual kings. Even when you're learning what beta-decay is for the umpteenth time in your academic career, just remember that you're learning something that many, many clever people took a long time to work out.
Also, I love physics because it is the subject of intellectual kings. Even when you're learning what beta-decay is for the umpteenth time in your academic career, just remember that you're learning something that many, many clever people took a long time to work out.
I love quantum physics: not only does it challenge the way in which I view the world around me, but it certainly introduced grey areas to a world of science that was, beforehand, mostly black and white.
Go and read the Feynman lectures .
I love physics cos when I actually understand the concepts and the formulas required and can do the physics questions no problem, I feel exhilarated because I know it's tough..but I GET IT! LOL
Read the popular science books by Feynman, Hawking and Greene. Their particular areas of research are quantatively beyond even many graduates in physics and maths but they do an excellent job of explaining the theories and their results qualatively.
Reading such books is what enspired me to go from being on the path to a chemistry degree in GCSE and 6th form. I knew the GCSE and AS syllabus by Yr 9 due to being on a chemistry quiz team for the school, say I know
. But then realised how interested I was in maths and physics from those books and did an applied maths degree and now doing a masters in it and have an offer to do a PhD in it 
I agree that physics A Level is somewhat uninspiring though. It lacks much decent mathematical structure so seems very clumsy because they state so many theories and equations but not telling you how half of them are derived because you need calculus to interconnect them (even something as simple as distance, velocity and acceleration in SHM!!).
Reading such books is what enspired me to go from being on the path to a chemistry degree in GCSE and 6th form. I knew the GCSE and AS syllabus by Yr 9 due to being on a chemistry quiz team for the school, say I know
. But then realised how interested I was in maths and physics from those books and did an applied maths degree and now doing a masters in it and have an offer to do a PhD in it I agree that physics A Level is somewhat uninspiring though. It lacks much decent mathematical structure so seems very clumsy because they state so many theories and equations but not telling you how half of them are derived because you need calculus to interconnect them (even something as simple as distance, velocity and acceleration in SHM!!).
My favourite Physics book is "The Fabric Of Reality" by David Deutsch. Often challenging but never boring and a good introduction to what the top physicists are working on.
Steer clear of Roger Penrose, "The Road To Reality" claims to require no specialist knowledge, allowing people who just know how to work with fractions to learn from it. I find going from this to calculus on manifolds in a dozen chapters is beyond almost everybody in society.
Steer clear of Roger Penrose, "The Road To Reality" claims to require no specialist knowledge, allowing people who just know how to work with fractions to learn from it. I find going from this to calculus on manifolds in a dozen chapters is beyond almost everybody in society.
Baal_k
Steer clear of Roger Penrose, "The Road To Reality" claims to require no specialist knowledge, allowing people who just know how to work with fractions to learn from it. I find going from this to calculus on manifolds in a dozen chapters is beyond almost everybody in society.
Lol, yer I've got that book, its brilliant but an absolute bastard to understand sometimes. He does just whistle thorugh some of the earlier stuff. Its still a great book, although when reading it I sometimes have to refer to other things to be able to understand it
Worzo
Awesome - I was on the chemistry quiz team at school! Did you go to the Science Museum for Top of the Bench national finals?
Baal_k
Steer clear of Roger Penrose, "The Road To Reality" claims to require no specialist knowledge, allowing people who just know how to work with fractions to learn from it. I find going from this to calculus on manifolds in a dozen chapters is beyond almost everybody in society.
AlphaNumeric
I had a look at it in the local book store on the recommendation of Neapolitan. Pernrose's claim you don't need much maths is rubbish, I'm done 3.5 years of a maths degree and there were sections I didn't follow at all. Calculus on manifolds I can do a bit off (it's used in general relativity) but not to the extend he gets into, nor stuff like twistor theory which is maths/theoretical physics at PhD level.
I am so glad you just said that, now I dont feel so stupid for skipping entire sections of the book, it made my brain hurt
AlphaNumeric
I had a look at it in the local book store on the recommendation of Neapolitan. Pernrose's claim you don't need much maths is rubbish, I'm done 3.5 years of a maths degree and there were sections I didn't follow at all. Calculus on manifolds I can do a bit off (it's used in general relativity) but not to the extend he gets into, nor stuff like twistor theory which is maths/theoretical physics at PhD level.
I had a look at it in the local book store on the recommendation of Neapolitan. Pernrose's claim you don't need much maths is rubbish, I'm done 3.5 years of a maths degree and there were sections I didn't follow at all. Calculus on manifolds I can do a bit off (it's used in general relativity) but not to the extend he gets into, nor stuff like twistor theory which is maths/theoretical physics at PhD level.
He takes you from basic fractions to complex-number calculus in ~100 pages.
I have an A Level in Maths and got lost around chapter 7 of 35+ chapters...How can somebody who only knows primary school Maths able to do anything with it?The only reason I have a copy of the book is that a family friend gave it to me as he could not understand it at all. He had not done any Maths for 20 years and thought it would help him brush up. Silly, silly man.
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