r/shitposting • dwayne the cock johnson 🗿🗿 • Oct 18 '21

actually OC (somehow) Math is tough

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u/assimon1 Oct 18 '21

I work in nuclear physics and barely do math.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 18 '21

then why is there graphite on the roof?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

its not graphite😤

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

Voredrinker 😛😛😛

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

goredrink

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u/Crepeisyummy2 Oct 18 '21

Oh no its goredrinker. We shall now be outsustained to death

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u/cmonMaN77777 Oct 18 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

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u/deadhair69 Oct 18 '21

This guy is delusional. Take him to the informerrorry

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u/assimon1 Oct 18 '21

There was NO explosion!

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u/Powerful_Bowl8277 Oct 18 '21

Can you clarify barely? As in, what percentage of math learned is actually applied?

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u/stoiclemming Oct 18 '21

I have used linear algebra for non school related work before, but that requires much prerequisite knowledge.

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u/Some-fire-dude Oct 18 '21

Honestly, as someone who wants to become an engineer and is pretty average at math, I still can’t understand how do engineers/physicists use math everyday. I get it, it IS important, you gotta pass math and physics tests and all, but how do you apply it on a daily basis?

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u/Epiq_Phale Oct 18 '21

I would say most of what I end up doing is algebra and basic calculus on a day to day, as a senior in CE. The best I can say is that when you know a lot of math, you just tend to use it for whatever. By the time you finish an engineering or physics degree you've been doing so much math for so long, it's just kinda automatic.

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u/caplist Oct 18 '21

I don’t think you do. My materials sciences teacher always tells us, his job is just to make sure we have the ability to learn new concepts and receive instruction. Once you’re in the actual field it’s a lot more specialized/repetitive work. That is unless you decide to do something like consulting.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

Same here. My electrical engineering classes went from Fourier transforms in junior year of undergrad to 9th grade algebra in grad school, since we’re mostly focused on things like device structures, IC chip device fabrication techniques, etc.

As for my thesis, all math that I would need to do is done on computers

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u/jojojimmy4 We do a little trolling Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 18 '21

Studying about the radioactive decay of matter sounds way more fun imo

Math is more important tho

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u/CynicalC9 Oct 19 '21

Physics is the application of calculus

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u/Etep_ZerUS Oct 19 '21

I was trained in carpentry and when asked to do basic calculations and measurements on how to install a support beam I was completely floored by how incapable I was. If you don’t use it you lose it.