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Preparing for a Japanese Scholarship exam, it consists of Chemistry, Physics, Math, English and Japanese.
My biggest fears are the scientific parts, Chemistry, Physics and Math, I love science but I am a student who just graduated High-School from a 3rd world curriculum which is based on memorization and vomiting out all the memorized info on a test paper at the end of the school-year. Because of this, and Shit teachers, I have shit foundations in science generally as well as math, but I love reading about science and the application of it. What do I do to prepare for these tests? And just generally to prepare myself for university since I'd like to major in Physics.
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>>8148134
just go to college in your own country.
its not worth going to a foreign country where you already admit you have a poor understanding of the concepts.
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>>8149176
Don't listen to this guy, OP.
If you want to do it, go for it. There's material free and accessible on everything if you go by a curriculum and look up each theory individually.
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>>8148134
It's very difficult taking exam in format you're not used to... especially when you were scoring high on the format you were very used to. I experienced this when I had to quit A level program for america. Knowing what question wants is crucial
Nothing's bad about memorization. How do you even do that in physics? It's all about understanding concepts in physics anyway. Well good luck
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/sci/ I'm moving into and starting college this sunday. I'm going into a physics major and possible a double major in mathematics. For those of your majoring in them right now or have graduated, is there any advice you can give me? I mean specifically for physics and mathematics that is. I have torrented textbooks and all sorts of shit on a drive which I'm going to study with in my free time, will I even have the time or will to do this? I still want to have time for hobbies though and parties. I'm a pretty smart guy but regardless, anyone is going to have to stay on top of things for a physics major.
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>>8148115
lol, read the sticky, goddamn
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>>8148117
I have. I'm asking everyone personally. This is why I don't come on this board much, every single time I start a thread, no matter what's it about, I get this response.
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I'm from england, but I just finished my first year studying pure physics. If american universities are anything like ours, your first year will be piss easy.
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So help me sort this out
Why are we still sticking to the science meme?
Who cares about the arbitrary and tedious scientific method?
Why are we wasting time with observations and guesswork when we should instead only focus on what we can rigorously derive using pure logic and pure mathematics?
Maybe it's just my math background talking, but who cares about experimentation? It doesn't prove anything. The next experiment can have results that completely invalidate all the previous ones. Why waste time and money on that instead of proving things for real?
It's not like we can honestly say that experimentation can make predictions that are actually solid enough to depend on completely.
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>>8148044
Shitty bait.
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>>8148044
Math guy too here but you are just retarded. Good luck proving a new medicine works with just mathematics.
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>>8148044
>literally providing a picture of a language that has undefined behaviour
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What happened at the end of the Permian?
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>>8148010
it got permiabanned
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I permiated your mom too hard
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>>8148010
volcanic eruptions elevated CO2 and sulfur dioxide to the point that global warming occurred.
Warming interfered with oceanic currents producing marine anoxia.
Marine anoxia caused blooms of cyanobacteria that then invaded terrestrial environments.
Cyano killed plants and thus destroyed all food webs not based on detrivores.
Mass collapse of food webs destroyed megafauna and marine biotas.
eventually climates stabilized, but by the time it was done almost everything was dead.
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On average do people graduate on time? 2016-06-17 09:31:57 Post No.8147866
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We all know University is a fucking shithole in terms of education standards and information presentation/delivery, its a business construct not a learning environment blah blah blah etc.
Do people usually graduate on time? Its a fucking pain in the ass walking through this pile of hot coal known as University, feels like absolute dogshit subjecting myself to this ridiculous scam, yet its essential to get
>Muh degree
>Muh employability
And CS major here.
Sigh it just feels like a fucking chore to give a shit and play by their rules, I love the subject itself but when you put University in to the equation it ruins my passion.
tldr: How to put up with Universities bullshit
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>>8147866
University is just a sure path to mediocrity.
Those who do big things rarely depend on it. So if you plan on doing big things skip the schooling and employment track. This is a self-sorting system. People that are going to make it without schooling usually see through the system and have a plan to bypass it.
if you don't have a plan to get what you want yet you might as well stick to the program and do the chores necessary to gain employment. It's less risky than striking out on your own, that's a fact.
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>>8147882
first post worst post
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>>8147866
>If just bear throuhh uni and get a degree surely I'll find employment!
Why is our generation so fucking retarded?
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Thoughts on what the mission to Jupiter arriving next month will find?
I feel like there has to be some solid core, but other than that I can't imagine what they'll uncover, seeing as we can't really do anything with the planet, just look.
Short vid on Juno here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV6fOkIgqD4
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Well NASA says their reason is to understand how the first planet formed. According to pretty much everyone, that's Jupiter. So in a few years we might know how a solar system forms following the birth of a star.
That or NASA is secretly speaking to the aliens.
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>>8147782
ILLUMINATI
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http://www.space.com/12472-juno-probe-spacecraft-jupiter-nasa.html
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Anyone qualified to speak on the economy of the US right now. I hear it's currently worse than 2008 and there is a recession or depression that we are in that will finally become apparent in the coming months. fear mongering or is there some truth to this???
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>>8147727
I'm not really qualified.
I am however a small business owner. I can say with some confidence that markets have changed since 2008 and show no sign of going back. To me it feels leaner. Companies are less willing to spend. Many are still making cuts and struggling to stay afloat.
I think we should seriously consider the possibility that the economy we enjoyed in the late 90's and early 2000's was a fluke, and we may never see it again.
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>>8147727
I told my parents to invest in gold before 2008, and they did, so I now own more than 60% of the US citizenry, which is not a lot.
Our system will crash again and very soon, the market is more chaotic than it has ever been so invest in things that may will benefit from the majority of people suffering.
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>>8147727
We live in a fraudulent economy, which is no longer a capitalist structure.
The same institutions that caused the global financial meltdown, are still up and running, and they are engaging in the exact form of risky speculation that caused said meltdown.
We're all fucked.
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Why do people believe in pseudoscience over scientific reason?
what pseudoscience disgusts you the most?
Inspired to make this thread because flatearthers are funny and there one on /x/ giving me a real laugh
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>>8147458
There is no real distinction between pseudoscience and science
When you realize this, it will all make sense
What matters is whether you can successfully implement the knowledge, e.g. whether you can make predictions with the knowledge. That is and always has been the marker of useful knowledge. We just apply the arbitrary signifier of "LE SCIENCE" to whatever works and "LE PSEUDOSCIENCE" to what doesn't. It's a big cultural meme and needs to end.
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>>8147466
what was that?
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>>8147478
that chart is meme tier for people who can't into philosophical thought
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Does Math ever get enjoyable to do? I know I'm still in lower division math courses with Calc 3/Differential equations, but it's just not fun to do this stuff. I know when I get a job a computer is going to do the majority of he calculations for me anyway and I'll just be analyzing the data, but is there a point where it's not just mind numbingly remembering various theorems?
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>>8147345
>Does Math ever get enjoyable to do?
Depends on your interests.
>I know when I get a job a computer is going to do the majority of he calculations for me anyway
Depends on your job and the type of math involved.
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>>8147345
If you're getting a math degree, it's more of the same the whole way.
If you're in physics or engineering or something similar, you apply about 10% of it un rigorously. So that might be fun?
I enjoy teaching and analyzing. It's not the content I find enjoyable, but the interactions with other people and development of ideas.
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>>8147345
math got better after i took a introductory proof writing course.
Why do we die? Age. Why do we age? Time. Why do we deteriorate over time? Time is a seeming illusion; I mean all that really exists is now. and there must be something to this.
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>>8147211
Bump for interest
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>>8147211
the fuck are you babbling about OP?
goddamn retard.
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>>8147229
retard juding another retard detected
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if we made a simulation of sufficient complexity to allow intelligent life, would that lifeform potentially be able to uncover the fact that they're in a simulation? would they see pixels if they developed the technology to observe their universe at sub-atomic levels? would it be possible to re-write their universe from the inside? is this a stupid question?
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>>8147170
is this like asking "is god real?" there's just no way to know?
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>is this a stupid question
No and yes
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>>8147170
If we made a complete enough simulation to allow for intelligent life, would they know they could just Google for the paper Feynman wrote on it or would they just post the question to 4chan?
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What cool shit can I do if I study electric engineering?
can I do a minor with material design courses?
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You can suck cocks
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>>8147169
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Electrical engineers are well-paid at least but I don't know much more t. math+cs major
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I know this is basic but WE'RE CLOSE here's a time travel formula i wrote (using http://www.hostmath.com/) T = time we want to go to time, t = current stationary time, v = velocity and 299792458 metres per second is the speed of light.
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>>8147018
But did you account for the meme vector?
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>>8147018
This doesn't account for quantum tunneling or the N=NP problem.
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>>8147018
what if you're in a car that moves at v = 299792458 and you turn on the headlights?
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I've come up with an equation explaing ant movement compared to our own, how they navigate and travel over a 360* stalk
If you can't see the beauty in this, you're an idiot. Try to prove me wrong, Losers
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>>8146994
Could you have fucked up drawing an ant anymore?
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>>8146998
How does that not look like an ant?
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>>8147013
>what are you smoking?
Just draw a circle or point.
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Ask someone who was diagnosed with huntington's disease anything.
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how long are you left to live ?
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Sorry, anon. You gonna see it through, or become an hero?
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Also, what's your handwriting look like?