Recent content by joneiljack

21 mature? hahhahahahahahahha I know people in their 30s who started from scratch and became engineers and others got physics degrees. It's all about passion, motivation and discipline.

Depends what you mean by learning physics. If you want to learn the deep inner workings of nature, generally you'd want to major in physics. In general engineers learn how to use physics, not why/how physics works. Most curriculum for engineering requires only first year physics. Engineering is...

Can undergrads actually do research in second year? I mean by that time you only know Calc 2, and just some general physics? Is it possible to give me some examples of what you actually do there? I would imagine they make you do the lesser jobs, that don't have much to do with the actual...

OP, after reading through every post here I can just say most of the people here were just trying to make you understand what you're up against. - They challenged your reasoning behind your current ideas and expressed what problems you will most likely bump into (from their experience in their...

OMG thank you for translating into better words what I had in mind. The reason I mentioned Golstein (I didn't know about Kleppner) was because it seemed to say the same thing as the algebra based books, i.e. instead of F=ma it was F=m(dv/dt). So it's exactly like you said. In my mind I just...

I wanted to thank you all for your insights. I understand now that there is physics intuition that needs to be developed which is different from mathematics intuition. In case anyone is wondering I have decided to get University Physics by Young & Freedman and Kleppner & Purcell. Once I get...

Is it possible to just learn the mathematics first (i.e. multivariable and vector calculus, linear algebra, etc.) and only then start learning physics? (i.e. from a graduate textbook like Classical Mechanics by Golstein)? Would there be any pitfalls? I am studying on my spare time as a...