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I think I'll be fine. I took more pure math courses than physics courses.

I joined my undergrad to do Math but then liked physics a lot. Now I realized I am not that good at physics, so I want to shift now.

I am an undergrad in physics and math (pure). I want to do msc in Applied mathematics . There are few things that worry me : 1. Topology, complex analysis, differential equations, calculus, Probability, 3 Analysis and 3 Algebra - these are roughly my courses. I didn’t take any “applied” kind of...

Thats what my friends argued.

When an ideal gas,in a piston kind of system and whose equilibrium state is mentioned, is allowed to expand (piston is allowed to move and not gas leaking )against a constant external pressure very quickly, then, is the work done by gas zero or not zero ? The argument for work being zero is...