Sumsar01 t1_isfj3ji wrote on October 15, 2022 at 4:18 PM

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Well nuclear physics is kind of a everything goes meeting put because we cant efficiently compute QCD, so it is pretty wild.

8Splendiferous8 t1_isfjmoo wrote on October 15, 2022 at 4:22 PM

Yeah. It was a lot of, "Okay, we don't have any first principles for you, but here's the function that seems to be describing what's going on. Just memorize it." And there were so many patterns, and patterns of patterns to memorize. And it just wasn't fun or interesting to me at all, haha.

Sumsar01 t1_isfotxx wrote on October 15, 2022 at 4:58 PM

I read the russian lecture book for the exams of the seconds course. I like my books with a bit more math and a bit less hand wavy, but it helped a lot.

The first course was a mess.

8Splendiferous8 t1_isfvez6 wrote on October 15, 2022 at 5:44 PM

Yeah, I only took a single survey course and still hated it. I'll stick to E+M and quantum...those are more straightforward.