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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 23:24:28 2018 No.9526735 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>9526747 >>9526760 >>9526774 >>9526787 >>9526807 >>9526821 >>9526828 >>9526842 >>9528520

Give me 10 good reasons why I should major on Chemistry instead of Physics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2018 23:28:58 No.9526747 Report

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>>9526735
Chemistry and Physics are second majors. There's not enough meat on them to be your first major.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2018 23:38:46 No.9526760 Report

Quoted By: >>9526776

>>9526735
You will see Quantum Mechanics & Thermodynamics in both Majors.

In Chemistry you will see ready the real life applications.

If you wanna create another useful chemical compund go to Chemistry.

Pick Physics if your dream is to discover a Groundbreaking theory as Newton & Einstein

Chemistry will require more memorization (kinda useless now when we have computers)

Physics will require more advanced math.
But Physical Chemistry still math intensive though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2018 23:45:14 No.9526774 Report

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>>9526735
That's a start, now rewrite without the reddit spacing and I'll read it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2018 23:45:22 No.9526776 Report

Quoted By: >>9526818 >>9527544

>>9526760
But don't they both study atoms and what's inside them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2018 23:50:31 No.9526787 Report

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>>9526735
Go for chem for a broader approach to science. I got my undergrad in chemistry and ended up doing physics for my masters, in the end all of my classmates had gone to the fields that were more interesting to them; some went to bio, some computational chem, electrochem, theoretical physics. So in the end you'll end up in a field that interest you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 00:00:01 No.9526807 Report

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>>9526735
if you aren't sure you want to go to grad school, pick physics. the math skills are much more widely applicable and employable. the chemistry-specific stuff you learn is marketable only for chemistry jobs, it's mostly synthetic organic chemistry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 00:04:30 No.9526818 Report

Quoted By: >>9526832

>>9526776
>But don't they both study atoms and what's inside them?
Yes they both study Atomic & Molecular Physics, Solid State Physics & Nanotechnology

But Physics also study Relativity, Electromagnetism, Classical Mechanics, String Theory.

While Chemists study other things such as Organic Chemistry, Bio Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, etc Courses which the Physicists don't take.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 00:05:49 No.9526821 Report

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>>9526735
Because chemistry is the central science.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 00:09:17 No.9526828 Report

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>>9526735
Chemistry majors get jobs in their field, Physics majors go back to high school to teach.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 00:12:34 No.9526832 Report

Quoted By: >>9526837 >>9526840

>>9526818
I thought you also study Classical Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Electromagnetism and Relativity as Physics I, II, III and IV respectively during a normal Chemistry course.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 00:15:54 No.9526837 Report

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>>9526832
*Upper division Classical Mechanics $!=$ Physics 1
*Upper division Statistical Mechanics $!=$ Physics 2
*Upper division Electrodynamics $!=$ Physics 3
*Upper division General Relativity $!=$ Physics 4

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 00:17:20 No.9526840 Report

Quoted By: >>9526951

>>9526832
*Upper division Classical Mechanics $\neq$ Physics 1
*Upper division Statistical Mechanics $\neq$ Physics 2
*Upper division Electrodynamics $\neq$ Physics 3
*Upper division General Relativity $\neq$ Physics 4

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 00:18:32 No.9526842 Report

Quoted By: >>9526858 >>9526880

>>9526735
You should major in chemical engineering.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 00:22:50 No.9526858 Report

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>>9526842
I'm not gay to be an engineer!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 00:29:56 No.9526880 Report

Quoted By: >>9526953

>>9526842
Does chemical engineer have better job prospects then chemistry or is it just as over saturated as chemistry?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 01:13:26 No.9526951 Report

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>>9526840
You get statistical mech if you opt for statistical thermodynamics. Electrodynamics if you go for electrical properties of solids in solid state chem. You get classical mechanics if you go for molecular simulation. And you get general relativity if you go for computational chemistry. But yeah you never study them all nor until you go to grad school or senior year undergrad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 01:14:40 No.9526953 Report

Quoted By: >>9527533

>>9526880
They get better job offers doing NOT chemistry. But yeah they're somehow more employable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 06:52:21 No.9527533 Report

Quoted By: >>9527579

>>9526953
Not true. A PhD in Chemistry can do any chemical engineering job.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 06:59:53 No.9527544 Report

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>>9526776
Not really. Physicists are not very concerned with molecules. Chemists are mostly concerned with pushing electrons around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 07:17:35 No.9527579 Report

Quoted By: >>9527728

>>9527533
Maybe but having to get a PhD in chemistry just to compete with a bachelors in chemical engineering is pretty darn sad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 08:59:05 No.9527728 Report

Quoted By: >>9527735

>>9527579
If you're planning on going into research you'd need a PhD anyway. All I'm saying is that you can get jobs, including the ones you'd be able to get as chemE if you want to be a chemist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 09:11:56 No.9527735 Report

Quoted By: >>9527747

>>9527728

Why would you go in to research if you chose chemical engineering? Also just because you can do any job with a chemistry PhD as a chemical engineer doesn't mean you'd get hired for one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 09:23:59 No.9527747 Report

Quoted By: >>9527755

>>9527735
You probably wouldn't, but OP was looking for reasons to be a chemist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 09:29:44 No.9527755 Report

Quoted By: >>9527758

>>9527747

Then it's probably a negative that you need a PhD to get hired

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 09:32:24 No.9527758 Report

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>>9527755
You don't know what he wants to do, I assume at least that most people who want to go into a field such as chemistry or physics want to actually do research in the field or they'd already consider something like engineering. The point was simply that there ARE jobs if you felt you didn't want to do research anymore, since you or someone else said there are no chem jobs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 14:53:35 No.9528202 Report

Quoted By: >>9528330

Chemistry always strikes me as something soul-sucking, is this true?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 16:29:03 No.9528330 Report

Quoted By: >>9528492

>>9528202
Yeah but in a good way

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 17:23:29 No.9528492 Report

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>>9528330
this x1000
you've got to love it
although this is probably true for all "real" sciences

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 17:33:29 No.9528520 Report

Quoted By: >>9528529

>>9526735
> If you want advice regarding college/university or your career path, go to /adv/ - Advice.
> If you want advice regarding college/university or your career path, go to /adv/ - Advice.
> If you want advice regarding college/university or your career path, go to /adv/ - Advice.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Feb 2018 17:35:24 No.9528529 Report

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>>9528520
/adv/ is a horrible place, did you ever go there?

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