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Asked by anon-255874 to Sam, Marios, Jose Angel, Enrico on 2 Jun 2020.
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Marios Kalomenopoulos answered on 2 Jun 2020:
I like how you can use physics and maths to describe from the simplest to the most complicated things, so they’re really powerful. Even the simplest equation, can have very important consequences!
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Also, I like that many problems/exercises in these subjects are like quizzes 🙂
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They both really make you think!
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Mike commented on :
I like that most problems have one “correct answer” (or a set of them, finite or infinite), i.e. you can usually know if an answer is wrong or not. (This is actually one of the basics of science: Falsifiability.) (1)
I also like the many different intriguing facts you can learn, such as:
* 0.9999999…=1
* The pressure in a softdrink bottle that you shake actually never changes!
(1) This is probably more true in mathematics than in physics, in the sense that mathematics relies on axioms and you can prove things using rules of logic.
In physics, you need to check if things work in the real world, which can be much trickier. And you make up models that fit the real world as closely as possible.
They are not inherently correct or not.
If they do not fit experimental results, they get rejected as incorrect.
If they do fit them, they get accepted as correct. But only until they stop fitting a new experiment. Then a better model needs to be found.
Anyway, at a school level, physics is a lot like mathematics (unless you get to do more experiments than calculations) in the sense that you learn some rules and apply them to solve problems and answer quizzes as Marios said.