general

basic triangles?

geometry is somewhat useful

a month of study?

we do triangles

I meant more ellipses and other important shapes

so complex analysis stuff

elliptical geometry for solving for positions of planets was a pain in my first year intro to astro course

would have enjoyed at least a little ellipse talk in hs

nothing is useful

don't the equations for that use complex numbers though?

you can just google it

Not the way we did it

we did it the old fashion way that it was historically done before complex was a thing

we also for the sake of historical exploration dealt with epicycles and other incorrect models

the glass spheres in the sky using fourier transform to model the planets in an earth centric system?

Not at that level

the glass shpere system cracks me up

first problemset took me probably 70 hours to do for that course

because it was all elliptical geometry

I just think all these things that can use complexes should be taught with complexes

make everyone learn the fun part of math and maybe get more math students

complex is not taught at my uni until 3rd year (for mathmatical physics majors, it is never taught to regular physics majors)

how?

thats basic electromagnetism

We do not do it that way until E&M 3

which is a 4th year course

ew

i was doing phasors freshman year

(although my E&M 1 teacher did teach us it but she kinda taught us above what we would do under the normal guy who teaches the course)

(and it was just tacked on in the last lecture and not tested on)

God you reminded me I need to pick my courses for next year

lets see how pikachu kills himself this year

linear systems is awesome

thats probably physics related in some way

Alright, so I am required to take Quantum physics 3 and E&M 3 which runs in the fall, that is 2/5 done in one move

pattern recognition, quantum computing

Leg I know nothing about that shit and would have no prereqs

I am also not interested in the QC stuff

the prereqs for pattern recognition would be Calc 4, Linear Algebra, and Statistics so you probably have those

i have no idea what you degree does Kappa

which I have

(that is MATH 235)

you don't need a coding class for that?

I think it is assumed we have one since you have to take computational physics in 2nd year, but I guess not technically

they make you learn algorithm analysis without knowing coding

sounds about right

do you actually have room to choose classes?

Depends on the class, my fall is stacked

I have slots to fill for winter

Fall I am already running into an issue as to if I want to take calculus of variations, or Partial differential equations 2

since I am already quite full on classes

have you done abstract algebra yet?

not sure what course would be an equivalent to that, but no

group theory, rings, fields...

Ah

no I did not take that

I mostly stayed away from the pure math courses

thats one of the undergrad classes i'd need to take if I switched to mathematics

can you take acoustics?

Probably but I have no idea why I would

because signal processing is awesome

I basically get 5 courses a term if I do not want to overload and kill myself with 6

2 slots are auto taken up by required courses in fall

it is recommended if I want to do grad school I take the research project course which would be a 3rd fall course

oh right you aren't an engineer so you don't need to take 6 courses for 4 semesters

Nope, 5 for 2

are you able to do undergrad research outside of the class at your school?

yes but I would have to set that up as well

I should in theory email profs to see if I could work with them for a couple months over the summer

If you are curious for what I am working with leg

http://www.ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/1920/COURSE/course-PHYS.html#PHYS442

http://www.ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/1920/COURSE/course-AMATH.html#AMATH373

these are the two sets of courses I am mostly considering

particle physics all the way

already on my list for winter

along with GR

i would have considered physics if I could skip to that and ignore the kinematics

if they taught Maxwell's Equations without complex numbers I would be extremely confused

If you never mention complex numbers, and explain it all from the ground up without them it is not too bad to follow

but I can imagine it would be hard to picture it if you were taught using complex