Physics for scientists and engineers

Biologists think they're biochemists.
Biochemists think they're chemists.
Chemists think they're physical chemists.
Physical chemists think they're physicists.
Physicists think they're gods.
God thinks he's a mathematician.

=) funny stuff

Anyway, I just spent the last seven hours studying for a physics midterm on tuesday, wish me luck. This quarter is all about electricity, electric fields, current batteries and well everything of that sort. This is just amazing. After last quarter I didn't think there was much else that I could possibly learn about how the world works. After learning all about gravity and mechanical energy and friction and fluid dynamics and thermodynamics and resonance frequencies and wave patterns... I'm no where near done. It's absolutely amazing how much of our known universe has already been explained.

God bless Newton. Dam near nothing that makes my life easy would be possible without that brilliant SOB. Even if he did steal calculus from Leibniz. Mind you, I hated physics when I first started taking it. Much like any mathematician at heart, I hated all the sciences. The only thing I ever thought worth while was math, considering everything else just an extension of the basic ideas discovered in math. But I must admit, after learning the tiny bit of physics that I have learned, and spending countless hours perfecting my knowledge of what I have learned, I often find myself interpreting the world through physics concepts. I've taken quite a liking to physics, which makes me less impartial towards other sciences like chemistry and biology.

I find myself calculating how many calories I'm burning at the gym using concepts from energy conservation and thermodynamics. I try to explain why I observe certain things through physics, like why rapidly moving my thumb over a straw sucks in liquid. Fun stuff, will never hold a candle to pure math though. =)

-Osvaldo Enriquez