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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 118 points 1 year ago

physics majors when they're asked to apply their knowledge (they've never been outside of the lab)

[-] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 104 points 1 year ago

They can design the chicken coop, but only for spherical chickens in a vacuum.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 26 points 1 year ago

Built from ideal materials with zero tolerance

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just like the Tesla Truck!

Though lack of both physics and engineering is on display there.

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[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 year ago

If you ask a scientist what pi is, they will tell you it equals 3.14159. If you ask a mathematician, they will tell you pi equals the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter. If you ask an engineer, they will say “about 3, but let's round it up to 5 to be safe.”

[-] oce@jlai.lu 15 points 1 year ago

I'd replace scientist to something more precise like physicist because usually people consider mathematicians as scientists even if it depends on definitions.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

usually people consider mathematicians as scientists

Yikes!

... Wait, does this mean I can call a historian an artist? Then I'm game.

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[-] skybreaker@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

As someone with a degree in physics who ended up in an engineering role, I approve of this meme.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 1 year ago

As an engineer, I don't believe in any of that mind reading mumbo jumbo.

[-] rh4c6f@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Astronomy is one of the many tools of the devil.

[-] beneeney@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Fr, what can you do with a physics degree except teach people physics

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Come up with new physics to teach people?

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Applied physics is a thing. Lots of jobs there. Geophysics, biophysics, engineering physics (yes, that's a thing...)

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[-] NeuronautML@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's the first indicator a scientist tried to build their own experiment using the soldering station ?

The smell of burnt fingers.

What's the scientist waiting for sitting in front of their own experiment ?

Waiting for the infinite loop they coded to finish after they claimed they didn't need the engineer's help to write the code in their experiment.

How many scientists do you need to change a light bulb ?

Theoretically just one, but it can take several until one of them can call an engineer and admit they only know how to change light bulbs theoretically.

What does a scientist call an electrolytic capacitor ?

Acid distribution subsystem.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago

Is the date a perfect sphere in a vacuum with no friction?

[-] Elektrotechnik@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Aww, he doesn't understand physics and has a small dick? :(

[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 44 points 1 year ago

Her: "No I meant I'm a software engineer."

Him: "Oh. I also hate myself and want to die."

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

"Can I lick the science?"

"Nothing else has made the code work so ya might as well!"

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ask a ~~physician~~ physicist to build a bridge, it collapse but he knows exactly how and why it collapsed.

Ask an engineer to do it, it holds but he has no idea how it's holding together.

[-] lemmyseikai@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Wow med school has really upped their game.

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[-] Hobo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I think the word you're looking for is physicist. A physician is a medical doctor (as in a person that treats sick people). A physicist is a person that studies physics (as in a person that knows how to solve word problems involving pool tables).

[-] oce@jlai.lu 11 points 1 year ago

It's a classic French speaker mistake because physicist is "physicien" and physician is "médecin", very different.

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[-] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 35 points 1 year ago

Engineering is just physics with real numbers.

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago

You can have loads of imaginary numbers in EE.

[-] bisby@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago
[-] nicoweio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

He has the capacity to.

[-] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 1 year ago

Which is why I stay away from EE.

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[-] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Isn't physics a pretty integral part of engineering?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

No, integrals are mathematics

[-] Zacryon@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago

Depends on the specific engineering branch. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Sometimes nothing at all. But all engineering branches share one thing with physics: math.

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For structural analysts it's very important.

[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the joke is you don't understand enough physics to make that your gig, so you go engineering as the backup plan. Source: am IT, we're everyone's backup plan when their initial goals fall through

[-] Forester@yiffit.net 18 points 1 year ago

As a former engineering student who now works in IT.... I resent your comment.

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

About to graduate in physics and I've definitely scrolled through IT job postings when anxious about not getting a PhD position

[-] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, when IT students get those moments they look at construction ads. It's turtles all the way down.

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[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

i didn’t get a degree until I was almost thirty, from an online college at that. I’m a complete idiot and somehow earning a bit over $200k a year in the Midwest at forty years old. Sometimes I have to meet with people and I’m like man, just let me back in my hole, wtf am I doing here, I can barely understand what these people are talking about let alone process any of the shit they are saying. I talk, ask questions, sometimes get answers I can understand but always make an idiot out of myself but I keep talking. Everyone says it’s better to keep your mouth shut and be assumed to be an idiot instead of opening your mouth and removing all doubt but I swear I’ve made a career out of being an idiot. If it wasn’t for IT I would be cleaning shit off guys dicks in a brothel somewhere to feed myself.

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[-] pigup@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I have worked with guys who got physics undergrad and mech E masters. They are both awful engineers who don't really get it. I take this joke too personally because I know it's bs from experience.

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[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 23 points 1 year ago

Who said she's a mechanical engineer?

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

She probably drives a train

[-] SolarMech@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

IIRC they all learn some physics at engineering school. Even the software engineers.

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[-] Darkonion@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Engineering is more like accounting, but for objects instead of money. Tables, rule books, and lobbyists.

[-] supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

And writing reports, calculations and such...even manuals if there is time

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Hey we understand plenty! Well the parts we have to to make the thing not go boom anyways....

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