How To Tell If Someone Is A Physics/Engineering Student

Physics: π^2/g = 1

I graduated from a physical engineering major, and currently working as a service engineer for the electron microscope.

'orange or yellow sunglasses with the bottom part of the frame missing'
When I went, engineers were like depressed overworked ag majors, and physicists were like depressed overworked hippies

I’m honestly using this to kind of test myself, I haven’t gone to college yet, but I definitely want either a math or engineering major when I do, so I’m using this as a gauge for how suited I am for both, the problem is that the two responses are both there, it’s basically a 50/50

Ask them to pronounce "unionized"

This legit made me subscribe

I studied physics in my undergrad and currently studying engineering as a grad student


I feel attacked on many levels

as an engineering student I find this very amusing lol

Tell them sinθ=tanθ
Physicists: Sounds about right.
Engineer: WTF bro lol wut?

Tell them pi = 10
Engineer: Can be lol
Physicists: *visibly confused

Don't really agree with the 1st or 3rd point. As an engineer, I can assure you that 1.609 g/cm3 is far too precise - that's basically 2 g/cm3. There is no reason to ever use 3 decimal places.

Also, most engineers don't really consider what they do difficult, it's just tedious and there's a lot of work to be done, drawings to make and the deadlines are tight. The exception to this is electrical engineers, who will of course complain about the difficulty.

Engineers.. HERE's HOW it will kill you. now.. maths.
Physics student: abstract chaos.. Oh and this might happen as consequence.
Or as i prefer, hand them liquid copium of choice. ask them a question. and see if they swig before or after the question, is mathematically solved.

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What is pi?
math major: gives a specified explanation of the definition of it, with some series expansions of it
physics major: about the root of gravitational acceleration of earth
engineering major: 3 something

MATHEMATICIANS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THIS VIDEO LOOOOOOLLLL

None of this. The engineers and the physisists will carry the units. The engineer is satisfied with 3 significant digits. The mathematician is never satisfied. Sorted.

A man is flying around in a hot air balloon when he realizes he has shifted way off course that he had planned. The man proceeds to bring the hot air balloon down to the ground and spots a man in his garden and asks him

“Hello sir, I seem to be lost, can you tell me where I currently am?”

The gardener looks up and states “it seems you are in a hot air balloon, stationary, roughly 20 feet above my garden”

The man in the balloon asks “are you a physicist??”

The gardener exclaims “why I am, how did you know?”

The man “because you listed multiple facts that are completely useless in helping in any way.”

The gardener retorts “well aren’t you an engineer!?!?”

The man shocked inquires “why how did you know that???”

The gardener goes “well you seem to have built a flying vehicle, have zero clue how to operate it, an now are needing a physicist to help you figure it out!!!”

I feel like I’m studying the wrong career

I would just ask in which direction electrons move. Physics says from - to + while engineering says + to -

But... what if the person has undergraduate degree in Physics and graduate degree in Engineering, or, in rare cases, the other way around?

I‘m both so I’m confused, offended (jk), and laughing my ass off

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i feel that "that everyone else had that much work" because my best friend is a fcking genius and then I always say "yeah but it took him also so long and he also struggeled even though last semester he was the 2. best in a test out of 200"

"The mathematician is a docile and passive breed, until agitated through overconfidence in ones own level of rigor". Shut up. I hate you. This isn't true... it can't be true, I'll prove why.

As a math student who is aiming for physics, I take personal offense to this. Not at all because I tell everyone who will listen that I want to be a physicist...

This video was hilarious

I like to use the no hair theorem on this problem. If the person has almost no hair he is a math major. If they have no or too many they are physics major

What happens when you ask 3 different majors for directions. The physics major pulls out a pen and paper and starts finding the displacement with vectors. The engineering student pulls out a map and a flashlight. And the math student too Busy finding all the numbers of pie. In the you’d just ask google for directions because what are you doing asking these bozos.

I came here looking for a laugh not just a statement of facts

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As an engineering student who moonlights as a math student, i break the first test, sorry. Im an engineer who keep things in variable form

You literally look like Ben Affleck!!

Some kid has those stupid glasses in my physics class. 😂 He never takes them off

as an engineering major, my go to defense mechanism for question 2 is to never give 100% certainty or close to 100% certainty, if im wrong than i can simply say i expected to be wrong which makes me somewhat right.

I don't need to worry about that because i am the engineering student

you can also ask them to make a 3d graph, if the vertical direction is represented by z then it's a physics major, if it's represented by y then it's incorrect.

As an engineering student, I can confirm I am planning to do a master's in physics.

And what about that guy who is both?

I've come to the conclusion that I'm a math major even though I've been mistakenly attending to engineering classes.

Bullshit

as an engineering student, I am franky terrified of how well engineered this video is into being accurate and true as fk.

The real takeaway here is that they will let you know. Unless you need to know right now, just wait, they will strategically remind you.

- Yours Truly, a Physics and EE Major

P.S. Math majors are a different breed and are out of the scope of this video 💯. Idk how they stay so humble.

My dad was a physics major in undergrad and studied electrical engineering in grad school. Thank God he didn’t turn out like this 🤣

Hahahaha for theoretical h = c = k_b = 1

how to distinguish between physicist or mathematician?

Well, I just discovered i’m a physics major and not mechanical engineering

I literally used these tests, and found that I am a Phyics major..... (delayed comment by 4years)

Meanwhile Chemistry majors : 💀

Great, now I need friends

You only have to ask about imaginary numbers. Engineers are more likely to use “j”. Physicist use “i’. Of course, an arbitrary Cartesian vector set is often also i, j, k, but if they’re being rigorous, they will say i-hat, j-hat, k-hat.