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Theoretical Physics

Fallen Seraph · 2006-04-30 10:03:46

Anyone here doing the trinity theoretical physics course? What do you think of it and what do you think of the lecturers you have for it? Thanks.

30-04-2006 10:03am

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Fallen Seraph

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Anyone here doing the trinity theoretical physics course? What do you think of it and what do you think of the lecturers you have for it?

Thanks.

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#2 30-04-2006 11:03am

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there is a few here doing it....

but have you searched this board for other threads on the topic
e.g.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=297198

...at the end of the day its close on impossible to describe TP to someone who hasn't done uni physics or maths properly imo. Its just not like anything done in the LC...

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#3 30-04-2006 12:56pm

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Nietzschean wrote:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=297198

Heheh I just read one of my posts on that there, it's quite inaccurate in light of recent experience. Edited accordingly

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#4 02-05-2006 9:22am

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Nietzschean wrote:

...at the end of the day its close on impossible to describe TP to someone who hasn't done uni physics or maths properly imo. Its just not like anything done in the LC...

This is spot on. I started my first year (this year) in t.p. having been told that i would have to really (really!) love maths to do t.p. and that it was nothing like L.C. Couldn't be closer to the truth. The maths is abstract and nothing at all like leaving cert maths. The physics is in far more detail than the LC.

It's a difficult course but what's more is the amount of study that you will have to be put in. Obviously every degree requires a lot of hours, but a course such as TP needs that extra amount.

Not that it isn't a good course. If you really like physics i'd say it's a fantastic degree, i just wouldn't trick yourself into thinking you like it more that you do....like i did!

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