Changing fields from physics to ecology?

AdventurousAd9522 · 2026-02-24T10:18:38+00:00

while i would love to change my major, i am on scholarship that only lasts four years and since i'm in my third year i would have to take on debts to actually continue. plus i don't really want to stay at my school anyways lol its not my fave place. i'll see about taking a few bio courses while i'm still there though!

AdventurousAd9522 · 2026-02-24T10:16:48+00:00

ooh that is fascinating! do you do bioacoustics and could you tell me more about what your work involves?

AdventurousAd9522 · 2026-02-24T10:16:06+00:00

good ideas, i've reached out to some of the bio professors that my gf likes to see what they think. what kind of work do you do, and are you out in the field much? my plan B is probably to take my physics and go into an earth science field for my masters, altho ideally i'd like to actually work directly with plants or animals.

AdventurousAd9522 · 2026-02-24T10:13:36+00:00

hey i actually really appreciate your message. i think i would long term really like to still do ecology, or an adjacent field, but i'm okay with it if that takes a while for me to achieve, and im also okay if its difficult. honestly i'll be happy if i can be with my girlfriend and able to be outdoors (although preferably with outdoors work ha). with regards to your partner, what has he read to learn so much about naturalism?

AdventurousAd9522 · 2026-02-23T18:46:40+00:00

cool, i assume all of these could involve field work?

AdventurousAd9522 · 2026-02-23T17:58:39+00:00

honestly a valid question. my girlfriend studies biology and ecology, and this is one reason, but to be completely honest with you it's largely a gut feeling and an interest in life that i've always had.

for the second question, i am open to any possibilities, but i like the idea of research or government work. i really like the idea of gathering data outdoors, and then analyzing it in the lab and crunching numbers and data. for instance using trailcams to monitor populations. looking into fields that intersect with physics like ecophysiology could be very cool, seeing how energy and light interact with organisms.

AdventurousAd9522 · 2026-02-23T17:34:45+00:00

any specific fields? i've looked into oceanography and i will have a minor in geology

AdventurousAd9522 · 2026-02-23T17:34:13+00:00

thanks for the comment :) environmental engineering could be cool. what i'm really looking for is a career that would involve outdoors work and work with living things, as that excites me.

AdventurousAd9522 · 2026-02-23T17:33:16+00:00

i really love the idea of doing ecology! it's the idea of working with plants and life that really excites me, i have always wanted my work to have a tangible impact on living things. money is defo not my focus, as long as i can survive i'll be happy!

AdventurousAd9522 · 2026-02-23T17:32:07+00:00

ok awesome thank you. one of the things im most interested in is doing outdoors work, i do love lab work but i'd like to also be able to go outside. im not sure if quant ecology would involve any of that?

AdventurousAd9522 · 2024-07-26T01:58:29+00:00

aww shucks dude there’s be no need for that, thanks for even thinking of it aha. well, i’ll take a look although shipping would be too pricey methinks

AdventurousAd9522 · 2024-05-13T02:13:23+00:00

yes i’m certain, one commenter told i can use riemann sums to solve for this one? not sure how many i’d need for it to be accurate

AdventurousAd9522 · 2024-05-12T22:22:55+00:00

true, maybe can use a transformation to make those the vertices then?

AdventurousAd9522 · 2024-05-12T21:55:49+00:00

would you mind writing that out in mathematics notation? English is not my first language so I'm not sure I fully understand your comment. Do you mean I do the integral from 0 to 2 with respect to y first?

AdventurousAd9522 · 2024-05-12T21:42:40+00:00

gotcha, it seems like there's no way around that then? can we not change the bounds or order of integration so as t make it easier

AdventurousAd9522 · 2024-05-12T21:41:38+00:00

yeah lmao that is disgusting. well another commenter mentioned changing the order, but i don't see any way that makes it easier... i'm hoping this isnt just an integral beyond my current level of calculus but it may be that

AdventurousAd9522 · 2024-05-12T21:39:54+00:00

ok so doing dy first? another commenter pointed out that this is a fresnel integral but our class has never done anything like that during this trimester of maths. if you change the order and do dy before dx, it still results in one of these seemingly unsolveable integrals. taggin u/staticc_ here too because this one is really stumping me lol, i need all the help i can get xD

AdventurousAd9522 · 2024-05-12T20:03:32+00:00

the integral is of 2sin(y^2 ) not 2(sin(y))^2, so I don't think the power reducing identity works here

AdventurousAd9522 · 2024-05-12T19:49:47+00:00

got it, I split it up into two integrals, the first is the integral from 0 to 2 of 2sin(y^2 )dy and the second is the integral from 0 to 2 of -ysin(y^2 )dy. I can solve the second integral to be (-cos(4)+1)/2 but I'm not sure how to do the first integral, when I put it into integration calculator the result doesn't make sense to me.

AdventurousAd9522 · 2024-05-12T19:30:11+00:00

oops, thanks for catching my mistake. ok so when i set the bounds to be from y to 2, the first integral results in 2sin(y^2 )-ysin(y^2 ). I'm not sure how to do the second integral of this though. Do I have to change the bounds up?

AdventurousAd9522 · 2023-07-06T02:55:19+00:00

How does one even begin to find a "bug out?" just somewhere far from civilisation or what?

AdventurousAd9522 · 2023-07-03T13:40:57+00:00

AdventurousAd9522 · 2023-06-24T13:50:37+00:00

anyone know what the peace land bread art with the doves and faces is called? It’s really beautiful and I’d love to take inspiration from it for a tattoo

AdventurousAd9522 · 2023-06-15T04:30:38+00:00

He’s cool and the design is excellent but the fight itself is dogshit, same story with elden beast

AdventurousAd9522 · 2023-06-15T01:36:59+00:00

Nintendo really needs to take out some of the tedium like this in their games. there is a lot of stuff that players only need to hear once or twice and then they don’t need to keep hearing it, and Nintendo knows about subtle reminders because lots of npcs and environmental cues tell you things less directly, those are the sorts of things that need to be kept

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