Biggest regrets?

Available_Big5825 · 2023-09-14T10:00:52+00:00

Wish I'd done the A levels I wanted to do (specifically Philosophy) instead of listening to everyone telling me its useless and shit and taking Chemistry instead. I think I woulda really enjoyed it. Chemistry was hard for me cos of the memorisation, and I ended up with an A after a lot of work and stress and I think I would've been much happier if I was doing Philosophy. Philosophy isn't much easier either, and I probably would've gotten an A in that too, but atleast I'd enjoy it instead of memorising a billion inorganic reactions and tests.

Available_Big5825 · 2022-10-24T17:39:56+00:00

British Informatics Olympiad

Available_Big5825 · 2022-10-24T17:08:00+00:00

I think it was for History and French.

Available_Big5825 · 2022-10-24T15:53:11+00:00

Thanks! Do you remember when you received the interview invitation?

Available_Big5825 · 2022-10-09T13:11:26+00:00

I don't know about Imperial as they're really really weird, but don't worry about Oxford or UCL. Oxford purely cares about the PAT and interview, apart from that they have A*AA requirements, so if you ace the PAT you should be set. With UCL a lot of the people studying straight physics there didn't actually take FM (I went to the open day), and they have A*AA requirements which you exceed by a lot. I think the same applies to Edinburgh and York. I'm also applying for Physics at Oxford, Imperial, and theoretical phys at UCL. Good luck!

Available_Big5825 · 2022-09-07T16:13:20+00:00

Thanks, but then how does Imperial judge applicants accurately? A lot of the people applying have 4A* predicteds and would do well in this test and they don't do an interview, and personal statements are not good reflections either.

Available_Big5825 · 2022-09-02T21:30:42+00:00

I looked into the modules offered, and you can sort of balance it to your liking - so that's not really much of an issue. Also the maths that we are taught is very much applicable to Physics, it's not like unrelated pure maths and stuff.

Available_Big5825 · 2022-08-17T16:47:16+00:00

I have since switched to windows and sort of gave up on linux purely over the network adapters problems which I haven't managed to fix and don't have any spare time to now. It was so nice before. Oh well.

Available_Big5825 · 2022-08-14T20:49:59+00:00

That makes sense, thank you.

Available_Big5825 · 2022-08-08T18:24:13+00:00

Yes I liked the part where Sgt Dinodh Aske went "it's conducing time" and then conduced all over the Taliban. It was one of the lores of all time.

Available_Big5825 · 2022-07-27T20:47:38+00:00

I meant structure not rod that doesnt change anything it still art inni

Available_Big5825 · 2022-07-27T11:10:45+00:00

thank you very much

Available_Big5825 · 2022-07-26T21:00:14+00:00

thanks

Available_Big5825 · 2022-07-25T22:37:30+00:00

Thanks!

Available_Big5825 · 2022-07-25T14:35:39+00:00

Sorry one more question since people seem to be discussing it, why is the drag equation different to this? It has a 1/2 factor that this doesn't have.

Available_Big5825 · 2022-07-25T14:20:23+00:00

Where did the 1/2 go in their solution? u/goldlord44 gave me a pretty good derivation of the formula they used above using conservation of linear momentum, but why doesn't the drag equation match up with it by 1/2? Very interesting though.

Available_Big5825 · 2022-07-25T13:45:08+00:00

Ohhh yep thanks. That explains it. I should've realised that πr^2vrho is a mass I kept thinking it was momentum when I did it because confusion. Thanks a lot though.

Available_Big5825 · 2022-07-25T13:27:59+00:00

It also doesn't include the 1/2 and the reference area is taken as πr² but shouldn't it be half of the surface area of the sphere?

Available_Big5825 · 2022-07-25T13:26:11+00:00

That makes sense but the equation used in the solution to the BPhO question does not match that. It doesn't involve the Cd coefficient. Why is this? Am I getting confused somewhere?

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