How to be a "Successful" Physics Major (Skit)

Dr. Bill Belichegg shares some insight on how to be the best physics major!
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0:00 Intro
0:46 Intellectual Dominance
2:18 Interdepartmental Dominance
2:57 Checking Your Work
3:05 Time Management
5:03 Mastering Physics
5:39 Thoughtful Answers

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

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[@genghisgalahad8465]

...performance anxiety?

[@masternobody1896]

I finally can master physics and become einstein. thanks

[@zeegamingpotato1097]

checking my work 100%

[@tedlis517]

Remember STEM majors: The limit as GPA goes to zero, Major goes to Business.

[@mpilomotheo8381]

Ted Lis' Theorem 🖋

[@KevinS47]

The fundamental theorem of STEM Majors right

[@satrickptar6265]

That'll be my go-to plan once I've failed my chem major.

[@samuelwhitlock9567]

Dude this killed me lmfao

[@sarthakvarshney7784]

As a hopeful consultant this hits me good 🥲

[@MrGaugeBoson]

I always feel extremely dumb when I’m around my fellow physics students. It’s only when I exit the physics bubble that I become aware all the breakdowns and sleepless nights from studying were worth something after all…

[@thelamergamer1894]

@@dijkstra4678 A little arrogant, but he got the spirit.

[@civic2980]

I feel this about to finish up my 300 level classes. Modern Physics.....on to quantum next semester. Ive broken down , had the sleepless nights, cryed over not understanding you name it.

[@maureendotson4634]

Yeah - you brought Pokémon cards to a poker tournament! I still have your Pokémon book. 😂. Great video Drew! Love ya, Mom 💕

[@s17034]

Mother Andrew!

[@maureendotson4634]

@@s17034 Hi Ben!

[@fritzahern1380]

“Mom I told you not to comment on my videos”

[@maureendotson4634]

@@fritzahern1380 😂😂

[@56jatinkumar2]

Best line 😂

[@noelshaback7191]

This is my first year as a physics major. Literally every single time I tell someone Im taking physics I got that shocked response.

[@donnymcjonny6531]

U mUsT bE rEaLlY sMaRt 🤓

[@noelshaback7191]

@@donnymcjonny6531 “Im not”

[@aadhuu]

@@noelshaback7191 same here bro😂😂 I am a first year student too. And we also have Computer Science and Mathematics as othee core subjects at our college. So people think I have 200 Iq 😂😂😂😂

[@ezranwobodo4912]

Literally the same as a maths student lol

[@parkermoss6378]

when I tell people I'm double majoring in math and physics they don't respond, they just leave

[@evan9199]

"Tastefully plagiarized" has me dead because that's exactly the description of all my 300 level physics homeworks

[@PMA65537]

Is that better or worse than getting everyone to buy your book and then teaching exactly that in class? (You know who you are, Robertson.)

[@relariistheparadox221]

"what do you do when you have to actually do Physics?" This hit harder than I wish it did. The answer, more often than not it seems, is read another math book to learn how to do the generalized version of some integral you'll never see again. Or at least, that's what the solution manuals always seem to all imply

[@yds6268]

These days you can just use Mathematica or Maple or something and focus completely on the physics instead of maths

[@ultimateman55]

@@yds6268 Damn, too bad I got my degree 16 years ago. Those websites sound helpful.

[@relariistheparadox221]

@@yds6268 I wish. The number of times I've seen "steps for this problem are not supported" is too damn high

[@yds6268]

@@relariistheparadox221 I meant Mathematica as in software, not Wolfram alpha. And why would anyone need steps? The answer is enough. We are talking actual physics, not homework assignments xD Nobody would ask you for steps on how to solve some integral, as long as your final formula works and agrees with the numerical result. Physicists should be doing physics, not maths, that's what I meant.

[@Mr35diamonds]

@@yds6268 Agree with you. Mathematica is so useful for strange integrals (especially in higher E&M). Of course the steps don’t matter since the physics has already been done (getting to the integral in the first place), the next part, albeit tedious, is just bookwork.

[@LaurenAnne6]

This was perfect. "Your classes go from 150 students to 10."

[@ty6339]

Applications of exponential functions: the number of the students taking a class

[@LaurenAnne6]

@@ty6339 🤣🤣🤣

[@camronalley4483]

Our first phys courses has a notoriously high dropout rate + a large cohort of engineers; so from the first first year class to the first second year class we went from ~400 to ~20

[@spongmoid842]

literally what happened after the first year here

[@Mr35diamonds]

I feel like about 3 years ago, we all watched your videos because we were entering uni to study physics soon. Now we’re all 3rd year 4th years 😂😂

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

So grown up :')

[@shalinibisht6955]

That's so true.

[@Choose52]

Ugh it’s so true. Junior year hits hard, all better with Andrew’s vids tho.

[@rikthecuber]

Meanwhile me still in High School: *Sad noises*

[@coviidd1911]

for real!

[@josecordova32]

Chegg needs to be a channel sponsor after that smooth pun.

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Lol they've reached out.

[@ivantamayoromero1668]

I get their ads after watching your videos. Got it on this one. They follow me for weeks at a time after I watch one of your vids. Not even in steam... 🤣

[@brady1123]

Your comedic timing/cadence in this video is perfect.

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Thanks a lot!

[@saullandaverde8143]

I almost had a stroke when I heard the words “mastering physics”

[@mathmusicandlooks]

This man truly is genius. I’m a new physics grad student (UNM, not far from you, Andrew), but this video accurately described my undergrad experience to at least 7σ

[@mohammadtarshihi364]

Well, less than a year until I finally become a physics major. Will most def use this daily when the time comes. Thanks Andrew

[@debomb9578]

dude me too walter white from breaking bad

[@davidwang469]

Remember, g is always to the left

[@kyranstoecklin726]

@@davidwang469 and L = mc^2 -1/2 mgv^2

[@marsp2691]

Always remember mass is a vector and velocity isn’t

[@coreydowns5947]

Remember that conservation of momentum and energy doesnt matter that much, it all goes somewhere so you can kind of just do what you want

[@mastershooter64]

I can't figure out whether this is actual advice or a joke video, maybe it's a super position of both states

[@wenhanzhou5826]

It collapses to one of the options once you've watched it 😉

[@silencephyxion7423]

Chad levels of flex is acheived when you watch a movie and ruin it for everyone by pointing out all the flaws and explaining how that "QuAnTuM rEaLm" thingy is bullshit (looking at you, Marvel).

[@mathmusicandlooks]

Ant Man: butchering the world’s ideas of what quantum physics is about, when they can’t even figure out how classical density works.

[@chaeairsoft]

You mean Tony throwing out the term “eigenvalues” doesn’t help solve time travel?

[@samilamby]

Ah yes, the face you get when you tell people you're studying astrophysics is pretty great - and it's especially fun to tell the first year med sci students that have to take physics (something I do on the reg, as I run a physics help center)

[@Mr35diamonds]

What about plasma physics

[@LeoStaley]

My ancient Greek Professor started off at Harvard studying astrophysics, but then he switched to Classical studies when he realized that the Classics people were so much more fun. Much better alcoholics studying ancient history than stars.

[@Mr35diamonds]

@@LeoStaley The reality is that people think astrophysicists stay in the observatories all day looking through a telescope, what they really do is look at signals and data, and running codes all day.

[@PMA65537]

While looking for books on medical physics (thought I'd want a job after graduation) I found a book on physics for people in medicine. It had a lot on x-ray machines and why they need 3-phase currents. It also had a prominent sidebar that a blown fuse must be replaced with the correct fuse and not a nail.

[@aghosh5447]

@@PMA65537 whose thw author of the book?(physics for people in medicine)

[@thomasmcentire513]

I'm in the honors physics 1 class for my school, and we're doing Harvard's curriculum for that class, and I 100% flex on everyone else about it.

[@Rupadarshi-Ray]

😂🔥👍

[@kingplunger6033]

like right now

[@stevenjames5874]

Inb4 classical dynamics shows you that no physics one means anything

[@PapaFlammy69]

Don't study physics in the first place ngl

[@S-Dual]

You’re just too weak for Taylor Series

[@Mr35diamonds]

Wanted to cry when I took a proofs course… I cannot with graph theory and discrete maths, never again.

[@mudkip_btw]

Nerd

[@mastershooter64]

@@S-Dual padé approximants are better than taylor series

[@Dany715gd]

Reject physics, go back to maths

[@bfish89ryuhayabusa]

"What if you actually have to do physics?" Like in climate physics, when we were calculating droplet growth by exsolution, only to realize the equation has a symbol that was never defined in our notes. Every attempt to math away the symbol results in the equation collapsing into 1=1, and eventually we concluded that, since the extra condition was terminal velocity, it was technically rainfall, and wouldn't be growing by that method.

[@rk99688]

When someone asks what you are studying "Well! I am doing theoretical quantum nuclear classical astrophysics with a minor in general relativity. You can say I am somewhat of a scientist"

[@camronalley4483]

2 weeks away from finishing my bachelors, and Andrew is still helping me procrastinate 😂

[@prithvir355]

Ah yes, the Dotson that made me subscribe is back

[@stt5v2002]

Spot on. Have you seen the “What is momentum” video by eigenchris? If not, you could branch into reaction videos with it.

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Yeah that videos hilarious

[@pipertripp]

that one is so choice, along with his crash course in Topology.

[@fkk1002]

I'm a playlist lurker. I watch it before it is published.

[@jasmeetsingh6197]

watch it before its created. checkmate

[@fictitiousforce9048]

Incredible

[@MostPixel]

That sponsor transition was smooth!

[@Aaron-wy9nb]

"Bill Belichegg" made me laugh just from the thumbnail. I'm going to have to use that one

[@marcag9810]

I started my PhD in cosmology two months ago, I went from thinking I'm a big fish to having a terrible impostor syndrome (still hopeful that it really is impostor syndrome and not actual mediocrity). It would be fun if you made a video about that abrupt change in self-perception that seems to be quite common.

[@silencephyxion7423]

I get that feeling alot (I've really only had may 10 lectures in person over my 2 years at university so far), so alot of us have major doubt on our understanding when it comes to actually talking to the lecturers XD.

[@jeffersonldiniz]

Yes!! It is happening to me too, I started my PhD in Quantum Thermodynamics last month...

[@Tim_593]

Thats sus

[@fritzahern1380]

Imposters syndrome makes you think that so yes it’s imposter syndrome, head up kid.

[@spad1782]

Hey bro your're there for a reason, you put in the work and got in, you deserve to be there. You got this king.

[@TheDeltaboss]

I thought this was an advice video but I'll gladly take a shitpost too. Thanks for making Monday better!

[@broglemalemaster-race9764]

Yeah I remember everyone in my first university physics class always called it their “calculus based physics class” which it is, but I’m like “the class is called classical physics, so that’s what I’m calling it” Not to be confused with Classical Mechanics which is a nightmare in comparison. Side-note: I’ve seen a classical mechanics textbook that had an old car on the cover of it, and I like to imagine a car mechanic picking it up and opening it and being like “what in the absolute tarnation is this” lol

[@oscarstaszky1960]

YOOOO THAT'S MY CLASS MECH DADDY JOHN R. TAYLOR'S BOOK

[@broglemalemaster-race9764]

@@oscarstaszky1960 yeeyee

[@me4280]

@@oscarstaszky1960 that book got me to cry more than any movie, anime, story, or any other book in existence.

[@rkusuma6852]

@@me4280 same feeling I got from morin and kleppner kolenkow's classical mechanics book

[@ivantamayoromero1668]

That fact that I got a Chegg ad after the video made this all the better.

[@Smonserratm]

Thoughtful answers section was scary in its accuracy

[@denizergun8300]

Most people look at me as if something is wrong with me when I tell them I'm a physics major, but there also have been some pretty interesting cases. One was the person sitting next to me in calc 1. After I told her my major she said -with a shocked face- "What, so you like physics?" It wasn't a joke, she was very sincere in her question. I was like "uhmm, yeah I think so?"

[@aviphysics]

I always had enough homework that I could just procrastinate by doing the other homework.

[@umaoio312]

I started watching your channel later in high school, when I was convinced I was going to study math and physics...I'm a junior in college now and a CS major (math minor) but I still enjoy the videos 😀

[@CCequalPi]

Love the new steup and lighting style in the past 2 vids

[@DenarimEvoker]

I was *literally* working on my problem set due tomorrow, while playing OSRS, you got me there.

[@mousachmait40]

Love the new set up

[@meetghelani5222]

I love everything from this video, literally everything, i never enjoyed a sponsor integration in to the video as clean as this!

[@drumsNgames2112]

This is one of your best skit videos. Great job.

[@gauravagarwal8528]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="280">4:40</a> all those arxiv tabs!

[@musicwithin7179]

Being confident and very loud will get you surprisingly far in life, omg unfortunately kinda true 😩

[@mistertheguy3073]

This was amazing hahaha, love your content man

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Thanks!

[@brunocardin4935]

Man, I love your videos. Also, I'm fully represented by the first 40 seconds. I'm doing my undergrad thesis, and it's about solving the Einstein equations for a 2 elements fluid, one with charge and one neutral, and then anallyze it's stability.. but when I have to explain it I am like "It's a theoretical work on space time curvature generated by an electrically charged black hole" Lmao.

[@lthecatt9667]

I'm so happy that there is half a city between the campus I'm studying at and the science campus, I felt stupid within 10 minutes last time I was there

[@PMA65537]

I was a student when someone said to me "You're a scientist" .. I thought he'd seen me near the physical sciences building but he said he knew just by looking at me.

[@alexanderripa6069]

This is one of the best videos I have seen in a long time, good work! Also that damn intro was a personal attack Hahaha

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Thanks a lot!

[@jad1910]

My motivation may be a bit weird, I kept getting A's in college until I got a C in the University Intro-Physics course Cal-based, I was like nah this aint happening, I wasn't even satisfied when I got a B in Physics-II. I changed my major to Physics, and kept getting B's and B+'s, till the final semester I got an A. Then I was like what have I done !!! Now, I'm a Phd student in Nuclear Theory and i dont even know what I'm doing.

[@enthused_panda]

I couldn't be more happy. This is so good :D

[@SuperMaDBrothers]

What about asking the professor/your peers questions carefully wordsmithed so that you come off as smart even though you have no idea what you're talking about (which is the reason you're asking the question in the first place)

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Me: Is it gauge invariant? Prof: ...These are the kinematic equations...

[@SuperMaDBrothers]

@@AndrewDotsonvideos LMAO, nah they wouldn’t say that they’d just tell you how Berrys phase can be gauge invariant and describe a kinematic particle or something totally unrelated, then you smile and nod and pretend you got everything 😂😂

[@soumyaprakash3569]

I just got offer letter from India's best college for physics major And this notification popped up !

[@maureendotson4634]

Congratulations 🎊!

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Ay congrats!

[@soumyaprakash3569]

@@AndrewDotsonvideos Thanks Man ! I am really excited to start my undergrad .... 🤘

[@soumyaprakash3569]

@@maureendotson4634 Thanks 🥳 !

[@soumyaprakash3569]

@@nihilisticboi3520 IISc Bengaluru

[@zaidouardi7901]

I like it when a youtuber's content becomes better and professional (no offense) it's a phase.

[@harryroberts166]

Thanks for all the tips. Only in my 5th week of my degree so I'm sure this will all come in handy.

[@cardboardmannequin4069]

Remember to flex on the business majors whenever the chance arises

[@litovillar6027]

I can’t believe this is a new video. I thought I’m looking at the previous video from 2013.❤️

[@andreareinhardsdottir5275]

Nice upgraded setup!!

[@irrationallymadphysicist6945]

physicist's physics: calc-based engineering physics: calc-cringe

[@idkdude111]

"g is always negative except for when it isn't" I'm fuckin dead 💀

[@susanreilley5634]

Way to go Billy

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Thanks aunt sue!

[@farfa2937]

Reminded me of that time I had to balance chemical equations in a test and had no time so I just put random numbers that made no sense to see if the professor would actually read that. Got a 10.

[@wisteria2890]

I'm a double major in physics and chemistry. Physics is the most relaxing and fun class I've ever taken and I wish more people would give it a try .

[@metis9692]

"relaxing" ...

[@razorsharp1371]

@@metis9692 I mean compared to chemistry...

[@kingjay9666]

As a already struggling freshman physics major who won’t give up, this feels good😭

[@MasterCivilEngineering]

Amazing video👍👍👍

[@yogeshlagariya6039]

I wish someone make this type of videos about mathematics.

[@wenhanzhou5826]

This is exactly what I need!

[@TheEmeraldKidRE]

I can 9000% confirm this is true - especially the first half about entitlement and such in undergrad as it is exactly how I was haha.

[@mr.inhuman7932]

I missed these videos!

[@tranquil5892]

x gets cosine and y gets sine is what I owe my mechanical engineering degree to. I can do all the calculus/Diff Eq's/matrices, but if I'm calculating forces on an object that is the only way to calculate the components, I'm convinced.

[@mayendeng5164]

We need more

[@natereinhardt8245]

Absolute gold 💯

[@lebiquo8501]

that was the best transition into an ad i´ve ever seen

[@lebiquo8501]

oh and i enjoyed the video

[@luminousblue1539]

love ur mic

[@thegreatmohau288]

Nice one bro. Majoring in Physics and Mathematics in two months time 📚.

[@abhishekkp7121]

Andrew's back yoooo

[@lukemchugh719]

Reject Physics embrace Maths. Physics is just abstract engineering, while math is just math.

[@oscarstaszky1960]

SILENCE, INFIDEL

[@ashtynh719]

I’m a first year and I’ve never watched something so true in all my life 😂 especially the hw bs

[@Harmonic982]

This is fantastic

[@GurkiratSingh-ds8dq]

Last time I was this early, Hydrogen wasn't a thing

[@katg-gk5ox]

This was hilarious! Thank you!

[@Speak4Yourself2]

Thanks a lot! It is true that all EE majors rever the Physics Majors as a higher life form.

[@nameothername6939]

DO MORE SKITS

[@Isometrix116]

Somehow, at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="344">5:44</a>, you put up 3 of the 4 physics classes I’m taking this semester. The only other one is optics, which I am procrastinating studying for by watching this video :)

[@yenyelinito]

This man is just getting better and better at his sponsor transitions

[@T3WI]

I get through it by snorting adderall off of a Griffiths E&M textbook

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Talk about a line charge

[@siamsama2581]

Ay you're back

[@BlackThoughts0]

the oceanography jab really hurt looooool

[@seleniumwizard305]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="15">0:15</a> I didn't think Physicists could read facial cues!

[@zartadavid2900]

I love that you had to put calc base under quantum 🤣

[@caiarcosbotias1710]

They asked me if I had a degree in theoretical physics. I told them I had a theoretical degree in physics

[@aryansudan2239]

Man tbh I'm able to solve problems quite easily but there is no curiosity to learn more about the subject. After every lecture im like 'Cool Story Bro' and study a few days before the exam. What really excites me is the mathematics. Loved studying Linear Algrebra for QM and Vector Calc for electrodynamics

[@MashaMusthafa123]

Bill Belichegg...perfect name

[@simonnylund5420]

Also, make sure to nod during class and act as though you follow, even though you're actually still on the material from three weeks ago and have no clue what is going on. That way, everyone will think you're super smart. If you do raise your hand ask for clarification by the lecturer, make sure to act as though you totally understood their response, even though you didn't.

[@whalep]

My man Andrew has got to have 2200+ total with that few people at the GE

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

2102:/

[@whalep]

@@AndrewDotsonvideos Gotta pump those numbers up! 2277 by next week, let's go

[@chrisdenison3273]

The Runescape segue made me smile, good to see someone else isn't wasting xp doing... physics problems.

[@really-quite-exhausted]

I'm gonna cry he really came straight for the jugular

[@thetrends5670]

My whole class watched this video, I need a special secret <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="61">1:1</a> Skit to stay on top in class

[@MAgisAWESOME]

I currently have 4 assignments every week in SR, QM 1, PDE's and E&M, time management has still not improved and I am drowning in work. Pls help... PRO-TIP: TA's are as pressed for time as you are, as long as you 'show' how the equation they provided is 'derived', full marks are awarded.

[@edidiongedemeka2096]

This video is legendary

[@FisicoNuclearCuantico]

'NFD' stands for "Nuclear Fusion Devices", which is short for "Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Nuclear Fusion Devices", a company I am CEO and Research Scientist at. I had no idea.

[@asad210]

As a double major in physics and math, I'm in a superposition of both validated and offended.

[@mousachmait40]

I haven’t laughed this much in a while

[@vrejgrikorian6903]

The last part was so accurate,LoL