How To Tell If Someone Is A Physics/Engineering Student

Are you worried that your friend might be a physics or engineering student? Here's how to find out.

[prae]

It seems the symptoms of math majors were left as an exercise to the audience

[marcosceles]

First of all, I'm an engineering student. Secondly, I'm offended with the comments saying that we always tell people we are engineering students.

[nick_ca]

"Inches per millisecond"

Dog my nose is bleeding

[mrahzzz]

Oh my god. The "Trust me, I answered quickly" just put me in a rage. I have a classmate who always tries to help me/anyone (whether his help is requested or not), and I never trust him because he *always* answers things immediately and confidently, regardless of if he knows or not. This video made me remember that he did engineering in his undergrad. It all makes sense now. The test works.

[rome]

" A math student is a very docile and passive breed until agitated through overconfidence in one's own level of rigor. That's when they are the most dangerous "

[TheRealCharlieSuper]

Meanwhile, an IT student, when asked a question about an issue, "Have you turned it off and back on again?"

[aaron]

As an engineering student, I will get heavily annoyed if you confront me with inches.

[spockw.]

How to tell if someone's a physics student: They say "beyond the scope of...." in average conversation

[joshelguapo]

Mathematician: pi can not be expressed as a fraction

Physicists: π/1

[bma]

A physicist, an engineer and a mathematician each enter a room containing a bucket of water, and a garbage can that is burning.

The physicist looks at the fire then looks at the bucket of water. Pulls out a sheet of paper and calculates the exact amount of water required to put the fire out, carefully measures it from the bucket and dumps it on the fire with not a drop wasted.

The engineer enters the room looks at the fire then looks at the bucket, grabs the bucket and dumps it on the fire and puts it out.

The mathematician enters the room, looks at the fire, then looks at the bucket. then looks at the fire again, and looks at the bucket again. He puts his arms in the air and yells “A SOLUTION EXISTS!!” and walks out of the room.

[geitekop]

Kid from Rome: 'Mom, can we have pi?
Mom: 'We have pi at home.'
Pi at home: 22/7

[linuxgaminginfullhdfps]

I have a much simpler test:
"What is Lagrange equation"
Physicist: "Something one might use instead of Newtons laws in classical mechanics".
Mathematician: "Are you talking about the first or the second kind?"
Engineer: "An equation no one uses in real world problems."

[leirumf]

How to spot a mathematician:
Step 1) say out loud "sin(x)=x"
Step 2) see if the subject is furious. If not, then the subject is an engineer or a physicist.

[aequanimus]

Bonus: Ask them to write down Euler's identity, If you see a j, you have an electrical/computer engineer on your hands.

[iammaxhailme]

As a Chemistry student (well, I was like 8 years ago), the way you can find us is that we keep popping up unexpectedly and talking about how we're just as good as physics students, honest!

[pheladidikgale]

Me (an engineering student) watching this to procrastinate: 😂

[stcomment]

Ask them for an equation.

The engineering student will just Google it
The physics student will have t memorized or try to derive it

[thebrd]

After graduation, the test is easier. Does he have money? Yes = engineer.

[MrDanielUchiha]

Engineer: lets assume pi = e = 3 and g = 10 m/s² and it will do it fine
Physics: let's assume a cow is a sphere of radius r and let's apply a Taylor series to see an approximation of this certain quantity
Maths: wait you can't do this wtf where's the RIGOR

[storyspren]

"in/ms" might be the only case where torture can successfully draw information from the subject