My ENTIRE Physics Degree in 19 Minutes (UChicago B.S. Astrophysics 2019)

After majoring in astrophysics at UChicago, I can say without a doubt that getting a physics degree is HARD lol. So to make it easier for you, I've distilled pretty much everything I've learned from my degree (the 19 classes that counted towards my physics major) in just 19 minutes. Hopefully, this video will give you a good amount of information about the torture you're about to endure (JUST KIDDING!) and give you insight into the major that you may not have had before.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Context
01:13 Year 1 (ugh intro stuff)
05:55 Year 2 (i did really bad + quantum)
10:38 Year 3 (astro and ALIENS and atom bombs)
16:00 Year 4 (predicting GALAXIES in space)
19:05 Thanks for watching!

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Welcome to my channel - College Tips From the Almost Astrophysicist! I'm Priya and I'm here to help you get into college. I'm a University of Chicago grad with an Astrophysics degree that currently works as a Data Scientist and I want to break down the college application process and tackle all of the misconceptions about college for you! Let me know in the comments section down below if you have any video requests, or just want to say hi! :)

[TheAlmostAstrophysicist]

I know we covered a lot - from intro physics to quantum to the atom bomb - but I really hope this video gave you an idea about what a Physics major entails and I wish you the best on your ~physics~ journey! Thank you so much for watching and don't forget to drop a hi or any questions you may have down below 😊 (timestamps in the description box!)

[jaychat]

I got off of work from a 13 hour shift being a meat cutter and watching this video made me wake up a few months back after that day and go to school. Now I’m going to school for Physics thx to you. You saved my life from poverty thank you

[srishtinagu]

Hey, I'm a PhD in particle physics (neutrino) and recently switched to data science. Your story is so much relatable to mine and made me believe that yes I did a right choice. Leaving physics after completing a PhD was defined difficult to accept but then it's better for future. All your experiences are so relatable. Nice video and great that you shared your thoughts and experiences so explicitly.

[desertsoldier]

Quantum mechanics will make you doubt your own existence. Stuff is there and not there until you observe it....poor cat.

[zfk]

I had the same experience 30 years ago when I went to college as a physics major. I have been teaching physics for the last 14 years and one of the things that I make sure that my students get an appreciation for is the achievements of the Greeks and Newton. I want them to make sure that they are not scratching the surface of the depths of Newton’s discoveries and methods in Mechanics. Now I absolutely love E&M, if I were to start college now knowing what I know, there is no doubt I would be an Electrical Engineer with a Physics and pure Math major background.

[vrundamacwan]

🥺🥺🥺 listening to you made me sooo inspired studying physics and astrophysics in the coming years❤️

[zeitgeist]

It's so great that young people can aspire successfully to their dreams. Once upon a time I had an astronomer's dream. Here now, years later, I sit amazed by your enthusiasm and success. I am comforted by the thought that there still are those minds who can and will carry the torch and light our path to knowledge.. thank you...

[CarlaJenkinsTV]

18:57 As someone who has taken high school physics, data science, calculus I - III and machine learning, I think that you can convert your senior presentation into a very cool video game! I lvoe your astrophysics recap!

[elmambru]

It is not only the courses. What physics give you is a comprehension of the world that surrounds you. With this basis you can go on anywhere

[Vosspolitics]

I thoroughly enjoyed this informative video. I am very jealous that you were able to accomplish this. I unfortunately am on disability and cannot afford the tuition necessary to attend a program like this. But from I have been able to teach myself, Quantum Mechanics is definitely my preferred field of research

[silverchairsg]

My physics major friend got utterly wrecked by physics. He graduated with 2nd lower honours and struggled with getting a proper perm full-time job for a few years after graduation, then he did a masters in data science and is now working in a hospital.

[kadensma]

I know this is two years later, but so excited to show this video to my rising senior son. You are going to get him so hyped to be focusing on this course of study.

[randallmcgrath]

Well Uchicago seems great for many majors, so happy to see you got to go there.

I will return to school at a community college and get into the best Physics or Engineering Physics programs I can.


But I have heard physics majors say how it also helped them with getting Data Science or Finance jobs. Physics and math forces one to imagine things in many classes which has carryover to many jobs and hobbies I think.

[roberttuttle]

My son is about to start a university studying astrophysics. Great preview of what he has ahead of him. I hope it goes well. Thanks for doing this video.

[starfyres]

as a physics lover im so happy watching this video!! i cannot wait to study physics in college 😭🙏🏾

[johndoyle]

Reposting and slight editing of recent mathematical ideas into one post:
Split-complex numbers relate to the diagonality (like how it's expressed on Anakin's lightsaber) of ring/cylindrical singularities and to why the 6 corner/cusp singularities in dark matter must alternate.
The so-called triplex numbers deal with how energy is transferred between particles and bodies and how an increase in energy also increases the apparent mass.
Dual numbers relate to Euler's Identity, where the thin mass is cancelling most of the attractive and repulsive forces. The imaginary number is mass in stable particles of any conformation. In Big Bounce physics, dual numbers relate to how the attractive and repulsive forces work together to turn the matter that we normally think of into dark matter.
The natural logarithm of the imaginary number is pi divided by 2 radians times i. This means that, at whatever point of stable matter other than at a singularity, the attractive or repulsive force being emitted is perpendicular to the "plane" of mass.
In Big Bounce physics, this corresponds to how particles "crystalize" into stacks where a central particle is greatly pressured to break/degenerate by another particle that is in front, another behind, another to the left, another to the right, another on top, and another below. Dark matter is formed quickly afterwards.
Mediants are important to understanding the Big Crunch side of a Big Bounce event. Matter has locked up, with particles surrounding and pressuring each other. The matter gets broken up into fractions of what it was and then gets added together to form the dark matter known from our Inflationary Epoch. Sectrices are inversely related, as they deal with all stable conformations of matter being broken up, not added like the implosive "shrapnel" of mediants.
Ford circles relate to mediants. Tangential circles, tethered to a line.
Sectrices: the families of curves deal with black holes. (The Fibonacci spiral deals with how dark matter is degenerated/broken up and with supernovae. The Golden spiral deals with how the normal matter, that we usually think of, degenerates, forming black holes.) The Archimedean spiral deals with dark matter spinning too fast and breaking into primordial black holes, smaller dark matter, and regular matter. The Dinostratus quadratrix deals with the laminar flow of dark matter being broken up by lingering black holes.
Delanges sectrices (family of curves): black holes have locked up during a Big Crunch and break each other up.
Ceva sectrices (family of curves): spun up dark matter breaks into primordial black holes and smaller, galactic-sized dark matter and other, typically thought of matter.
Maclaurin sectrices (family of curves): older, lingering black holes, late to the party, impact and break up dark matter into galaxies.
Dark matter, on the stellar scale, are broken up by supernovae. Our solar system was seeded with the heavier elements from a supernova.
I'm happily surprised to figure out sectrices. Trisectrices are another thing. More complex and I don't know if I have all the curves available to use in analyzing them. But, I can see Fibonacci and Golden spirals relating to the trisectrices.
The Clausen function of order 2: dark matter flakes off, impacting the Big Bang mass directly and shocking the opposite side, somewhat like concussions happen. While a spin on that central mass is exerted, all the spins from all the flaking dark matter largely cancel out. I suspect that primordial black holes are formed by this, as well. Those black holes and older black holes, that came late to the Big Bounce, work together to break up dark matter.
Belows method (similar to Sylvester's Link Fan) relates to Big Crunch breaking of black holes and for how dark matter uses its repulsive area to unstack, to flake off. Repetitious bisection relates to dark matter spinning so violently that it breaks, leaving smaller dark matter, primordial black holes, and other matter. Neusis construction relates to how dark matter is broken up near one of its singularities by an older black hole and to how black holes have their singularites sheared off during a Big Crunch.
General relativity: 8 shapes, as dictated by the equation? 4 general shapes, but with a variation of membranous or a filament? Dark matter mostly flat, with its 6 alternating corner/cusp edge singularities. Neutrons like if a balloon had two ends, for blowing it up. Protons with aligned singularities, and electrons with just a lone cylindrical singularity?
Prime numbers in polar coordinates: note the missing arms and the missing radials. Matter spiraling in, degenerating? Matter radiating out - the laminar flow of dark matter in an Inflationary Epoch? Connection to Big Bounce theory?
"Operation -- Annihilate!", from the first season of the original Star Trek: was that all about dark matter and the cosmic microwave background radiation? Anakin Skywalker connection?

[enthused_panda]

I'm majoring in Astrophysics rn and am a junior and am taking computational astrophysics. OMG I LOVE THAT CLASS SO MUCH TOO

[yichenc]

Hi Priya! Thank you so much for your videos - they are simpy sooo awesome and crazily comprehensive :P (btw I've just been admitted to UChicago and I plan to major in physics)

[blendaguedes]

Thank you for this video, very clear and love your personality on it. I believe we could be good friends 🙈.
While you were talking I felt jealous about your background, I’m also a data scientist but I have a computer science degree. I really love Astronomy, but I feel I have a huge gap, now I’m finishing my masters degree and my research is on the gravitational waves field, I really feel behind to understand everything.
Thank you again! New subscriber

[michelleobamafootcream]

Thanks for this video! I’m really interested in astrophysics, and I discovered that I’m pretty good at math and science in general. I’m also interested in going to UChicago, but I don’t think I’m smart enough to get in… I’m in my sophomore year, and my first choice is the Illinois institute of technology since it’s in Chicago, and it isn’t as selective.