I was a Chemistry Major, or at least started out as one, 40 years ago.
Actually I was Pre Med, had enjoyed Chemistry in HS,, and didn’t realize that there so much damn Math and Physics required for the Undergraduate Major. Before I bailed on the Major I was trying to buff my Physics Credit Requirement with a 4 hour, 1 Credit Physics class that was titled something like the Physics of Music reproduction. To this day it is the Science Course that I remember the most. We examined how turn tables need to work, from tangential tracking to the physics of a stylus riding in a groove, the differences between mono and stereo cartridges, the principles of electricity and magnetism and how cartridges needed to generate electrical signals and how speakers take that analog signal and produce sound, and a few other topics. It was amazing to me how much more I gave a damn about these concepts when they were applied to something important than just learning about them in the abstract to pass a test
Actually I was Pre Med, had enjoyed Chemistry in HS,, and didn’t realize that there so much damn Math and Physics required for the Undergraduate Major. Before I bailed on the Major I was trying to buff my Physics Credit Requirement with a 4 hour, 1 Credit Physics class that was titled something like the Physics of Music reproduction. To this day it is the Science Course that I remember the most. We examined how turn tables need to work, from tangential tracking to the physics of a stylus riding in a groove, the differences between mono and stereo cartridges, the principles of electricity and magnetism and how cartridges needed to generate electrical signals and how speakers take that analog signal and produce sound, and a few other topics. It was amazing to me how much more I gave a damn about these concepts when they were applied to something important than just learning about them in the abstract to pass a test