Katowice, Poland

Physics

Fizyka

Bachelor's
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Physics at UŚ

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: physical science, environment
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: us.edu.pl/en

Test: check whether Physics is the right major for you!

Fizyka test

Test: check whether Physics is the right major for you!

1. Do you enjoy understanding the fundamental laws that govern how the universe behaves?

2. Are you comfortable with abstract mathematical reasoning and manipulating equations?

3. Do you like designing, running, and interpreting experiments to test hypotheses?

4. Are you persistent in solving complex, multi-step problems even when they take time?

5. Do you enjoy using computers or simulations to model physical systems?

6. Are you curious about phenomena beyond everyday experience (quantum, relativity, cosmology)?

7. Do you enjoy explaining technical concepts clearly to others or working in study groups?

8. Are you willing to engage deeply with derivations, proofs, and rigorous justification rather than just memorizing facts?

9. Do you enjoy connecting different areas of science and seeing how they fit into a coherent picture?

10. Are you excited by the idea of contributing to discovery or innovation, even if the payoff is long-term?

Definitions and quotes

Physics
Physics (from Ancient Greek: φυσική (ἐπιστήμη), translit. physikḗ (epistḗmē), lit. 'knowledge of nature', from φύσις phýsis "nature") is the natural science that studies matter and its motion and behavior through space and time and that studies the related entities of energy and force. Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, and its main goal is to understand how the universe behaves.
Physics
Physics and philosophy are at most a few thousand years old, but probably have lives of thousands of millions of years stretching away in front of them. They are only just beginning to get under way.
James Jeans (1942) Physics and Philosophy, p. 217.
Physics
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...
Albert Einstein, Mein Weltbild (1931)
Physics
"If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'"
N. David Mermin, What's Wrong with this Pillow?, Physics Today, April 1989, page 9, doi:10.1063/1.2810963
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