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What is physics? well, you're probably not going to get the same answer depending on who you talk to.
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And you're welcome to come up with your own thoughts about what physics is as you study it this year.
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But i think of physics as a fundamental physical science.
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You might say, well, there are lots of fundamental physical sciences.
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What about chemistry? what about meteorology? what about geology? yes, those will also fall in this rubric.
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And so what are some of the characteristics of what makes a person a physicist or identify as one? typically, physicists are interested in the most simple explanation or law for why something behaves the way it does.
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So you've probably heard of the joke about the spherical cow.
01:06
Well, that was someone making fun of a physicist, that you can take a complex object and make a simple model.
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So physicists are interested in basic laws that can be written mathematically.
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They are interested in modeling systems.
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Using these basic laws.
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Okay, so that kind of puts them in their own category.
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And, of course, there will be overlap with things like chemistry and meteorology.
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And that may be a good way to distinguish...