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All You Engineers Out There, How Often do you Use all that Calculus and Physics you worked so hard learning?

exexec · 61-69, C
I used basic calculus almost daily, along with a lot of statistical analysis. I didn't do any calculations using physics, but I had to understand the physics behind what I was analyzing.
Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
Quite a bit actually but a lot of it is buried in the software now. I've been working in R&D lately. Figuring out how to make perfect mirrors. Turns out it's not too hard so long as you have ion beam assited deposition and some tantalum oxide laying around. Oh, and at high wavelengths gold is really no better than aluminum (Sorry JST). It's 64 times more expensive so you're better off just applying 500 nm of aluminum. So, the understanding of materials and their interaction with force, heat, magnetism, and light are just as , and maybe more important as/ than the tools of physics and calculus.
Turtlepower · 36-40, M
Quite a bit for physics, linear algebra is more useful than calculus in what I do though
pentacorn · F
both my parents were engineers. it didn't help me a bit, though, as i topped out at Alg 2

 
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