How Science Got Sound Wrong

At Virginia my Aerospace Engineering program like any school included mucho physics, theoretical physics, statistical thermodynamics, mucho math, chemistry, theoretical propulsion, fluid dynamics (physics), statics and dynamics (uh, physics), nuclear engineering (physics), indeterminate structures, and many other courses.

At the University of Toronto, many of the Engineering disciplines like Electrical and Computer, Biomedical, Aerospace, and Engineering Physics were split out from some of the more "traditional" engineering disciplines into a sub-Department called Engineering Science.


This is the background on Engineering Physics, which is specifically administered within the Department of Engineering Science, in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

"The Department of Physics at the University of Toronto, together with the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, created the Engineering Physics program in 1934 (called Engineering Science since 1965). The Physics Major continues to attract students with a keen aptitude for physics who see the creative potential for combining this with an engineering degree. Graduates appreciate the high degree of flexibility provided to them in terms of the design of their program across a wide spectrum of theoretical and experimental physics courses."

As far as I know they don’t teach this in Engineering school. “If you consider the short answer as a kind of joke the answer to what is relativity is that formerly it was believed that if all material things disappeared out of the universe time and space would be all that was left. But according to relativity theory time and space would disappear along with the things.” A. Einstein

*blink*  I trust y'all had a pleasant Thanksgiving....since there isn't any posts 11/28...*gentle needling*

Space/time, relatively speaking, geo...now they're postulating a quantum universe, where nothing is as it seems, if I've managed to get a vague handle on it....;)

Figures....If nothing makes any sense, it all starts to make sense.

Now all I have to do is to take some semblance of comfort in that. *S*

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The basis of most of the elements of an Aerospace Engineering curriculum lies in 🔜theoretical physics 🔚 such as fluid dynamics for aerodynamics or the equations of motion for flight dynamics. There is also a strong element of empirical science as in wind tunnel testing and rocketry. 🚀