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> Think physics vs mechanics, or biology vs medicine, or theory vs practice. Nobody will expect a physicist to fix their cars, or a biologist to cure their sickness. Nobody studies physics to work as a mechanics.

Now, but you can't get into medical school without taking organic chemistry, etc, and you generally can't practice as a mechanical engineer without taking several courses in physics, structural mechanics, and a math sequence up through differential equations.




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