• Question: What captivated you into becoming a physicist?

    Asked by 378prdn24 to Chris, Holly, Lyd, Mark, Michael on 13 Nov 2015.
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      Mark Dougherty answered on 13 Nov 2015:

      We are all engineers but there a loads of aspects of physics that we deal with everyday.

      For example, I make beans for Heinz and everyday we have to cook millions of cans to make sure they are safe to eat. We have to understand heat transfer (especially convection and conduction) in order to design machines that make our beans hot enough!

      Physics is everywhere, especially in engineering!

    • Photo: Michael Sulu

      Michael Sulu answered on 20 Nov 2015:

      I am nowhere near smart enough to become a physicist but I do like physics . Process engineering has a lot of physics in it, mostly how heat moves and fluids flow, they are all very important things to know if you want to be an engineer.

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