• Question: what type of science do you study ? bioligy chemistry physics

    Asked by redd535muns6 on 15 Oct 2025. This question was also asked by rhus535muns6.
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      Caroline Roche answered on 15 Oct 2025:

      I studied in Ireland so I got to study all three for the equivalent GCSE level, before focusing on Chemistry and Physics at A-Levels. When I went to university, I studied physics which lead onto different areas of physics that included some chemistry lessons too.

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      John Easton answered on 15 Oct 2025:

      Although I work in IT, a lot of the interesting problems eventually end up in the physics space. Things like the speed of light are limits that I have to workaround (it’s not as fast as you think it is!) to come up with solutions to the problems that I’m asked to solve. Ironic really as I spent all my time at university studying Chemistry!

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      Luke Humphrey answered on 20 Nov 2025:

      My background is in physics, but I now work as a computational scientist in nuclear fusion energy research. There’s quite a lot of multi-disciplinary problems that combine experts from multiple niches. It’s often the interface between science models that proves the most challenging: how best to combine our understanding of things at multiple scales into a coherent predictive simulation.

      As an example, we might want to connect a micron scale simulation of neutron irradiation on a material (to the scale of modelling displacements in the material’s crystalline structure) to a large scale simulation of a full device that treats blocks of that material as a continuum. One way to do this is derive large scale material properties and engineering constants from the small scale models.

      BTW the obvious solution in the abstract is to model everything at the smallest scale we understand, and let larger scale effects emerge naturally, but that’s computationally unfeasible.

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    melissau commented on :

    When you apply to university to study to be a vet you need to have several science A levels – each vet university is slightly different as to what they ask for, but most want you to have Biology, Chemistry and perhaps either Maths or Physics. Once you’re at vet university, you combine biology and chemistry when studying biochemistry, use chemistry to study pharmacology (how medicines work) biology to understand physiology, anatomy and pathology (what goes wrong when the animal is unwell), physics to understand imaging (X Ray, MRI, CT, ultrasound).