Is Chemistry Or Physics Harder

I’ve always said that Chemistry is harder than Physics. However, even when I’ve said that I’ve always been in the minority. I guess other people don’t agree with me, but I never understood that. I was always able to interpret the world in a physical sense, by that I mean I could always see how physics interacted with the real world while chemistry is on smaller scales that our eyes can’t even comprehend.

Many people who think physics is harder have a hard time not only visualizing physics’ interaction with the world, but also with the mathematical computation required in physics. Physics and math work in tandem, while math isn’t as prevalent in chemistry. Sure, you do use some math in chemistry, but not as heavily as in physics. Also, chemistry requires a lot of memorization, more than physics. Knowing the solubility rules, along with nomenclature and the bonds involved in lewis structures all culminates to chemistry being a balance between math and memory.

Of course, this doesn’t account for the harder of both subjects. I have yet to be exposed to electromagnetism and modern physics, and I’ve only been briefly exposed to organic chemistry. From my experiences at college, students say electromagnetism and organic chemistry tend to be some of the hardest courses of their time at El Camino College. I suppose I could update this once I’m to those courses but until then I will always believe physics is easier than chemistry.

I actually have both these courses coming up in my spring semester, and I’m sort of happy because I do love the sciences. Chemistry has and always will be, the harder science course in my opinion.