Is There a Place for Slide Rules in Modern Science?

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Retired after forty years of dwelling in Computerdom. Self-taught, incomplete, untested, exploring a lifetime of questions about this thing we live in. Slide rule collector, grandfather, mentor, friend, WoW player.
 
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Slide rule collector
I wouldn't count myself as a "collector," but I have five of them, and still know how to use them. Welcome to PF!
 

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Hello everyone, I'm Cosmo. I'm an 18 years old student majoring in physics. I found this forum cause I was searching on Google if it's common for physics student to feel like they're in the wrong major in the first semester cause it feels like too much for me to learn the materials even the ones that are considered as "basic math" or "basic physics", I've initial fascination with the universe's mysteries and it disconnect with the reality of intense, foundational mathematics courses required...
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