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Asked by anon-358731 on 15 Mar 2023.
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Jo Ellis answered on 15 Mar 2023:
Its quite important as it can be useful to know certain relationships when figuring things out
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Martin McCoustra answered on 16 Mar 2023:
Maths is very important for studying most sciences. Even biology is now recognising the importance of maths in making the science more quantitative. In chemical physics, maths is almost as important as the chemistry and physics. It makes understanding and using some of the theories and tools that are important in chemical physics easier. In fact, I got into chemical physics through have a first degree that was a combination of chemistry and maths.
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Clara Zehe answered on 16 Mar 2023:
It is quite important as chemical physics relies heavily on mathematical models and equations. But this is true for a lot of scientific fields.
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Grace Roper answered on 16 Mar 2023:
Maths is important for chemical physics. However, you don’t need to be the best at maths to study chemical physics. When studying physical sciences I think it helps if you can enjoy some elements of maths, even if it isn’t your best subject.
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Christy Sadler answered on 16 Mar 2023:
I don’t work in the field of chemical physics (I studied chemistry and now work in bio-chemistry fields). I have found maths to be very helpful for my studies and my work. It allows me to have a deeper understanding of different systems that I work on!
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Thomas Swift answered on 16 Mar 2023:
It’s important but it is not everything. You need to be able to add, subtract, multiply and rearrange simple equations to get by as a chemist.
There are a lot of people who do very, complex stuff that requires very advanced maths in the physical chemistry space. But I know lots of scientists with very varying maths skills – it is relatively easy for everyone to find their niche
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Arno Kraft answered on 17 Mar 2023:
I am an organic chemist and like Maths. Many of my classmates chose Organic and Inorganic Chemistry because these subjects are much less Maths-heavy. However, Maths helps. I frequently tell students that, to understand natural laws, Maths is very useful. Don’t be afraid of rearranging equations and the concepts of differentiation and integration. For anything more complicated, you nowadays use computers anyway (so, programming skills are useful, too). Maths helps with Chemistry studies since it takes away the need to have to learn a lot of equations. If you can derive one equation from another, there is one equation less to learn. If you can recognise the shape of a graph that you have seen something similar before (no doubt together with some Maths equations), you suddenly realise the common (mathematical) concept.
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Rebecca Walker answered on 17 Mar 2023:
Maths is sometimes thought of as another science, so it is pretty important to have a good grasp of basic maths to make studying the sciences easier for you. However, depending on your specialist area of science the amount of maths you will do day to day will vary – if you love maths, you can make it as complicated as you like; if you hate it, you’ll just need to do basic sums!
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Maryam Sani answered on 20 Mar 2023:
Maths is important but remember when you are specializing a something like chemical physics you won’t need all topics that you have studied in school. If you like physics then you already use a lot of math and it would be pretty much the same at a higher level.
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