I'm a chemistry major. A shitty one that's got too low a GPA to call myself a chemistry major.
I rank physics higher than chemistry because a huge component of chemistry, inorganic, and biochemistry are not computational. They're in fact either demand spatial skills esp. pattern recognition for orgo and molecular symmetry for inorg. or straight up route memorization, anything bio related.
Physics is entirely computational (each course has some computational aspect), they cover the same range of topics of chemistry, but in greater depth -- thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics. They learn otherwise auxiliary courses in chemistry as requirements like partial differential equations, and classical mechanics. Physics also covers a wider range of material, from very small -- particle physics/standard model to very large -- astrophysics/general relativity.
Physics majors don't spend as much time in the lab however. Whereas nearly 1/4th to 1/3rd of a chem major's courses are basically lab courses, a physics major has none of that.
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