> Last thing you want is someone overconfident in their from memory version of physics.

Honestly, having been in both worlds, there's not too much of a difference. Physics is harder but coding you got more things to juggle in your brain. So I really do not think it is an issue to offload infrequent "equations"[0] to a book/google/whatever.

[0] And equations could be taken out of quotes considering that math and code are the same thing.