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Old 03-06-2012, 03:16 PM
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Default Re: Science Things I Wish My Teacher had Told Me

I wish my high school physics teacher had helped me make a softer landing from the neat and tidy Newtonian equations for mass/energy/force/etc., that always gave me neat and tidy answers as long as I used the right formulas, to the fuzzier, more confusing stuff, like heat transfer. I went from liking physics to being bewildered and frightened by it, and that bastard was acting like the incomprehensible stuff he was babbling about was just as simple as calculating the momentum of a train. Who knows, maybe it is and I just didn't get it. But I distinctly remember it going from crystal clear in one chapter of the textbook to opaque in the next, and I gave up because I saw no way forward.
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