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Physics Woes
I've been studying physics, because I've got an exam tomorrow at 6.30pm (weirdest time ever for an exam y/y?). I love physics, but this...
I've got a page of formulas lying next to me. Stuff like v=lambda*f, and q=n*e. Very, very basic stuff. The sort of stuff that you happily forgot in grade ten the minute they told you you were allowed to use a formulary from now on.
I'm not saying those formulas are hard to memorize. They aren't. But if you have ten or twenty of these little three-letter-combinations memorized, it's very easy to get confused. And that, dear uni, is why God gave us formularies. C'mon, I was allowed to use one in school! I thought uni was supposed to be more about understanding things and getting to the bottom of them than school.
I myself don't call making people memorize twenty three-letter-combinations 'getting to the bottom of things'.
The joke is - if you haven't understood what you're doing, you can't use a formulary. You won't know what to look up. I know this from experience. It's perfectly possible to flunk a physics exam even with a formulary.
Next thing they won't allow calculators anymore, and will give us a list of angles and their sinus values to memorize. I really wouldn't be surprised.
I've got a page of formulas lying next to me. Stuff like v=lambda*f, and q=n*e. Very, very basic stuff. The sort of stuff that you happily forgot in grade ten the minute they told you you were allowed to use a formulary from now on.
I'm not saying those formulas are hard to memorize. They aren't. But if you have ten or twenty of these little three-letter-combinations memorized, it's very easy to get confused. And that, dear uni, is why God gave us formularies. C'mon, I was allowed to use one in school! I thought uni was supposed to be more about understanding things and getting to the bottom of them than school.
I myself don't call making people memorize twenty three-letter-combinations 'getting to the bottom of things'.
The joke is - if you haven't understood what you're doing, you can't use a formulary. You won't know what to look up. I know this from experience. It's perfectly possible to flunk a physics exam even with a formulary.
Next thing they won't allow calculators anymore, and will give us a list of angles and their sinus values to memorize. I really wouldn't be surprised.
no subject
Been there, done that.
But usually, the "no-formulary" exams are way easier than the other ones, no transferring or other bad physics stuff. So maybe in your case as well? Thumbs are pressed. :-)
no subject
Hee, yes, me too. Physics stopped being about formulas for me when my LK teacher came walking in in my very first LK class and said: "Now, forget all you learned so far about Physics. It's bullshit. This is where we do the real physics." Lol ;).
Well, the no-formulary exams are easier to study for. But what you're studying is usually a lot more useless. That's why I prefer the ones that are not only about knowing formulas by heart ;).