Can someone be really good in Math but sucks at Physics and Chemistry???

[MC]

???

eh ?

 

[monk3y]

I sorta serve by example. I am pretty good at math and can go far enough to teach other people. I'm also pretty strong in Chemestry but when it comes to physics... I'm hopeless. I think it might be that i try to 'understand' the material and i can't. It's conceptual and i look too much into it.

 

[santokki]

Biology is really Chemistry,
Chemistry is really Physics,
Physics is really Math, and
Math is really hard.

 

[spanner]

I was pretty good at all three, but I can see how its possible. I have a slight problem with memorization (hence my crap scores in languages and history) and physics and chemistry involve alot more then math so if you have a big problem with memorization then physics and chemistry will suck.

 

[GhettoFob]

I used to be good at math, but sucked at physics and chem (mainly because my hs teachers sucked), now I suck at math, physics and chem

 

[Aihyah]

would take an extreme case of bad reading skills i guess.

 

[eakers]

as a "baby chemist" i can say that i am strong in math and chem and so so in physics, im okay at like kinetics but not so good at electricity and magnetism stuff.

*kat. <-- baby chemist.

 

[webnewland]

I'm pretty good at all science and math, but I do find Chemistry to be the most difficult of the three. Possible because of my teacher, possibly due to the course it self.

 

[Halz]

not really good in math, but very good in physics

ironic, eh?

 

[Axolotl]

Well... I thought my maths exams were good... I fail physics in the morning. So yes, you can be good at maths and bad at physics. Too many words!

 

[fake]

I can do Physics &amp; Math decently, but Chemistry is a lost cause for me.

 

[cirrus1]

Math and Physics just seems more logic than Chemistry for me. Chemistry involves so many exceptions and stuff

Physics uses the SI system strictly whereas Chemistry is more loose and uses all sorts of mixed-up units etc, IMHO of course

 

[fitzhue]

Math and Chemistry have to have been the most easiest classes I've ever taken. I slept through those classes and never got anything lower than an A on exams, finals, mid terms, etc.

I'll be taking Physics next year and am fairly confident that I'll do just fine.

 

[vi edit]

I aced all my algebra, trig, precalc, and biology classes. Yet, I struggled to pull C's in Chemistry and Physics. Go figure

I think that in my case though, it was more the teacher, than the subject. Both my physics and chemistry classes were taught by the same teacher who was still in shell shock from Vietnam.

 

[Mapidus]

It really hard to say if a person is good at something compared to something else, especially when given vague categories such as Math and Physics. What do you mean by math and physics anyways. A person might be good at abstract algebra or geometry, but this same person might be horrible at analysis or combinatorics. Same with physics.

For example, a person might be good at arithmetic and good at classical mechanics, but this same person might not understand abstract algebra (such as number theory and group theory) or relativistic mechanics.

Math, physics, and chemistry are very broad fields that even within themselves have many categories where people might be good in one sub-area and not another, so it is really hard to say if a person is good math or physics itself, and it is even harder to say that a person is better at math than physics.

 

[monto]

<< It really hard to say if a person is good at something compared to something else, especially when given vague categories such as Math and Physics. What do you mean by math and physics anyways. A person might be good at abstract algebra or geometry, but this same person might be horrible at analysis or combinatorics. Same with physics.

For example, a person might be good at arithmetic and good at classical mechanics, but this same person might not understand abstract algebra (such as number theory and group theory) or relativistic mechanics.

Math, physics, and chemistry are very broad fields that even within themselves have many categories where people might be good in one sub-area and not another, so it is really hard to say if a person is good math or physics itself, and it is even harder to say that a person is better at math than physics. >>

i agree, physics is so much qualitative analysis and interpretation at times arithmetic won't do you any good

 

[bigredguy]

i am really good at concepts so math i am ok but physics and chem had a lotta equations to plug units and stuff into which is hard for me. math with no units is much easier for me then with