Physics Rant

[Spencer278]

Ok so I'm taking Physics one. The homework is pointless. First of all one EVERY single question I have to convert some number into a different unit. I know how to do that already it doesn't make for a hard question just wastes my time. Then all I have to do is plug the stupid numbers into the stupid forual and I'm done. No think or anything just type a number with 15 digits into the calcular. How can anyone stand the stupid little word problems.

 

[Nocturnal]

i dont know, but maybe you would like it better if you understood grammar a bit more.

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: Spencer278
How can anyone stand the stupid little word problems.

The word problems are to ensure you don't forget your grammar and spelling.

 

[Imdmn04]

Sounds like you are taking phsyics 101, wait til you get to the harder course, it will literally hurt your brain.

 

[Darien]

In a year or so, come back again with a rant that says something along the lines of "who the heck would choose physics as a major?! all the problems are impossible!"



Until then, please take English. . .

 

[Spac3d]

Originally posted by: Imdmn04
Sounds like you are taking phsyics 101, wait til you get to the harder course, it will literally hurt your brain.

 

[kt]

The emphasis is on "ONE". That's Physics 1. Wait until you get into quantum physics, then you will wish you had numbers to work with.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: Darien
In a year or so, come back again with a rant that says something along the lines of "who the heck would choose physics as a major?! all the problems are impossible!"



Until then, please take English. . .

You say converting is easy now but when in an exam I bet you *question* your ability.

You have to do the basics of anything before you can do the more advance things.

 

[Darien]

Originally posted by: kt
The emphasis is on "ONE". That's Physics 1. Wait until you get into quantum physics, then you will wish you had numbers to work with.

If the math is sufficiently complex, it doesn't really matter what topic of physics you're doing. . . if you suck at math that is



like me
<--- taking advanced intro to e&m. . . it employs vector calculus . . . and this is the first year I'm taking a multivariable calculus course :Q



I saw the divergence theorem in physics before math

 

[911paramedic]

Uh, it is for repetition. The more you do the simple things, the more natural it will be. It is a foundation thing.

If I told you how many times I was asked what lidocaine did, its uses, contraindications, blah, blah, blah,... Medical stuff is built on repetition and not really having to think about emergency medicine. Sure, we have to change how we do things all the time, but if you know medications like the back of your hand, you can do it almost by reflex. Same with units, we have to do them all the time. Dopamine is given mcg/kg/min, and all that is by 60gt=1cc of a solution that you make by injecting the dopamine into a saline solution (from 250-1000cc's, so you better know all of them).
So it is like this: How many gtt per minute, of a 800mcg/ml solution, will give me 10mcg/kg/min to a 85kg patient? The micro IV is 60gtt/ml.

Trust me, at 3AM you dont want to try and figure this out, it had better be second nature. The more you know the basics, the better you will do with the more advanced stuff.

My scenario is with medicine, but I was also a nuke engineer in the Navy back in the early 80's, so I have been in the physics dept. a few times.

 

[white]

forget physics then. take a harder class.

 

[Gibson486]

You are in high school, aren't you? haaaa, that is high school physics. High school physics is so dam easy. Just plug into the equation and you are done. I got an A+ in highschool. Wait till you get to college. It gets harder and Newton's Law will seem like this endless law.

 

[Woody06]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
You are in high school, aren't you? haaaa, that is high school physics. High school physics is so dam easy. Just plug into the equation and you are done. I got an A+ in highschool. Wait till you get to college. It gets harder and Newton's Law will seem like this endless law.

Yeah, just wait till youre doing things like covering all of rotational motion in three weeks and you wont be complaining, but yeah, high school physics was a joke. I convinced my teacher that I didnt need to turn anything in if i aced the tests, you could always try that.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

I wish my biggest problem worth posting about was easy homework.