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Poop-Loops
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I'm taking my 3rd quarter on phys. in college right now (heat, sound, optics, & fluids this quarter), and I've noticed that neither here nor in high school was the knowledge of constants and formulae emphasized. Basically, you ask for a formula (as long as it's a simple relationship, not the answer to your problem) or constant on a test, and the teacher gives it to you. The reasons given for doing this is that apparently high school physics is hard and people have trouble memorizing them on top of understanding the material. My prof says that in the real world, you can open any physics book and get the info you want anyway, so there's no point in wasting your brain power on memorizing. I totally agree, but does the rest of the physics academic community follow that? I don't want to get to higher classes and suddenly have to memorize 20+ formulae just to be on par with the rest of the class.
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