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[d_t_k]

Nothing too exciting but I felt like I hadn’t posted in a while. I just wrote a post that I’m not going to post. That happens a lot. I think I’m going to just write something and it ends up being something that I don’t want to just put online. Its nothing bad or anything its just something that if I’m going to tell you id rather tell you to

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[d_t_k]

there is a huge difference between knowing where the numbers go and knowing ideas. I'm an idea man;)

So yeah technically u need to be able to get answers but someone needs to be asking the right questions. I think that i could be asking those questions. The math is secondary in physics. I think more people need to see that. For application it's important but you'll never make any headway in the field just by knowing where to plug stuff in to get specific answers to specific questions. It's important to be able to figure out how much motion and friction will effect a car but its not cutting edge any more.

we need to learn how to work the body of knowledge so that we can push the edge.

[anonymous]

Concepts come first, then the math comes straight from the concepts. Without asking in the first place "Why the hell does a current show up in a wire if i move a magnet towards it?" we wouldnt have the equation to figure out how to get that currents value... let alone have any motor that runs on electricity...

BUT, when it comes to the equations part, as my Materials prof says from time to time (and its slowly becoming increasingly obvious as we delve deeper into engineering) Chemistry is just Physics, and Physics is just Math. I think thats about the only thing I've ever really learned from that guy. Other than him accidentally mentioning that once again the model of the atom they taught us in chem is still wrong.

-Stu

[d_t_k]

chemistry is physics but physics is bigger than math