I'm reading a paper which says that there is no way to simulate a system using a particular value of x, so we have to model it in such a way that it's qualitatively wrong but quantitatively right
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Love your icon. I gave final exams today and had a few *headdesk* moments. You know, when you ask them a question about a 2nd Law of Motion problem and tell you that they can't calculate acceleration because they don't know the velocity of the ball, although they've already calculated the net force.
It was one particular student who has excellent math skills and spent the entire quarter chatting with the girl sitting next to him. I think he thought that physics was just another math class and because he's smarter than the average bear with math, that he wouldn't have to think about it.
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Makes me wanna cry.
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Yeah, I think I'd be frustrated, too. :-/
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Surprise!
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