Agreed !
I assure you, that when reading a proof, I make myself familiar and absolutely comfortable with each and every step that follows. In fact there's hardly a way to understand the proof without being certain of its validity.
This is something I have been already doing however it still is...
I wish I could have found time for this, it sure would've been enlightening but time constraints due to other courses in my semester restricted me to my texts. Are you suggesting that finding out how physicists got about their problems, deriving things could help me create an aptitude for proofs...
Very true, infact that was the kind of reply i got every time I approached my lecturers about this. They said i am not expected to do this. And yes infact at times just rebuilding on proofs already done consumes a lot of time let alone deriving them on my own. However this is a skill I think a...
:) that is really reassuring :)
however i agree with what @micromass said about being able to rebuild on proofs. Could you help me out here ?
Also could you please explain that classical mechanics bit .. :)
When studying i try to understand all the concepts that follow, create a mental picture of things and then solve problems to check how good I am. Is there more to it ? Could you please elaborate on 'deeper kind of studying' because I think I already do that :/
Yes, what I meant was not being...
Yes, yes, yes This is exactly what I have been looking for. And this is what scares me. I remember getting frustrated as to how I couldn't prove things on my own. Proofs in physics aren't exactly like those in mathematics in the sense that they don't always ''exactly'' follow from things that...
Thank you for your reply. However i beg to differ. Gravity pulls down is something everyone is aware of. And as far as i am able to understand your post you've emphasized on retaining the concepts, however this is something anyone with an interest in physics may follow. There ought to be a...
I can't thank you enough :)
It really is reassuring in the sense that i am not the only one. But then what benchmark do you set, which helps you figure out you are getting better ? And if learning and forgetting is a part of the process what exactly do we gain out of it ?
Thanks again, you...
Greetings.
I completed my bachelor's in physics from the 'University of Delhi', India, an year ago and I wish to pursue a career in fundamental research. I knew that a Master's in Physics was a very serious business and thus took an year off making sure i was ready for it.
However i have been...
I am pretty sure that this is not the right approach to friction. As feynman mentions, the following approach requires no dissipation of energy in the form of heat, which is otherwise observed !
Could you please elaborate on this. I an unable to understand the concept of breaking of the SAME...
Hello,
I am unable to understand your figure. You have depicted that a torque acts about the 'end point' to the left however there is NO external force. A torque without the presence of forces imply the formation of a 'couple' in order to cancel out the forces. If that is the case, i cannot...
The following is my take on friction. I wish to verify if my hypothesis is correct.
When trying to visualize sliding friction i have the following notion. I am swayed to consider friction as a force that arises primarily due the the interaction between the molecules(or atoms) of the surfaces...
Thanks a lot Darwin123 (for this part) because i really got where i went wrong. In fact all my misconceptions regarding the 3rd law have been cleared. However the statement
is still unclear.
Also I'm curious to understand your way of falsifying the third law. I would be grateful if you...
What should i then think of the universe and space ?
p.s : i am yet to complete my bachelors in physics so i'd be pleased if u could explain it to me keeping that into consideration !