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Hey everyone! So, I’m starting my second year of physics this Wednesday ,but I have a bit of a problem.
I’m having trouble recalling concepts and fundamental details from first year.
I took a full year physics course in 1st year (divided into kinematics/ dynamics -first half and Electricity and Magnetism- second part). I’m having trouble imagining and visualizing scenarios like I used to.
I also don’t remember important details of the concepts- like when I was doing Physics, the details of how two concepts were related ( example conservation of energy and angular momentum) were easy for me to recall and understand, they clicked, my brain didn’t feel fuzzy. Now, I have to sit down for a while and think through every little detail to see how they’re related and my brain blanks out.
As I was browsing through Reddit, there was a question about the velocity of a bullet shot straight up, and then a comment asking if the rotation of the Earth would effect the velocity.
If this was first year, right off the bat I would say it doesn’t as we rotate at the same speed as the Earth and this answer would kind of “click” in my brain and make sense. Now, however, even though it makes sense to me, it doesn’t “click”. I don’t know how else to explain that. Like everything related to the answer would make sense but now I have to sit down and think through every little aspect like, I sat down and started a thought experiment where air resistance was a thing and then that got me into whether the air rotated with the planet and at the same rate or not.
Such a mess. I now struggle to visualize the scenarios I think of and can’t come with answers for those scenarios on my own like I used to (which I’m assuming other people could).Is it because I haven’t been doing physics for a while?
2 months ago, I did do summer school but just math and Earth science.
I’m a little worried, I feel extremely slow.
Has this happened to other people before?
I’ve been doing some second year problem sets and the repeated first year parts - I don’t feel like I’m actually taking time to understand the question, I just know what I have to do and that doesn’t feel very comfortable. Sorry for how long this is!
I’m having trouble recalling concepts and fundamental details from first year.
I took a full year physics course in 1st year (divided into kinematics/ dynamics -first half and Electricity and Magnetism- second part). I’m having trouble imagining and visualizing scenarios like I used to.
I also don’t remember important details of the concepts- like when I was doing Physics, the details of how two concepts were related ( example conservation of energy and angular momentum) were easy for me to recall and understand, they clicked, my brain didn’t feel fuzzy. Now, I have to sit down for a while and think through every little detail to see how they’re related and my brain blanks out.
As I was browsing through Reddit, there was a question about the velocity of a bullet shot straight up, and then a comment asking if the rotation of the Earth would effect the velocity.
If this was first year, right off the bat I would say it doesn’t as we rotate at the same speed as the Earth and this answer would kind of “click” in my brain and make sense. Now, however, even though it makes sense to me, it doesn’t “click”. I don’t know how else to explain that. Like everything related to the answer would make sense but now I have to sit down and think through every little aspect like, I sat down and started a thought experiment where air resistance was a thing and then that got me into whether the air rotated with the planet and at the same rate or not.
Such a mess. I now struggle to visualize the scenarios I think of and can’t come with answers for those scenarios on my own like I used to (which I’m assuming other people could).Is it because I haven’t been doing physics for a while?
2 months ago, I did do summer school but just math and Earth science.
I’m a little worried, I feel extremely slow.
Has this happened to other people before?
I’ve been doing some second year problem sets and the repeated first year parts - I don’t feel like I’m actually taking time to understand the question, I just know what I have to do and that doesn’t feel very comfortable. Sorry for how long this is!