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Stumbled upon this today. How many of you agree with what this guy is saying?
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I'm big on science education, but I think we need to focus more on rational thinking and scientific investigation than learning a bunch of theories. Anyone can get at least a cursory understanding of the topics he mentioned once you have a basic level of training,or you can get a much higher level understanding once in college.
Also, beyond general appreciation of science, I don't know how much application modern physics has in daily life. I'm an actual practicing physical chemist and I barely ever have to consider relativity (it does occasionally come up) much less stuff like the strong force.
lol chemistry.
I agree with you here, especially the first sentence.
Re: relativity -- relativity is generally something that doesn't need to be considered directly yet modern physics is impossible without it. That is, sure, you don't have to directly consider relativity but it's rather impossible to perform the vast majority of anything in the sciences and its applications without it. It's more or less 'encoded' into everything and just taken for granted (not a reply to you Gibonius, but more of a general exposition for those who otherwise would misconstrue your statement).
Re: the video. Yeah, pretty dumb. The problem with learning anything from the 20th century is that the mathematics are far more advanced than possible for the average high school student. It's pretty useless to talk about even basic concepts in relativity like the Lorentz transformation when the students don't have the necessary mathematical knowledge to understand it in any meaningful sense.
Besides, there's enough to be learned before the 20th century. Heck, it's hard at this point to find a general university-level physics book with more than the near-useless integral forms of Maxwell's equations (I assume the video maker chose 1865 to make the comment about slavery and because Maxwell's equations which govern nearly all of electromagnetism were formally published that decade). So yeah, until vector calculus becomes part of the standard mathematics curriculum in high schools it's probably best to stick with f=ma.
(Really calculus should be taught alongside Newtonian physics, but even that's a tall order).
vector calculus is ot know by most in high school? for me it was a 4th year subject.
I agree. I always wished our education system placed more emphasis on creative thought and logic. I'm not sure where I stand with regards to the video as far as physics is concerned, but I did like that it questioned the quality and possible "out-dated" aspect of our education system...thats why I posted it.I'm big on science education, but I think we need to focus more on rational thinking and scientific investigation than learning a bunch of theories. Anyone can get at least a cursory understanding of the topics he mentioned once you have a basic level of training,or you can get a much higher level understanding once in college.
Also, beyond general appreciation of science, I don't know how much application modern physics has in daily life. I'm an actual practicing physical chemist and I barely ever have to consider relativity (it does occasionally come up) much less stuff like the strong force.
Wait, what? When I took Vector Calculus, it was in undergrad, and an elective at that - after Calculus, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra.
I originally posted something similar, but realized replying to him was useless since he probably doesn't understand that vector calculus is different from learning what a vector is and it's impossible to call bullshit on over the Internet.
by vector calculusu you basically mean simple and advanced matrix usage
I originally posted something similar, but realized replying to him was useless since he probably doesn't understand that vector calculus is different from learning what a vector is and it's impossible to call bullshit on over the Internet.