Attitudes towards physics

[appianway]

Do physics students at your school genuinely like the subject, or is it something that they take purely because they believe that attaining a high score is within their reach?

A lot of my peers seem to detest the subject (I love it!), so I was just wondering whether these feelings are harboured by students across the state.

[hard]

i hate it.

[iamdan08]

I loved it, and i didn't notice anyone in my class who really hated it! My teacher was pretty good though, which may have helped increase the enjoyment.

[Edmund]

People hated it because it was hard to understand. I hated it at first, but found it wasnt really that difficult once you understood the work.

[TrueTears]

love physics, teacher is good too XD

[champorado]

Was it really that hard? I didn't get a good score or anything, but I found the stuff we covered okay (my teacher got preggers and left halfway through, so we ended up with a shitty teacher who just copypasta'd notes from physics notes). Now specialist I hated. (It was because she hated me. That's cos I wasn't Asian. ) Whenever I got bored I used to scrunch up random papers and juggle them. One time, she confiscated my parent teacher interview sheets because of that. Nobody took the practice tests seriously (she'd waste our double periods on them), so all we did was draw joker pics and profess our love for cakes on them. As I was saying, I don't think I would've liked physics if I had a bad teacher AND it was hard.

[iamdan08]

Yeah i didn't find the material too hard at all really (with the exemption of transistors...like wtf). But again, it might have something to do with the teacher.

[champorado]

Yeah, but they took that out, didn't they?

I liked physics. It was like maths, but not so hard.

[TonyHem]

No one at my school likes physics. In fact - no one in my school likes english/maths/science/technology - they're all sport sport sport. ... maybe a few.

[NE2000]

I enjoy physics, I think it's the science you can most easily associate the concepts with stuff that you can see in the physical world.

Biology is all internal, you don't actually see that stuff happening in most cases (it's inside your body/the plant)

The technical bits of chemistry are all very small (you don't see atoms bonding, or the structure of organic molecules, or the forward and backward reactions stabilizing to form equilibrium)

Physics, motion you can see, electronics you can see, ok maybe you can't see whether light is a particle or a wave or whether an electron is a particle or a wave but that stuff's awesome anyway.

[/0]

For me, Physics is science at the fundamental level. Chemistry, Biology, Psychology etc. are just derivatives of Physics. Science is responsible for everything we have today, and also for a logical, democratic ideology. That is why I like Physics.

...And Mathematics is the language of Science. So long as it is useful, I will like it - and nearly all, if not all of Mathematics is useful. But for me it is still just a language, and I don't want to be a linguist.


DISREGARD THAT AHMAD YOU STILL ROCK

[kurrymuncher]

What! Psychology! I never knew that was a science lol



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[danieltennis]

Physics is awesome!!! My teacher threw eggs at the classroom window to demostrate the conservation of momentum. It was so funny.

Today, my spesh teacher was talking about the possibilities of pi having a finite-length string of feasible phone numbers. So my spesh teacher decided to prank the first possible phone number and the person who picked up was a consultant for a company or warehouse at Bulgrave in Melbourne. It was frikken hilarious 

[methodsboy]

Physics is awesome!!! My teacher threw eggs at the classroom window to demostrate the conservation of momentum. It was so funny.

Today, my spesh teacher was talking about the possibilities of pi having a finite-length string of feasible phone numbers. So my spesh teacher decided to prank the first possible phone number and the person who picked up was a consultant for a company or warehouse at Bulgrave in Melbourne. It was frikken hilarious 

Hint : This thread is ONLY about physix

[kurrymuncher]

Physics is awesome although my teacher makes it kind of boring. however the egg throwing thing was pretty funny.