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What do you think is most important when it comes to comprehending Physics and/or Calculus? Problem Solving skills? Being Able to know how all the concepts relate? Being able to visualize everything? Intuition? Inference/reason? etc? I'd love to hear what you do.

>> No.5443500

understanding the concepts and the mathematical derivations of key equations and laws.

>> No.5444359

Understanding the concepts for sure.
No point in being able to do all the math without knowing the process of solving the problem

>> No.5444370

understanding the concepts and how they build together.

Junior in Chem E, the math is always the easy part. It's building towards actually doing some math which is difficult, due to making correct assumptions and boundary conditions, etc.

>> No.5444397

understanding technique and recognising when to apply it

this comes by practising shitloads of problems

>> No.5444410

IT depends what's required of you by your course.

If you're studying physics or calculus somewhere academically demanding then you're going to be asked hard questions and an ability to solve difficult problems , i.e. intelligence, will be essential.

If you're studying somewhere mediocre and all nearly everything you're asked will be just stragithforward application of theory then problem solving skills are not needed as much.

>> No.5444444

I would say a combination of:
loving the topic
seeing how they relate

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>tfw no one cares for our gets

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>>5444551
>Global rules 3
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>>5444587
please nagger this is sextuplets

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>>5444598
I don't see what's wrong with this answer.
If that's what helps him, that's what helps him in
his opinion.

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>>5445359
I believe he was referring to the epic get.

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>> No.5445642

Understanding how to get the solution is far more important that the solution itself.

>> No.5445672

Physics is easy when you realize all the questions can be approached in a step wise fashion. Draw the free-body diagram, draw the forces, resolve in to vectors according to some coordinate system, and then apply newton's second law.