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Why are most physics books dull and austere ?

>> No.8543571

>>8543565
Because your too stupid to see the beauty of the underlying structures.

>> No.8544356

>>8543565
Because the authora know (1) there's alot alot of material (2) you're here because you want to learn the material and they can skip the bullshit.

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>>8543565

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>>8544372

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>>8544374

>> No.8544390

>>8543565
Cause the books are written by scientists who spent their lives breathing and eating their field. This often makes them consider most things a student needs to understand stuff, self-evident. This way the books are written in an incoherent way for newbies but the writers and the reviewers find them perfectly fine

>> No.8544396

>>8544374
kek

>> No.8544492

>>8544372
Yo sauce on this shit>>8544374

>> No.8544497

>>8544384
Sawss

>> No.8544510

>>8544492
the poli sci is from halliday walker resnick

>> No.8544676

>>8543565
because physics is dull and austere? wtf would you think physics is sexy?

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8544700

>>8544384
p-poor octopus

if he hits a wall with the combined momentum of the lead puck and himself at 35 m/s, there is no way he's gonna make it ;_;

>> No.8544746

>>8544384
10.6 m/s

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>> No.8544769

>>8544384
>>8544374
>>8544372
Can you imagine what it must be like to write a whole textbook filled with 80+ unique problems per section per chapter? No wonder we get weird shit like this.

>> No.8544774

>>8543565
Physics is generally just a little more superficial than math but not enough to lend it some obvious extravagance. At least not without deep understanding.

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>>8544384
But what if the octopus locks his suction cups against the ice?

>> No.8544783

>Could explain a concept very simply in a sentence
>Take multiple pages to do so instead, confusing the reader in the process
>Book is large as fuck as a result
>s-see guys, the book is worth it! Look at big it is!

It's the equivalent of fluffing out highschool papers that have page requirements

>> No.8544786

>>8544783
>Look at big it is!
Look at how big it is. I need sleep

>> No.8544801

>>8544783
>>Could explain a concept very simply in a sentence

Then it becomes essentially popsci. The problem with a "simple" explanation is that it ignores some subtle yet important details, which is all well and good if you're trying to explain to a layman. But a textbook is supposed to, you know, actually teach you everything about a topic.

The fact is that physics is not easy to learn. Anybody trying to give you a "physics for dummies" explanation as a serious encompassing explanation is the educational equivalent of a "lose weight fast" scam.

>> No.8544937

>>8544783
>>Could explain a concept very simply
I thought /sci/ was supposed to be smart

>> No.8545141 [DELETED] 

>>8544384
0.115 × 35 = 0.38v
v = (0.115 × 35)/0.38
v = 10.592...
v = 10.6 m s^-1 (3sf)

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8545317

>read a text on geometric quantization
>full of beautiful structures and derivations
>completely fucking useless
>read a text on conformal field theory
>full of powerful models that generalize most spin-on-a-lattice systems with extreme accuracy and experimental confirmation
>falls asleep reading it
E N O U G H

>> No.8545323

>>8543565
>Why are most physics books dull and austere ?

what did you expect? porn? pick your own adventure story?