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David Gasca's avatar

Loved this. I’m curious why you think most people don’t think this way? Do you think it’s something learnable and if so, how do you think they can learn it? How did you learn to think this way?

dynomight's avatar

My best guess for the reason it isn't taught this way is simply that our educational practices overall are extremely far from optimal! It might be that things really were taught this way in the past, but there's a kind of "drift" where what's taught now is a copy of a copy of a copy...

Ben's avatar

In my brief interactions with old school physics professors in the past they seemed to love this approach. They'd make you do it for rockets (easy) or bicycles (hard) to check you were good enough at mechanics (I wasn't)