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| Time Mage 484th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):Comic Books Used to Teach Physics"
, posted Fri 10 May 04:45
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Hey, if it can make Physics fun and easy to learn then I'm all for it...:P
That's a good idea for a first year general physics course, but the fact is that physics are difficult, and studying physics with a bit more depth implies way more math and way less comics. The beauty of physics don't lays in funny comics applications (which, btw, are great aplications), but in being able to comprehend the fundaments of the real world.
For example, the simple fact of knowing WHAT's light, and all that it implies, needs many hours of study, but is satisfying by itself.
I hope you understood me. I'm not implying that idea is wrong, only that if you want to learn something deeply, sometimes the fun is in the learning itself, not in it's applications. I like the idea, but for high school or a first course of physics, that's it.
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| "Re(4):Comic Books Used to Teach Physics" , posted Sat 11 May 09:46
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He's only really using comic books for exam questions and problems, I don't quite get what you're talking about TM...
Yeah, forget what I said, I was a little bitter when I wrote that. It's only that I was remembering a teacher I had. He presented us every day a different device or experiment, very interesting and stimulating, and we learned a lot from that, but he only teached us the things that entered in the exam (the subject of the course) a week before the exam, and he wasn't very kind in it, for sure.
Using comics examples as problems should be very stimulating, but maybe not for all. Just think about those who has never heard of Spidey (yes, they exist).
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