Memorizing vs. Understanding in Physics (4:34)
In physics many students discover they need to learn to understand the material rather than memorize it. This video discusses and shows examples of the differences between the two.
Content Times: 0:15 Describing the issue 0:52 One example of Memorizing vs. Understanding 1:49 A second example of Memorizing vs. Understanding 2:29 Drawing connections between problems using components as an example 3:29 More examples of when we use components 4:06 Understand “Why” not just “How" |
Videos referenced during this video:
- An Introductory Projectile Motion Problem with an Initial Horizontal Velocity
- Nerd-A-Pult - An Introductory Projectile Motion Problem
- Nerd-A-Pult #2 - Another Projectile Motion Problem
- An Introductory Relative Motion Problem
- An introductory Relative Motion Problem with Vector Components
- Relative Motion Problem: Solving for the angle of the moving object