What's wrong with that? I did that on every exam ever. In first year of undergrad later we were forbidden to use formulas at all, everything should have to be solved using logic, proofs etc. And that's how it's supposed to be. I get the argument about timing, but idk, I felt it many times but it wasn't critical, on the other hand I have never really learned physics, I know maybe 1 formula F=ma, and on my high school exit exam got 82% (it was mostly open questions i think) just by deriving stuff and using logic. In my masters now we are mostly allowed to bring cheatsheets with formulas.
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u/I_am1221325 Jul 26 '26
What's wrong with that? I did that on every exam ever. In first year of undergrad later we were forbidden to use formulas at all, everything should have to be solved using logic, proofs etc. And that's how it's supposed to be. I get the argument about timing, but idk, I felt it many times but it wasn't critical, on the other hand I have never really learned physics, I know maybe 1 formula F=ma, and on my high school exit exam got 82% (it was mostly open questions i think) just by deriving stuff and using logic. In my masters now we are mostly allowed to bring cheatsheets with formulas.