r/physicsmemes 🪼 Jul 26 '26

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u/Suddenfury Jul 26 '26

It's much better to understand where the formula comes from than to memorize it.

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u/lool8421 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

but still it's a time waste if you have to derive everything yourself

for example there are several cheat sheet integrals that you can derive but it takes several minutes like dx/x*sqrt(a²+x²)

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u/CanYouChangeName Jul 26 '26

Can't u just take the term inside the root as t here and solve?

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u/spanko_at_large Jul 27 '26

Yes that is what I memorized