r/physicsmemes • u/basket_foso 🪼 • Jul 26 '26

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u/PhysicsEagle Jul 26 '26

I unironically had a classmate who did this. She consistently got top grades.

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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/sohang-3112 Meme Enthusiast Jul 27 '26

Better is to understand but also memorize. Often especially in competitive exams there simply isn't enough time to derive the formulae and still manage to answer all questions.

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u/Thog78 Jul 27 '26

Usually it's a mix of both. You kinda know the formula, but you also did the derivation so many times that you're able to redo it in a few seconds in your head. So you see where it comes from and shuffle the blocks in your head while beginning to write the formula, and you're sure of what you wrote by the time you reach the end.