Studies progress report

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Studies progress report

Post by Dory » Thu Sep 30, 2010 6:12 am

So, turns out math is easy. I'm closing down on Calculus I rather easily. You may think it sounds ridiculous to finish Calculus I in a few weeks, and surely I need to exercise my knowledge to see there are no holes in my knowledge (or rather, undefined points or asymptotes ;) ) , but I "get the gist of it" and have the intuition to problem-solving in the realm of calculus, so I can easily expand. I need no private teachers, and I don't ever get stuck, in the other words. That's exactly the position I wanted to be in. It's a position for maximum acceleration with nobody's help, and if acceleration is constant, then velocity is constantly-increasing. :D Seriously, finding instantaneous velocity is a piece of cake, and the derivative is just a matter of playing with the exponents and remembering the quotient rule, chain rule and product rule. And as far as physics go, it seems to be just a formula games. You plug one in the right spot, you get the answer. The rest is concepts you just have to grasp and say "okay". Done. That's all exact science is, really. Understanding concepts and using math to define them. :) Rinse and repeat.

My dream is still to focus on bionics.

I'm still studying biology, and chemistry, at the open university. Those are childsplay compared to the so called "hard sciences", which I'm self studying and to which I have no frame of work! I just go about self-studying all this shit. I could really use a path. So, I sent a letter to the bionics faculty in a college in Tel Aviv explaining my situation and my degree of knowledge. I'm waiting till they get back to me to basically...tell me what to do.

-Dory

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Re: Studies progress report

Post by GenesForLife » Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:18 am

There is another side to science, Dory, understanding research, learning to formulate hypotheses, design experiments , and interpret results, to become a proper researcher/scientist you must connect that side to your theoretical knowledge, keep going :tup:

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Re: Studies progress report

Post by Dory » Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:49 am

Well, I wish I'd get to the position to do that, Genes. Right now I'm still stuck with textbooks and exercises. But, full speed ahead.

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