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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Physics is required in order to be an educated person. [/quote]

:lol:  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

I survived a year of brutal weedout physics classes at a top 20 university before changing majors.

Reading “Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman,” and a few articles about Albert Einstein, the Manhattan Project and Stephen Hawking is great for giving regular people a sense of how physics has shaped our society and how the scientific method works.

High school physics exists mainly to prepare us to fire artillery shells. If students aren’t planning to use cannons to shell their enemies, maybe learning a little about hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes would do more to increase their survivability. [/quote]

This is one of the most ignorant posts about physics.  Understanding trajectories is more than firing artillery shells.  It is showing students that you can use math and physical rules to predict actions.  On my first projectile, I will undershoot because I ignored air resistance.  accounting for it, and I get much closer.  It shows predictability based on models.  A key point in Physics.  [/quote]

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