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Tsunnnami
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When studying equations, formulas, laws - am I supposed to understand each bit of information ?
For example, let's take Fick's law:
So I can memorize the law and I can tell with words what is "t", what is "x", what is "D", and so on, but I don't truly understand why is one divided with the other, why is there an exponential function, and what does the product represent, why is there a product instead of an addition, and so on.
Or another thing, when there are given abstract things, such as Avogadro's constant - I don't know what that means, I can tell you the definition of it, but yet I can't truly grasp the meaning of it. How to imagine it ?
We've just finished nuclear radiations and it seems like a something utterly complex and detailed and hard to grasp again. There is for example Bethe's formula - I don't even understand half of that, although I'm trying, but I'm not even sure that when I think that I understand it, I actually understand it - how can I be sure that I'm right in my understanding ?
Our professor in Premed doesn't help us. He says that it's not his duty to teach students and I guess he's right, but how can I check myself then when I want to know if I'm understanding a concept or not ?
For example, let's take Fick's law:
So I can memorize the law and I can tell with words what is "t", what is "x", what is "D", and so on, but I don't truly understand why is one divided with the other, why is there an exponential function, and what does the product represent, why is there a product instead of an addition, and so on.
Or another thing, when there are given abstract things, such as Avogadro's constant - I don't know what that means, I can tell you the definition of it, but yet I can't truly grasp the meaning of it. How to imagine it ?
We've just finished nuclear radiations and it seems like a something utterly complex and detailed and hard to grasp again. There is for example Bethe's formula - I don't even understand half of that, although I'm trying, but I'm not even sure that when I think that I understand it, I actually understand it - how can I be sure that I'm right in my understanding ?
Our professor in Premed doesn't help us. He says that it's not his duty to teach students and I guess he's right, but how can I check myself then when I want to know if I'm understanding a concept or not ?