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I used to have a physics teacher in high school who used to use everyday examples to prove his point/thesis in his classes.
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My physics teacher used to do the same thing. The example I remember best was when he used some equations to prove a scene from James Bond to be impossible - yeah I know it is James Bond, but it was still cool to see the math. We looked at the film The Man With The Golden Gun and the scene where James jumps his car over a river with the vacationing sheriff. Using the time & trajectory of the car, he was able to prove that the spiralling car was impossible as there was not enough space.
Unfortuntaely I sucked at physics and advanced math. So I am now cursed to forever teach math from Grades K-8, heh-heh.
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Last edited by Longstreet; 04-16-2021 at 23:59.
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