So I had my first physics lab today...now, first off, I love physics. I love the theories, I love to talk about how things work and the way that they interact with the world around them, and I understand it. I understand the Bernoulli principle, I understand spring constants and force friction and all of that good sort of thing. I just hate the math. I hate calculations and trying to figure out things based on instructions by a third party.
We were doing this harmonic movement experiment, measuring the oscillation of a spring based on the weight that was out on it, blah blah blah. The only problem was, The whole packet on instructions was written like someone had randomly inserted flashbacks of prior problems throughout. Nearly impossible to read coherently, and even more impossible to figure out what the instructor wanted.
Even worse, it turns out that the lab instructor was not the one who wrote the instructions, so even he didn't know what was going on. Therefore, my paper became a ink ridden, calculation covered mess. Trying to follow my work would be like trying to follow directions given on mapquest.
I went to see him after class along with some others who were having issues, and luckily he let us turn in our papers next lab class, so I am going to print off a whole fresh new sheet, and see if I can actually figure it out right this time.
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