A revelation.

After reading csn's thoughts on physics, it occured to me to wonder exactly why I hate that class. It's not because I'm doing poorly (though we'll see what the rotation midterm has to say). It's not because the material is simply too difficult; again, I've been doing decently well, and I can even notice when physics-y things pop up in my mind, like the importance of torque on one's cast when going downstairs without ankle mobility. It's obviously relevant to a host of other things. But I hate the class. Often the reason for what we do seems to be, "because the math said so" or "because it's obviously so." Unifying structures (and I know they exist) seem to be sacrificed to the mathematical derivations, which, while useful in using these concepts, make less intuitive sense than the material itself. Even allowing for my lack of experience, the disjointed structure leaves me feeling like I don't fundamentally understand what's going on, even if I can do the problems. I still say that there are problems if relativity and quantum basically made more sense than mechanics does. This is stuff we can see, that we should be able to understand--right? In the abstract, I can understand why people would love physics. In the middle of this class, I'm just bitter about the entire subject.