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But, you know, he not only discovered that it doesn't move if you don't move it, but that even if you do try to move it, it will resist your attempt to do so (which really like broke my brain when I first learned it, and still kinda do even now).
Schools will happily drill the 3 newtonian laws of motion in one ear and out the other in literally every science class. But when it comes to actually teaching understanding, nothing but crickets.
There are three states of matter
THERE ARE THREE STATES OF MATTER
BTW there are 4 states of matter.
Actually there's like 20 states of matter.
Public science education strikes again.
Telling children there are 3 states of matter is much easier than telling them about Frank Hobarts 2-stage triple balance beam phase plasma and how it only exists when the sun and the moon align during an eclipse while you sing Ave Maria
Learning how to teach without overwhelming people is extremely important.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children
Easy change, "let's learn three states of matter" vs "there are three states of matter"
Shit like this is why people still think Pluto's a planet. God forbid a kid get curious about whether there's more than 3 states. Might as well throw the whole kid away at that point.
Overwhelming children is not a good idea.
I wouldnt teach sin to a group of children I'm trying to teach basic addition to. Heck, it's not even a good idea to tell them about negative numbers at that point.
The problem is the complete and often militant refusal to ever build upon anything, ever
The first and third are intuitive observations to the point students should be aware of them even if they haven't given them much thought before. The second might require a bit more consideration but even then it's easy to point out how heavier things take more force to move as a simple example.
Coming up with some of the formulas in Physics by yourself would be hard but at least for kinematics it's easy to observe relationships. You've already been using their ideas your whole life, you just start describing what's involved in what you see and do all the time.
And invented calculus to discribe the motion
Yeah, the Higg's mechanism should really be counted among the fundamental forces/interactions.
I am first time hearing about this. Gotta gain some more knowledge
That's not one of the Newtonian laws, is it. Objects only resist motion because of friction (or other competing forces)