The Derivation Delusion

The Derivation Delusion
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Every physics student who says they'll "just derive it" during an exam is basically the horror clown of academia. The confidence before the exam vs. the existential terror during it forms a perfect mathematical relationship: inversely proportional. That formula you thought you could casually reconstruct from first principles? Turns out those principles took a coffee break right when you needed them.

Pro tip: The professor who says "you don't need to memorize formulas" is the same one who gives you 45 minutes to derive relativistic quantum mechanics from scratch.

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