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It's deliberate, you get taught different models of the atom etc the deeper you get into physics/chemistry. In that way you also learn about models and the scie
by codeulike 5y ago
It's deliberate, you get taught different models of the atom etc the deeper you get into physics/chemistry. In that way you also learn about models and the scientific method and how the advances have been made.
In the same way that Newtonian physics is still useful for a lot of stuff, the circling balls model of the atom can still be useful in some areas
- UncleSlacky 5y ago"All models are wrong, but some are useful".
- 52-6F-62 5y agoI don't think it's the process so much as the outlook that's taught to younger students that the disapproval comes from. It's presented as a much smaller frame of study than it really is. And often it's treated so mechanistically, that rather than teaching you how understanding is important and will feed into your very worldview it's presented as something you study if you want to build assembling machines or something. My and OP's gripes might be more endemic to underfunded midwestern rural schools like I attended, but I'm sure it wasn't that rare, unfortunately.
- jorgesborges 5y agoIt would have been nice to know there were super advanced and interesting contemporary models. That would be inspiring. Do they even mention quantum mechanics at that level, if just to say hey look this is only the beginning. It was comical discovering in my early twenties that my understanding of physics and chemistry was outdated by a hundred years. Isn’t this the future?! Kids should be walking around the enterprise complaining about their calculus classes.