By Amir Rabbani.
Credits to Miss Joyce Lee.
Throughout secondary school, students are encouraged to take a wide variety of subjects as their minds are not developed enough to decide and pick several subjects as their main focus for their future. However, as times goes by, most students will find themselve scoring less than average or even failing in certain subjects but excelling at others. This shows what field they favour and it is also one of the determining factors as to what they should focus on further in college.
At subjects they excel, they will find themselves paying more attention and being more interested in that class compared to others. Personally, I find myself in this state during Physics and Mathematics and I am going to discuss some factors which made me enjoy studying that field more than any other, starting with Mathematics.
There are numerous ways to solve a complex Mathematics problem; it's not always going to be that one equation. By connecting one of the mathematical principles to another, we can even invent our own equation to solve the problem. It allows us to explore out mathematical mind which makes solving problems interesting. If you master the principles, solving it would just be as easy as pie. That's the magic of Mathematics; something so complicated can be in fact, simple. It's the only subject to only require logical thinking and only use a little memory.
What makes Mathematics interesting is that is takes over your artistic imagination as well. Take a piece of paper and pencil and draw a circle and simply plot points inside the circle. What do you see? 90% of people might think it's a spotted circle but 10% don't. These 10% are mathematicians. You may wonder why Mathematicians see something else. On that paper is just graphite, which is your pencil lead. No circle has ever existed, because everything we consider to exist is made out of a jumbled hodgepodge of atoms far too complicated to be thought of in any sort of manageable way. But the circle, which you created out of absolutely nothing but a spark of imagination, and the points you plotted are the mathematical objects you know about because, quite simply, you made them to be that way.
Myths and beliefs say that we are attached to an invisible elastic band which only react whenever we are on air, that's why we can't fly. Thanks to Sir Isaac Newton, a legendary physics researcher, these beliefs were proved wrong and that it is just the pull of gravity. Physics, also known as the mathematics of science, allows you to view the world from a whole another level; it also allows you to discover secrets behind why people float in space. Thankfully, a lot of myths have been busted by scientific facts which I find to be a relief.
Sir Isaac Newton is not only a physics researcher, he indirectly taught people about life. He issued his three laws of motion with one of them being, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." This is also can be applied to life. Bad things will happen to you if you do bad things to people and it would be the other way round if you do good things to people.
What's more interesting about physics is that there is still a lot more to discover. For example, everyone should know that our planet is orbiting around the Sun along with the other 9 planets in our universe. Did you know that the Sun is orbiting around something else? That something is yet to be discovered. Physics is infact, beautiful.
Physics has taught me to not be easily convinced by unbelievable stories and myths. Mathematics has taught me that when you have a problem, there are a lot of ways to deal with it. That's why I enjoy stuying both of them more than any other. Personally, through this enjoyment, I find my shortest path to knowledge.
What about you? What're YOUR favourite subjects?
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