[_delirium]

I had that view of physics initially, despite being very interested in computers and mathematics, because I viewed physics as a really inelegant memorization-based field, that consisted of filing away in your head a bunch of special-case equations for things like "how to determine final position with constant acceleration and constant friction". I disliked it much less when I took a calculus-based physics course in college, where all those miscellaneous equations were exposed as special cases of a few more general relationships.

[barry-cotter]

So all the people who are incapable of calculus can't appreciate pysics? That makes sense. It also restricts appreciation of physics to the top quartile, conservatively.

[_delirium]

I don't really know in general; I personally didn't appreciate physics when it was presented to me algebraically in high school, despite getting an A in it. Perhaps it'd be possible with a different way of teaching it; not sure.