And chemistry??? Its mostly brought into the picture to talk about stoichiometry, the study of the rate and equilibria of chemical reactions. Still, what?
For what it’s worth, deconfusing my patchy chemistry understanding from secondary school by reading proper university chemistry and biochemistry books paid off. For example, my chemistry class hadn’t given me deep enough appreciation for the fact that sometimes a reaction might be thermodynamically favorable, but has horrible kinetics. The same is true for evolution in a lot of places, but I have not seen a lot of people using that intuition. Like in some sense that is obvious, but in another sense I think in a lot of subjects including evolution, econ and learning I was applying that intuition inconsistently, and I definitely didn’t make the distinction that clearly. Since chemistry has explicit energies there that you can calculate, it’s easier to not commit type errors.
For what it’s worth, deconfusing my patchy chemistry understanding from secondary school by reading proper university chemistry and biochemistry books paid off. For example, my chemistry class hadn’t given me deep enough appreciation for the fact that sometimes a reaction might be thermodynamically favorable, but has horrible kinetics. The same is true for evolution in a lot of places, but I have not seen a lot of people using that intuition. Like in some sense that is obvious, but in another sense I think in a lot of subjects including evolution, econ and learning I was applying that intuition inconsistently, and I definitely didn’t make the distinction that clearly. Since chemistry has explicit energies there that you can calculate, it’s easier to not commit type errors.