Couple of my own confusions. During aerodynamics the lecturer made a drawing of a cube, and named it elementary particle. I, to fit it better into my knowledge base aquired from physics course, asked whether it is the same as elementary volume. Perfect particle is a point, but the image had three dimensions, was squeezed and rotated later into lectures. For some reason teacher failed to understand what i meant, said couple things about particles, but not related to volumes and concepts from physics at all, and asked “did i answer your question?”. I had to say no, and since then the teacher hated me.
In my 5th grade during geometry we studied the concept of orthogonality. The teacher said (translating into english word for word) “line is orthogonal to plane if it is orthogonal to any line in that plane”. In my language the word corresponding to “any” means “take one arbitrary thing and test”, like in “bring me any apple”. My teacher, i assume was used to english papers, where “any” and “every” can both mean “forall”, failed to see why I opposed.
Couple of my own confusions. During aerodynamics the lecturer made a drawing of a cube, and named it elementary particle. I, to fit it better into my knowledge base aquired from physics course, asked whether it is the same as elementary volume. Perfect particle is a point, but the image had three dimensions, was squeezed and rotated later into lectures. For some reason teacher failed to understand what i meant, said couple things about particles, but not related to volumes and concepts from physics at all, and asked “did i answer your question?”. I had to say no, and since then the teacher hated me.
In my 5th grade during geometry we studied the concept of orthogonality. The teacher said (translating into english word for word) “line is orthogonal to plane if it is orthogonal to any line in that plane”. In my language the word corresponding to “any” means “take one arbitrary thing and test”, like in “bring me any apple”. My teacher, i assume was used to english papers, where “any” and “every” can both mean “forall”, failed to see why I opposed.