Never Give up
Sometimes you just want to stop. It's pretty common, really- I did my Silver Duke of Edinburgh this weekend, and giving up was pretty much at the forefront of my mind as we stomped through fields and up hills for days on end, slept in tents and cooked instant pasta on our Trangea stoves...
And sometimes you just... lose... momentum. Now, this blog has not even existed for two weeks yet, and I don't think that it is slowing down at all- on the contrary, I have just updated the revision notes section with some very useful notes compiled by an ex-TSR user, (who if they're reading, is free to contact me to ask me to take them down if you'd like) and will shortly upload sample vector questions and model answers. They are reasonably likely to involve the cosine rule, unlike the questions typically in physics A levels, because I made up the questions off the top of my head and so the angles are not all that pretty.
But I am worried that this site might lose momentum. And that's bad, because I really, *really* want to conserve momentum. Probably not for a little while yet, but once I've got all the topics nicely written up, and it's just the blog, that's when I am worried that the steam might start to go out. It doesn't help that since the blog is so new (I'm not even sure if Google's SEO picks it up yet) there is effectively zero traffic.
I don't think you should give up. There was a period when I despaired of ever being good enough at physics to match the greats- Newton, Einstein, Dirac, Feynman- and I was dead set on a career in medicine, despite preferring physics lessons in school! Those were an odd few years, and having 'given up' on physics during that time felt rather dreary, and lost. I survived Exmoor this weekend; I came back from the wilderness; I am going to study physics, the subeject I love; and I am not going to give up.
With that in mind, I am going to have added practice vector questions by the end of tomorrow, and will make sure to write up at least one set of study notes (probably going to be more particle physics) and the derivation for the last two As physics formulae which are the optics related ones. Be warned that that particular proof is mathsy. I do not know a satisfactory way of proving it that is not mathsy. I will do my best to draw a pretty picture, and to explain the principles without maths, as they are genuinely interesting relationships- but I cannot make any promises. Happy physics!
