物理におけるアルファベットの役割
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So this is しおりさん.
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アルファベットを使う言語の国の方々には文字式はどう見えていると思いますか?
例えば、高校の物理で習う運動方程式MA="F".
Okay.
Mが質量、マス。
Yeah.
Aが加速度。
Acceleration.
Okay.
Fがforce。
の頭文字です。
確かそうだったと思います。
Yeah.
これは日本人からしたら、質量のシ、加速度のカ、力のチのようにシ、カ、イコールチのように見えているのでしょうか?
Oh, okay.
速度はV、時間はT、重力加速度はGなどなど、物理は何かと文字を置いて数式で表していきますが、
それはどんな風にアルファベット圏の方々には見えているのかが気になります。
高校生だったのは10年ほど前ですが、高校生の時に疑問に思ったのを急に思い出し、トピックになるかなと思い送らせていただきました。
いつも楽しい動画をありがとうございます。これからもKALの皆さんの活躍を楽しみにしております。
Yeah.
I do believe that the alphabet people has a little bit of an advantage when it comes to those equations because it's more instinctive.
Yeah.
A is acceleration. It's so much easier.
Right.
M times A equals F, mass, acceleration, force. It's so instinctive.
True.
So it's much more easier to understand it, right?
I had a similar experience when I was in high school.
It made more sense to me why it's an A or an M.
Yeah.
True.
Acceleration is a little bit of a difficult English, right? Force is a little bit of a difficult English.
So it's easier for me. It's like, oh, it makes sense. It's an F.
True.
Whereas we have to memorize all those things like F, 力.
Yeah.
That's how we memorize them.
Yeah.
Right.
Those two.
Right, right, right.
A, 加速度. It's just, yeah.
So random, right?
So random.
If you don't know the E-Tango.
Yeah.
Yeah. I get it.
True.
I get it.
Yeah.
But it doesn't look weird, though. It just, yeah. I mean, it was, yeah. It was normal.
It's normal.
Yeah.
So it's not しち equal か. Do you think it's more like 質量かける?
You're exactly right.
Is that that vibe?
Right. We memorize it as mass times acceleration equals force.
I see.
Yeah.
Yeah. Well, that's better. That's convenient.
Right.
テストにおける公式の使い方
True.
You know, but the thing is, most of the times, you don't even need to memorize the equation.
In America, when you take the test, the formulas are given to you.
Yeah.
Here are the formulas that you're going to use in this test. Here are the problems.
And you just have to use the formula that's given to you.
So you just have to know which one's the force, which one's the mass, and all that stuff.
So it's much more easier.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you get to use a calculator.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
Right.
You'll see how I struggled in high school.
Yeah.
In God's Japan, where it's just so much more work.
日本の高校生活の挑戦
I have been under a lukewarm water.
Yeah.
Now you're under, like, fucking super cold, severe.
Yeah.
So you have to memorize all those equations and formulas and everything.
Yeah.
At one time, right?
At first, I thought they were going to be given to me, so I didn't even memorize it.
Wow.
But, like, when I got to the fucking test day, I was like, fuck.
How did you do that?
I couldn't do it.
I fucking failed the test.
And then I learned that I had to memorize it.
That's tough.
That was fucking tough.
So many times I thought about Cheating Man.
I was like, where the fuck can I write this equation without the fucking teachers noticing?
But I didn't do it.
It was too risky.
Yeah.
True.
Because we have, like, three years of middle schoolers' years, period, where we can memorize
all those basics and everything.
Yeah.
Whereas you just suddenly come to Japan and just put it into the high school, isn't it?
Yeah.
Ah.
Yeah.
What I'm still not understanding about the Japanese students is that whenever my Japanese
schoolmates, classmates, you know, they prepare for the test, they were like, they do this
thing called the Yamawaru.
Yeah.
I had no idea.
I understood the concept.
You know, just focus on those problems where it's more likely to be tested on.
Right.
Focus on the part where it's more important.
Yeah.
But, like, that concept did not exist in America.
Okay.
Where you just memorize everything.
Well, to begin with, there's not much to memorize.
So it's so easy to memorize everything.
And then the teacher will slap you with whatever the teacher wants to slap you with.
Then you're ready for it because you memorized everything.
Yeah.
But now it's like the students, my classmates, the Japanese classmates, like, they instinctively
know which is important and which is not.
Yeah.
And that was like, how the fuck are you guys navigating?
Like, what's the radar you guys are using to distinguish which is the uphill and the
downhill?
That is so difficult.
Yeah.
To this day, I still don't understand how they do it.
It's just, I mean, they've been trained to do it.
It looks so smart when I see the Japanese students do that.
Okay.
They're like CIA fuckers to me.
How are you guys doing that?
Yeah.
True.
We've been trained like that.
ケビンの経験
Because the testo-han is like too big and it's impossible to memorize every single
words.
So you have to decide which part you should focus on.
Yeah.
But are they like the accurate?
The Yamaharu?
Yeah.
Are they like made it?
I don't know.
I mean, most of the classmates were above me.
So it just, yeah, they all look like they're doing it.
I see.
Yeah.
It's not.
It's just like Kan.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
They're not accurate.
Oh, so.
They're not.
Sometimes you, koko ni yamaharu, and then you completely lost it.
Oh, so that happens sometimes?
That happens, yes.
What's the percentage of that happening?
I don't know.
Between 60 to, so accuracy, I would say 50 to 80, I would say.
So that means you have some sort.
Yeah, higher than the.
Right?
Yeah.
It's not completely random.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right?
I kind of see that.
So that's where I don't know.
For me, I don't know what the difference is between chapter one and two.
How the importance level changes.
I see.
I see.
So, yeah.
I see.
I see.
Yeah.
Still don't know.
Yeah.
Must be very difficult then.
You have to memorize everything.
Yeah, I did.
I mean, I did memorize everything.
You didn't know which one would be the vital ones and which one is not necessary.
Right, right.
Yeah.
So it was all.
I crammed everything inside.
Yeah.
That's tough.
Yeah, it was.
It was kind of tough.
Yeah.
You survived somehow though.
I mean, I don't see.
I think the teachers were kind enough to pass me.
I feel like if they hardcore really, really graded on the exact test results,
my grades would not have been high enough for me to graduate.
Really?
I think I would have been held back.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I could have made it.
I could have made it.
That's probably the tilting point of being held back and graduating.
And I do feel like there were some sort of like they had a soft spot.
I was like, let's let Kevin go through.
We'll bump it up a little.
Yeah.
Safe.
Right.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
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