I loved chemistry - it seems so logical - I preferred biology though to see
how things worked but really because I could illustrate it and thus remember
everything I learned - well nearly everything! Guess the two satisfy the
right and the left brain!
Learning something like balancing the equation as in chemistry helps us
understand all of lfe here - all has to balance - people forget this
principle.
Jane
From: "Mike Monett" <[email protected]>
Chemistry is so easy - at least the stuff we deal with. It is impossible
to
understand something unless you can view the equations and see how it
works.
I wish more people took an interest in doing this. You don't need a
graduate level course - just learn how to balance equations. There are
many
good tutorials on the web. And the more you learn, the easier it becomes
to
learn more. So you have a nice feedback loop going. And there is so much
satisfaction in being able to look at an equation and being able to read
it, and understand what is going on.
The reason it is so good to learn how to balance equations, is you have to
go through all the things in your mind as you are reading an equation.
Having to do all the individual steps forces your mind to pay attention to
each one.
When you are done, your mind says "Voila! That's how it works!"
And now you have learned something new!
And each one you do makes it easier to do the next one, so you quickly
build up a large understanding of how things work. This makes it easy to
learn more.
I find if an author cannot write a balanced equation to describe what he
is
talking about, he usually gets it wrong. Without correct equations, it is
so easy to make mistakes it's not even funny. But the equations force you
to stay on the straight and narrow, and you are more likely to get it
right.
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