Hi Ashwin Sir,

my question is that wat is yur approach when yu solve physics questions pls explain in detail!!

1. First comes interest. You read popular science literature that intrigues you, or watch a science fiction movie and catches your guts shaking when the question of "how the Universe has been created" or "how do hurricanes form and behave" or "what's the basic constituents of matter" and so forth.

This is the UTMOST important step. It is an absolute asset.


2. Then comes energy and will power. You need to force yourself to read that one more chapter in your textbook and understand it and so on. (A good technique is to read the chapter until you hit a place, where you realise that you do not understand what's being said. There, you go back to the beginning of the chapter and start all over. Ideally, you will eventually have read the entire chapter and you have a clear idea of what has been said. This was how Isaac Newton studied Descartes' books. I don't suggest you follow this example, for it is way-way too time consuming, but it gives you an idea of what "reading a textbook" really means.)

3. Then comes knowledge. The more you read, the more things you know about. The more things you know about, the more techniques you can apply at solving a problem or understanding a proof, the more often you can relate what's written to what you already know.

4. Then comes experience. This is very tightly bound to the previous point, but it is yet quite distinct. The more problems you try solving (and look at their solution in case you hit a dead end), the more hints and tricks you understand and bare in your mind. These then are very likely to come up when you'll be solving the next problem.


I believe these basic steps can be done by absolutely anyone, once the first step is achieved. Even if the person is not very bright (I know I'm not), these steps can be done with a large success (may be in a longer time scale).

5. The final step is the wits. Some people were born with wits and are generally very lazy with steps 1 through 4 and hence do not achieve anything until they realise their mistake. Others understand that wits alone will do very little, so (again, given the fact that step 1 is satisfied) they work their behinds off, thinking that "experience and hard work are the only thing that can help me". Little do the know, they develop their wits along this tough road.

As an example, I know I can't rely on my wits, because I have got none (well, some... but very little, believe me). So I know that if I sit down and lay my hands beside, thinking that "I will come with something, no problem", then I better off going cross-country skiing or rock climbing with my fiancee. I realise that I have to work very hard, because there are more than plenty of other guys that are quite a lot smarter than myself, who are working on the same problem. And if I want to have something done, if I want to beat those guys, I need to work extra to what they work.


This is what physics and all of science is like.

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