>>11742370Furthermore, since the most questions involving translation, rotation and so on precede the logic questions, it's possible that physicists breeze through those questions whereas someone in CS would struggle with them, never getting to the last part with the logic questions where they would excel, bringing their score down.
>Additionally most physics majors are not taking more advanced classes than PDE's It doesn't matter. When you use the right hand rule, when you look at the curl of a vector field, where you look at the swing of a pendulum, all of those things, when done over and over, trains your brain to be better at picturing things like rotation, translation, movement and so on in your head. For instance, here is pic rel, an example of one question. You can solve it in many ways. You can think of it in terms of angle and trigonometry, things that come up a lot in physics. Or you can think about it as a clock, converting the dial into hours and looking for an arithmetic sequence. But both of those require familiarity with either reading an anolog clock, or the trigonometric circle/trigonometry to be able to solve it quickly. I read an article a year back about how zoomers can't read analog clock. If you try to solve this question by thinking of a clock, with the first row being 0,1.30, 4.30, second row being 3, 4.30,7.30, and third row being 4.30,6 and ?, you can clearly see that the pattern is +1.30 hours, +3 hours, which would mean the last square should be 9 hours. Similarly, using angles, you can see that it moves clockwise by 45 degrees, then 90 degrees. Which would mean the last image would be 90 degrees clockwise from the last position, which would be a bar pointing to the left. Now what if you haven't done trigonometry or angles, and aren't familiar with analog clocks? You could still be able to solve it, but it would take you significantly longer to do so.
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