Sometimes physics problems drive me nuts. “Here, do a bunch of math. The application to the real world is easily understood but there isn’t much else to do on this problem, so just derive a bunch of equations that we’ve come up with here, and we’ll call it a day.”
I like it when they give you a problem and you have to figure out how to solve the thing. I hate problems of the form “Show that X Behavior takes the form of this complicated equation. We’ve taken the liberty of replacing these very ugly things with constants, but you’ll still have the manipulate the equation in its gargantuan form if you’re to complete the assignment.” Ugh.
Also, happy thanksgiving I guess.