• Question: Do u dislike any bits of science

    Asked by Lonely child to Yetty, Tom, Laura, Jack, Gina, Chris on 13 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Christopher Bullock

      Christopher Bullock answered on 13 Jun 2017:

      No not really, I am equally happy watching David Attenborough show us the wonders of wildlife as I am watching Brian Cox explaining how the solar system works. I think the best engineers are always curious and always wanting to know how things work.

    • Photo: Laura Walker

      Laura Walker answered on 13 Jun 2017:

      I like knowing how everything works but I found biology harder to grasp..

    • Photo: Yetunde Kolawole

      Yetunde Kolawole answered on 13 Jun 2017:

      Hi Pagalbeta,

      I really enjoy Math and Physics or learning about how things work but I struggled with Biology .

    • Photo: Tom Rooney

      Tom Rooney answered on 13 Jun 2017:

      For me it was chemistry, being a practical minded person I could understand things I could see so physics and biology were interesting for me at school, but chemistry is a bit more abstract, i.e. not obvious. I found it hard to visualise what was happening at the molecular level and I didn’t understand the forces at work on that scale. These days I’m much more open to it, probably because with electronics, radar and sonar the principles of how they work is on the same scales of particles, atoms, electrons etc. Studying this has involved understand the chemistry at work too. I think Chris’s work with grapheme, for example, is fascinating. There are so many potential applications for this amazing material in nearly every sector… I’m looking forward to seeing how it will be used in ocean science; perhaps in the future YOU will find the breakthrough use for it that changes the world! 😉

    • Photo: Gina Schade

      Gina Schade answered on 14 Jun 2017:

      I’m the same as Tom – in school I enjoyed biology and physics because you could easily apply it to real life. Chemistry I found much more difficult to understand because I found it hard to imagine things happening at a molecular scale. I’m a lot better with Chemistry now after a couple of years of being able to sleep on it hah!

Comments

  • Photo: 796canj34

    796canj34 commented on :

    i hate bunsen burners. I am scared of the damage i might do.

  • Photo: Tom

    Tom commented on :

    What on earth are you doing with those Bunsen burners that is so scary?! Are you a member of the Bunsen burner dance club? Or is there a new extreme sport that involves them? In their natural habitat of the chemistry lab the humble Bunsen is your friend and perfectly safe if you follow the teacher’s instructions.