Comment by 1-more
11 hours ago
Yeah, for me the real click was in AP Physics where we derived an equation for some motion property rather than just being handed the formula as I had been in, say, 8th grade science. The meta lesson is that you can use math to get more information out of a model than you think you have, which, yeah, keeps you from becoming a 5G get the facts style individual.
I loved learning about jerk, snap, crackle, and pop as higher-order derivatives of position wrt time in physics.