Learning Strategies : Think like a Physicist with... Benzene?

Accelerated Physics

Think like a Physicist?
Physicists have their own culture, and part of that culture is a kind of collective, self reflection. One of the most common targets? Creative problem solving.

If you want to see a physicist student panic, as them to model the electron configuration of a benzene ring. As undergraduates spend weeks studying the electron configuration of the hydrogen atom in a quantum mechanics course. Weeks. And that’s just ONE atom. How are you going to model an entire, super complicated organic chemical like Bezene?!

Why. With Symmetry, of course.

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