{"id":12690,"date":"2012-11-03T05:23:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T10:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2012-11-03T05:23:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T10:23:45","slug":"sculpting-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12690","title":{"rendered":"Sculpting the Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/telescoper.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/02\/three-tips-for-solving-physics-problems\/\">Three Tips for Solving Physics Problems<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I began with the Feynman algorithm for solving physics problems:<\/p>\n<p>Write down the problem.<br \/>\nThink very hard.<br \/>\nWrite down the answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is reminiscent of the old joke about how to sculpt an elephant:<br \/>\n1.  Get a huge block of marble<br \/>\n2.  Chip away everything that doesn&#8217;t look like an elephant<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 but the post then goes on to explain how this is very useful advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Tips for Solving Physics Problems I began with the Feynman algorithm for solving physics problems: Write down the problem. Think very hard. Write down the answer. This is reminiscent of the old joke about how to sculpt an elephant: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}