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Sorry, been quite busy lately. Busy messing around, storming and reading through my text book and assignment.

Yes, while my friends are still in honey moon status, I have already done and submitted my homework assignment. As I joined a semester 2 course straight away, there is not much introduction or some easy cookies to get or to be done.

This assignment took me at least 5 hours to complete a 4 question assignment. Never had I face a homework that require so much time, and even more for only 4 question. Well, they are hard, but that isn't the main issue, eventhough they are tough and included tons of new knowledge. I completed the calculation and get all the answer in 30 minutes. They all require numerous step and incorporated a few laws/theory which are new to me. I find myself referring to the textbook and web while doing it. Still, I learn the concept and it was done.

Now, where did I spent the other 4 and half hours? I think I had to the least spent 4 and half hours to write down step by step and explanation into Mathematica. The explanation the lecturer require is tremendous. We are required to split the answering into 5 major steps.
Namely, Focus the Problem, Identify the Physics, Plan the solution, Execute the Plan and Evaluate the Solution. He recommended at least half a page for every single section.

It was a tough and time-taking task, but I found myself enjoying. Explaining things this way might be a huge pain but I found that the explanation really helps. It is just that the time passed way too fast when I'm on it.

I faced several problem while trying to answer. Mostly because I don't know how to use the program - Mathematica. I had just installed this program for 2 days and know nothing about it before this. It's text arranging seems to be way off for me ( now, I only have a slight clue about it's arrangement). Most importantly, I couldn't get the plot graph function working. Try as I might, (after skimming through the manuals and web intro at least twice) I still failed. Luckily, this shouldn't be much of concern. As it is only a single section in question 4.

So, physics assignment is very taxing and will be encountered by me weekly. The lecture is to give a homework assignment every week ! I Just hope that other courses would not do the same...