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A Textbook VS Real Life

There are certain things that a textbook simply cannot convey. There was but a single sentence dedicated to fireworks during New Year's eve in germany in my A-Level German Textbook. But it has been 12 minutes and the fireworks haven't ceased their rumbling. It's far away from deafening but most definitely quite loud.

A textbook can't show you the difference between Newton's 3rd law and an object being at equilibrium. It can say that "Since gravitational acceleration acts on both a horizontally launched bullet and a vertically dropped bullet in free fall, they both will reach the ground at the same time as their vertical initial velocity is zero."
I believe however only a video can do it justice.

For certain subjects such as physics. A textbook can only take you so far.

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