Jafar's pretty practical, and the physics teacher seems to talk a lot about unreal things such as frictionless surfaces, point particles that represent whole objects (like his car), and ropes that do not stretch when they are used. Scott, one of Jafar's classmates, says that there's the world and then there's physics class and it's not real; Jafar should just memorize the unreal things, give the teacher what she wants, and forget them after the final examination, but Jafar is not comfortable with that. He wants to be an engineer like his older sister, and she told him that what they learned in physics does relate to her job. So giving the teacher what she wants and forgetting does not seem like a good option to him. Which, if any, of the following possible statements Jafar makes to Scott in response to his suggestion could be correct and may be able to persuade Scott to change his mind?
A. "Physics uses unreal situations as starting points because they are easy to visualize and do calculations with, then it adds reality little by little on to the simplified foundations; so points that represent objects aren't lies, they are just simplifications that give us a foothold onto the ideas that are important to consider."
B. "Physics gave the world the transistor and other devices that work in the computers in my car. Physicists have been able to land objects from Earth on Mars and have invented lasers and holograms. Something they are doing as scientists leads to these results, so we should both work to really understand how physics works."
C. "Engineers who built bathyscaphes to investigate the ocean depths use physics principles to keep occupants alive. Engineers who build bridges use physics so the cars do not plunge through even in heavy traffic. Engineers can create integrated circuits that do huge numbers of calculations each second. I think it must be important to understand how the basic physics leads to these useful results."
D. "My sister is an engineer, and she says learning physics is important. If she says so, we should learn O it."
