why do harder concepts (ie calculus, physics) get harder to understand/process for the brain?
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The deeper you get into maths and science the further away you get from common human experiences that our intuition is used to dealing with. You use addition and multiplication all the time so you’re used to thinking about it. You probably don’t use much calculus in everyday life so it takes time for you to get used to it. Eventually you will if you keep at it.
Though it can be easy to rely on memorisation of formulae and methods instead of learning the underlying reasoning. If you know the derivative of x^2 is 2x but you don’t know why, you’re likely to struggle when looking at new topics that require a good intuition for calculus
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