Among funny stories, I once got one student who computed the speed of a car (normal car, nothing special here) as 500 km/h. I asked him his opinion about that number. And his answer was "it 's physics after all, everything is possible". I was chocked at that time (but I was also a 22 year-old assistant back then) ^^
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That's so funny! Clearly, the sense of numbers and hence they can't really tell if it is logical or not. Maybe your student can't or don't drive a car yet?
Wonderful rebuttal.... haha
I have other examples. The point is that students are not connecting physics to real life anymore.
Good example - and totally agree with your point.