Anyone else struggle with Physics?
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I try and forget it - that and calc. Org chem was a bitch too - but I AM the 99% that doesn't use their degree anyway, so what's it matter... Maybe there will be a helacious curve and you'll end up getting a B - but then there's always that smart Mother F who screws it all for everyone else...
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If anyone every needs help with math I highly recommend heading over to Kahn Academy and watching the videos on whatever you are having problems with. I don't think I have ever seen someone make math seem so easy as this guy does.
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Physics was ok for me especially all the mechanical stuff until the second class where it got into the bazar stuff that is hard to wrap your head around like electric and magnetic field theory stuff I had issues grasping that.
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My roommate used to wake up screaming from nightmares about Calc IV. I was seroiusly concerned for his sanity at one point.
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In all seriousness, if any one needs tutoring in math, don't be afraid to send me a PM. I've been tutoring at the local college for a while now and also do help over skype, email, etc...
Anything from basic algebra to calc.4 and anything in between. Just let me know and I'll be glad to help.
No skype sex until homework is done
Anything from basic algebra to calc.4 and anything in between. Just let me know and I'll be glad to help.
No skype sex until homework is done
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Thermo was tough. Luckily, I had a professor that made it simple; you either learned the stuff or you failed. He quized at least once a week, and if it was obvious people weren't getting it, he tried the same material again until people did get it.
My roommate used to wake up screaming from nightmares about Calc IV. I was seroiusly concerned for his sanity at one point.
My roommate used to wake up screaming from nightmares about Calc IV. I was seroiusly concerned for his sanity at one point.
Thermo I => A
Thermo II => F
Thermo II => A second time with new instructor
Heat transfer => A
Fluid Mechanics => A
Bob
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Physics wasn't too bad for me, but at Calc II I started questioning my direction (mech. engineering) and looked at some Comp Sci. and philosophy courses that looked fun. Calc III clinched the ME thing for me, and I've been happily programming computers for the last 20 years (while my BA, Phil. collects dust).
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You can show up naked smeared with **** and they'll let you into civil engineering =P
For the record, I was a HS dropout. Dropped out at 17 with only one credit left to graduate. Went back to college for a bit when I was 22 to work on math then full bore when I was 24 (last year) to work on my engineering transfer.
There is a reason that valuable degrees are worth it. They are a lot of hard work, they kick your ***, but you learn a lot and can have a lot of fun if you make it your hobby.
My friends make fun of me when they come over and see endless reams of scratch paper with computations all over the place lol.
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Man I wish I could get a bunch of A's...
Don't worry about it OP. I am in my 4th year of mechanical engineering rocking a 2.4 GPA, and I have had an internship with US Air and am going to have one with MoTeC. Just keep at it, and most importantly, join a FSAE team haha.
Don't worry about it OP. I am in my 4th year of mechanical engineering rocking a 2.4 GPA, and I have had an internship with US Air and am going to have one with MoTeC. Just keep at it, and most importantly, join a FSAE team haha.
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Bits of wisdom gleaned from my 100 years as an Engineering student:
1.) Your boss makes more money as a Costco manager than she did as an engineer because she was a poor engineer, not because Costco pays its managers so well. There are excellent female engineers, but there are also a very great number of really bad ones. The female brain tends to be really excellent at retaining knowledge, and really terrible at applying that retained knowledge to real world examples. That isn't sexist, its just that they're genetically wired differently than men are. Their evolutionary motivations and advantages don't lend themselves to engineering as much as they do to other sciences.
2.) Having a degree does NOT make you a good engineer. My dad is one of the best engineers I have ever met, and he has a geography degree. One of the local ricer kids has his Masters in Aerospace Engineering, and he's too stupid to tie his own shoes.
3.) For me, having really good examples, and learning WHAT you're doing with the numbers makes all the difference in the world. You may be able to smash all the steps of your instructors favorite impulse/ momentum problems into your head and pass the test, but wrapping your brain around the concept that impulse is the amount of effort it takes to change the state of a body, and really absorbing the concepts involved helps me be able to really work my way through a problem instead of memorizing a list of steps that may or may not be applicable in real world design problems.
1.) Your boss makes more money as a Costco manager than she did as an engineer because she was a poor engineer, not because Costco pays its managers so well. There are excellent female engineers, but there are also a very great number of really bad ones. The female brain tends to be really excellent at retaining knowledge, and really terrible at applying that retained knowledge to real world examples. That isn't sexist, its just that they're genetically wired differently than men are. Their evolutionary motivations and advantages don't lend themselves to engineering as much as they do to other sciences.
2.) Having a degree does NOT make you a good engineer. My dad is one of the best engineers I have ever met, and he has a geography degree. One of the local ricer kids has his Masters in Aerospace Engineering, and he's too stupid to tie his own shoes.
3.) For me, having really good examples, and learning WHAT you're doing with the numbers makes all the difference in the world. You may be able to smash all the steps of your instructors favorite impulse/ momentum problems into your head and pass the test, but wrapping your brain around the concept that impulse is the amount of effort it takes to change the state of a body, and really absorbing the concepts involved helps me be able to really work my way through a problem instead of memorizing a list of steps that may or may not be applicable in real world design problems.
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I've worked with many who are good in a classroom, but couldn't engineer a good ****. Book learning is different from application to the real world. Most doctorates are nearly helpless when it comes to solving problems, at least until they get half a dozen years of experience.
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Also, for everyone posting about book smarts versus actually applying said smarts to the real world, I couldnt agree with you more! I know some people who dont even understand the concept of how an engine runs... but thats just the way things are.