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So I failed a physics class for the first time ever, I just finished my junior year of college, and I unfortunately failed my Electricity and Magnetism class and will have to take it next spring which means that I have a semester to prepare myself to retake it.
The class is the junior level E&M which means that it deals with all the concepts in 3-dimensions and involves all the gradient functions and things like that. The class covers electrostatics and magneticstatics.
I was wondering if anyone could suggest any good resources (e.g websites, books, etc) to prepare myself over the summer and next semester so when I retake the class, I can do well in it.
My academic advisor told me that a lot of students fail this class their first time around, but this was the first class I have ever failed, and seeing that F on my transcript really hurt me. Part of the reason why I struggled was because over the course of the semester, I became depressed and exhausted, and began to push all my friends away; as a result, because I am typically social person, I became even more depress, I then spent the last quarter of the semester rebuilding the friendships that I destroyed and saving the grades of classes that I could. I got counseling and it helped.
But ever since I began as a physics major 2 years ago, a part of me always keeps wondering if I am smart enough to actually do this; I'm afraid that I will reach a point where I will be over my head and I will fail miserably. Has anyone ever dealt with the same kind of thoughts, and if so, how did you get over them?
Any help is appreciated. Thank you so much!
The class is the junior level E&M which means that it deals with all the concepts in 3-dimensions and involves all the gradient functions and things like that. The class covers electrostatics and magneticstatics.
I was wondering if anyone could suggest any good resources (e.g websites, books, etc) to prepare myself over the summer and next semester so when I retake the class, I can do well in it.
My academic advisor told me that a lot of students fail this class their first time around, but this was the first class I have ever failed, and seeing that F on my transcript really hurt me. Part of the reason why I struggled was because over the course of the semester, I became depressed and exhausted, and began to push all my friends away; as a result, because I am typically social person, I became even more depress, I then spent the last quarter of the semester rebuilding the friendships that I destroyed and saving the grades of classes that I could. I got counseling and it helped.
But ever since I began as a physics major 2 years ago, a part of me always keeps wondering if I am smart enough to actually do this; I'm afraid that I will reach a point where I will be over my head and I will fail miserably. Has anyone ever dealt with the same kind of thoughts, and if so, how did you get over them?
Any help is appreciated. Thank you so much!