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starstruck_
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Hi!
I just graduated from high school and uh welp, despite the fact that I didn't do well this year, I loved physics way too much to not continue with. If everything is hard in uni and will make me feel like I'm dying, I might as well like how I'm dying :p.
Anyways, I was wondering what to expect from first year physics. I'm a little worried because my physics teacher didn't finish the curriculum with neither my class, nor the class I audited during my spare. Yikess.
I have a friend who just finished first year uni and is taking physics over the summer. He sends me problems because he knows I enjoy solving them and uh grade 12 physics really didn't cover much at all.
If I end up solving the problems, it's because I was able to make out connections between the units given, and my logic worked, but never because I've learned the basics behind those concepts. Usually he sends me questions related to electricity and magnetism which we didn't get to this year. So I'm usually looking at the questions going, "oh crap, I'm going in knowing nothing...".
I no longer know what to expect. I've been told first year is similar to high school physics but from what I've seen so far, it's a jump from what I've been exposed to. I'm not sure how to brace for it. How much of a disadvantage am I at with not having learned everything this year? Would doing AP physics off of edx be useful? I won't be getting my textbooks until classes start and I know what I need and don't need. Just a tiny,tad bit worried. :/ :(
I just graduated from high school and uh welp, despite the fact that I didn't do well this year, I loved physics way too much to not continue with. If everything is hard in uni and will make me feel like I'm dying, I might as well like how I'm dying :p.
Anyways, I was wondering what to expect from first year physics. I'm a little worried because my physics teacher didn't finish the curriculum with neither my class, nor the class I audited during my spare. Yikess.
I have a friend who just finished first year uni and is taking physics over the summer. He sends me problems because he knows I enjoy solving them and uh grade 12 physics really didn't cover much at all.
If I end up solving the problems, it's because I was able to make out connections between the units given, and my logic worked, but never because I've learned the basics behind those concepts. Usually he sends me questions related to electricity and magnetism which we didn't get to this year. So I'm usually looking at the questions going, "oh crap, I'm going in knowing nothing...".
I no longer know what to expect. I've been told first year is similar to high school physics but from what I've seen so far, it's a jump from what I've been exposed to. I'm not sure how to brace for it. How much of a disadvantage am I at with not having learned everything this year? Would doing AP physics off of edx be useful? I won't be getting my textbooks until classes start and I know what I need and don't need. Just a tiny,tad bit worried. :/ :(