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Hazerboy
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Hi guys, first time poster. Currently I'm going to the university of chicago and signed up to be a physics major. I've already made it through my first year--so far I've taken classical mechanics, Intro to E&M, intro to waves, light, & Optics, and I'm almost done this year with "Modern Physics," which is sort of like an introductory QM course (we've mostly dealt with simple solutions to the S. equation). I've also taken two physics specific math courses, one which was multivariable calculus and vector calculus, the other was linear algebra and differential equations.
Anyways, I'm signed up next quarter to take Intermediate mechanics (I think we're using the book Classical Mechanics, by John R. Taylor) and intermediate E&M (I HOPE we're using griffiths E&M, because i already own that book). Does anyone have any advice for these two courses? If you could go back and take them again what would you recommend? So far my grades for physics have been mostly OK, around the B to -A range. I feel like I understand everything well though I'm really not a very good test taker... All of the tests we get are time crunching, simple examples with easy math that you have to do very quickly. I'm awful at this, which sucks because I don't expect it to change much over the next few years. I'd much prefer heavier math with more time to think about the problem.
So yeah, any advice? Study guides I should get? I was planning on reading the textbooks some over winter break.
Thanks guys,
-Trent
Anyways, I'm signed up next quarter to take Intermediate mechanics (I think we're using the book Classical Mechanics, by John R. Taylor) and intermediate E&M (I HOPE we're using griffiths E&M, because i already own that book). Does anyone have any advice for these two courses? If you could go back and take them again what would you recommend? So far my grades for physics have been mostly OK, around the B to -A range. I feel like I understand everything well though I'm really not a very good test taker... All of the tests we get are time crunching, simple examples with easy math that you have to do very quickly. I'm awful at this, which sucks because I don't expect it to change much over the next few years. I'd much prefer heavier math with more time to think about the problem.
So yeah, any advice? Study guides I should get? I was planning on reading the textbooks some over winter break.
Thanks guys,
-Trent