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I'm now going into my Junior year of college looking to major in Physics. The last math course I've completed was Calculus 3. I read through the course outline and it listed that a the last lower division math I'll need to complete before I start their Physics program. It looks like Diff. Eq is...

I actually took a year off after Classical Newtonian Mechanics (I think this is considered Physics I) then took intro to Calculus-based E&M a year later just this past semester and did fine. While I did remember how to do most problems from mechanics, I'd say it's important to know the very...

ahhhh I see, it makes clear sense! I wasn't thinking about "r" being in a different plane and limited it to the plane with the cross-sectional area of the cylindrical shell. Thank you Ideasrule. In regards to the flux, would you multiply the magnetic field by pi*B^2 which is the radius of the...

First off, I'm sorry but I am LaTeX illiterate :frown:. Homework Statement An infinitely long conducting cylindrical shell has an inner radius A, an outer radius B, and carries a non-uniform current density J= [2ar]sin(wt) where a and w are constant. What is the magnitude of the induced...

I've decided to major in Physics and just finished E&M as well as Calculus 3. I understand how to do most of the problems in my Calc book (the same text was used for all three courses) mechanically. Our classes used James Stewart's text and I had Ron Larson's as another reference. My concern...

Sorry about that, to clarify: Given my example, if a rod with uniform charge density had one end placed at the origin of the x-axis, and extended some distance of x=-a in the negative x direction and there was some point P at x= -b which is further down the negative x-axis than x=-a. Would...

This is due to a line of charge that rests on an axis and evaluating the electric field at a point that is also on the same axis. Will the radius, no matter what always be positive? So if one end of a uniform line of charge is placed at the origin that extends in the negative x-axis and there...

I was going to post a similar question, but I guess I'll use this thread instead since it is closely related and while trying not to derail it. I too will be taking linear algebra, Differential Equations, and Electricity and Magnetism (using Halliday and Resnick) this semester. I...

Hello Othic, I was just in your same situation at the start of this last semester, from my personal experience I went through a ton of Integrals and Trig the summer before I took Calculus II. That helped tremendously. If you have Calc I (Limits, Derivatives and Integrals) and Trig (solving...

Hello everyone, I made a similar post to this last semester when I went onto take my Introduction to Mechanics (1st semester of College Physics) course and asked for some books that will give me some insight to supplement the first few sections of the Halliday and Resnick (1-15, 8th edition)...

Thank you for the support/advice everyone, it means a lot to me. The responses have been great especially since so many are in agreement with what foundation should be set (trig/analytic geometry/series). I just started mapping out a schedule of what I will have to work on from now until the...

Hello everyone, I just finished my first semester of Calculus (first 5 Chapters of James Stewart's "Calculus" 6th edition text) and was able to get some insight from students who were taking Calculus II (the rest of the text). I finished with an A for Calc I, but heard Calc II is a whole...