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I am getting two minors, but I wish I had just gotten honors. There is way more work, however, and usually a GPA stipulation. A minor is fun to get, but even majoring in something doesn't mean you know that much about the subject, so a minor in something means you know even less. Just depends...

A math class is doable in the summer, and you can possibly retain most of the information since a significant amount of time will be put into it. The only problem I ran into is that it usually takes me two days to really "get" math material. This can be a problem when there is a rapid pace...

I am finishing up a triple major with two minors: Majoring in economics, history, and physics and minoring in business and math. It has taken me 5 years, but in my opinion, worth it. I love history and it was my "fun" degree, ie. a subject that I am intensely interested in but nothing will...

I don't know how rigorous you would want, but I used Larson and Hostetler Precalculus 4th edition. I have taken calculus I and II at the college level, and I am currently taking Calc III during summer school. I wanted to brush up on trig identities and trig functions, and the unit circle and...

Thank you! That problem has been eating at me for the past few days and driving me nuts!

It's better to be ahead in math by the time you take the physics. If you have to learn the math while you learn the physics, it is less than ideal. It is much nicer to just focus on the physics and learn the physics rather than learning both at the same time. If you already know the math you can...

Homework Statement Parallelogram in 3d with vectors. Points: A(2,-1,4); B(1,0,-1); C(1,2,3); D(2,1,8) I need the interior angle at B in degrees. Homework Equations cos(theta) = (Vector1 dot product vector2) / (magnitude of v1 * magnitude of v2) The Attempt at a Solution I...

USA is 4 years and you don't cover TOO much material in your major, because basically 2 years is general education in a bunch of different subjects. From what I understand, Europe is about 3-4 years but you pretty much spend most of your college years doing your particular field, so you come...

I HAVE to read the lecture material before hand. If I don't, it is a wasted class, I learn basically nothing. Even if I don't understand the reading material, I will at least have a vague idea of what is going on and stuff. Then I go to lecture, hopefully with a big jump start, or at least a...

Calc III is different from differential equations. Calculus I is probably the minimum to understand the intro courses for physics. Calculus II wouldn't hurt. Calculus III and you'd be gold for the first basic classes in college physics (calc based). Calc I is all that is necessary in my...

How much should you have studied before you take the PGRE? As in... I just took the GRE at the beginning of this year. I have one year left, but I am doing almost my entire physics degree in this last year. So if I want to apply to grad school in physics I need to take the PGRE early Fall...

Pretty full schedule: Summer 2010: Calc III (Multivariate Calculus) Fall 2010: Differential Equations Linear Algebra Classical Mechanics (senior level) Intro to Modern Physics (Junior level) Cosmochemistry I may change the cosmochemistry to something like biological physics, but the others...