Recent content by huckmank

Yes, I was frustrated throughout my sophomore level physics classes, mostly due to the sheer quantity of subjects covered in the classes. In physics I you have motion in two dimensions (while most likely learning vectors for the first time), statics, rotational motion, waves, thermo, gravitation...

And Maple is much easier than both. I would recommend buying a student copy of Maple for $99 (less if your campus computer store has a deal; mine has it for $20). And for class buy yourself a decent scientific like the...

Aerospace engineering is basically mechanical engineering applied to aeronautical and astronautical craft. Astrophysics is the study of the physics of celestial objects. They have almost nothing to do with each other. Moving from AE to astro would be much more of a jump than moving from a BS in...

Which you can do by simply auditing the course. There's no need for them to count it as an official minor. You can still learn without it going on your transcript.

And I'm saying that suburban sprawl stems from the fact that Americans have vast tracts of land available to them. Homeowners want to buy their houses far from the city because they can get more for their money when they purchase a house in the middle of nowhere. Retailers don't want to set up...

:smile: Are you implying that suburban sprawl is all the fault of GM buying up a trolly car company in the late 30's?! Oh my dear lord. :smile: edit: and you get no sympathy from me. My commute to school is 15 miles round-trip and I bike every damn day. Not GM's fault that home prices are...

Nonsense. It's more practical to drive in the US because our country is less than 300 years old and the cities built up over the course of one-hundred years - pretty much everything west of the Mississippi - are sprawling metropolises with suburbs ranging 30-50 miles from their respective...

So you're... what? Proposing that every single poor person must be taken care of by the government before production can start on a single upscale retail establishment? What exactly does one have to do with the other?

Thank god we don't have eminent domain in the good ole' US of A. :rolleyes:

Yep, you can buy a 6th edition copy of Halliday/Resnick for about $3 plus shipping from https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471332364/?tag=pfamazon01-20. Great text.

Ok, well you'll be going into AC analysis which will involve some complex number arithmetic. The 2nd order circuits will require a passing understanding of what integrals and derivatives are, but you won't be doing any integrating; you'll be forming a characteristic equation of the circuit...

Intro to Circuits involves very basic algebra and being able to solve simultaneous equations w/ typically 3 variables being the max. If your Intro class goes into inductors or capacitors, there will be some very light calculus, but you'll most likely be taught what you need to know in the class...

I would think a good compromise between taking the course and skipping it would be to audit the course. That way you can go to the lectures and take the exams without the stress of having to worry about your final grade. It also leaves you the option to stop attending if you decide mid-way...

You're basically the same person as me. I excelled up until high school at which point I started losing interest because some of the subjects required a modicum of study, which I hadn't had to do up until that point. I finished high school in the bottom fourth of my class and worked in tech...

Point to me where exactly in my post I recommended he retake the class. It would be ridiculous to retake a 16 week course just to boost his grade from a B+ to an A+ and I actually made a nod towards not retaking the class and not worrying about the grade once it's in. What I did recommend is...