My favorite physicists are:
1. Newton-arrogant? yes. But he invented calculus and basically invented classical mechanics (not that it wasn't around before him, it's just he recognized it as "not-philosophy")
2. Richard Feynman- he's a brilliant man and I think he's hilarious
3. Galileo...
So I've been having some trouble doing well on my math quizzes and exams, and it's gotten to the point where I feel I need to check everything I do because it's like everything is turning out wrong. Maybe I'm stressed or just psyched out, but I realize what it is that is hurting my performance...
Thank you very much! Finally someone understands that this forum isn't a public grill fest! This particular forum was meant for people to post their fall schedule and talk about it, not everyone look for the people who haven't done as well as them and put them down.
To the guy with the 32...
Well the thing is that I got the full Pell Grant, which will only fully cover schools in Arizona since that's where I live. And to address your response of "well you're not supposed to worry about how much the college costs", my parents aren't as supportive of college as yours must be, so I...
I agree with this, there's always people asking questions, but most of the time they are incredibly easy questions to figure out on your own. I remember my first day of public school my english teacher told us to write "There was too much work for us to do." or something like that so she could...
I will give you props on that answer, very clear, thank you. I believe you to be right about it all, my teacher detested most of his students because they just didn't care about the class much. I'm sure college level classes will be different though.
I see what you mean that reading...
I'm a freshman at a CC, don't laugh.
Math 187-Precalculus by Stewart
Spanish 101-Vistas (Spanish Book) by some spanish speaking person prolly
Philosophy 123-Philosophy of Science (awesome class) by Philipp Frank (yes it's spelled right)
History 274-Introduction to the Holocaust by Bauer...
Hmmm...I guess I should have elaborated on what I was actually having a problem with, I was saying that I can read A&P pretty easily and understand what is being described, but in Physics I can't seem to read at the same fluency as with A&P. The problems are pretty straightforward most of the...
So I'm a pretty smart guy, I can do lots of abstract thinking, I have great memory, and am quite capable at forming conclusions and hypotheses on my own, but maybe I'm a slow reader or something, but whenever I study physics it seems to take forever to get through anything. I took anatomy and...
Well I don't believe that you're courseload is bad at all, the hardest thing for me would be maintaining interest in both biology and physics (I tend to change scientific interests like most people change music preferences...for a few months I'll love physics then I hear about a neuroscience...
I was curious how research in applied math is done, the reason I'm curious is because I can't seem to believe that research is started with a question...like "what temperature will a cell freeze without killing the cell" for example. All I've ever seen is math modeling of a phenomenon. thank you
i totally agree with thrill. High school math is ridiculously strange...most of the teachers aren't doing it because they love math or teaching, it's because they didn't do well enough in college to get a good job or into a grad program so they thought "hey, what the heck...How bout teaching?"...
Well, honestly you shouldn't beat yourself up bad about it, as long as you get at least a C you're doing well enough. To me it's the lowest acceptable grade in a math class...and besides...at least it's not a D!
At my high school I had a HORRIBLE teacher for Intermediate Algebra. He was...
mine's way impressive:
College Algebra
Writing 101
Intro to Gen Chemistry
Humanity
Arts
lol...I'mma loser...totally slacked off in HS...plus my teachers weren't supportive at all...had no goals...wanted to join the military...
stay in school kids!