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@Student100 I currently have two textbooks. Giancoli, Physics: Principles with Application and Halliday et al., Fundamentals of Physics. I think I have enough problems to solve in those two textbooks. I am also thinkinking about getting Taylor, Classical Mechanics to prepare for my theoretical...

Theoretically I can take any course I want to take. The university doesn't offer any prerequisite courses though. However, mathematics isn't my weak spot at the moment. I pretty much caught up by self-studying most of the material I needed to know. The bigger problem I have now is physics. I...

@symbolipoint We don't have college here in Germany. You go to university right after high school. All of the courses necessary for university are taught in 11th an 12th grade so there is no chance for me to go back and red-do some of the courses.

I know you are right. I guess I just have to get over the "ego"-problems of being labeled a total idiot for making a ton of mistakes on the board and I have to get over the fact that I might not be able to take part in the final exam. It pains me to read something like that. I am angry at...

@Vanadium 50 Yeah good point. It is just such a s*** situation at the moment. Completely relying on my own solutions is very likely going to lead to me not being able to take part in the final exam. Maybe I should try to do as many practice problems during my spring break. How long did it...

I know I can't keep copying solutions. It has become a habit that is really hard to stop. I think doing the problems on my own and then looking for help/verification on this forum might be the best option available to me at the moment. Yes. I can basically repeat courses/exams as many times as...

@Student100 Thank you for your reply. I will try implementing that. I am currently working on a problem set and I will try not to look at the solutions. However, I don't get the "immediate feedback and discussion" from my tutor as you put it. We (about 15 students and 1 tutor) meet every week...

@Dishsoap Officially, a physics course at a german university requires no previous knowledge. However, most of my lecturers and tutors assumed 12th grade german high school physics knowledge. Most students, especially in Bavaria, already cover Newtonian mechanics, waves, oscillators...

@symbolipoint Well there wasn't a lot of preparation. I did 7 AP's in my final two years of high school. AP Macro-/Microeconomics, AP Calc AB, AP Biology, AP English Language, AP German Language, AP European History. I didn't take any physics courses because the subject didn't appeal to me back...

Hello, I am currently in a pretty terrible situation and I need some advice how I can get out of this mess. I graduated from high school 2009 and after a gap year I began studying business. I didn't like it at all so I quit after two semesters. At the time I was reading a lot of popular...