Recent content by zodea

Personally I think you would be better off to find a community college with a good pre-engineering program. It is much cheaper and you will have smaller class sizes. You need to take calculus, chemistry, physics and get your basic gen ed requirements out of the way. You want to take a physics...

Thanks for the comments everyone. Yes I am teaching algebra based physics. Some years we get into a little bit of trig but I don't remember enough calculus to introduce that to my classes plus only about half of my students take calculus at the same time they are taking physics. We only...

I realize this thread has been going on forever, but I would like to make a couple of comments. I teach high school physics. I doubt that I'm really considered qualified. After I have taught physics a few more years I might be getting close. One of my biggest complaints is lack of...