okay that sounds great - I would love to be able to check my work as well! Thank you for the detailed response. I have been reading and taking good notes - and going to other resources but some of the conceptual problems just have me stumped.Wanting to Learn said:
That's the goal! Thank man - I will make sure to follow the template and show my work so far- but unfortunately there is a problem that I am completely stuck on - so are my fellow classmates, we don't even know where to start. I don't want the answer I need some help thinking through it so I hope this is the right place for that. Thank you and take care.berkeman said:Please post one problem at a time using the Homework Help Template, showing the Relevant Equations and your Attempt at a Solution. After you have been able to mark your problem thread as Solved (using the check mark), you can post another thread with your next question, and so on. Please only have one active Homework thread going at a time here. As you get better at your schoolwork (with our help), you will not need to post as many Homework threads, probably.
okay thank you I will make sure to follow the template.CWatters said:
ruskointhehizzy said:
yeah but there are always tuns of people there - my professors office hours are full of people and the open slots for tutors are full of people too - can't really get one on one help. I have attempted every resource available, which are useful - I still go to the physics tutoring sections but it's only on Thursdays from 4-6pm. I still go to the office hours but it's only Wed from 12p-1pm. The assignments are taking people in the class about an hour a problem and he assigns about 15 of them. I think these forums are built for people in my situation lol. This stuff is not easy and I am putting forth all the effort I can yet still having trouble. We are only a few weeks in so maybe those sections will have less people over the quarter? I am not complaining I love it I just need a little help with this stuff. My lab group and discussion group is awesome - we have the early sections which everyone dropped so it is only us 4 - we have the entire lab to ourselves and we use it lol - but during the 2 hour lab we have to get done the work and during discussion they assign us different problems and our schedules conflict outside of class. We have been working together more on the problems especially this problem set so that is very good. My group partners are great and probably my most valuable resource in the course. Good question, I would have asked the same thing. Also I come from community college and transferred as a junior - this is the first time I actually needed tutoring, in fact at my cc I was a math tutor. I aced every single course there - I love this stuff but physics is a whole new ball park for me. I didn't take it in hs and this is my first experience with it. The UC campus is huge and way different from my CC course and I am still getting acclimated to it. You bring up a good point and I think I am going to email my professor to see if I have any other available resources that I am not utilizing.ZapperZ said:
Also, do not make multiple posts in quick reply to multiple replies, either use the multi quote function, or use the "edit" button to add a response to a previous post, otherwise you are just cluttering up the thread with unnecessary posts. This was the third post in less than 2 minutes. No harm, just a friendly hint.ruskointhehizzy said:
If you continue to do it after this friendly hint, then it gets ugly. 
Physics 9A at UC Davis.symbolipoint said:
I did my undergrad at UC Davis and loved the Physics 9 set of courses!ruskointhehizzy said:
oh that's awesome! what was your major? I am going for computer science. I love it too and have learned a tun just not used to the UC atmosphere yet and this is my first experience with physics so it is very challenging for me. I actually only started learning math in 2015 - I started from the very very bottom. This is all still relatively new to me but I really love it.berkeman said:I did my undergrad at UC Davis and loved the Physics 9 set of courses!
that's really awesome - going to read right now. They have computer science (BS in CS) and computer science and engineering (cs/cse) now. Also just computer engineering (CE). I am just CS, it was really hard to get into, I needed to pretty much ace every class at my cc - I talked to the uc rep and she told me they are making it hard to get into because so many people are applying for it.berkeman said:
