Reviewing math for electrical engineering classes

[mmapcpro]

I have been out of school for the past 10 years, and have returned to resume my coursework in electrical engineering (I changed majors from engineering physics).

I have not taken ANY electrical engineering core classes yet, so I am starting from the beginning with the major classes. I have all of my general education classes, and math classes transferred in. I have credit for calc 1, 2, 3, and ordinary differential equations. The problem is, I don't remember all of the techniques. I bought calculus and diff eq textbooks, and have begun reviewing calculus, working as many problems as is practical. So far, I'm about 1/4 of the way into the calculus 2 material.

In the fall, I will be taking Intro. to Digital Design, Circuits 1 (which has calc 2 as a pre-req), and Physics 2 (which in this school, focuses on electricity, magnetism, circuits, EM waves, light, and some modern physics).

My question is, do you think it is expected of me to have a mastery of all the math topics I have already taken to do well in these courses? Or will it be like riding a bike once I get into the EE courses?

I am only concerned because I also have to review my physics 1 and my C programming before fall.

 

[zhermes]

My question is, do you think it is expected of me to have a mastery of all the math topics I have already taken to do well in these courses?

I really doubt it. In general, introductory physics courses like that only use the slightest bit of calculus, and even that you often only need a qualitative understanding of what's happening.

Or will it be like riding a bike once I get into the EE courses

Even if that's not the case, I think it will come back to you fairly quickly.
You might want to consider just sitting in on a few math classes to get back into the language, the formalism, the ideology, etc. Personally, I have a lot of trouble just diving into a textbook without any thing else.