What Courses Are You Taking Spring 2014?

[R136a1]

So, what courses are you going to take spring 2014? Post it here!

 

[jbrussell93]

The standard...

Art history
Programming
E&M
Stat mech
Applied analysis

 

[Sentin3l]

Quantum I
Classical II
PDE's
Analysis
Research - Modified GR and the validity of the Jordan frame

 

[heatengine516]

Intro to Game programming
Advanced Programming (java)
Discrete Structures
2nd semester of College Bio

 

[TheKracken]

California Community College student Math transfer student

For sure:
PreCalculus 5
English 1st semester 4
Music appreciation classical music 3
possibly add on psychology for 3

 

[Pattern]

Engineering Physics, 3rd year

mmm...

Solid State Physics
Strength of Materials and Solid Mechanics
3rd year Degree Project in Engineering Physics, specialization in Theoretical Physics

I will also be a teaching assistant for 1st year students in Multivariable Calculus of which I'm looking forward to immensely.

 

[Astrometry]

Pretty standard schedule.

• Calculus 2
• Computer programming
• History
• Sociology

Overall 14 credit hours.

 

[mak52810]

Real Analysis
Abstract Algebra
PDE
Econometrics 1
Microeconomic Theory
either Mathematical Astronomy or Dynamical System.

 

[cleve1970]

Physical Geography
Statistics
Calculus II
English II
Communications

 

[Metta]

Calculus 2
General Chemistry 2
Linear Algebra
Econ class

 

[caldweab]

Nuclear reactor theory
Modern Physics
Engineering Graphics
Radioisotope Laboratory
Chemistry 2 ( yes I know I should've taken it earlier )

 

[clope023]

Last semester in physics undergrad!

Classical Mechanics II
Senior Physics Laboratory
Nuclear and Particle Physics (may or may not be dropped)
Biology Lab (need it to graduate)
Senior Thesis Research

 

[WannabeNewton]

Math and physics courses mayhaps

 

[djh101]

Winter is just starting on the quarter system :P.

Anyway, I'll be taking:
-Introduction to Molecular Spectroscopy
-Electricity and Magnetism
-Physical Chemistry Lab

Although I'm currently enrolled in Abstract Algebra (Rings and Fields), I will probably be dropping it since (with three classes this and next quarter) I'll have enough units to graduate and, unless I do a five class quarter, I won't be able to fit in a math minor. I may audit Real Analysis, though, since the existence/uniqueness part of my ODE course left me feeling very mathematically illiterate.

 

[pantheid]

Quantum Mechanics 2
Numerical Analysis
General Relativity
Senior seminar
Intro senior project
Readings in Particle Dynamics
Thermo/statphys

 

[metapuff]

My second semester of Freshman year:

Linear Algebra
E&M
Energy / Sustainability in Physics
Modern Astrophysics
History of Jazz
Physics Lab

 

[Unforgiven He]

Analysis of Algorithms
Networks II
Decision Theory I
Engineering Differential Equations
Unix Tools & Scripting

 

[retro10x]

Nuclear and particle Physics (intro course)
Adv Classical Mechanics (Lifshitz/Landau)
Complex Analysis (Fisher)
Practical Physics II
Earth and space physics
A seminar course called "science and society"

 

[Dr Transport]

Chem II, gojng back to essentially get a chemistry minor after all these years of doing materials work...

 

[Nathew]

Calc II
Linear algebra & Differential Equations
English II
Mechanics
Introduction to Python

 

[NATURE.M]

First Year Undergraduate, Second semester

Calculus II
Physics (E&M, Special Relativity)
Linear Algebra II
Genetics
How do we come to know seminar course

 

[Forensics]

It's my second semester CC so I'm knocking out a bunch of easy classes so I can get into the fun stuff next year.

Networking basics
Windows single user
Linus/UNIX single user
Database concepts
Intro to criminal justice
Basic PC literacy
Mathematical models.

I swear if you're going for information security and cyber crime technology you shouldn't be required to take classes like basic pc literacy haha.

 

[Illuvitar]

Its my second semester of CC as well so well same deal as Forensics/

DMAT 0099 (last term of developmental mathematics...)
Psychology
Music Appreciation
Physical Education
US History

I know being in a DMAT course is probably laughable to many of you (but I took 3 years off after high school so I forgot everything) but I have been studying it during the winter break and have progressed through more than half of the syllabus already so spring semester will be like a review, enabling me to get ahead and study College Algebra in advance! I just can't wait to take more advanced classes so that I can take even more advanced classes! Bah ha ha!

 

[zapz]

Its my second semester of CC as well so well same deal as Forensics/

DMAT 0099 (last term of developmental mathematics...)
Psychology
Music Appreciation
Physical Education
US History

I know being in a DMAT course is probably laughable to many of you (but I took 3 years off after high school so I forgot everything) but I have been studying it during the winter break and have progressed through more than half of the syllabus already so spring semester will be like a review, enabling me to get ahead and study College Algebra in advance! I just can't wait to take more advanced classes so that I can take even more advanced classes! Bah ha ha!

Why would it be laughable? We all had to start somewhere! Make sure you really learn this stuff well though -- algebra is the foundation for all the advanced courses and you don't want to miss out on some of the really cool stuff if you have to stop to brush up on your trig!

 

[Illuvitar]

Why would it be laughable? We all had to start somewhere! Make sure you really learn this stuff well though -- algebra is the foundation for all the advanced courses and you don't want to miss out on some of the really cool stuff if you have to stop to brush up on your trig!

I guess I'm just embarrassed to be so behind but I made an A in the previous math course so I am striving to accomplish the same this semester. And Ill be sure to achieve a deep understanding of Algebra before I move onto other math and science courses thanks.

 

[BOAS]

So, what courses are you going to take spring 2014? Post it here!

Mathematics (I'm on a foundation year, just finished calc up to 1st order D.E's and will start in spring on some stats, sequences and series, imaginary numbers etc)
E&M
Optics, Waves and Modern Physics
Laboratory

 

[member 392791]

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Transport Processes
Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits
Technical Communication for Chemical Engineers (waitlisted)

 

[KCC2]

Analysis II
Topology I
Mechanics
E&M
Introduction to Special Relativity
Introduction to Quantum Physics
Scientific Computing

Analysis, topology, mechanics and E&M being whole semester and the rest half a semester long. It sounds like a lot of courses but I've already self studied a lot of the material so I think it's doable.

 

[djh101]

I guess I'm just embarrassed to be so behind but I made an A in the previous math course so I am striving to accomplish the same this semester. And Ill be sure to achieve a deep understanding of Algebra before I move onto other math and science courses thanks.

We all have to start somewhere- not everyone goes straight to multivariable calculus right out of high school. I started out in trigonometry at my community college (I didn't even know what theta was when I took the placement test). My first quarter junior year I was actually the only non-freshman in my multivariable calc discussion (although there were a few other moderately behind chemistry majors in the whole class).

 

[lasymphonie]

Junior here, and my (probable schedule is):

A graduate class in geophysics
Advanced physics lab
A language
Mathematical finance
Either a humanities class, theoretical economics or another geophysics class

 

[QuantumCurt]

University Physics I
Calculus II
General Chemistry II
General Cultural Anthropology
Beginning Spanish II

21 credits altogether. That's what I had last semester. It's basically the same classes that I had last semester, just the next step in the sequence (I had trig based physics I last semester, formal prerequisite).

 

[Jafar.emir]

Sophomore,
College Physics 2
Differential equations
Calculus 3
Organic Chemistry 1

Another a semester of Aggressive studying, Fun Fun.

 

[462chevelle]

college trig
biology
computers and info
geography

 

[WannabeNewton]

Another a semester of Aggressive studying, Fun Fun.

Tell me about it, I'm soooo looking forward to the next semester...

 

[xiavatar]

Second Semester of Freshman Year

Fourier Analysis, Wavelets, and Signal Processing
Abstract Algebra
Mathematical Tools for the Physical Sciences
Discrete Mathematics
History of Mathematics
Physics 7A
Introduction to Topology and Analysis

 

[stephenmw]

Forgot which number semester this is, but I'm taking...

Physics 3-thermodynamics, relativity, quantum stuff, atomic stuff, and some solid state.
Thermo fluids-thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer
Electrical Networks-analysis and design of linear circuits, AC analysis, power calc, threephase circuits, applications of Laplace transform
Digital system design- boolean algebra, k-maps, PLDs, and all that jazz.
Plus a lab for digital systems and a discussion session for networks.

All intro courses to the topics of which all interest me greatly. Foundational knowledge of many interesting topics, I couldn't be more excited :)

 

[Mhorton91]

I'm taking

Pre Calculus
C++ programming
Intro to Psychology
Life Science (Which was a dumb choice, since I just found out that the university I plan to transfer to will require General Biology)

 

[iRaid]

Calculus 3
Intro to industrial engineering (required class for all engineers :(, no interest for an EE)
Electromechanical systems
Economics

Not too worried about this semester, had to self learn calculus 3 because I didn't know it was a prereq for a thermal engineering class (thermodynamics and heat transfer fyi) I took prior (you would think the school wouldn't allow me to register right?)

 

[djh101]

Why didn't anyone tell me pchem lab was going to be so terrible? o_o

 

[heatengine516]

What's so terrible about it? I'm dying to take pchem honestly but it looks like it will always conflict with either EM or QM :(

 

[djh101]

You really get thrown into the deep end, going from learning material in class and applying it in lab to learning about error analysis in class and having to research your lab projects on your own. For our first lab we were given two pages that describe what the lab is, what data we need to collect, what settings to use on the machine, and how to analyze the data. So I was pretty much thrown onto a machine that I've never used before to study a topic that I've never learned. Very independent, for an undergrad course. Plus we only have two weeks per lab to write a 15 page report that focuses mainly on error analysis.

 

[djh101]

There was a post somewhere where someone described it as more work than all your other classes combined. Which looks, so far, to be a fairly accurate statement.

 

[heatengine516]

eesh. 15 page paper every two weeks sounds brutal. Not sure if my school would be similar or not. Thanks for your input though

 

[djh101]

We'll see. I guess this is all just speculation at the moment. Maybe I'll post back after the quarter is over with a nice story. 8)

 

[theWapiti]

New semester, new opportunities.

Calculus II
Physics II
General Chemistry II
Fundamental Programming II (Java)
Modern Astronomy

Hoping for a 3.5 this semester. Goals are important.

 

[Illuvitar]

New semester, new opportunities.

Calculus II
Physics II
General Chemistry II
Fundamental Programming II (Java)
Modern Astronomy

Hoping for a 3.5 this semester. Goals are important.

That seems like a difficult course load but it seems like you had a similar schedule last semester so I am sure you will get that 3.5.

One question though, was it difficult to take Calculus I and Physics I at the same time? At my school you have the option of taking both simultaneously but it is recommended that you take PHYS I concurrently with CALC II. Was there a lot of calculus concepts used in Physics I and if so did that make it difficult?

 

[djh101]

I took mechanics at community college. The book had very little calculus in it and we only had two calculus questions the whole semester (one was, I think, taking the derivative of velocity to get acceleration and the other was a center of mass question that specifically said we had to derive it with the integral formula and were not allowed to use the known constants). Derivatives are pretty much the foundation of calculus and right at the beginning, and you probably won't come across more than a simple derivative in calculus 1. Plus, if your school let's you take them concurrently, that should be a pretty good assurance that there won't be any surprises.

 

[Marco12]

E&M
Partial Differential Equations
Gen Chem 2
E&M lab
Politics of Evolution.

 

[theWapiti]

That seems like a difficult course load but it seems like you had a similar schedule last semester so I am sure you will get that 3.5.

One question though, was it difficult to take Calculus I and Physics I at the same time? At my school you have the option of taking both simultaneously but it is recommended that you take PHYS I concurrently with CALC II. Was there a lot of calculus concepts used in Physics I and if so did that make it difficult?

Last semester I carried four courses for roughly a 3.0:

Calculus I
Physics I
Fundamentals of Programming I
Introductory Discrete Mathematics

Physics I at my university definitely involved more calculus than was mentioned elsewhere. We made heavy use of derivatives (no indeterminate forms, but trig/log/exp derivatives). There were also a selection of integration concept introduced in the last 1/3 of the course. Physics II is chalk full of Calculus I concepts so far.

I took Chemistry I in 2009 so it is taking more effort than I hoped to get going in Chemistry II.

 

[RabbiSnail]

Organic Chemistry 2/Lab
Inorganic Chemistry 1
Intro to Differential Equations
Science, Tech, and Society
Cognitive Sci of Brain Plasticity