Ok I've decided to create an ultimate thread for First year Physics,
A large part of this is from my earlier thread.
I'm hoping this will help future students in their first year physics courses as me and my friends received quite a shock from first year physics.
Studying in this Course
1) Do not be a "Formula monkey" (From Forbidden), Trust me when i say this, You will only truly go well in this course if you know how the equations are derived and how they apply which trust me is very easy.
2) Simply LOOK over the content before you go to a lecture so you have an idea of whats going on.
3) You need to put in hard work to suceed in this course as with any other course, you can't cram and expect to go well, Physics isnt one of those courses.
4) Once again i advise you to learn where the equations are derived from, if you do learn how to derive them i GURANTEE you, that you won't forget the equations
5) Physics is very beautiful, You will understand this when you have a very large equation that covers an entire line which reduces to some variant of F = ma .
Laboratory Work
1) It doesn't matter how shocking you perform in all aspects of the lab, as long as you go to the right marker you will get 4/4 regardless.
2) If you ask for a lot of help from the same co-ordinator during your lab, Try to get a different person to mark you, This person will think your very intelligent since they will believe you performed the task without assisstance.
3) A large number of the exercises will involve plotting a linear curve, you need to remember to place everything in y = mx + b.
For example if you have a curve with A*B*C = P*K*x
A graph of A*B*C on the y axis with P*K on the x axis will get you a graph whose slope will be "x".
This is vital
6) The Internet will get most of your pre-lab work done
General Guide: It doesnt matter how well you really perform in the lab its 100% dependant on the person marking you.
Quiz's
1) Suprisingly you can find a lot of solutions to the quiz's if you copy paste the question into google (or some variant of the question)
2) Most of the Questions can simply be solved by looking at the example in the textbook "Serway and Jewett- Physics for Scientists and Engineers"
3) Do the Quiz's with a friend, you will both get the same questions except sometimes with different values.
Good luck and Have fun.
Add any tips or comments if you find them helpful guys
A large part of this is from my earlier thread.
I'm hoping this will help future students in their first year physics courses as me and my friends received quite a shock from first year physics.
Studying in this Course
1) Do not be a "Formula monkey" (From Forbidden), Trust me when i say this, You will only truly go well in this course if you know how the equations are derived and how they apply which trust me is very easy.
2) Simply LOOK over the content before you go to a lecture so you have an idea of whats going on.
3) You need to put in hard work to suceed in this course as with any other course, you can't cram and expect to go well, Physics isnt one of those courses.
4) Once again i advise you to learn where the equations are derived from, if you do learn how to derive them i GURANTEE you, that you won't forget the equations
5) Physics is very beautiful, You will understand this when you have a very large equation that covers an entire line which reduces to some variant of F = ma .
Laboratory Work
1) It doesn't matter how shocking you perform in all aspects of the lab, as long as you go to the right marker you will get 4/4 regardless.
2) If you ask for a lot of help from the same co-ordinator during your lab, Try to get a different person to mark you, This person will think your very intelligent since they will believe you performed the task without assisstance.
3) A large number of the exercises will involve plotting a linear curve, you need to remember to place everything in y = mx + b.
For example if you have a curve with A*B*C = P*K*x
A graph of A*B*C on the y axis with P*K on the x axis will get you a graph whose slope will be "x".
This is vital
6) The Internet will get most of your pre-lab work done
General Guide: It doesnt matter how well you really perform in the lab its 100% dependant on the person marking you.
Quiz's
1) Suprisingly you can find a lot of solutions to the quiz's if you copy paste the question into google (or some variant of the question)
2) Most of the Questions can simply be solved by looking at the example in the textbook "Serway and Jewett- Physics for Scientists and Engineers"
3) Do the Quiz's with a friend, you will both get the same questions except sometimes with different values.
Good luck and Have fun.
Add any tips or comments if you find them helpful guys
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