How to succeed in Physics?

[swindoll]

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For those of you who did well in physics, what recommendations can you give to the fellow pre-dent on how to succeed in the classs?

Do you know of any websites that provide additional help, kind of like PatrickJMT for calculus? (I loved PatrickJMT!)

I know Chad has physics videos, but they only cover physics 2, don't they? (I'm taking physics 1 this semester.)

Would really appreciate some advice! 🙂

Good luck to everyone this semester! We got this... 🙂

 

[musician7]

i did well in both physics courses by doing a ton of practice questions for each chapter! prob like around 80-100 each chapter

for practice questions you get wrong, go back and do them again later on until you get em right. really helped me ace it!

 

[wjc]

Practice, practice, practice! I did one homework 3 times over spring break one year (did worse the second time, go figure) but i aced the class.

 

[swindoll]

My book only has about 50 question at the end of each chapter. Did you use additional textbooks for more practice problems?

 

[wjc]

With physics, it the set up of the problem that is key. I kind of practiced quality over quantity. I would struggle with a problem for an hour or more sometimes, flipping back and forth through my book and notes for insight, until I got the correct answer. Then, I would make sure that I understood why the problem was set up the way that it was. Once you do this you understand the concept the problem is teaching. Often, my only review was to go back through and set up problems from homework and class examples. I usually did this several times, especially for difficult problems. Most of your test problems will resemble these anyway. I only used additional problems in the back of the book when I was really struggling. Often trying to find a less complicated example than the one I was working.

 

[Weakfart]

I took calc based physics with mostly engineers and physics majors. My biggest advice is to understand why you are applying equations to each problem. Understand the breakdown of the components of a problem, don't just try to memorize questions with formulas.