Summer Physics, need help!

[Msmouth]

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I got below a 70 on my 2nd exam. I did as much as I could to prepare for the exam and I still got my butt kicked. It's especially disheartening since I'm an A student. I watched Chad's physics and it seems to help but it's obviously not enough. I'll take Orgo any day of the week over physics!

Any online help or suggestions to help me get through the last 2 weeks of what I consider hell?

 

[dentalprodigy]

I found the coursesmart website very useful because it had step by step detailed answers to our physics textbook problems. This helped us immensely. Check if your book is supported on that website.

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[diene]

Maybe try KhanAcademy?

Not to give an inspirational speech or anything, but something in the B range will not kill you. Just try your best! Good luck!

 

[jeffity]

I was going to mention chad, but besides him, a random thing I used that helped were the MCAT Exam Krackers audio. It's fast and compact so not really a way to learn from scratch, but if you sort of understand the underlying principles, the snippets helped clarify or give me a better way to approach things.

I know, very random. Is this PHY 1 or 2?

 

[Msmouth]

Thanks all....I forgot about Khan Academy. I think there is something that comes with my book but it's used so I would have to pay for it.
I'm going to see if Khan works for me first.

 

[aznnytezx]

Khan Academy sucks for physics. he draws too much, try the MCAT video for physics (J Cole review) It will definitely help!

 

[suarez 7]

I agree with above, Khan sucks with physics because it is so boring to watch and he goes ultra-slow in my opinion, and doesn't go into enough complicated examples.

To the OP: I also had trouble with physics I and II, I thought orgo was so much easier but to my surprise I ended up with B's both semester.
I would look into these videos, they are VERY useful and will not waste your time:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SiouxFallsPhysics/videos
http://brightstorm.com/science/physics/

The teachers are easy to understand and provide useful examples. They helped me a bunch. I had awful professors btw so I had to teach myself from the book and from online sources.

Good luck.

 

[Msmouth]

Thanks again everyone! I will absolutely look at those videos.
I really like my professor as a person but teaching wise, he kind of sucks. It's a summer course and he wastes our time with showing movies every week (about global warming). Maybe that works during a regular semester but not in the summer!
Anyway, I end up spending hours teaching myself and there aren't enough hours in a day!

 

[GrnMtnDent]

I struggled initially with Physics myself and thought for sure I would bomb it. The way I pulled off an A was to study the homework problems inside and out until they were more-less memorized. You have to find solutions to the homework problems as quickly as you possibly can. This means searching yahoo answers. It does however take some skill to tailor a question that will produce a solution that you can work with.
Hope this helps!