Tips for passing College physics over the summer?

Tips for passing College physics over the summer?
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study

Study physics

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Do the work. Spoken from experience of not doing the work

Solve problems. Start by mimicking examples in the book. First follow along, writing while you look for guidance. Then see if you can do it without looking at all, paying attention to the careful logic of every step (and not just trying to remember the machinery). Then, solve problems you've never seen the answer to. Reading the text / listening to lecture usually does little more than points out how to think conceptually and frames the problem for you

Almost no one does this because it takes self control. Doing problems yourself is going to make you feel dumb, cause you're going to start out getting them wrong. This is enough to stop someone with weak willpower. But if you make yourself solve problems and figure out some of the details, physics won't be very hard at all. BTW gay shit like notecards and staring at solutions manuals are just attempts at rote memorization, and can get you a B or so (but you have to put in huge amounts of time for less payoff).

Also, isolate the things that look approachable and spend your time on those (should be ~ 80% of the material). Skip the complicated stuff until you feel like you're an expert on the basics.

>Solve problems. Start by mimicking examples in the book. First follow along, writing while you look for guidance. Then see if you can do it without looking at all, paying attention to the careful logic of every step (and not just trying to remember the machinery). Then, solve problems you've never seen the answer to. Reading the text / listening to lecture usually does little more than points out how to think conceptually and frames the problem for you
>Almost no one does this because it takes self control. Doing problems yourself is going to make you feel dumb, cause you're going to start out getting them wrong. This is enough to stop someone with weak willpower. But if you make yourself solve problems and figure out some of the details, physics won't be very hard at all. BTW gay shit like notecards and staring at solutions manuals are just attempts at rote memorization, and can get you a B or so (but you have to put in huge amounts of time for less payoff).

Wow, thank you very much for your comment, I'll be sure to take extra time on the concepts and reading problems.

Make sure to learn to understand and make proper free body diagrams. Also if you are prone to small mistakes that fuck up your answers I suggest making sure to write out every step in variable form then just plugging in the given values once you have found the solution to the problem. It can actually save time since you are not spending all the time trying to keep track of your units. Once you plug everything in and calculate the answer make sure that your units match that of the thing you are trying to find. It seems like a no-brainer but people forget about it sometimes.

What area of physics?

General Physics 1 and 2, two separate summer sessions. So it will be sped up but as a science major, physics seems to be the only class that trips everyone up. Biochemistry, Organic, etc you can work up to very easily imo.

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You shouldn't have too many issues. Had to take sped up thermal and quantum last summer. Just do the work, and understand the concepts behind the equations.

watch lectures like a few weeks in advance. in class lectures are meant to reaffirm knowledge

Don't waste your time doing this. One set of lectures is enough. Remember, it's problem solving that will teach you physics -- not hearing about physics from someone who already knows physics (this has actually been shown in the research and is transforming the current pedagogy landscape in physics, albeit very slowly).

study.

apply yourself.

stop drinking and going out all semester and devote yourself to your studies

sort yourself out

I need tips for passing Biology, Psychology and Health and Social Care

easy/dumb academic success tips a lot of people don't do: 1) Go to class. Unless you are dropping dead, do not skip class. 2)Go to office hours and introduce yourself to the professor. If there's any benefit of the doubt to be given, you will get it if the professor knows who you are and you seem to care about the class.

Good chance there's 0 benefit of the doubt effect in an intro course. Your grade will be whatever it is (and the prof probably won't be the one grading the exams anyway).

+1 for the user who said lots of practice problems starting from the ones you are assigned, then moving to the ones you haven't seen. Doing this will really illustrate which pieces you understand and which you still need to work on, plus it will stop you from freaking out when you see a novel problem on the exam.

A few other small things:

Write out your solutions step by step with actual words explaining what you are doing and which assumptions you are making. This helps you learn, plus assists a teacher/peer/tutor find your mistakes quickly. I know it sounds like extra work, but so many of the people I've tutored find all their own mistakes when doing this. DO NOT just plug numbers into your calculator. Even if you get the right answers, it will cripple you.

Use a chalkboard/whiteboard your first time trying a problem. Something about the lack of permanence makes it easier for me to take risks and try different methods instead of being crippled by trying to "get it right" the first time.

One more thing: Once you start to understand a problem, teach people who are still stuck on it. You will never forget the problems once you explain the steps and logic to somebody else.

thanks!