Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:04:12 UTC No. 16060949

>>16060946
Yeah, college courses can be like that sometimes. Have you talked to your TA/professor about this and tried to figure out where the conceptual issue is?

Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:08:47 UTC No. 16060955

>>16060946
Sometimes it took me 2 hours to complete 1 question, and for particularly hard questions, it was upwards of 10. If the HW is humbling you, you're getting good stuff. Would you feel more satisfied if you were snoozing through the HW too?

Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:14:33 UTC No. 16060962

>>16060955
I just wish I was aware of how time consuming this course was, everyone told me it would be on the same level as calc 1 so I went in on auto-pilot and now I'm significantly behind.

Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:21:28 UTC No. 16060966

>>16060946
HW can be difficult for a number of reasons:
1) The problem is hard to understand, you cant visualize it, or the property/question dont make sense intuitively
2) The problem is relatively easy to understand but hard to model / formalize (eg,physic problem with too many moving parts)
3) the problem is relatively easy but is just too long to write (eg, systems of equations branching in many cases)
4) the difficulty of the problem depends on some esoteric identity, property, theorem or technique

First you should try to asses why is difficult to you

Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 06:27:53 UTC No. 16060974

>>16060946
>draw free body diagram
>list variables
>write formulas
>solve for unknowns
it requires more set up and less auto pilot than math problems, but it's doable

Anonymous at Fri, 8 Mar 2024 00:39:33 UTC No. 16062095

what book does your course use?

Anonymous at Fri, 8 Mar 2024 00:59:12 UTC No. 16062120

>>16060946
Of course calculus is easier. Transference of knowledge is the hard part. Just because you can take a derivative doesn't mean you know what that means or how to use it

Anonymous at Fri, 8 Mar 2024 01:01:44 UTC No. 16062122

>>16060946
Just cheat like everyone else in college

Anonymous at Fri, 8 Mar 2024 01:03:22 UTC No. 16062126

>>16060946
Honestly just find the solutions manuals. Once you see it done a few times, you should be able to understand it.

Anonymous at Fri, 8 Mar 2024 01:29:53 UTC No. 16062146

>>16060946
Just curious, Is it a advance classical mechanics class or Ap physics c level class? Which reference book are you using for your course ?

Anonymous at Fri, 8 Mar 2024 01:50:50 UTC No. 16062159

>>16060946
Yeah it was the same way for me. I basically just grinded problems for a few days straight and once I got the hang of it phys 1 became easy. Phys 2 was probably the hardest though since a lot of maxwells equations are pretty unintuitive

Anonymous at Fri, 8 Mar 2024 02:33:08 UTC No. 16062180

>>16060946
>niggas really thought physics would be easy.

Anonymous at Fri, 8 Mar 2024 15:12:47 UTC No. 16062878

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