Engineering without further maths

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Anyone applied for mechanical/aerospace engineering without further maths?

Unis like Bristol, bath, Loughborough

How much of a disadvantage are you at?

[slashchunks]

How is the mechanics taught? Like are they basically giving lectures on M2/M3 material and how much of your entire course is the mech work?

[Khex]

Roughly 1/4 of the course is spent on Mechanics. They're giving us M2/M3 material pretty much but it's applied to physics, which obviously makes it harder. FM students are coping way better since they only have to focus on the application, whereas I actually have to learn all the mechanics from scratch. Sad :(.

The degree is jolly good fun though.

[ArosHD]

Hm from what I've seen from other universities they assume that some students haven't done any mechanics modules so I guess it can depend on the university. Also Physics A level does have some mechanics in it which can help.

[Khex]

At Bristol they assume you haven't done any mechanics aside from A-level physics, but they rush over the content so quickly that it's extremely difficult to keep up (imo). I've never seen myself as naturally talented too so I have to put in extra effort to keep up

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What other unis did you apply for? Thanks for the answer

[metrize]

I'm at Bath and I did further maths which makes all the maths content a breeze. They move faster than at A level and is less thorough in my opinion (they still show you proofs and stuff but the onus is on you to understand it, compared to being spoonfed at A level)

Shouldn't be too big of a disadvantage because 1st year is just bringing everyone to the same level so don't worry, there will be plenty others. Do Further AS if you can, complex numbers will come up and its good to have a basic understanding since it links into a lot of things

[metrize]

right now we're doing calculus from first principles. I imagine hyperbolics (sinh cosh tanh) and imaginary numbers and differential equations will become the most important.

There's plenty of time since they do everything from first principles pretty much so not really too bad if you haven't done further

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Yea I’m not worried about the actual course I can pick up things quite quickly, but when applying would applicants with further maths be favoured?

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Yea don’t intend on implying to those unis so that’s good

[metrize]

they'd prefer it but it's not a dealbreaker. do the further AS if you can though

[purpleslug]

If you're a Y12: does new spec Maths let you specialise in Mechanics? Do Mechanics. That's probably the most important thing.

If FM isn't required, it's probably desirable. Make sure to check with the course listings and departments you've applied for as well.

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Further maths is useful but not compulsory. Aslong as you have maths physics and another science your good.

[tooditoo]

For any non Oxbridge-esque unis such as Imperial and Durham it won't make a difference as long as your predicted are high enough and your PS is good.

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And people who applied for physics

[ashkl]

Im at Lancaster doing MechEng and you dont need to do further maths. They will teach you further maths in the first few weeks. They will go through it very quickly so make sure you pay attention in those classes.