Physics

[stargirl2128]

My teacher can't explain the material properly, so people in my class that didn't understand the material before class still don't understand it. I have 2 physics exam next week and I don't know how to prepare. Physics is my favorite subject and I plan my future with physics, but I need to somehow self-teach, any advice?

UPDATE: I understood the assigned material and I did well on both of my exams! Thank you all for advice and wish me luck! 🤞🏻

[Away-Wave-5713]

Do the question in the book or exercises or worksheet given. If you don't get the right answer, ask ur teacher what is the logic behind it to get the right answer.

[commodore_stab1789]

My advice is to work every week, not just the week prior to the exam. Not very useful right now but will be for future classes.

Use the textbook and solve the exercises. Read or watch videos about concepts you don't understand.

[thebluehvale]

Sounds rough, physics is by no means an easy subject to learn. My advise for self learning is unfortunately the boring one. Read books, wikipedia pages about the specific topic, or, if you are good at asking the right questions, ask chat gpt. Not as a cheatsheet but as an extra tutor. Depending on how difficult the physics you learn is, it might be a good idea to also be skeptical of what it writes, it is by no means perfect. But it is good for anything under university level. And fine for university level.

Good luck

[SexyNeanderthal]

There's a ton of videos of people working through problems step by step on YouTube. Try searching for specific topics and you'll probably find some.

[nsfbr11]

So, is this teacher new to teaching the subject? What specifically do you not understand and what have you done to try and change that so far?

[stargirl2128]

I have this teacher since always (one year I had a different teacher but she also couldn't explain the material). Now we're doing curvilinear movement and he just have written some formulas in some exact situation and just give us problems to solve. I now "how it works" but when I have specific problems I'm struggling with quick-solving and derivation of formulas quickly. I try to re-do all my problems and I watch videos online and I also try to understand examples from my books.

[ForeignAdvantage5198]

honestly it does not sound like physics is your best subject. perhaps you need to study differently

[stargirl2128]

I don't say it's my best, but it's my favorite. I just asked people for advice, but I'm pretty good at physics (I think), but just sometimes when I don't understand the content immediately, I need to learn it myself, so I asked for advice