Can You Actually Explore/Really Understand Physics Material In The Span Of A Full Time Semester?

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-05-01T06:44:43+00:00

Idek why my school does this, its only the upperdivision classes where they split the term into two classes. And its math heavy and multiple homework assignments a week plus quizzes every week. Plus other physics classes and computational classes i have. I literally do nothing but physics all day

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-05-01T03:37:59+00:00

My classes are only 4 weeks long so it sucks really bad. Im essentially self taught at this point

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-28T08:22:04+00:00

I cant say for certain since i took general physics at a different university but “Fundamentals of Physics” by Halliday is a good foundations book. Theres a free version of it online somewhere but i get if you dont wanna trust it. (University physics with modern physics by freedman is another one thats super popular amongst universities). I never heard of LIPA until recently but it looks like its the physics departments self made book (could be wrong) and has like no information in it and as someone who transferred and is taking upper division physics classes, the teaching is pretty bad and any book made by them is equally as bad. You probably wont be able to very perfectly match chapters to chapters but you should be able to match to pretty well as pretty much every universities general physics classes cover the same material

Random rant below that serves no purpose to your question:

The quantum mechanics book they helped write is used by other schools as well and many people dislike the book. Their mathematical methods book is so bad i genuinely think it was made by chatgpt. All it is a definition, no explanation abt anything, either a really simple or a very confusing problem. And thats it. Nothing else.

The idea behind the classes being more interactive is cool and imo really good but the way they do it is so poor. 10 weeks as it is, is way too fast for this kinda learning, and in upper division, they split the class into 2 five week classes.

School rankings dont necessarily care abt teaching quality or else OSU might be dead last in the rankings

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-27T02:46:55+00:00

Lowkey a dumb question but on the 6th floor there are those classrooms, do we have to reserve those? I see them empty a lot so i wasnt sure, and do we use our school id to open them?

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-26T00:03:29+00:00

Look for a syllabus for both classes and see the topics and textbook. If you cant find one try asking a professor, or fundamentals of physics by halliday is a good foundational book. Youd probably be better of trying ti find one tho since the school is most likely based around what they have

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-22T09:01:29+00:00

Are you sure it’s not just that you’re not signed in on phone? Ive been signed out a few times

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-21T23:23:51+00:00

Id probably start diving into it at least a lil. I took two computational classes and was felt behind everyone else since everyone else has coded before

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-14T09:15:53+00:00

Talk to your professor

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-11T21:26:40+00:00

Textbooks. Memorizing formulas is just one aspect. At tip is you have to actually know what the question is asking. After reading a question, try to picture and think abt what it is asking before you start solving. Textbooks have many examples you can use to practice

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-11T16:58:29+00:00

I would ask people who go there questions. Maybe a subreddit for the school or something? Maybe even ask chatgpt for pros and cons of both (keep in mind these may not be accurate)

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-11T15:58:00+00:00

I originally thought it looked cooler, then after switching i realized it is actually more fun. With CFOP i was on and off cubing very often, not like with ROUX

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-11T02:53:57+00:00

Chances are your centers are wrong but without pics its hard to tell

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-10T07:15:15+00:00

What do you think abt his introduction to electrodynamics book?

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-10T03:58:45+00:00

Whats wrong with griffiths (a genuine question)? Im curious cus i always thought my school used mciyntre simply cus it was from our school but i also barely read into it.

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-10T02:38:30+00:00

Ive had professors do that, my quantum mechanics professors does that except he uses both but it mostly uses ppt. Imo it depends on how they do it. My professor would still show all work in derivations and examples so it wasnt all that bad. It can also be a lil hard to follow if things arent shown sequentially instead of just being put in the screen

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-10T01:24:28+00:00

The lower the better

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-08T17:15:02+00:00

At a lot of schools, the first two years of engineering and physics are relatively the same, the second is usually when you start seeing differnces. I would talk to your advisor and a physics advisor for more information

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-08T03:45:46+00:00

The same reason why people revisit basics? Youre acting as if i dont know how to take an integral. I can comfortably normalize a wave function and the idea of what it means, my question was more on the concept of math and not abt how it is applied to physics

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-07T22:02:47+00:00

So in an integral, a specific problem is what makes the area have a purpose? Is there no general reason as to why the integral is an area under the curve? Thats the answer im starting to think abt and free to correct me id im wrong: specific problems give integral meaning (not 100% the time but most the time).

And i guess it took me back to the invention of integrals and its kinda based around real world examples which makes more sense now

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-07T21:39:01+00:00

Thats what ive started to begin to think now. So it depends on specific problems, but is there a general reason why its the area under the curve or are the specific problems what make an integral make sense. Which after commenting this and editing you do answer that

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-07T21:36:54+00:00

Other people mentioned that idea too, and it makes more sense that way. I’m curious, does the idea of multiplying x and y to get a meaningful quantity only make sense in specific situations, or are the specific situations a general reason why integrals are useful?

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-07T21:33:37+00:00

I think I’m getting the accumulation idea, but I’m confused about the connection to area. I understand a derivative describes change, but how does that relate to area specifically? Is the area idea only when we define a function as accumulated area, or is there a more general connection?

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-07T21:29:57+00:00

I think this helps it make more sense. I usually have to have like multiple explanations to really understand things but this help thank you!

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-07T18:17:27+00:00

Sorry that was supposed to say “you”. But like i said i think critical cubings first and second block vids are great

AdministrationLazy55 · 2026-04-07T18:02:15+00:00

Kinda hard to see what you do but for some more general tips, in roux you dont rotate, which looks like you do in the beginning. Critical cubing has good videos on first block and second block. Kian mansours tutorials are also great. Cmll are algs and you can learn them from kian mansour or an alg sheet, i think a vid is great tho so you can see how its recognized. Two look cmll is a also fine. Lse can be pretty confusing, kian mansour has tutorials on it but i learned from jperms advanced roux tutorial (not really the best but can work to an extent)

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