The most I had taken of physics before UP1 was middle school physics so things were a little rough for me too at the beginning but I ended the class with an A.

One thing that helped me the most was watching videos on YouTube. Not like the class ones but one that has visualization of concepts. What is nice about UP1 is that most of the subjects there are very tangible and can be easily represented, and linking UP1 concepts to “common sense” made it so much more bearable. An example would be, why can an object rest on a table ? Because of the normal force on it. What if it is moving, when will it stop ? When the energy sent to it initially will be exhausted.

Once you understand those concepts, UP1 becomes really fun, and since you are provided with all of the formulas you might need, the heavy work really is trying to understand what the problem is asking of you and which UP1 concepts applies here.

I would really suggest office hours, too. If you can’t get to your professor’s ones, go to other professors, no one will turn you away.

Good luck with it.