I. Passed. Physics....!!!!!!!!!!

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This is by far the hardest thing I've had to do 13 years of school. I failed every test but the last one, managing a 70C. I always excelled in math and science classes, only getting a few B's in some chemistry stuff. This was just on a whole different level, especially only having a year of calculus (which was taken a year before this class, so it wasn't fresh in my mind). I owe a lot to the instructor, who I'd be willing to bet cushioned my grade to make sure I passed. She knew I did my best and that I struggled.

This might not be important to anyone, but I've been worried about this grade all week, as I needed a 40% on my final to pass the class (as I said, I don't think I even got that good on it, the grade probably has more padding than a mental institution). So I'm pretty damn happy right now, I can enjoy my summer break! :D

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Giancarlo
That's quite a broad scope of classes. What the heck is your major?
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He's probably starting out. I know you wouldn't be able to tell I was a pre-med by my first semester classes.
 
Congrats, Eric.!

Maybe Oakley was just waiting to make sure you passed before they shipped the new shades! :lol:
 
Giancarlo
That's quite a broad scope of classes. What the heck is your major?
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Omnis
He's probably starting out. I know you wouldn't be able to tell I was a pre-med by my first semester classes.
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What he said. That's only my second semester. My major is Computer Science, the science option rather than the business one. Of those, Logic was the only elective, as a certain number of humanities and that sort of thing are required.

Next year will be more computer driven. Intro to programming in the fall semester (along with Intro to Psychology (online), Calculus 2 (oh boy...), and Art Appreciation (hybrid)), and then in Spring I'll have Advanced Programming and Discrete Structures, plus one last fine arts class.

I've been lucky to get almost all of my general studies taken care of during high school. I graduated high school with 44 college credits (salutatorian, too) . Looking at my transcript right now I have 57 credits, but I don't think that includes the spring semester that just ended...
 
Congrats! I've had a couple classes that are like that, where you're surprised when you end up passing. I'm pretty sure I got a pity D in my multi class with the way my final went...
 
Eric.
What he said. That's only my second semester. My major is Computer Science, the science option rather than the business one. Of those, Logic was the only elective, as a certain number of humanities and that sort of thing are required.

Next year will be more computer driven. Intro to programming in the fall semester (along with Intro to Psychology (online), Calculus 2 (oh boy...), and Art Appreciation (hybrid)), and then in Spring I'll have Advanced Programming and Discrete Structures, plus one last fine arts class.
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My major is the same, only I am taking things in reverse: I finished most of the computer classes for last semester, and I'm starting my electives in my (coming up) third semester. Including Physics. :nervous: Though, admittedly, I'm pretty good at physics.
 
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For anyone starting college, especially if you didn't have Calculus in high school: don't skip math classes and keep them for last. I gotta take all the pre reqs for calc now before I can take calc, and I need calc before I can take physics. Kinda sucks.
 
Toronado
My major is the same, only I am taking things in reverse: I finished most of the computer classes for last semester, and I'm starting my electives in my (coming up) third semester. Including Physics. :nervous: Though, admittedly, I'm pretty good at physics.
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Good luck with it all...I suppose you can try asking me for help if you ever need it...I'll do what I can! :lol:
 
Congrats!! That is a fantastic feeling to pull off a passing grade and enjoy the Summer that you earned. I just dominated one geometry final with a 95 and did good on another math test, so I'm feeling good about the last test in math. I was a little worried about it but I think I got it now.

Anyways, this isn't my happy thread, it's yours, so congrats again! :) -kevin
 
How deep does the physics go in this case? I'm a week ahead of my own Physics finals, though I expect to finish it well..

Also, Art Appreciation? Do you just sit in class and watch a professor hammering you with pictures of the Mona Lisa telling you to appreciate it?
 
Metar
How deep does the physics go in this case? I'm a week ahead of my own Physics finals, though I expect to finish it well..

Also, Art Appreciation? Do you just sit in class and watch a professor hammering you with pictures of the Mona Lisa telling you to appreciate it?
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I was way in over my head...We started off with simple harmonic motion which wasn't too bad but many questions required a very not-straightforward approach. Worked our way towards electric fields, charged surfaces, conductors, insulators, test particles, magnetic fields. Then to circuits, both AC and DC, with resistors, capacitors, inductors (is there anything more to circuits? :lol:), then wrapped up with optics, studying simple things like focal lengths of mirrors/lenses, magnification, polarization, (somebody's) Double Slit Experiment...

That's all I can remember right now. It also didn't help that this was my second semester at college and everyone else in the class was on their fourth and were up to Calculus 3.

Art Appreciation, I have no idea what to expect out of it to be honest. Probably more about learning the different "periods" and styles of art. I thought we'd have to do some basic drawings or something as well but a friend said that you don't. At least a friend from high school is taking that one with me, I'm getting tired of not knowing anybody to be honest.
 
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Eric.
I way way in over my head...We started off with simple harmonic motion which wasn't too bad but many questions required a very not-straightforward approach. Worked our way towards electric fields, charged surfaces, conductors, insulators, test particles, magnetic fields. Then to circuits, both AC and DC, with resistors, capacitors, inductors (is there anything more to circuits? :lol:), then wrapped up with optics, studying simple things like focal lengths of mirrors/lenses, magnification, polarization, (somebody's) Double Slit Experiment...
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Sounds something like our second semester of physics at Hope... :nervous: I'll be looking forward to that one.

Art Appreciation, I have no idea what to expect out of it to be honest. Probably more about learning the different "periods" and styles of art. I thought we'd have to do some basic drawings or something as well but a friend said that you don't. At least a friend from high school is taking that one with me, I'm getting tired of not knowing anybody to be honest.
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I have something like that, called Art History, that'll be starting up next week. My books for that class came in the mail today, and one is like 50 pages and the other is a kids picture book on how to build a cathedral :odd:. This should be a fun one.
 
Eric.
I was way in over my head...We started off with simple harmonic motion which wasn't too bad but many questions required a very not-straightforward approach. Worked our way towards electric fields, charged surfaces, conductors, insulators, test particles, magnetic fields. Then to circuits, both AC and DC, with resistors, capacitors, inductors (is there anything more to circuits? :lol:), then wrapped up with optics, studying simple things like focal lengths of mirrors/lenses, magnification, polarization, (somebody's) Double Slit Experiment...
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So the electricity bit is equal to our Finals in Electricity and Magnetism (did you also do currents due to magnetic fields?), but the optics bit is a bit more basic than our finals in Optics and Matter. Is that the full physics bit?

Also, Young's experiment with the slits is a PITA. He's a type of African miniature antelopes.
 
Metar
So the electricity bit is equal to our Finals in Electricity and Magnetism (did you also do currents due to magnetic fields?), but the optics bit is a bit more basic than our finals in Optics and Matter. Is that the full physics bit?

Also, Young's experiment with the slits is a PITA. He's a type of African miniature antelopes.
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Yep, current due to magnetic fields, magnetic fields due to current, current due to magnetic fields which are due to current which create....:scared:

There wasn't much to optics, we were kind of rushing through all of that in the last few weeks. We missed an entire week from a snowstorm, and that class met five days a week. Young's experiment was pretty easy I though. You just needed to find a couple of lengths, know which order the fringe you were looking at was, and whether its a dark or light fringe. You guys probably did more with it than we did. We also had some sort of problems that involved glass with a grating and how it would separate light, based on the same idea I think, but I for some reason didn't take notes on that at all.

Oh, I forgot about thin film interference - we did that as well, along with all of the reflection, refraction, total internal reflection...Man, this is like reliving a traumatic event. :lol:
 
I won't raise any more painful memories then. I just wondered exactly at which point the Israeli education system meets it's European and American counterparts. Knowing that our (12th-grade) highschool physics meets the standards of your classes is a relief, as someone who intends to study abroad one day.
 
Congratulations on passing physics Eric! 👍

I'm having physics exams next week friday. 300 pages of Newton 1. 2. and 3. law, inductors, magnetic field, gravity field, Einstein's theory, and much more goodness :crazy:
 
Metar
I won't raise any more painful memories then. I just wondered exactly at which point the Israeli education system meets it's European and American counterparts. Knowing that our (12th-grade) highschool physics meets the standards of your classes is a relief, as someone who intends to study abroad one day.
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Oh, I really don't care. Erm, you're learning all of this in 12th grade? :scared:

Bram Turismo
Congratulations on passing physics Eric! 👍

I'm having physics exams next week friday. 300 pages of Newton 1. 2. and 3. law, inductors, magnetic field, gravity field, Einstein's theory, and much more goodness :crazy:
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They managed to get through the entire Physics book with the two halves of the class. Over 1200 pages. We actually ran out of things to learn in the very last week before finals. :crazy:
 
You went through a book of 1200 pages this year?! Goddamn, you guys must recieve rediculous amounts of homework :eek:
 
Eric.
Oh, I really don't care. Erm, you're learning all of this in 12th grade? :scared:
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Yep, 17 years old. Two 200-page books on electricity and magnetism, two 300-page books on matter, particles, optics and Bohr's model, plus last year's Newtonian mechanics. While the most difficult selection available, physics is also the most challenging and interesting one.
 
Bram Turismo
You went through a book of 1200 pages this year?! Goddamn, you guys must recieve rediculous amounts of homework :eek:
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Well like I said, I picked up on the second semester of this class, so I only covered the last 600. :p

We had around 5-10 problems assigned each day, but she doesn't collect them. Its more or less practice to see if you can do it or if you need to ask for more help the next day. I rarely did them because they usually had some crazy approach that I really didn't have the time to fool with, juggling class, two jobs, a bit of a life, and at the time a girl. If I went through a second time I'd definitely be sitting down to that homework and solutions manual every day.
 
Eric.
and at the time a girl.
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Yeah. Those things can have a pretty negative impact on your actual coursework at college. They somehow found a way to get me behind in every one of my classes first semester last year...
 
Tell me about it. She was the center of my life and then she drops me completely. But that's another thread.
 

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