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 Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:47 pm
Yay!! Any tips you guys would like to give me?? I'm all ears.
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:05 am
Could you give a few more details about what you will be learning and what you have done to date. It is hard to help without context, I'm afraid.
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:18 pm
A Lost Iguana Could you give a few more details about what you will be learning and what you have done to date. It is hard to help without context, I'm afraid. Oh... woopsie I'm sorry sweatdrop We're going to learn about inertia and Newton's Laws and net force. Basically physical science. It's too early to say I really love it, but I'm definitely interested in this subject 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:35 am
Oh. Hmm. I can't think of any advice I could give about it. Though, I'm sure there are many here who will help if there is anything you don't quite understand first time around, or if you have questions about it.
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:29 pm
Yoooooooooookie dokie biggrin
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:15 am
you're taking classical mechanics. The first time I took it, to me, it was quite unusual, the idea of forces was quite new. All I can say is, don't go for the obvious answer or the answer that 'seems' rigth, always take your time and think it through.
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:31 pm
Sorry, but I truely despised the basic physics classes. Don't make up your mind about physics based on your first course.
Then again, I prolly hated it because my dad taught me all that stuff when I was 7, like litterally xp
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:55 pm
I didn't know what physics was until I was in gr. 10. i don't think I had any notion it existed. it seems pretty weird to all you guys, probably, but I couldn't put the name to the things I was interested and I couldn't classify the kinds of questions I had. I grew up in an artistic setting and my childhood was always filled with art.
The first time it occured to me to be a scientist was when I was watching this movie in grad 8 with nicholas cage, he was an expert on bombs and they were playing around with chemicals so they made this Rube Goldberg device and I thought, wow this is cool! lol I wanted to be a chemist at the time.
so.... it all started with a movie. lol This is why it's good to watch movies. you'll get inspired.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:27 pm
poweroutage you're taking classical mechanics. The first time I took it, to me, it was quite unusual, the idea of forces was quite new. All I can say is, don't go for the obvious answer or the answer that 'seems' rigth, always take your time and think it through. Though it would be more help to know the name of the class and what year in high school it is, my university makes quite a distinguishment between basic physics and classical mechanics, though I'm certainly seeing stuff in classical mechanics that was in my tenth grade honors physics class. I'm just trying to wrap my brain around which kinematics equations to use when...... makes me feel a little off when I see everyone else debating about higher dimensions, and it makes me wonder when I'll finally be taking classes that'll enable me to participate xp I just don't know how long everyone else has been doing this stuff to understand it so much. As for taking physics, make sure you know your formulae. There are mathematical relationships between components of motion that aren't obvious, and many of the equatitons do involve a bit of calculus to really understand where they came from. Don't worry though, you probably won't worry at all about the calculus part of it. If you do kinematics and projectile motion, pay extra attention.... it takes a bit of getting used to to know what to do. A solid understanding of vectors wouldn't hurt.
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:53 am
Thanatos_M poweroutage you're taking classical mechanics. The first time I took it, to me, it was quite unusual, the idea of forces was quite new. All I can say is, don't go for the obvious answer or the answer that 'seems' rigth, always take your time and think it through. Though it would be more help to know the name of the class and what year in high school it is, my university makes quite a distinguishment between basic physics and classical mechanics, though I'm certainly seeing stuff in classical mechanics that was in my tenth grade honors physics class. I'm just trying to wrap my brain around which kinematics equations to use when...... makes me feel a little off when I see everyone else debating about higher dimensions, and it makes me wonder when I'll finally be taking classes that'll enable me to participate xp I just don't know how long everyone else has been doing this stuff to understand it so much. As for taking physics, make sure you know your formulae. There are mathematical relationships between components of motion that aren't obvious, and many of the equatitons do involve a bit of calculus to really understand where they came from. Don't worry though, you probably won't worry at all about the calculus part of it. If you do kinematics and projectile motion, pay extra attention.... it takes a bit of getting used to to know what to do. A solid understanding of vectors wouldn't hurt. I found my classical mechanics course in the first year to cover everything that was taught in high school then continue it. Except for the optics and electricity section, those take two separate courses. Yeah I guess your high school covers a more broad range, but i have a feeling that the bulk of it is classical mechanics, at least in my high school it was. What year are you Thanatos? depending on where you are you get to do quantum second and third year ;p which is incredibly fun. As for higher dimensions that's for third and fourth year. I found that once we exhausted the classical mechanics in high school the first year physics course was a little boring, I really didn't want to do those things again, though it wasn't by any means easier, there are always challenging problems to do.
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:04 am
classical mechanics is a third year course doing lagrangians hamiltonians poisson brackets and so on... not basic phyiscs...
or maybe it's a very broad term...
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:40 am
bluewolfcub classical mechanics is a third year course doing lagrangians hamiltonians poisson brackets and so on... not basic phyiscs... or maybe it's a very broad term... I never said classical mechanics is basic physics, I said most of basic physics deals with classical mechanics, I'm sure there are different year levels for the topic. Like my first year course and your third year course. There's also a second year and a third year quantum, etc. though I don't think you could do general relativity earlier than third year ;p
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:00 am
I'm just learing Physics too this year.
So far I know that when adding numbers it all depends.
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