<p>What should an ECE freshman take: ECE 2100 or Phys 2214 (both required for graduation)?</p>
<p>can you describe the general difficulty level of these courses and how prepared a typical freshman would be for them (in your opinion)? Which one do you recommend for a freshman who doesn't really have strong experience in either? even if you do not recommend doing any, can you pick the lesser of the evils and also explain why you think taking it next year would be more advantageous? Also, are these classes dominated by sophomores or are there at least some freshman who take them?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance. sorry if my questions are a bit picky.</p>
<p>Take ECE 2100. PHYS 2214 can be taken any time, for whatever reason. Right now, you have to decide which major you’re going to do, and 2100 can help tell you if ECE is right for you or not.</p>
<p>oh, thanks for the advice. Is ECE 2100 one of those courses that truly start “from scratch” when dealing about circuits/electronics or do they build from some sort of knowledge they assume that all sophomores should know? what i mean is, say for example I’ve never taken a physics course from cornell, but i have some good, basic knowledge of physics from high school. Will that be enough to do well in the class and the lab? in the course roster, it mentions the corequisites: MATH 2930 and PHYS 2213. I will be taking math 2930 but not phys 2213 (and I really do not think I know anything from cornell’s phys 2213)</p>
<p>You don’t need 2213; it might help a bit, but you’ll probably be fine without it, especially if you did circuits even in low detail in high school. 2930 definitely helps and taking concurrently is fine.</p>
<p>you make it seem that you have taken 2213. If you really didn’t like E&M chances are you may not like ECE that much either. I would recommend 2100 because it fills pre-requisites for higher level ECE classes, whereas taking 2214 isn’t a prerequisite for many ECE classes.</p>