<p>Does anyone know anything about this class? My son got a letter inviting him to join other "bright students" to the first semester this fall of the introductory class in the physics sequence, PHY 2060. The letter says the class is only about 30 students. Please post if you know anything about this clas...difficulty level? My son took physics honors this year...AP Calc A/B....A student. His major is mech engineering or computer (software) engineering.</p>
<p>PHY 2060 is an honors mechanics course principally designed for honors students and physics majors anticipating a career in the field. The class is very “theoretically” oriented, as in wherever possible the professor makes an attempt to axiomatize the material and introduce the rigorous mathematical framework of the ideas beforehand. </p>
<p>The lectures were… abstruse haha. If you don’t have a grasp of the concepts then the presentations won’t really make much sense. The explanations and derivations given were, in my experience, VERY in depth. In contrast to this, though, the quizzes and exams didn’t really draw much on what was actually taught in the lectures and were startlingly elementary in comparison. It’s a bit of an easy A.</p>
<p>The material was pretty interesting. The class seemed to have a huge emphasis on relativity, but that could have just been my professor (Furic). The mathematics was great as well. I learned about partial derivatives, divergence, and curl an entire semester before I got to Calc 3</p>
<p>I personally think that the standard phy 2048-2049 sequence caters too much to engineers. This is a great class if you already know a good bit about mechanics (I believe an AP background suffices) and are interested in the theoretical foundations of it all.</p>
<p>D also took H2060 and 2061 (2061 w/o lab as she used her AP credit for lab credit) this past year. She received and A in both. She had AP physics B (A w/ 5 on exam) and she started at UF w/ calc 3. She had no difficulty in either 2060 and 2061. Furic then Gregory, I think. She’s not a physics major; she’s chemE. But she LOVES physics and math. Can’t tell you specifics to the topis … sorry. 
She was challenged on a few things … in the sense that she had to ask someone for help, which is unusual for her as she’s usually the one everyone goes to for help. Good luck!</p>
<p>zebes</p>
<p>I just took it this past spring semester, having had no previous physics experience in my life. The lectures really went into detail (exploring the concepts), but it wasn’t too hard to get an A.</p>