Physics II -Electricity and Magnetism

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<p>Sorry to make another post but I'm really sorry I wasn't being clear on the previous post (although it's was very interesting to read)</p>

<p>I meant it's the second semester of freshman calculus college physics. It's mainly electricity and magnetism. It's calculus based and my school only requires calculus III as a pre/corequisite. </p>

<p>I've heard a lot of bad things about it and only the only two professors teaching it in the fall are bad ones. One of them curves, so I might take him again but his exams are really hard. There's so many unknowns and he gives us difficult problems not like the textbook. Right now, I've decided to take it the spring but I don't know.</p>

<p>Any good advice on how to prep for it? Books, videos, resources, etc...? </p>

<p>My school is using Physics for scientists and engineers -Serway and Jewitt 7th ed.</p>

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<p>“There’s so many unknowns and he gives us difficult problems not like the textbook.”</p>

<p>This is the refrain of every student who takes EM. They expect that the problems are going to be similar to those discussed in the book and that the problems can be set up exactly the same way - unfortunately most of the time this isn’t true.</p>

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<p>Why is calc III a pre/coreq for Serway and Jewitt? It’s not a terribly hard or advanced book on the subject, and maybe uses calc II every once in a while at most. I used it last year for my practical physics class. </p>

<p>To prep: do the readings, go to recitations/lectures/office hours, look up 8.02 on MIT’s OCW, look up Ph 1b and Ph 1c (practical, not analytical) through the Caltech physics courses page, and in general just wiki that s***</p>