<p>Help. Me.</p>
<p>I bomb IB physics.</p>
<p>I make a C on the regular's physics final exam.</p>
<p>Now, I am in a community college physics class. Physics is STILL whooping my ass. I do not know what to do. I am tired of studying and asking for help and still sucking.</p>
<p>Just give me some advice or empathy, please.</p>
<p>God... I have to do physics on the MCAT, don't I?</p>
<p>haha i hate physics... look stuff up online; that's what i had to do. or get a tutor. physics isn't easy. you have to understand the concepts, which i did not.</p>
<p>Ask someone who understands the material really well to explain the concepts to you using metaphors (i.e. soldiers marching, splitting up, and rejoining as a metaphor for amps through a circuit).</p>
<p>I think I understand the concepts, but when I have to do problems, I always mess up!</p>
<p>Yeah that was the opposite for me; I never understood concepts but the math was very easy to me - just memorizing. But if my teacher threw a curve in the problem, I could never understand it because I didn't grasp the concepts. I just read the textbook and got through the class. I also had a very good teacher which probably helped. Mostly, in my class, the people who did very well were the boys... I think they have a different mind for physics or something.</p>
<p>Physics is on the Mcat.</p>
<p>The problem with University level physics is, it is just to fast for most people.</p>
<p>Err... and that's why I am taking University Physics at MSU next year as a senior in High School??? (as the first physics class I've ever taken) gulp... :D</p>
<p>The good news is that physics on the mcat isn't hit nearly as hard as the chemistries and biology. If you do understand the concepts and you run into problems with the math, you can probably still do okay on the physics portion of the mcat. And I don't know what your problem areas are, but a lot of the hardest topics of physics simply aren't tested on the mcat. The topics that I saw most on my practice mcats and my real one were basic mechanics, light and optics (and probably some sound wave questions as well), a couple circuitry questions (the basic stuff: a battery and a couple resistors in a series in parallel type of things), and some fluid stuff. It all seemed fairly conceptual to me, actually, although most other people I've heard have said the exact opposite. I found that as long as I understood concepts and had basic formulas memorized (and, again, I'm talking really basic formulas here) I was more or less okay on that section.</p>
<p>The bad news is that physics 1 and 2 (or credit for them through AP or IB) are two of the science courses that all med schools require, so you want a good grade in them if possible. See what other materials are available to you. The textbook that my school uses also has a study guide/solutions manual that was optional for us, but I found it invaluable. Search the internet for webpages that might explain things in different ways. See if you can find a Physics cram book or even another physics textbook that gets favorable reviews. Sometimes it just takes learning things a different way.</p>
<p>Oh, well if its just those really BASIC formulas, I guess I'll be okay. But for this actual physics course.... <em>sigh</em> I just don't know what I'm gonna do! </p>
<p>I hope by "good grade" you mean a B because that's all I can get now that I totally bombed two tests(a 61 and the other one is a 50 or lower IF i'm lucky!)! The final exam is my last chance and I was just hoping to get some advice to study for it.</p>
<p>I tried to find a physics book that had NOT EASY problems. I have like 3 books but all the problems are WAY TOO EASY. I couldn't believe it. It ****ed me off because it even said "For colelge students". FOr college students my ass. A 9th grader could solve those problems. So I'm going to go look for REAL textbooks to work from, I guess. Thanks.</p>
<p>If it helps, I'm having major issues with Torque and ANYTHING dealing with CIRCLES!</p>
<p>Rotation is the Hardest Subject in Physics. There are some graduate students who still have trouble with it. The reason for this, is that Rotation is not natural to humans. I Know, My professor would always take into consideration assignments that included rotation and go easier on the grading.</p>
<p>The best book to learn Undergrad University level Calculus from us</p>
<p>Fundamentals of Physics, Halliday, Resnick, Walker, any edition really. </p>
<p>fhqwgads2005, if its the first you have ever taken, and it will involve calculus, I recommend you find out what book the school is using, buy it and start to study ahead during the summer.</p>
<p>Yay physics!</p>
<p>Sorry, I don't really have anything to add. Physics can be really tough for some people, just like anything else. I think some above posters have given pretty good advice.</p>
<p>To my recollection, rotational stuff is NOT on the mcat.</p>
<p>How do you study for physics? I try to do prolems and when I cannot do the problem, I look at HOW to do it, but then if you ask me to do it 20 minutes later, i still can't. :(</p>
<p>What I always did when I didn't understand was when I couldn't do the problem and I looked up how to do it, I wrote it out as I looked at it, making sure I understood every step, and then I tried to do it again without looking at what I just wrote. I kept doing that until I could rewrite it without looking at either the book or any of my previous attempts.</p>
<p>I will try that today and tell you how it goes</p>
<p>I'm reading a book called "How to Solve Problems: For Success in Freshman Physics, Engineering, and Beyond" written by a successful physicist (Donald Scarl). I got it from the library because I did worse than I expected in HS physics and I'm going to a 4-year college next year.</p>
<p>The best way to solve and learn Physics problems is to get the answers to your book,</p>
<p>if you have Halliday resnick walker, Id be glad to send ya all solutions. Just pm me</p>