<p>Has anyone tried taking Engineering Physics (Mechanics) and MV Calc over summer session? Were you able to get A's in both classes, or at least one A and one B? I'm doing middle college and already took Introductory Physics (and got the top grade), but that was the only class I took over the summer. I got an A- in Calc 1 and a B in Calc 2. I'm thinking 2 classes won't be any different than a full courseload during the school year. What does everyone think?</p>
<p>Well, you have to remember that these are both technical courses, so it’s not exactly a normal semester. It would be closer to taking two maths and two lab physics together in a semester, which could be difficult, depending on you.</p>
<p>Personally I didn’t find Multivariate or Mechanics to be too tricky so I’d say it’s okay, but Physics over the summer always seemed worse than Physics during a normal semester… Also, keep in mind that summer session sometimes has to cut material, so if your major requires a really strong math background, it might be better to take Multivariate during a normal semester.</p>
<p>tl;dr: Depends on you, but sounds do-able.</p>
<p>Hmmm, I’ll give it some more thought. I appreciate you helping to put it in perspective. Thanks for your response!</p>
<p>The problem with most summer sessions is that they run courses in 6-8 weeks. You can sometimes find university courses that run 12 to 14 weeks which is a lot closer to a regular Spring/Fall semester in length.</p>
<p>UIUC has an online MV Calc course which you do at your own pace. The program is called NetMath.</p>
<p>The usual starter freshman semester at my school is one humanities course with Chemistry, Mechanics, and Multivariable, to be followed in the spring by a second humanities class, Bio, Electricity & Magnetism, and either Linear Algebra or Differential Equations. Since this is what almost everyone takes, obviously not everyone gets perfect A’s, but many do.</p>
<p>difficult…</p>
<p>I don’t know what middle college is. If your physics course was reasonably rigorous then that shouldn’t be an issue. I found MV calc difficult but it might not be a bad choice to compress into summer term.</p>