<p>I'm an international student planning to transfer to the US next year (hopefully Wisc-Madison), with a CGPA of 3.79 and am taking General Physics I (calculus based I think) this semester.</p>
<p>I was wondering roughly how different the standard is in US colleges compared to my current one. My Physics I class covers chapter 1-20 of Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics 9th edition, and I can do the problem questions at the end of each chapter fairly okay with just a bit of difficulty, especially on the "three dots" questions.</p>
<p>So to the students who are taking or have taken Physics I, is this what you do as well? I've often heard that Physics is very, very difficult, and I suspect the standard in my college is lower. If you're using the same textbook, do you find the exams difficult if you can do the questions in the book? I'm kinda scared of transferring and realizing that the work there is a lot harder than what I'm used to.</p>
<p>Thanks in advanced for replies!</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.webassign.net/features/textbooks/hrw9/details.html[/url]”>https://www.webassign.net/features/textbooks/hrw9/details.html</a> indicates that chapters 1 through 20 of that book cover mechanics, waves, and thermodynamics. The Halliday and Resnick physics book is a fairly common book for introductory calculus-based physics courses for physics and engineering majors, although honors courses may use more difficult books.</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Catalog, University of Wisconsin-Madison | College of Letters & Science](<a href=“Guide < University of Wisconsin-Madison”>Guide < University of Wisconsin-Madison) lists the different introductory physics sequences available; [Portal:</a> An error has occured](<a href=“Portal: An error has occured”>Portal: An error has occured) has course descriptions. Note that physics courses at different schools (or different sequences at the same school) may cover topics in a different order, although mechanics is typically one of the first course topics and electricity/magnetism is typically one of the second course topics.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply, ucbalumnus! Seems like I’m doing the same thing as the freshmen students in the college then :)</p>