<p>I'm a freshman at UCLA. My Physics 1AH class is more difficult than I expected, and as a result, I'm having trouble. My teacher is very nice (it's his first year teaching), but some of the subject matter he lectures on is straight up difficult. I'm not a complete idiot when it comes to physics and math (5 on both the BC and Physics B), but I'm really struggling so far. </p>
<p>Basically, I was wondering what my options are. Covel tutoring doesn't support my class (and I wouldn't be able to attend the Physics 1A tutoring session, either). I haven't been to OH yet, but going on Monday. Can anyone give me any feedback on Covel walk-in tutoring, or private tutoring? Anything else?</p>
<p>Also, I've read the lecture notes from the non-honors Physics 1A class and it looks much easier than my Honors course. If worst comes to worst, I may just transfer, although I have no idea how this is accomplished. Any help?</p>
<p>I took 1AH last year, and it was a pretty tough class. There isn't any on-campus tutoring for it; your best bet would be to work with the other people in your class, go to the professor's and the TA's office hours, and ask lots of questions in discussion.</p>
<p>PEERS offers a physics</a> workshop led by Professor Corbin. I went to his workshops last year and the problems he gave us were pretty hard but it helped me do better on miderms. You can try the Physics1A workshop and see if it's any helpful</p>
<p>I believe Tau Beta Pi also does Physics1A tutoring? but they don't start til like 2nd or 3rd week. Their website is down at the moment so I can't check :/</p>
<p>If you want to switch, you just drop Physics1AH and enroll into Physics1A through URSA.</p>
<p>Many of the University Physics problems requires a higher level of mathematical background, understanding and manipulation relative to other books such as Giancoli, Serway & Jewett, Halliday & Resnick or Wolfsson & Pasachoff.</p>
<p>If you think Classical Mechanics is difficult right now, wait until you get to honors EM :p</p>
<p>akorch16 - make friends with a professor in Knudsen or PAB. It's amazing how much help you can milk out of them if they like you. TBP people might not be able to help you, since it's all been quite a while for them. Covel tutoring SUCKS.</p>
<p>Ummmm, I don't remember the professor's name. I do recall weekly homework problems set assigned weren't from the textbook but made up by the professor. I don't think anyone in the class completely finished any of the homework 'cause there were ~20 problems for each set with multiple parts, including concepts from Classical Mechanics, for each problem with many of them requiring derivations and graphing the resultant derived equation(s).</p>
<p>I learned quite a bit from that single EM class...got an A+. The grade can be attributed to doing lots of problems and using supplement materials from MIT <em>thumbs up</em>. Subsequently, many of the mathematical techniques--Who would've thunk infinite series would someday come in handy :p--from the course were very useful and applicable in Chem 110A/110B/113A.</p>