<p>Is it just me or do professors (at any institution) not teach students how to approach problems. its pretty much,"here ya go, have fun".</p>
<p>I'm waitlisted for Oasis and the tutors in mayer hall are TA's for some other course/thing, so i doubt i'll get the attention i need.</p>
<p>we have three homework sets. I finished 4/5 of set 1 and i have a quiz on Wednesday. He posts the answers, but copying them doesnt help and neither does the sln manual, because in the end your like "*** did i just read/do".</p>
<p>read the textbook and know how to do all the problems in there – it’s more time-consuming and you’ll learn things that won’t ever be tested, but it’s a guaranteed way to build yourself a strong foundation for the subject and make future physics classes a lot easier to handle.</p>
<p>(this goes for any subject - whenever i was faced with a sub-par lecturer, i’d just show up to lecture and read the textbook in the back of the class.)</p>
<p>you seem to be having a hard time adjusting to college based on your other thread. astrina has the right approach. do all of the odd problems and compare them to your solutions manual. that should give you some idea how to do the problem. start making some physics friends or get to know someone thats good at the subject.</p>