As a physics major, I left it feeling awkward and incomplete.
It cant be taught properly since the non physics students dont know calculus so its done with awkward math. It doesnt teach you to derive the actual physics out of situations which is what the rest of your education is.
And lets be honest, the professors make their tests full of trickery and smugness.
This class is not a good learning environment. Absorb the material into each field and teach it with the class on the field...mechanics, electromagnetism, etc.
Thoughts?
Austin Young
Do you want people to kill themselves? A mechanics course without phy 101 would be suicidal for most people. Plus, I find the intuition of dimensional analysis very important to teach
Joshua Flores
>dont know calculus
It's your fault for taking the non-calculus based physics course.
>It doesnt teach you to derive the actual physics out of situations which is what the rest of your education is.
But it does.
>Absorb the material into each field and teach it with the class on the field...mechanics, electromagnetism, etc.
But that's what it is. Uni Physics 1 = mechanics, basic theormo Uni Physics 2 = electromagnetism, basic optics Uni Physics 3 = basic SR, basic QM
Luke Cooper
There is nothing wrong with teaching physics without explicit calculus. The ideas of limits and tangents are important for motion, but these can be taught easily. Physics can be taught using finite time steps with all of the classical laws (moment, energy, angular momentum).
Nicholas Thomas
>t. algebra-based physics rockstar
Isaiah Perry
>And lets be honest, the professors make their tests full of trickery and smugness. This is so true. I'm a last semester senior in engineering right now, and for some reason the freshmen level introductory physics courses were by far the hardest classes I've taken.
Adrian Turner
At my uni they expect you to know calculus if you are taking phys 101 and if you dont you better learn in on your own time
Alexander Williams
What dumb school do you go to? Mine required Calc I/II as a pre-req for Phys I/II, unless you were in the baby physics for engineering tech and the like.
Jacob Lee
I agree with this sentiment, Physics 1 was literally my hardest class because the teacher decided to not teach out of a textbook but instead do some sort of "example problem" based teaching method where he didn't teach any core concepts or theorems but described everything in terms of examples
I wrote him a massive email complaining about his teaching method and describing how I'm not just a complainer, his method is just objectively bad for teaching. And then he decided to stop being a lecturer at the school soon after. Holy kek.
Jace Lewis
>being at a uni that doesn't require calc I before taking physics
wtf I had to wait a year because I was shit-tier and so had to do Calc I
