Re: Physics in College?

From: floyd (nissan3141_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/04/04 

Date: 4 Jul 2004 11:21:16 -0700

Prerequisites Prerequisites...

Most students that have trouble in Calc have not mastered algebra, and
most
who struggle in DE did not master basic Calc. Sign up for whatever
math class
you need to get started. Who cares if it takes another year or two to
graduate.

Don't assume that students that had these "advanced" classes in HS
know
anything. I've had students with impressive HS transcripts with all
sorts of advanced math, chem, and physics that can talk a good game
but know almost nothing. It makes me wonder what went on in these
classes.

You may find the better schools will not offer the type of Algebra you
need.
All schools have algebra classes for the education majors but this is
not what
you need.

Stephen Morris <smorris@siu.edu> wrote in message news:<2004070312370516807%smorris@siuedu>...
> I'm not sure if this is the place to post this question, but I assume
> that there will be a lot of knowledgable parties frequenting this
> newsgroup that might have some answers to my questions.
>
> I graduated high school in May, and I'll be attending college in the
> fall. I left high school with a bitter taste in my mouth towards math
> and science, in part because of a handful of poor teachers and (in
> larger part) due to the tendency of high school math and science
> classes teaching just what you need to get high marks on standardized
> tests.
>
> Now I'm worried, tho, because I feel like I may have squandered an
> opportunity here. I've subscribed to magazines like Scientific American
> for most of my life, and just recently reread A Brief History of Time
> and The Elegant Universe and realized that I actually do love science
> (more specifically cosmology.)
>
> If I try to major/minor in a science field, with my limited interested
> in math and science in high school (I took the basic Bio/Bio
> II/Chemistry, which was all memorization and took math up to
> PreCalculus/Trig) will I be completely lost, or is there still a chance
> that I could turn myself around?

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