Taking Diff Eq with Physics EampM or not?
I was originally planning on taking Physics over the summer at my local community college, but was also pondering if I should take Diff EQ along with it? The problem is, Physics goes from 12-1:40 everyday while Diff EQ goes from 1-2:40 everyday but Wednesdays. I don't want to punch myself too hard over the summer, but I know for a fact I'm taking Physics because its a GPA killer at my college and would alleviate a lot of stress for next semester (Taking orgo). On the other hand, if I also take Diff EQ, then that ll open up more room for more classes concentrated on my major. Is it possible to do well in Diff EQ without going to lecture the entire time? Ill most likely have to self study, but I did that for calc 2 last semester and it turned out well. If it helps, both classes will be in the same building, separated by maybe 2 flights of stairs
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I would try taking physics at your community college.
Physics usually have labs and lab reports and other things and at community colleges they usually give you a lot less work and dumb a lot of things down for you.
While with math it's just doing math.
You also probably can't take both at the same time anyways since you couldn't sign up for both because the times overlap. o.o
If you take studying seriously it should be manageable.
There are plenty of free online studying/learning materials for those classes
That depends did you do well in calc 1 and calc 2?. Differential equations is pretty much just memorizing the method to solving certain types of differential equations. My professor didn't even recommend a textbook and printed out his class notes which was nice. If you can do relatively simple integrations and do things like the chain rule quickly you'll be ok.
If you had to actually derive the methods, that would be a totally different story lol
If it helps, I skipped all my math classes since a list of assignment questions were posted online. Self-teaching is doable if you have answers to confirm if your work process is correct.
Calculus
http://www.slader.com/textbook/9780471472445-calculus-early-transcendentals-8th-edition/
Differential Equation books were terrible if I remembered right. What I did was look for questions with solutions. There wasn't a lot of work if you know why they do what they do, like choosing to replace the differentials with exponential exponent just cause it's easy to work with.
Physics can be hard. One of my final question involved deducing the double light slit formula, which needs three right angle triangles if I remembered right.
Physics isnt even that hard if youre good with reasoning. Physics is pretty much systems of equations all day