Hardest feshman class?

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<p>here is a true story that you are going to get a laugh at…</p>

<p>let me know if it happened to any engineers:</p>

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<p>Intro Linear Algebra (AKA Calc II at my school) was definitely my hardest.</p>

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<p>^^^
Which school? I thought all freshman college students took calculus.</p>

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<p>Georgia Tech - Freshmen take Calc I (Intro Calculus) and Calc II (Intro Linear Algebra), then in sophomore year you take Calc III (Multivariable Calc).</p>

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<p>^^^
Got it…Linear Algebra is actually Calculus II.</p>

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<p>Does Georgia Tech lump integration and differentiation into that first class, or do they spread it over both of those first two?</p>

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<p>I’m taking Physics Mechanics right now and they are introducing fluid mechanics; I’m so lost. Anybody want to help me?</p>

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<p>Not really allowed to offer homework help per the site terms of service. :-/</p>

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<p>Electricity and Magnetism was by far the hardest freshman course I took.</p>

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<p>Yep. The first class is the equivalent of AP Calc BC, AKA integration, differentiation, proofs, applications. The second class is Taylor Series + Linear Algebra (don’t know why it’s even called Calculus - really a Lin Alg class). Third class is multivariable calc.</p>

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<p>Electromagnetic and Optics Physics is by far the hardest , most time consuming course ever. I’m just surprised I have a B in it right now… I hate how it doesn’t have much to do with my major (ChemE) and it’s more directed towards double E’s</p>

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<p>But it has plenty to do with being a good, well rounded engineer. Besides, you may be surprised where you run into it again sometime down the road.</p>

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<p>True… but that isn’t saying much coming from a Aggie :P</p>

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<p>God, reading all these it sounds tough. But I really do love learning math and physics. Even if the class is tough do you still like it?</p>

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<p>Uhh… I don’t even know where to begin with this one.</p>

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<p>Kind of. Mechanics was interesting but once I hit E&M and Optics I started getting bored and mad cause the tests (for my professor) were ridiculously tedious.</p>

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<p>iambored, what is it with the attack on the “aggie”, who got his undergraduate degree in Engineering from the great engineering department of Univ. of Illinois and is now a graduate student at Texas A&M?</p>

<p>I fully agree with bones that taking that course would assist in being a well rounded engineer.</p>

<p>This is coming from a Princeton ChE. and Stanford MBA. If you want to attack my schools, then just try.</p>

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<p>lucky, sometimes that tougher classes are the ones that you might like the most.</p>

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<p>He must go to Texas who are rivals with A&M. If a IU Engineer came on here I would say the same thing, o wait…</p>

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<p>Post history tells me he is a UT student, future student, or alumnus. Also, I laugh at the idea of an IU engineer. They don’t even have an engineering school, and why should they? They don’t even bother because Purdue is already the “super-flagship” engineering school of the state.</p>