<p>I had a really crappy physics teacher in high school and basically learned nothing. So I was wondering…is there physics involved in BioE 10, BioE 24, or Math 53? If so, what concepts of physics are needed to understand the material in those classes? I’ll try to review the concepts before school starts. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance! :)</p>
<p>I doubt there will be much physics in those classes. BioE 24 is just a seminar, there isn’t much work involved and BioE 10 is mostly bio from what I’ve heard. I am a freshman BioE major too:)</p>
<p>you will never be expected to know any physics in a math class</p>
<p>BioE 10: The thing about BioE 10 is that you’ll be taught mainly upper div level biology along with some special bits of engineering physics and chemistry. Most everybody who is a freshman struggles with the material, because you learn some pretty random things like FAK, iRNA, Nanog, Reynold’s number etc. I wouldn’t really worry about physics if I were you. Any special bits of physics you’ll learn will be taught to you since no entry level physics class will teach the physics you’ll learn in there. Instead, I’d brush up on biology and chem if I were you. The first day of class will be a diluge of bio and your professor (if she is going to be Conboy first) will go very fast, answer few questions, and speak with a Russian accent. Your first homework assignment might also take the help of 20 other people and 8 hours to do (again if Conboy is the first professor teaching). Who knows? You might get lucky and she might give easier problem sets this year. You’re lucky you don’t have this class at 8 in the morning :P.</p>
<p>BioE 24: Well, it might help if you knew some physics since quite a few of the guest professors use physics in their research, but its not necessary since you only need to find out what the magic word is to pass the class.</p>
<p>Do you mean Math 53 or 54? There seems to be a discrepency between the title of your thread and the math class referred to in your post. In any case…</p>
<p>Math 53: Well, according to my 53 GSI, the chief application of most of the material in 53 is gonna be in physics. So yeah…Knowing some physics would be helpful in this class, but the thing is this is a math class. The emphasis will be on learning the math not on knowing the physical application of the math. That’s what physics 7A is for. I really wouldn’t worry too much about it if I were you. Good for you if you know it, but you can get by without it.</p>
<p>Good luck with your first year, especially with BioE 10!</p>
<p>wow, BioE 10 sounds really hard. so far I haven’t heard anything good about it. I did hear that there was a huge curve that allowed 70% of the people to get As.</p>
<p>Also, for math 53, what would you recommend reviewing?</p>
<p>BioE 10…I now both hate and appreciate the class. It was the most painful class I was taking my first semester at Berkeley, and yet it was also one of the most informative and amazing. The knowledge I gained from that class has helped me a lot since I see a lot of the stuff I learned in there pop up randomly in my other classes. However, the class really wears you down because you get slammed with upper div biology information with little to no preparation, there is no textbook for the class though there is a recommended textbook, and office hours with the GSI and/or the professors are somewhat intimidating. Oh yeah, all exams are open book/notes, but they are so ridiculously hard most people bs more than half the exam and still get a decent grade. The class you make you question whether or not you really want to be a bioengineer though; I know that me and quite of few of my peers felt like we wanted to quit bioengineering since it was such a painful class. Oh, in retrospect, I think it would also be helpful if you had some experience with programming and such, or at least the thinking that goes into creating an algorithm. </p>
<p>For Math 53, what do you need to review? In general, I guess you should reivew how to integrate and differentiate since this is at heart still a calculus class. Definitely learn know how to integrate by parts. Maybe review a bit of linear algebra since you’ll need to know how to calculate determinants for cross products though its really unnecessary. Review some algebra II stuff like ellipses, circles, conic sections, completing the square, etc. This is from my experience though and I’m currently taking 53 with a GSI so maybe your professor might do something different.</p>