What textbooks Cornell uses for Physics III?

johnny05
Sun, 30 Jun 2013 13:19:16 +0000

I’d mostly work on multi – 3-space, planes, partial derivatives, tangent planes, optimization, double/triple integrals (in rectangular, polar, and spherical), line/surface integrals, and green’s/stoke’s/divergence theorems.

You’re going to have a good amount of free time in college, more so than high school usually. It’s up to you what you do with that time. If you have AP credit, I don’t think you’ll get a problem taking physics III, and if you pass multi exam then linear algebra will also be fine. I can’t say about analysis, but maybe they will overlook it.

Why would you review mech/e/m if you already have the credit? You’d be better off learning waves or something because that’s what you will be taking. Analysis I doesn’t have much calculus it’s mostly to do with real number system and limits (in other words there no fancy calc in it other than basics in calc I / calc II).

Here’s an old syllabus from 2010, http://www.math.cornell.edu/~rvale/4130syllabus.pdf