What textbooks Cornell uses for Physics III?

johnny05
Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:54:06 +0000

It is a lot different. You can have your dream schedule, classes and you made sure everything is offered in the fall / spring. Then you find out times clash and you can only take one of the two courses you really wanted to take. Worse yet, only certain time slots work for you, and those time slots are already filled up by upperclassmen. So you really have to have keep your options open.

It doesn’t matter in Cornell. Normally I’d take linear first, but since DE is helpful for physics 2214, Cornell engineering suggests you take DE first so you have a good background for waves. So 2930 doesn’t emphasis on any linear algebra. Don’t go by credits. Sometimes 3 credits courses can be tougher than 4 credit ones. Just have a general plan. Try to use [Cornell University - Schedulizer](http://cornell.schedulizer.com/) or [url=http://cornell.chequerd.com/]chequerd[/url] to plan possible schedules. Look up classes in student center. There are probably a lot more helpful posts on this site about registering, read those if you want.

DE and waves together would be a good mix, but linear is a pre-req for analysis. So either one would be fine. Flip a coin or something, or take the one you’d enjoy more.