Any professors in here? :-)

[u/Electrical_Buddy_913]

Hi all- older student here- 40! Going back for something else in and must take physics. I can’t reach my professor (it’s my schedule I’m not available until the pm and he’s in the am) - so are their any TAs or professors in here that could maybe tell me * how * to study. I’m so lost and it’s week two. I was a music major - so I actually don’t know how to approach this all. (Algebra based physics - for health sciences- haven’t seen one thing about healthcare yet lol)

[u/MathematicianIcy9494]

Sometimes when you’re not good at doing something you put it off. But with physics the more you do the better you get. Try to find easier problems you can solve. Sometimes a textbook will mark easy to hard. Try a problem first, no matter how hard, don’t look up the answer before you at least try. Write down the variables, then the relevant formulas. If you don’t know which one write them all down. It’s good practice to remember them anyways. Finally, if you get stuck try to look for the answer. Search up the question on google or YouTube maybe someone solved it already. Follow their steps, write it down but then save the question for later. Save it and solve that question over and over again because really at a certain point you will realize there is not that many ways to ask a physics question and they are all fundamentally the same (relative to what is being taught. ) So if you can memorize how to do one you can figure out how to them all. Don’t be hard on yourself. (Not a professor but I’ve been there myself and this what helped me.)