Test-Night's Eve. Almost.
It's been awhile since I last posted, so let me fill you in on what's been going on in my life: studying physics.
I've been going through that book, the problems, and dropping by office hours every day, more or less, since I last posted. I've managed to spend up to six or seven hours in a day working on Physics, which is a level of time I'm not really used to putting into a subject. To be fair, most of my days have been closer to 3 or 4 hours spent studying Physics before I burn out on it, but that's still a lot (I dropped studying Chemistry so... I'll pay for this later. But like I said, there's no use doing well in Chemistry if I can't get a B in Physics.)
So how much has this helped me? That's a good question.
If I had another week or two, I think it would help me a lot. I have a pretty clear idea of what's going on now, although I still fumble around reforming the equations properly and (non)uniform circular motion. And I have problems dealing with harder problems that combine all sorts of kinematics. But still, I've come somewhere. I know what's going on, I can use my trigonometry properly to decompose the right vectors, etc, etc. I've come "somewhere".
Unfortunately, of course, I don't have another week or two. I just have tomorrow.
I'll probably spend the day (the part I'm not in chem lab, at least) going over the in class multiple choice questions we've been given, and the multiple choice questions in our book. I'll also spend some time working on non-uniform circular motion, but it's really late enough now that I can't expect to be able to go from stopped cold on that type of problem to getting it correct overnight. 40% of the quiz will be short answer/multiple choice type questions. If even just one or two come from questions in the notes that I've looked over, that could make an impact.
I'm hoping now that I'll get a 70. That would be a pretty nice number, and would keep me "in the running" if I improve a little bit more by the final exam.
Even though I'm struggling, a 70 seems possible. I felt I would do absolutely horrible last time (and I did....) but I still got a score in the mid-sixties. I'm somewhat more confident this time, and only need my score to go up by 8 or 10%.
Here's hoping.
