Jay wrote:
War Man wrote:
Did all that before trying to solve the problem, still don't understand it but I'll try figuring it out later tonight. Thanks anyway.
Jay wrote:
Are you actually using Schaum's as your textbook instead of Hibbeler?
Yes, teacher originally intended for us to rely on the book for studying, we could then ask questions during class hours and then afterwards take the mini-exam(yes weekly mini-exams). Then came the 2nd chapter of the book and students massively emailed him as they couldn't understand the chapter so he changed to giving out normal lectures and then the mini-exam. Last lecture, he didn't tell us anything of this current chapter because "it is similar to last chapter"... Hopefully students are bombarding him with questions, but I can't rely on that. I am slowly growing mentally insane this semester.
Statics was my least favorite class. Power through it, it gets better when you get into thermo and fluids (if your profs don't suck).
I liked statics, mechanics, stress because I found them intuitive and relatively easy.
For 2nd year fluids we had a Swedish guy, the material was hard enough without struggling to catch the actual words.
That year we could drop 2/10 classes, but still had to attend the first 15 minutes of the exam for some reason. After 15 minutes about 1/3rd of the class walked, I think the guy was in tears.