Anyone taking/taken Engineering Physics? Options

[Coomer]

I'm in my first quarter of a year of engineering physics, and I'm always in class every day and paying attention every day, but I just can't grasp the concepts...it all makes sense up on the board when the teacher's doing it, but as soon as I get home and attempt to do the homework, I can't even begin to comprehend what's going on.

I even fully read the textbook chapters and look over all my notes and look up stuff on Google, but at the end of the night I just want to kill myself because I often work for 4-5 hours and get maybe 2 out of 10 problems right. And our homework is online so I face the reality that I'm completely stupid immediately rather than feeling good for the rest of the night and then realizing this fact in class.

Has anyone taken this class? If so, how'd you get through it? Does anyone know of any online resources for learning physics?

I just need to get through it for a couple more weeks, and then I'm changing my major for sure.

[mr_dude]

Heh, after doing hardware I realized I really wanted to do CS. Too bad at UCSD you can't switch into CS or CE. Luckily as a EE I can take any CS class I want

I had to stumble through four physics classes. Mechanics, electical, fluid/wave, and quantum. Electrical was (ironically) the hardest for me.

I work for Sun. I'm doing mechanical analysis so I do need to know physics, but on the coding end it doesn't matter. If you don't understand physics, it won't bite you in the ass later.

If you like coding (think you will) don't let the physics get in your way. Best thing for homework is to make friends. You have from now til Tuesday to study every example and homework problem in the chapter(s). That's what the Korean kid does. Hopefully it'll make sense, if not you might be able to get a lot of partial credit doing stuff from memory.

So what's the hard part? The calculus? The mechanics? IM me if you want, or keep on posting, but don't dispair.