My teacher never does this. For example a typical task could be "show that x = something". Then you can still solve the next part even if you skipped the first part.
TheEnde124 my professor gave a quesion like this on our final were we had to show lambda=2 and then use 2 in part b to show something else. But if you didnt know how to do part a, my professor gave no credit lol. So you are lucky
Omg, I just took 3 maps tests to get into a school, and this one kid was done with all three just as everyone else finished the 1 😂 I didn't know whether he kinda just said Fuck it or if he is super smart. Either way, I got scarred. Lol P.S. does anyone know if a 255 on a maps nwea math test is good? Cause thats what I got and I have no clue what's a good score lol
@@Dezmont01 I see you guys didn't understand the " " was because it's also something professors say in those situations, not saying Brutal exams are easy if you study (btw just got murdered yesterday on a digital signals midterm)
Literally had a professor one year (not physics, but discrete math) try to claim that her exams were fair because she took her own exams and was able to complete them within the allotted time she was giving us. Like...
@@Quotenbrtchen I still remember the words of my prof whenever i asked something and the reply was "cant tell you". At some point you just dont try anymore :( .
@@ArtinTheBeast I was talking about the total change in entropy for a universal system, not just a local change. Had a question on an exam where I accidentally switched signs and the comment from the professor said it cannot be non-positive for the total change of a universal system. The second law does state that the universal change in entropy is always positive, right? Unless I don't know thermo/stat mech as well as I thought.
TheIttSco ah, I see. Yes, the second law of thermodynamics does say that energy always travels towards increasing entropy (hence positive). Local entropy changes can certainly be negative though
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@@antaresmaelstrom5365 Dont remind me >_< I sometimes didnt even do that just so i wont feel down for the whole day, the worst time is right before the exam begins, than the exam itself and than the time right after the exam. Hated all of these.
Happened to me on a test cause I had been sick for 2 weeks ,ended Up learning everything att home,helping some classmates and then te doing the test and getting 90% ? Bruh idk how that happened
I actually had a class where about 80% of people never made it to the last question. The prof (or more likely the assistants) tested the time required again and everyone realized that it was too short, so they ended up giving some leeway with required percentages.
I'm sure it depends on the professor, but usually if I don't have time to solve the problem I'll jot down a quick outline of how I was planning to solve the problem. Sometimes they're charitable and throw me a couple points for approaching it correctly lol
Me: “how can I do part a without the information given in part c” Prof: “who told you you have to do it without the information in part c?” Me: “if it’s in part c I’m not supposed to know it in part a” Prof: “who told you that you need to do them in order? If you would look at the whole problem you’d see it makes sense to start with part b than do c,d and only than a” Me: “...”
Back when all exams were paper you could often score highly in multiple choice questions on subjects you didn't know by exploiting info in other questions. At school I attempted an economics exam without doing the course. At work when I was a SQL newbie I increased my mark in an exam above what I thought was accurate by this method.
Let a=b So, a=b -----(1) Multiply a both sides a² = ab Subtract b² both sides a²-b² = ab - b² Because a²-b² = (a+b)(a-b) (a-b)(a+b) = ab - b² Taking b common on RHS (a-b)(a+b) = b(a-b) Divide both sides by (a-b) a+b = b From (1) b+b = b 2b = b Divide both sides by b 2 = 1 1 = 2 Adding 1 both sides 1+1 = 2+1 1+1 = 3 Hence proved Now give me my 10 million marks😂
@@jojogojo9318 until and unless you realize dividing by (a-b) is not valid,since, a=b and a-b basically equals 0 .... :) Now give me my 10 million marks as scholarship which I can later use for every frickin' test in my life... xD
Always briefly look at the questions at the beginning to find the ones you can actually do (and see if there is a formula sheet). Also you missed the part where half the class walks out with expressions that can only be described as a combination of depression, anger, disbelief and exhaustion after the test.
Is physics really that hard tho? I'm a HS senior and would like to study physics...but am deterred by its difficulty. Do people ever get As/Bs on exams or is it impossible/rarely seen?
@@l.1244 honestly if you ask that question about grades youre on the wrong track anyway. The only thing that can guarantee good grades is unwavering interest. Period. It's pure effort in any case.
@@l.1244 It's hard, but getting high marks is not impossible, most of my final marks are somewhere around 80/100 and I could probably put more effort in. As you move into higher years however (and even in first year sometimes), you will be required to sit there and think for long periods of time to understand certain concepts. Homework will begin to take hours to complete as well. All I'm saying is that it just takes longer to do things. Generally though, when it finally clicks it feels amazing, so if you like physics, I would say go for it. One note on mathematics. I'm not particularly sure how high school physics is taught in countries outside of Australia, but at least here there was very little mathematics involved in high school, at most we used formulas. In university that changes completely. You will use a lot of integration, and eventually move into several dimensions and variables. That is not to say that the maths is particularly hard, most of it is pretty simple and you will learn it during your courses, but don't expect it to just be subbing in to formulas.
Literally doing 2 out of 3 problems for a thermodynamic test and feeling fantastic walking out of class. I ended up realizing I screwed up part of the entropy solution in a dream and lost 2 points. 64%, best test score for that class.
I remember in my first year physics paper we had a series of questions asking for calculations when there aren’t a single number given to us. Still haunts me this day
Use your knowledge in Newtonian mechanics to answer the following questions: 1. What was before big bang? 2. What's dark matter and how is it related to the meaning of life?
@@baab4229 First, I know you're joking ok? I just want to answer something anyway, lol. 1- How much time before the Big Bang? I mean you could literally say 'singularity" and that wouldn't be wrong because that's what existed before the actual expansion, right? 2- listen fam, Dark matter is something we can't see but we know It's there because of how It interacts with the formation and rotation speed of most galaxies. Also, It doesn't have anything to do with the meaning of life, unless you set something related to Dark matter as the ultimate goal in your life, since the meaning of our lives is whatever we want It to be. Not a physics major, so sry for any dumb shit I might have written.
Milton Marques for part 1, you’re right that there is a singularity. But there is no time time before the Big Bang. Therefore, nothing can happen ‘before’ the first moment in the universe
@@bobross5716 But how do you know the Big Bang was the first moment of the universe? Isn't it a model of how the universe became what It is today rather then an origin explanation?
@@Haki145 It is a model that is about as close as you can get to an origin. When everything was a part of the singularity, everything was at one singular position at the origin (sort of x=0, if you want to think about it that way). Since according general relativity, space and time are one and the same, this means time was also at its origin. If "space is equal to zero" here, what that really means is space-time is equal to zero (although GR breaks down at the very first moments of the universe, so who knows maybe it is wrong). If that's the first moment in space-time, there cannot be a moment before it. That's how I understand it anyway. Whether or not there was really something before that (multiverse, big-bang big-crunch cycle, etc...) is outside my realm of knowledge.
It is perfectly possible to get both positive and negative values for time (I'm talking about high school physics lol) when the quadratic formula is used. Of course, the negative value isn't included in the answer. (Correct me if I'm wrong haha)
@@shahedhossainimran yeah sometimes if you forget to ignore vectors and stuff you can still get the right number, u just gotta take off the neg sign lol
Actually I had a modern physics exam where I was freaking out because I got a positive value for time and I knew it should’ve been negative (there was time dilation involved)
I love the way we had to derive formulas that we'd never seen before. When we'd ask the professor what was expected, the answer was invariably, "It should have been obvious."
In Engineering we always used to say: *Getting 51% is 1% wasted effort.(*)* And we truly, genuinely meant it when we said it. Our exams were usually _brutally_ hard. (* Getting 50% means you passed the subject and so you wouldn't have to repeat it next year.)
@@dawnriddler yeah but when you‘re not studying something like business you just can’t. When you get a 50 you‘re most likely one of the best 15% among the students in physics
Prof: "Exam is like your homework problems, piece of cake" You:"Those take me like 5 hours to get done" Prof:"Try being better next time?!" Man profesor I never thought of it that way, when you put it like that it sounds easy.
In my second year undergraduate physics degree in the E-M course everyone was getting like 30% scores on the assignments and were taking like 4-6 hours each week (we had maybe like 8 or 10 concurrent courses) and the lecturer took time out of one of his lectures to explain that the problems took him 40 minutes to do so we should easily get them done in an hour.
I just had a thermo exam. It was a 24-hr take-home exam (We were already gonna get a take-home before COVID-19 happened). Our professor warned us at the beginning of the semester that, on his take-home exams, he reserves the right to ask *anything* within the scope of the course that we've covered. So I get the exam yesterday. There's 5 problems. Surprisingly, the majority of them weren't so bad - heat engines, Helmholtz/Gibbs free energies, Maxwell distributions, Boltzman factors and partition functions. Nothing terrible. There was *one* problem though on the van der Waals equation with three parts, and oh my god it was a mistake to leave that one for last. The part in your video with "I can't do part (a), so let me move on to part (b)...Oh, use your answer in part (a)..." described my experience with that problem to a T. Couldn't do part (a), moved on to part (b) which needed the answer from part (a). Put down what I would do if I had the answer. Moved on to part (c), required the answer from part (b). And it just abstracted further and further from any meaningful answer from there.
0:28 Me in my yesterday's exam. He literally wrote on the first page. "If you have any questions, please ask!" Out of the hundred question I had, I only had the courage to ask one. Why do I have to be like this?? Fels bad man
@@rewrose2838 some teachers don't make us confident to ask, more like an annoyance they have to go through in other to pour more knowledge to the ones paying attention I am quite addicted to my cellphone, I have 2min breaks every 15-30min In this time I might have a question I won't ask because of fear of "instead of looking at cellphone should be paying attention" And in the end, the place I learn the most is alone with books And for some reason they like to not use the ones they recommend for exercise Fuck that "need to think" in tests I have limited time, lots of questions, I need to literally copy paste answers to make it all on time
@@0Arcoverde Yeah most teachers never wanted to be in that position, they've no intention of being a good teacher (it's just their job , going through the motions of acting like a teacher)
0:41 cann confirm. I'm taking physics major, attending my first mathematical physics class, and yep. 4 problems, solve 1 of them. Satisfied enough and proceed crying the next whole day.
@@lily-tu7om don't be Anxiety mixed with depression and lack of will of live just make it all worst Try to think of stuff to do while you don't graduate Goes to psychiatrist or other professional in the field and seek help You might think you don't need, everybody does, mainly the riskiest and most studied group we know of University students
@@0Arcoverde thanks for the advice! I will be looking for psychological help, I'm also going to start some courses during the summer because people say it's Really hard when you first get in
me EVERY time, despite the fact we're typically allowed a formula sheet! i always forget a formula that I have spent some portion of the test rederiving lol
integrate "a = a" with respect to time, twice v = at + u s = 1/2 at^2 + ut (+ s0) then t = (v-u)/a => s = 1/2 (v^2 - 2vu + u^2)/a + uv - u^2 => 2as = v^2 + u^2 - 2u^2 + 2uv - 2uv v^2 + u^2 = 2as
@@josue_mejia It's much faster to keep everything as variables. Compare writing a single letter to a string of digits. The numbers themselves don't actually convey any conceptual information, so you need to rely on your short-term memory and units to track what's happening. Compare that to solving symbolically, where you can take any equation in a solution and you'll be able to see what's going on: oh, they're manipulating the electric field, distance, and charge: E, r, q.
We know all know that feeling of having spent 20 minutes on one of your questions only to conclude it has to be wrong… and then move on to the next one
I once had a very long math problem where I was supposed to prove something, and I noticed one mistake at the beginning of that proof when there was like 10 minutes left of that exam. I had to hurry and make a ton of corrections throughout the entire proof, and I just barely made it, and passed that exam largely thanks to that.
false. when my friends/professors ask how the exam was, I start tearing up and give them the “does this look like a face of a person who did well?” look
Reminds me of that dreadful first ever test of Physics I took...only six questions with multiple parts and it totally annihilated my trust and confidence in this subject 😭😂😂😂😂 That was years ago..but the trauma is still fresh!!!!!
0:29 Soooooo true. If I ask question, professor be like “Well if I told you that, you would have an answer.” And then they finish you off with... “You should know this, it was in the homework”
I feel this. My thermo homeworks were 4-5 problems with parts a-e on all of them. On average took me 8-12 hours depending on how unreasonably difficult the problems were. Exams were the exact same format. Never finished more than 3 problems fully on an exam...and I still got a B+.
You have inspired me to get a little more creative. I’m brainstorming some ideas for videos other than instructional math videos. Thanks and stay tuned! 😎
I feel this in my soul. 😂 I made I through 6 years of college without ever needing to utilize my IEP (which allows for extra time on tests)...until physics.
*When u find out there’s a formula sheet on the last page after you already attempted all the questions* 😂😆😂 his reaction was way calmer than expected, I would’ve probably just burned down the school in a rage of disbelief
Actually happened: Me: “in the middle of quarter exam, 20 minutes left” Prof: *comes up to me, stares at my paper Prof: “you should be done by now” Me: *moves my elbow so that prof can’t see my work
Literally my physics teacher on our first physic exam ever: "Don't worry, the exam just has 2 tasks" ... There were 1.1.a 1.1.b 1.2.a 1.2.b 1.3 2.1.a 2.1.b 2.2.a 2.2.b 2.2.c
High school physics: wow, this is engaging and fun... College Physics: if I have to draw another force diagram, I’m gonna kill someone...I still don’t know how to do like 70% of the homework for chapter 2...
I’m in 10th grade (first year actually having physics physics) and I know it’s obviously nothing compared to college level physics but man this video is basically me during my tests.
Questions that use the answer from the previous question or so frustrating. I had this calculus teacher who would allow us to come up to the front of the classroom and get the answer to the previous question at the expensive losing the points for the previous question. This way if you didn't know how to do the previous question, but know all of the other ones, then you can actually get points on your test for things that you know how to do.
"The smaller the number of the questions on a physics exam, the more scared one should be."
~Einstein or someone
Lol...
That goes for a Maths exam too.😂
Sounds more like yoda
Beautiful
You know your screwed when your test is only 4 pages long
"Use the results from part A to do the following"
All of physics in a nutshell.
The ol' propagation of error ... maybe I'll get credit for showing up for the exam ...
My teacher never does this. For example a typical task could be "show that x = something". Then you can still solve the next part even if you skipped the first part.
Just make x=1 and take the partial credit
TheEnde124 my professor gave a quesion like this on our final were we had to show lambda=2 and then use 2 in part b to show something else. But if you didnt know how to do part a, my professor gave no credit lol. So you are lucky
@@MrSoccerPlayer7 thats why you need to learn the skill off: assuming lambda =1
There’s always one person who walks out after 30 minutes and no one knows whether they’re super smart or if they just gave up 😂
They probably just gave up...
That was me
That's me, I just speed blitz the exam and get the hell out of there to avoid a mental breakdown because of the impending F
Omg, I just took 3 maps tests to get into a school, and this one kid was done with all three just as everyone else finished the 1 😂
I didn't know whether he kinda just said Fuck it or if he is super smart. Either way, I got scarred. Lol
P.S. does anyone know if a 255 on a maps nwea math test is good? Cause thats what I got and I have no clue what's a good score lol
To be really honest? I’ve done both LOL
Attempts to solve for time,
Gets a negative value.
Thats the nobel proce for you xD
If only you could solve a problem in a negative amount of time then you'd have more time for the rest
@@GameCyborgCh hahaha XD
Yes its horrible
Welp obviously you just remove the minus sign to make it positive to make it work.
Tina has a pencil. Dave died. calculate the observable universe using a plunger.
Use 3 sig figs
Bruh why did I die
use your answer from part a ii to help you
I have a physics test tomorrow and this just had be rolling!!! 🤣🤣😭
HAHA
High School: Yay! We get to use a scientific calculator for Physics!
College: A scientific calculator won't help you here.
a good one does solve integers and diferential equations
*you have no power here
I'm on High School and we can't. F
@@geckobra Be happy. Caluculator means worse questions
@@geckobra why can't you use a calculator it's the cornerstone of all maths and physics
Me: Tries to solve a thermodynamics question.
Ends up with T = -5K
Me: well that's really "cool"...
Did an experiement to measure the speed of light.
Got 3x10^8 and was super chuffed,
Till I saw my error margin was 3x10^8.....
I see what you did there. :) :)
Umm...
Really cold
Negative temperature is perfectly possible.
After exam:
Student, "that exam was BRUTAL"
Prof, "It really wasn't"
"
if you studied it would've been easy"
@@francargeric1 Sure, in 25 more years it might be trivial for me, too...
@@Dezmont01 I see you guys didn't understand the " " was because it's also something professors say in those situations, not saying Brutal exams are easy if you study (btw just got murdered yesterday on a digital signals midterm)
Literally had a professor one year (not physics, but discrete math) try to claim that her exams were fair because she took her own exams and was able to complete them within the allotted time she was giving us. Like...
"My professor's right there. I could ask, but I won't"
Story of my life
Should be more like "My professor`s right there. I could ask but I won`t get a helpful reply... "
This is so true! xD
@@Quotenbrtchen I still remember the words of my prof whenever i asked something and the reply was "cant tell you". At some point you just dont try anymore :( .
I remember asking my math professor about a math problem, and he basically just repeated what the problem said 😂
You just don't try anymore
"This sure isn't simplified, but an answer is an answer... Probably a wrong one."
basically me on half of my tests, lol
Yeah~ if not mentioned, I won't bother with simplification
@Hatake Kakashi ayyy fellow hungarian! also, i agree, pretty much yeah 😂
My life in a nutshell
Not for me I always get 100%
How I got through my high school math and physics
Part c) Use your result from part a) and b) to calculate the total change in entropy.
Me: 'Gets negative value' Seems legit.
TheIttSco but... entropy CAN be negative... why would it not be legit?
@@ArtinTheBeast I was talking about the total change in entropy for a universal system, not just a local change. Had a question on an exam where I accidentally switched signs and the comment from the professor said it cannot be non-positive for the total change of a universal system. The second law does state that the universal change in entropy is always positive, right? Unless I don't know thermo/stat mech as well as I thought.
TheIttSco ah, I see. Yes, the second law of thermodynamics does say that energy always travels towards increasing entropy (hence positive). Local entropy changes can certainly be negative though
@@ArtinTheBeast Agreed
@@theittsco yeah total entropy can't be negative.
Physics exams be like:
*I am gonna destroy this man's whole career*
Rishav Krû Minoring in physics seriously damaged my GPA. Worst decision of my life
I broke the symmetry!
@rewertzyy 1 God you sound like an insufferable person to be around lol
More like..
“I’m gonna stop this man from even getting a career.”
Overused
"How much time do I have left?"
"10 minutes"
That got me
Yeah, that's relatable
10 minutes is way worse than 2 minutes, innit
I can relate to it so much
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It’s the worst feeling
“We’re suppose to have a logarithm?” 😂
Oh god, the flashbacks (Though more often AFTER the exam, when comparing solutions or approaches with others)
That was so true it was painful
It could apply to literally any concept and it would still be true. This hurts so much.
@@antaresmaelstrom5365 Dont remind me >_< I sometimes didnt even do that just so i wont feel down for the whole day, the worst time is right before the exam begins, than the exam itself and than the time right after the exam. Hated all of these.
Oh Jesus Mary, this one hurts...
can we take a moment to realize that epic trick he did with his pencil at 1:04
bgtkv4 epic
That's easy, when you hit it back is the harder one.
Anyone can do that with a bit of practice - took me about 2 weeks to perfect it
Encalica yeah it’s a lot like learning to ride a bike at first it seemed super hard and almost impossible but now it’s just muscle memory.
Sam Schutz Link to where I can learn it?
Teacher: There’s only 3 problems on exam
The exam: has parts a-z for each problem
WHY DOES IT SAY READ MORE AT THE END I HAVE BEEN TAPPINNG IT FOR LIKE 30 SECONDS
@@mird5350 same 😂😂😂😂
@@mird5350 IKR SAMEEEE SHSWKDHLFSD
@@mird5350 same, is it bugged?
^
What did you get for number 3
Friend: 6epsilon_0*sqrt(sigma^3 + B_0) / (1 + sin(theta))^2
Me: yeah I think mine simplified to that
Sin^2(theta)
@@gabrieldelrosario5169 quantity squared, check parenthesis, but it doesn't matter anyways lol was some made up garbage
That one smart guy in class: "I got 37"
Everyone else: "fuck"
@Zetzu ok.
Zetzu ok
"Unless we did it in that class I missed" this is me lol
Me too 😂
That ONE class you had to miss for a Dr appointment is the one lecture for everything that will be on the test....
Happened to me on a test cause I had been sick for 2 weeks ,ended Up learning everything att home,helping some classmates and then te doing the test and getting 90% ? Bruh idk how that happened
Actual quote from my prof: "The class median was 57, so about what we expected"
That is a very funny Stats joke.
“ASK LOUDER”
story of my life
"Our lives coincide".
1:17 - “maybe if I write “ran out of time” I’ll get less points taken off” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I actually had a class where about 80% of people never made it to the last question. The prof (or more likely the assistants) tested the time required again and everyone realized that it was too short, so they ended up giving some leeway with required percentages.
Antares Maelstrom oh m y that’s awesome
Hahaha
I'm sure it depends on the professor, but usually if I don't have time to solve the problem I'll jot down a quick outline of how I was planning to solve the problem. Sometimes they're charitable and throw me a couple points for approaching it correctly lol
@@matthewd.6467 Dude same!! Did that on my last exam and got some points back. The Prof even made me write it out on the board. HIGHLY RECOMMEND
Teacher: So how was it?
Andrew: so good
LMFAO
So good it turned me into a mathematician
That's literally me....
Commented at 666 likes. Physics is the devil confirmed
Harry Osborne moment
"Have you tried being better?"
THIS IS TOO ACCURATE
Calculus Teacher: How was the test?
Students: Easy!!!
*The data (scores) shows that the histogram is skewed to the right*
THIS MADE ME LAUGH LIKE NO OTHER OMFGG.
U mean left
@@frxst7758 a right skewed histogram means most of the data is on the left
this counts as studying for my exam on monday, right??
u too? :D
U two too?
U three too?
U five too?
U six too?
" the professor is right there, I could ask, but I won't "
😂👌 this is me
Me: “how can I do part a without the information given in part c”
Prof: “who told you you have to do it without the information in part c?”
Me: “if it’s in part c I’m not supposed to know it in part a”
Prof: “who told you that you need to do them in order? If you would look at the whole problem you’d see it makes sense to start with part b than do c,d and only than a”
Me: “...”
it happened to me exactly this in statics in architecutre
@@emperorjimmu9941 had me in the first half ngl
Back when all exams were paper you could often score highly in multiple choice questions on subjects you didn't know by exploiting info in other questions. At school I attempted an economics exam without doing the course. At work when I was a SQL newbie I increased my mark in an exam above what I thought was accurate by this method.
@@PMA65537 yep, been there done that
@@satan3763 problem is that I never had one multiple choice question in the entire time I went to school
1+1=2. Explain why this statement is incorrect and thus solve it correctly. (10 million marks)
It's Binary. The correct answer is 10
I usually transpose the one to the other side using algebra therefore I get 1= -1 instead of 2
It's Boolean. The correct answer is 1.
Let a=b
So,
a=b -----(1)
Multiply a both sides
a² = ab
Subtract b² both sides
a²-b² = ab - b²
Because a²-b² = (a+b)(a-b)
(a-b)(a+b) = ab - b²
Taking b common on RHS
(a-b)(a+b) = b(a-b)
Divide both sides by (a-b)
a+b = b
From (1)
b+b = b
2b = b
Divide both sides by b
2 = 1
1 = 2
Adding 1 both sides
1+1 = 2+1
1+1 = 3
Hence proved
Now give me my 10 million marks😂
@@jojogojo9318 until and unless you realize dividing by (a-b) is not valid,since, a=b and a-b basically equals 0 .... :) Now give me my 10 million marks as scholarship which I can later use for every frickin' test in my life... xD
*Attempts to solve question*
*Ends up with negative value*
*Attempts again---*
*" sin(theta) = (theta) "*
ScarrVett You are in radians, haha!
@@nightshockplayz5894 i compulsively look for a D or an R now every time I input an angle to my calculator lol, doesn't matter if i'm in a test or not
But.... isn't theta just 0 in that case???
@@rewrose2838 approximately
@@rewrose2838 In many problems the math can be simplified with that approximation if the angle is small enough.
Always briefly look at the questions at the beginning to find the ones you can actually do (and see if there is a formula sheet).
Also you missed the part where half the class walks out with expressions that can only be described as a combination of depression, anger, disbelief and exhaustion after the test.
Is physics really that hard tho? I'm a HS senior and would like to study physics...but am deterred by its difficulty. Do people ever get As/Bs on exams or is it impossible/rarely seen?
during the test*
@@l.1244 honestly if you ask that question about grades youre on the wrong track anyway. The only thing that can guarantee good grades is unwavering interest. Period. It's pure effort in any case.
@@l.1244 It's hard, but getting high marks is not impossible, most of my final marks are somewhere around 80/100 and I could probably put more effort in. As you move into higher years however (and even in first year sometimes), you will be required to sit there and think for long periods of time to understand certain concepts. Homework will begin to take hours to complete as well. All I'm saying is that it just takes longer to do things. Generally though, when it finally clicks it feels amazing, so if you like physics, I would say go for it.
One note on mathematics. I'm not particularly sure how high school physics is taught in countries outside of Australia, but at least here there was very little mathematics involved in high school, at most we used formulas. In university that changes completely. You will use a lot of integration, and eventually move into several dimensions and variables. That is not to say that the maths is particularly hard, most of it is pretty simple and you will learn it during your courses, but don't expect it to just be subbing in to formulas.
“expressions of depression, anger, disbelief and exhaustion after a test”. And here I am struggling with the final exam for AP. Seriously
Physics test: When 60% is considered you doing well
University maths: when 40% is a pass
Literally doing 2 out of 3 problems for a thermodynamic test and feeling fantastic walking out of class.
I ended up realizing I screwed up part of the entropy solution in a dream and lost 2 points. 64%, best test score for that class.
I had a dynamics exam about catapults, spherical cows, and Monte Python... the average was 35%
when you got that 50,5 % and passed building physics (architecture) and you would ve failed with 49,9 haha
One year, I was the best student in my class with an average of 50% (the global average of all subjets)
I remember in my first year physics paper we had a series of questions asking for calculations when there aren’t a single number given to us. Still haunts me this day
Use your results in quantum mechanics and general relativity to solve for a unified theory
Physics in a nutshell
Use your knowledge in Newtonian mechanics to answer the following questions:
1. What was before big bang?
2. What's dark matter and how is it related to the meaning of life?
@@baab4229
First, I know you're joking ok? I just want to answer something anyway, lol.
1- How much time before the Big Bang? I mean you could literally say 'singularity" and that wouldn't be wrong because that's what existed before the actual expansion, right?
2- listen fam, Dark matter is something we can't see but we know It's there because of how It interacts with the formation and rotation speed of most galaxies. Also, It doesn't have anything to do with the meaning of life, unless you set something related to Dark matter as the ultimate goal in your life, since the meaning of our lives is whatever we want It to be.
Not a physics major, so sry for any dumb shit I might have written.
Milton Marques for part 1, you’re right that there is a singularity. But there is no time time before the Big Bang. Therefore, nothing can happen ‘before’ the first moment in the universe
@@bobross5716 But how do you know the Big Bang was the first moment of the universe? Isn't it a model of how the universe became what It is today rather then an origin explanation?
@@Haki145 It is a model that is about as close as you can get to an origin. When everything was a part of the singularity, everything was at one singular position at the origin (sort of x=0, if you want to think about it that way). Since according general relativity, space and time are one and the same, this means time was also at its origin. If "space is equal to zero" here, what that really means is space-time is equal to zero (although GR breaks down at the very first moments of the universe, so who knows maybe it is wrong). If that's the first moment in space-time, there cannot be a moment before it. That's how I understand it anyway. Whether or not there was really something before that (multiverse, big-bang big-crunch cycle, etc...) is outside my realm of knowledge.
Exam=Madness × c^2
Nilay Marathe but c=1 so
Exam=Madness
Low speed exam?
@@LavenderTown40 no he chose his units such that c=1
@@subscribetopewdiepie4109 But Madness = Exam so Exam = Exam
@@subscribetopewdiepie4109 A man of culture I see
In all my years of learning physics,I'm proud to announce that I've never gotten a negative value for time
I just gave up midway
It is perfectly possible to get both positive and negative values for time (I'm talking about high school physics lol) when the quadratic formula is used. Of course, the negative value isn't included in the answer.
(Correct me if I'm wrong haha)
@@shahedhossainimran yeah sometimes if you forget to ignore vectors and stuff you can still get the right number, u just gotta take off the neg sign lol
Actually I had a modern physics exam where I was freaking out because I got a positive value for time and I knew it should’ve been negative (there was time dilation involved)
I love the way we had to derive formulas that we'd never seen before. When we'd ask the professor what was expected, the answer was invariably, "It should have been obvious."
Physics profs: git gud, scrub. Just Taylor expand the logarithm
Me: "Im supposed to get the logarithm here???"
Extra 12 seconds lmao. Even when its 5 mins it always feels like that
This applies to any STEM test tbh - "We're supposed to have a logarithm?"
In Engineering we always used to say:
*Getting 51% is 1% wasted effort.(*)*
And we truly, genuinely meant it when we said it. Our exams were usually _brutally_ hard.
(* Getting 50% means you passed the subject and so you wouldn't have to repeat it next year.)
Nah, some people actually want good grades.
Yeah, that won’t fly with Highschool students who are trying to actually get into University.
@@allstar4065 lucky for highschool students they're taking highschool physics
@@jacksonsmith2955 College physics and engineering is on a whole other level of difficulty.
@@dawnriddler yeah but when you‘re not studying something like business you just can’t. When you get a 50 you‘re most likely one of the best 15% among the students in physics
'I should probably ask the professor... but i wont'
This actually hurts
Aaand it’s multiple parts. How are you so accurate?! 😂
There is a uniqueness theorem for the form of physics exams.
Fr😂😂
We ALL been through it 🤪
Prof: "Exam is like your homework problems, piece of cake"
You:"Those take me like 5 hours to get done"
Prof:"Try being better next time?!"
Man profesor I never thought of it that way, when you put it like that it sounds easy.
In my second year undergraduate physics degree in the E-M course everyone was getting like 30% scores on the assignments and were taking like 4-6 hours each week (we had maybe like 8 or 10 concurrent courses) and the lecturer took time out of one of his lectures to explain that the problems took him 40 minutes to do so we should easily get them done in an hour.
@@matthewmcneany BRO!!! WTF is it with math professors assuming you can get it done as fast as them, when they're literally TEACHING THE CLASS????
@@emperorjimmu9941 I didn't diss anyone I dunno what you're talking about. my comment is congruent with the others, we're in agreement lol
My professor multiplies the time based on how the class is going, if I took 10 min you have 30
Me and the smartest kid are the firsts leave the exam room at the same time.
He gets the best grade and I get below average.
Sooo, your name is Andrew?
As a physics major, I can confirm this is exactly how it is 😭
Me too xD The worst are Analysis exams^^
Yh why u man being such scumbags
As an engineering major taking college physics right now, I can similarly confirm this is accurate :/
Pt 2: gets a 55 and the professor makes it an A
Isn't A good enough though?
@@rewrose2838 "A" is for quitters. You gotta get "S++".
@@epeglab1o1 "Define the grading scale first" is all I see
Rew Rose wooosh
@@epeglab1o1 SS*
Literally my physics class:
*_I'm about to end this girl's whole career_*
I just had a thermo exam. It was a 24-hr take-home exam (We were already gonna get a take-home before COVID-19 happened).
Our professor warned us at the beginning of the semester that, on his take-home exams, he reserves the right to ask *anything* within the scope of the course that we've covered.
So I get the exam yesterday. There's 5 problems. Surprisingly, the majority of them weren't so bad - heat engines, Helmholtz/Gibbs free energies, Maxwell distributions, Boltzman factors and partition functions. Nothing terrible.
There was *one* problem though on the van der Waals equation with three parts, and oh my god it was a mistake to leave that one for last. The part in your video with "I can't do part (a), so let me move on to part (b)...Oh, use your answer in part (a)..." described my experience with that problem to a T. Couldn't do part (a), moved on to part (b) which needed the answer from part (a). Put down what I would do if I had the answer. Moved on to part (c), required the answer from part (b). And it just abstracted further and further from any meaningful answer from there.
0:28 Me in my yesterday's exam.
He literally wrote on the first page. "If you have any questions, please ask!" Out of the hundred question I had, I only had the courage to ask one. Why do I have to be like this?? Fels bad man
You just gotta fake it till you make it (and be honest with your buddies when asking for help with studying)
@@rewrose2838 some teachers don't make us confident to ask, more like an annoyance they have to go through in other to pour more knowledge to the ones paying attention
I am quite addicted to my cellphone, I have 2min breaks every 15-30min
In this time I might have a question
I won't ask because of fear of "instead of looking at cellphone should be paying attention"
And in the end, the place I learn the most is alone with books
And for some reason they like to not use the ones they recommend for exercise
Fuck that "need to think" in tests
I have limited time, lots of questions, I need to literally copy paste answers to make it all on time
@@0Arcoverde Yeah most teachers never wanted to be in that position, they've no intention of being a good teacher (it's just their job , going through the motions of acting like a teacher)
@@rewrose2838 professors are not teachers, so you must self-teach.
0:41 cann confirm. I'm taking physics major, attending my first mathematical physics class, and yep. 4 problems, solve 1 of them. Satisfied enough and proceed crying the next whole day.
i'm starting my physics major in august jsjsjs and I'm super nervous
@@lily-tu7om don't be
Anxiety mixed with depression and lack of will of live just make it all worst
Try to think of stuff to do while you don't graduate
Goes to psychiatrist or other professional in the field and seek help
You might think you don't need, everybody does, mainly the riskiest and most studied group we know of
University students
@@0Arcoverde thanks for the advice! I will be looking for psychological help, I'm also going to start some courses during the summer because people say it's Really hard when you first get in
@@lily-tu7om I also need to look for psychological help
I wish you the best
"Solve for time"
**Gets a negative value**
**Curb Your Enthusiasm Theme plays**
"There's a logarithm.."
Dude, I feel you. In 12th grade everyone was using a log table and I didn't know what the hell that booklet was. 😂
My favourite trick is deriving equations in an exam from dimensional analysis
me EVERY time, despite the fact we're typically allowed a formula sheet! i always forget a formula that I have spent some portion of the test rederiving lol
How can you derive equations using dimensional analysis? That makes no sense. Dimensional analysis is basically converting units to units.
What was the equation for acceleration again? Whatever I just derive it and waste half my available time
integrate "a = a" with respect to time, twice
v = at + u
s = 1/2 at^2 + ut (+ s0)
then t = (v-u)/a => s = 1/2 (v^2 - 2vu + u^2)/a + uv - u^2
=> 2as = v^2 + u^2 - 2u^2 + 2uv - 2uv
v^2 + u^2 = 2as
@@alexv5581 He might just mean sanity-checking his guesses
Engineering exams be like: here's a calculator and some property tables. Numbers everywhere.
Also, to hell with Trenton.
The most fucked thing is when they give you irrelevant information or data and you spend all this time stressing about how it fits into the problem...
@@MlSTERSANDMAN the most fucked up thing is you guys are engineers
I wish.
In my physics 2 class everything it's in terms of variables at the end.
@@josue_mejia It's much faster to keep everything as variables. Compare writing a single letter to a string of digits. The numbers themselves don't actually convey any conceptual information, so you need to rely on your short-term memory and units to track what's happening.
Compare that to solving symbolically, where you can take any equation in a solution and you'll be able to see what's going on: oh, they're manipulating the electric field, distance, and charge: E, r, q.
@@jamieg2427 No, I mean...
In the answer. I don't really mind having the equations in variable form, but I do like having my answers in number form.
I'm watching this video instead of studying for my physics exam jsjsjejjejsue it sounds like a nice idea
Repete 451 this is studying for your exam
We know all know that feeling of having spent 20 minutes on one of your questions only to conclude it has to be wrong… and then move on to the next one
ive made a rule for myself that after like 5 minutes (depending on how long it is) i cant figure out how to start the question, just move on lol
I once had a very long math problem where I was supposed to prove something, and I noticed one mistake at the beginning of that proof when there was like 10 minutes left of that exam.
I had to hurry and make a ton of corrections throughout the entire proof, and I just barely made it, and passed that exam largely thanks to that.
false.
when my friends/professors ask how the exam was, I start tearing up and give them the “does this look like a face of a person who did well?” look
Reminds me of that dreadful first ever test of Physics I took...only six questions with multiple parts and it totally annihilated my trust and confidence in this subject 😭😂😂😂😂 That was years ago..but the trauma is still fresh!!!!!
If Mary has 12 apples and she shares 3 with 4 of her friends
What is the mass of the sun?
xD4N101x 47kg
Just look in your BiNaS
Use exact value from part A up to 5 decimal points to calculate the total energy output of the engine in my Porsche.
I love this question.
“cool i think number one is more or less done”
literally me on the calc final
“The teacher is right there, and I could ask him, but I won’t.” Is the most relatable line istg.
This is why I never missed a class in engineering school
"probably wrong" *turns page anyway*
Me on every test
0:29
Soooooo true. If I ask question, professor be like “Well if I told you that, you would have an answer.”
And then they finish you off with...
“You should know this, it was in the homework”
30 minutes ago I was doing a physics exam.
I don't feel alone anymore knowing that they are all the same.
Me too!
I feel this. My thermo homeworks were 4-5 problems with parts a-e on all of them. On average took me 8-12 hours depending on how unreasonably difficult the problems were. Exams were the exact same format. Never finished more than 3 problems fully on an exam...and I still got a B+.
Thanks for helping me in the future
these videos are THE MOST accurate funny videos I've ever seen. you nail it so hard lol. thank you *cry laughing*
You have inspired me to get a little more creative. I’m brainstorming some ideas for videos other than instructional math videos. Thanks and stay tuned! 😎
I feel this in my soul. 😂
I made I through 6 years of college without ever needing to utilize my IEP (which allows for extra time on tests)...until physics.
My teacher the last month of school: “oh u didn’t take pre calc? That was a pre requisite for this class”😐
That pen flip though! Teach me the ways!
0:09 cool pencil flip
This made me LOL and I’m a math major. *Thinks about last quarter’s final*
Damn you are so good. Love your bro. Keep going. So funny and relatable
Had to come back to this after my physics final to realize how spot on this was
*When u find out there’s a formula sheet on the last page after you already attempted all the questions* 😂😆😂 his reaction was way calmer than expected, I would’ve probably just burned down the school in a rage of disbelief
Just had my 4th Modern Physics exam today... This is some of the most relatable shit I've ever seen.
I have never related so much to a video!! Spot on 😊👌👏
Actually happened:
Me: “in the middle of quarter exam, 20 minutes left”
Prof: *comes up to me, stares at my paper
Prof: “you should be done by now”
Me: *moves my elbow so that prof can’t see my work
"So Taylor-expand the logarithm"
"We're supposed to have a logarithm?"
The accuracy in this sketch is actually amazing! Lmao! :D
Or when the answer is obvious/‘show that’ but your working doesn’t get you to that answer so you try and mess with it to scrape marks
Literally my physics teacher on our first physic exam ever:
"Don't worry, the exam just has 2 tasks"
...
There were
1.1.a
1.1.b
1.2.a
1.2.b
1.3
2.1.a
2.1.b
2.2.a
2.2.b
2.2.c
Watches this with String Theory paper on Monday. Cries.
wrote ordinary differential equations this morning.
- it. was. hell.
The formula sheet on the end part is so relatable
Why is this so relatable? Like, seriously though, waaaaay too relatable. Way too much.
High school physics: wow, this is engaging and fun...
College Physics: if I have to draw another force diagram, I’m gonna kill someone...I still don’t know how to do like 70% of the homework for chapter 2...
same dude im doing IB physics HL and im struggling with mechanics itself
I should ask, but it may show him how little I actually know.Me in a nutshell through engineering physics 😂
this is so true ,literally every part is frikin related to first part
Every part of this was spot on
This is just sad, bruh. Who doesn’t look at the whole exam to find the formula sheet.
I’m in 10th grade (first year actually having physics physics) and I know it’s obviously nothing compared to college level physics but man this video is basically me during my tests.
The feeling is always the same, the questions just get trickier 😋. You'll be grand, dont panic!
I am amazed by how accurate this is.
Felt the “4 questions” in inadequate time too well
Except when my professor asks how it was I’m honest and go, “I have no idea what I was doing” and they facepalm 🤷🏻♀️
After I heard "use your results from part A" I just could not stop laughing🤣
Also, the formula sheet is a life saver.
Questions that use the answer from the previous question or so frustrating.
I had this calculus teacher who would allow us to come up to the front of the classroom and get the answer to the previous question at the expensive losing the points for the previous question. This way if you didn't know how to do the previous question, but know all of the other ones, then you can actually get points on your test for things that you know how to do.
Many of my papers, part A is a "Show that:" question.
So even if you don't know how, the paper gives you the result to use for the next question
I was on the verge of tears when taking this one quiz that I had
When my answer doesn't match teacher's answer
I be like: my answer is my answer none of your answer