What a terrible fucking feeling, I just wanna kill myself, I’m so fucking stupid, I must be the dumbest motherfucker on this board…

Take Thermo-Electro-MagnetoDynamics next time for an easy A.

>>16727723 (OP)
EM sucks the first time you see it and it's hard to build good intuition without much more math and physics knowledge than the average student has by that time.
>>16727727
This but unironically. I almost failed intro E&M but taking a plasma physics class was the best way to actually properly understand E&M.

>>16727723 (OP)
I failed many physics classes because all the physics professors at my university are garbage. I learned in 3 weeks on my own what took a professor 4 months to explain.
>>16727736
for real or are you memeing? recommend me a book or a youtube series

>>16727723 (OP)
its a homosexual class that is usually badly taught so dont worry about it

>>16727723 (OP)
Lock in

How do you fail it? It is like 3 equations.

>>16727723 (OP)
"hey i think I understand this stuff and don't need to study"
>fail solid mechanics
"ok but definitely THIS TIME and now I REALLY don't need to study"
>fail solid mechanics
FUCK

>>16727723 (OP)
e&m is a meme course provided you have a working understanding of vector calc and do a handful of practice problems per chapter of whatever book you're being taught from.
>>16727822
kek

>>16727723 (OP)
You have to practice op

>>16727723 (OP)
Assess what went wrong and try again?
Watching the walter lewin physics lectures helped me ages ago.

>>16727723 (OP)
brub, if I studied that shit rn, I'd be so balls deep in it that they wouldn't have any other choice than to give me an S++

>>16727723 (OP)
At what level, electromagnetism is black magic to me an I'm an electrician.
I decided I wanted to understand how it actually works instead of the simplified electron shell model and after a shitload of reading I still have no fucking idea how a permanent magnet is different to a chunk of metal at the atomic level.

>>16727723 (OP)
>I must be the dumbest motherfucker on this board
No, that would be the NPD psycho who calls everyone else schizo.

OP here, the results just came in, I really failed… this is even more frustrating because I spent more than 100 hours studying for this shit, it was just in the last few weeks that I neglected it and I paid a huge price for that. I’m so fucking angry right now, if only I had studied a little more in the end I would’ve passed, my grades were really good on the first two tests. The problem with my university is that the professors here are all psychopaths, the questions on the tests are literally from Irodov’s Problems in General Physics or from physics olympiads. I’m not even a physicist but they insist on making extremely hard tests for anyone taking this fucking course for some reason. Fucking hell, another semester doing this crap…

>>16729471
>or from physics olympiads
Like IPhO or national level?

>>16727723 (OP)
>I just failed Electromagnetism
I failed it the first time, too. My educational path hadn't included a necessary prerequisite.
Take it again, anon. You'll get through the second time.

>>16727723 (OP)
WAGMI OP. You can do it. I don't know your situation, but how's your math background? Having a very strong grasp on integrating over vector fields and such helps immensely. It's easily the most important part of being able to understand anything that's going on to begin with.

>>16729738
National level.

>>16729471
Don't worry, it doesn't matter. Plenty of retards make loads of cash.

>>16727723 (OP)
99% of EM problems come down to knowing what to integrate and how to integrate them.
It comes with experience, not simply half-assed knowledge you memorize. You lack both experience and aptitude. So you need to do problems, not shitpost on 4chan.
- Griffiths solution manual is on the usual pirate sites.
- Jackson has a bunch of solutions on the internet.
- Likharev’s problems and solutions books are free on his website.
- there are a bunch of other problem books with solutions
Do them, compare your work with the solution. Figure out why you couldn’t get the right answer. Make notes. Rinse and repeat.
That’s it. EM is the most grindable physics subject.
Stop deifying Irodov and other books like that. This is something you can train.

>>16727748
>I learned in 3 weeks on my own what took a professor 4 months to explain.
Lmao, delusional retard.

>>16730175
>Cult of Passion
Wierd LARP but whatever...
>99% of EM problems
Has to do with how you percieve (and learn) the world.

>>16727727
>Dynamics
>>16727736
>plasma physics

The "problem" is naturally thinking in dynamics (all the numbers between 0 and 1) or not (only 0 and 1).

https://youtu.be/oTVibMuIgcs
t.Both

>>16728911
tldr electrons are magnetic monopoles
depending on how they align within an atom and how resultant atomic spins arrange you get [dia|para]magnetism

>>16727723 (OP)
I failed electronics for 2 years in a row. It's the only subject left for me to graduate, but I just can't reach the passing note. It has nothing to do with studying, as you're allowed to have all the formulas you want in the exam, you just have to not make mistakes with the calculator...

>>16731103
Nearly me with solid mechanics
It feels intuitive and I understood it better than a lot of subjects I passed, but I miss a few bits of homework and that 65-70% exam mark that I feel confident I'll get never materialises