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Excluding the first quiz which I screwed up big time because I forgot to do the entire D of a gear, which gave me the wrong result, which caused the rest of the gear results to be wrong -- I am failing it horribly. The second quiz was a robot arm with X, Y, Z with an auxiliary view(which we had to do using scales), today's quiz was alike but from a bottom view instead of a top view. So I have no confidence in this class at all. I go in and feel stupid, this is the first quiz, sorry about the size:
The next thing we are doing are pneumatics, valves and whatnot. The professor isn't that helpful as he expects us to know and remember the trig. But yeah, I'm failing it, he's actually told the whole class that whoever think they're doing badly that they should just drop it. I don't want to drop it, but I am doing poorly. And the math department don't know wtf I'm talking about with this, and duh, they're not supposed to.
But anyway, anyone have advice for me to do better on his quizes and/or class in general? It's a 9AM class. >_<
 
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Is the trig your problem?
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Not really, I mean, I have most of the formulas and stuff memorized, it's "where do I look" at the angle, which part is which because once it transfers to the auxiliary view, holy hell, I am completely lost. I mean, this class was designed for mechanical engineers, I'm not ME, I'm EE. I have only taken a basic CAD class that did aux. views and stuff and that was two years ago. The professor expects us to know and remember that. I'm not saying it's the professor's fault, I'm saying my ineptitude to see this is bad. Sometimes I don't even know where the R is because it changes, or how I see it. Is there something wrong with me? Am I retarded?
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stop playing ff7 and concentrate on your schoolwork
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Lol I don't play it everyday, I think I'm not having enough examples, because the "examples" we do are the examples in class where he makes us solve it and move on. GAHHH.
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Sounds like a tough course, and not a very good teacher. Just from general experience with math-y courses, I'd tend to agree with you that the best way to get good at this is to do lots of examples. Copy down the essential formulae and other things you need to know onto a couple of pages in a notebook--sometimes writing things down that way can help you remember them. Or if you already are down with all that, then you can skip that bit. But do as many examples as you can.
You're not retarded--you just have to develop your intuition for this. It's like riding a bike.
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A classmate is willing to teach me, he knows that stuff well, he said the professor doesn't teach well but he is in fluids which he knows that stuff.
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