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Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-15 10:15:07
May 11 2009 22:16 GMT
#1
Mechanics was such a bitch (E&M was so much better). After the Mech MC, I was like God damn I hope the FR will be easy to carry my score, but now, after the FR, I'm like fuck I hope the MC saves me. I pretty much left almost the entire 3rd problem blank b/c I spent like half an hour figuring out what the 2nd was asking. I swear, Mech is gonna be my only non-5 AP. I probably just should have stopped while I was ahead and not taken any APs this year.

Anyways, anyone else have any thoughts on the AP?

RoieTRS
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States2569 Posts
May 11 2009 22:19 GMT
#2
Banana plants are of the family Musaceae. They are cultivated primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent for the production of fibre and as ornamental plants. As the banana plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy they are often mistaken for trees, but their main or upright stem is actually a pseudostem (literally "fake stem"). For some species this pseudostem can reach a height of up to 2–8 m, with leaves of up to 3.5 m in length. Each pseudostem can produce a bunch of yellow, green or even red bananas before dying and being replaced by another pseudostem.
konadora, in Racenilatr's blog: "you need to stop thinking about starcraft or anything computer-related for that matter. It's becoming a bad addiction imo"
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
May 11 2009 22:19 GMT
#3
Oh I thought that mechanics was quite easy to understand. EM was somewhat more difficult though.

I always just thought that mech was so much easier to conceptualize that EM. Why do you think that EM was more difficult for you?
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T.O.P. *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
May 11 2009 22:23 GMT
#4
AP is easy. Physics at UCSD is 10 times harder than AP Physics. I agree that mechanics is a lot easier to understand compared to E&M.
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
vAltyR
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States581 Posts
May 11 2009 22:26 GMT
#5
Heh. When I took the AP Physics exams two years ago, I was sick during the exam day, so I was taking it with an ear infection and a cold. By the time I got to the last problem on the E&M free response, I was so wiped that I wrote on the test "Sorry, but I don't feel like doing this right now. "

Still got a 4. ^_^
내 호버크라프트는 장어로 가득 차 있어요
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
May 11 2009 22:26 GMT
#6
On May 12 2009 07:19 Fontong wrote:
Oh I thought that mechanics was quite easy to understand. EM was somewhat more difficult though.

I always just thought that mech was so much easier to conceptualize that EM. Why do you think that EM was more difficult for you?

It just seemed that the EM FR problems were easier. It's not so much about conceptualizing as similarity to problems I had done before. For mech, the pivoting rod one was seriously wtf (2nd angular kinematic + net torque, then i guess period = period of a physical pendulum which is 2pi*sqrt(I/mgL) or some shit, idk... i did T=t/r(dtheta)). I'm just really frustrated b/c my friends were saying the 3rd problem was easy (comparatively).
triangle
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3803 Posts
May 11 2009 22:26 GMT
#7
Free response was weird.

I thought the multiple choice were really easy.

And you should have skipped the second, because that one made no sense. I skipped parts of it in utter confusion.
Also known as waterfall / w4terfall
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
May 11 2009 22:30 GMT
#8
On May 12 2009 07:26 triangle wrote:
Free response was weird.

I thought the multiple choice were really easy.

And you should have skipped the second, because that one made no sense. I skipped parts of it in utter confusion.

What about that E&M question about the guy who wanted to make an inductor out of copper?
The nice thing about the mech MC was that there were a lot where you could just plug and chug into kinematics or net force eqs, but I ran out of time and didn't get to completely solve like 2 of them...
Disintegrate
Profile Joined April 2009
United States182 Posts
May 11 2009 22:41 GMT
#9
On May 12 2009 07:19 RoieTRS wrote:
Banana plants are of the family Musaceae. They are cultivated primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent for the production of fibre and as ornamental plants. As the banana plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy they are often mistaken for trees, but their main or upright stem is actually a pseudostem (literally "fake stem"). For some species this pseudostem can reach a height of up to 2–8 m, with leaves of up to 3.5 m in length. Each pseudostem can produce a bunch of yellow, green or even red bananas before dying and being replaced by another pseudostem.


ok there mr. in-denial
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
May 11 2009 22:42 GMT
#10
On May 12 2009 07:23 T.O.P. wrote:
AP is easy. Physics at UCSD is 10 times harder than AP Physics. I agree that mechanics is a lot easier to understand compared to E&M.

Why in the world are you going to ERC and still doing a science major? MMW sounds like hell.
[SECRET FONT] "Dragoon bunker"
Kentor *
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5784 Posts
May 11 2009 22:53 GMT
#11
Physics at UCSD is LOL. Finals is 25 multiple choice with homework problems or something.
T.O.P. *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
May 11 2009 23:02 GMT
#12
On May 12 2009 07:42 Fontong wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 12 2009 07:23 T.O.P. wrote:
AP is easy. Physics at UCSD is 10 times harder than AP Physics. I agree that mechanics is a lot easier to understand compared to E&M.

Why in the world are you going to ERC and still doing a science major? MMW sounds like hell.

MMW is hell. I need to transfer out of ERC somehow.
On May 12 2009 07:53 Kentor wrote:
Physics at UCSD is LOL. Finals is 25 multiple choice with homework problems or something.

Berkeley elitists.
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21248 Posts
May 11 2009 23:30 GMT
#13
I'm pretty sure I got a 1 on Mechanics and a 4/5 on E&M. Whee.
TranslatorBaa!
Insane Lane
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States397 Posts
May 11 2009 23:34 GMT
#14
Eh the multiple choices weren't THAT bad. But yeah, for free response mechanics was tough, but at least for me, E&M was even tougher.
Hypnosis
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States2061 Posts
May 11 2009 23:39 GMT
#15
On May 12 2009 07:23 T.O.P. wrote:
AP is easy. Physics at UCSD is 10 times harder than AP Physics. I agree that mechanics is a lot easier to understand compared to E&M.


Physics at any university for engineering is fucking IMPOSSIBLE.
Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind
Nitrogen
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States5345 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-12 00:21:42
May 12 2009 00:19 GMT
#16
HOLY SHIT FUCK PHYSICAL PENDULUMS

mc mech: pretty easy, with the exception of like 3-4 problems
fr mech: #1 and #3 weren't that bad, #2 was wtfhard
mc em: easiest part of the test imo
fr em: pretty easy
UNFUCK YOURSELF
dm47
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
82 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-12 01:20:36
May 12 2009 01:20 GMT
#17
Nitrogen I don't think it was a physical pendulum...if it was then ffffffuuuuuu

For the differential equationI did mg(x-xcos(0)) = 1/2Iw^2

then I solved for w and just said w = d0/dt

then for the next part solving for period I did w = 2(pi)/T

solve for T..

but I completely fucked up the rest of #2 and 3. If I get a three I'll be ecstatic.
I hate optimists.
koreakool
Profile Joined January 2008
United States334 Posts
May 12 2009 01:48 GMT
#18
i wasted my time with physics B
im going to be an engineer
fail I know
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
May 12 2009 06:51 GMT
#19
On May 12 2009 08:02 T.O.P. wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 12 2009 07:42 Fontong wrote:
On May 12 2009 07:23 T.O.P. wrote:
AP is easy. Physics at UCSD is 10 times harder than AP Physics. I agree that mechanics is a lot easier to understand compared to E&M.

Why in the world are you going to ERC and still doing a science major? MMW sounds like hell.

MMW is hell. I need to transfer out of ERC somehow.

My girlfriend was going to try, then realized that it wasn't worth it and she couldn't graduate 2 quarters earlier anyway(which is a requirement for transferring).
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