How to survive as a physicist's student

A Physic's course combine a several type of subjects. A student need to have various skills to easily digest the subject. The ability to undestand the concept, process, calculation and derivation. While some of the applied subject focus on the process and concept, most of the core subject in physic lean more on the mathemtical concept. When we mention about mathematic, it different from what we learn in the high school. Mostly, student need to derive the equation and in the end, they need to find a general solution rather than putting a value in the equation. Since, my subject, wave mostly a combination of concept and derivation, most students struggle to handle since this first year student didn't had any exposure to this kind of technique.

Student need to remember that, the technique is a combination of several type of mathematical concept to find a general solution of the oscillation. It still an alien for student to learn it less than 14 weeks. That mean, student need to do it from the start of the semester.

To Memorize or To Understand.
My teacher said, we can learn by memorizing it first, then try to understand it later or understan it first, then memrozing it later.
Any of this technique work. First of all, we need to clearly see that all mathematical technique and step that we learn is a new thing. If you still unable to understand it, we should start with memorize. 
Don't get me wrong. By memorizing, you need to write again and again until you can do it without taking a peek into your note. Make sure your note a complete with correct step. 
After that, you need to start questioning, why we using this method? Can we use the same method to other problem?

Second, using that method, try to solve another problem. Find any question or tutorial related and used that method. Find out if any modification need to be done. This teach student the process of thinking and problem solving.

Doing these two things will help student to grasp a difficult topic related to the derivation.

Practice make perfect. By practicing correctly, you will improve for each time you done it.

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