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Did anyone here take thermodynamics? Just curious if its easy/hard?
Sorta depends. Probably gonna be hard.
What level is the course? (ie 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year design, etc.)
I had a 200-level physics course on thermo where the instructor was like 85 years old and gave us really easy tests because he liked us, but didn't explain any of the material well at all.
And this term I had a 300-level Heat Transfer (MECH) design course. It was pretty much all empirical correlations and very little hard physics. Still somewhat difficult course though.
Did anyone here take thermodynamics? Just curious if its easy/hard?
I took intro to thermo (which is Thermo 1 I believe) this year and it was honestly all based on the prof. I had easily my favourite prof and I found the course easy and I'm pretty sure I got either an A+ or A. My buddy in the same class found it the same way. I couple guys I know in another class found it a really difficult course.
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What level is the course? (ie 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year design, etc.)
Thermodynamics I. Second year
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Elements of thermodynamics theory, system and control volumes, properties of pure substance, ideal gas, heat and work interactions, first and second laws, entropy.
I have no idea what's going on here. I'm currently taking Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics which takes a decent amount of effort to do well in. I enjoy the material so I wouldn't categorize it as 'hard' but it is challenging to do well. Not sure if my course fits what everyone else is talking about though. Also, my school doesn't give out the grade A+. Is an A+ grade common (as in universally used) in Canadian universities?
How is EE physics more math related then ME physics?
Let me rephrase that - EE physics is more math heavy than ME ones.
The base of our physics is the Maxwell equations, and study of electromagnetic waves, which is nothing but hardcore PDE's.
Thermo, Hydro, and so on do not have the same intensity of calc as EM Waves.
At Waterloo, EE's take the most, and by far the toughest Calc courses right after SE.
For example, right now 2nd year 1st sem, we EE students are the only ones taking Differential Equations along with linear algebra. Every other discipline is doing the later half of our 1B calc, and introductory vector calc.
The rest take our DE in Calc 4. Whereas in calc 4, all we do is vector calc.
I have no idea what's going on here. I'm currently taking Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics which takes a decent amount of effort to do well in. I enjoy the material so I wouldn't categorize it as 'hard' but it is challenging to do well. Not sure if my course fits what everyone else is talking about though. Also, my school doesn't give out the grade A+. Is an A+ grade common (as in universally used) in Canadian universities?
I have no idea what's going on here. I'm currently taking Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics which takes a decent amount of effort to do well in. I enjoy the material so I wouldn't categorize it as 'hard' but it is challenging to do well. Not sure if my course fits what everyone else is talking about though. Also, my school doesn't give out the grade A+. Is an A+ grade common (as in universally used) in Canadian universities?
Formation of Modern Europe and Introduction to Modern Governments both back-to-back on Tuesday, then United States 1877-1945 on the 24th and Psychology 101 () on the 26th.
I have an "Applications of Classical Mechanics" exam in 40 minutes.
It's basically a course on Lagrangian mechanics, plus a few other things (very basic rocketry; inertia, effective mass, and effective spring tensors; Kepler stuff [extension of LM I guess]; and introductory Hamiltonian mechanics).
But I don't wanna stop watching this Caps-Bruins game!!
I have an "Applications of Classical Mechanics" exam in 40 minutes.
It's basically a course on Lagrangian mechanics, plus a few other things (very basic rocketry; inertia, effective mass, and effective spring tensors; Kepler stuff [extension of LM I guess]; and introductory Hamiltonian mechanics).
But I don't wanna stop watching this Caps-Bruins game!!
Oh well last exam tonight at 7 then summer
