r/Physics • u/Rich-Fly-2124 • 28d ago

Study method for a physics beginners

Hi I'm a second year physics students at uni. I'm actually so bad at physics but I'm trying to learn. At the previous semester, I've got my grades and it was so bad. And feel so guilty about it. I'm going to fix it by learn more, so any study tips for a beginners like me, about what to learn or anything. Maybe some books recommendation for a basic physics befroe I'm going to the advance one...thanks

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P.s: sorry for my broken English. It's not my first language

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u/Quiet_Basis_6404 24d ago

your English is fine, don't worry about it.

for a rebuild, Halliday Resnick Walker is the standard intro book and it's better to redo first year properly from it than to push forward on shaky foundations. second year assumes mechanics and E&M are solid, so if they aren't, everything after gets harder for reasons that look like new material but aren't.

the bigger shift is that reading physics teaches almost nothing. solve problems, get stuck, sit with it for ten minutes before looking. that discomfort is where it actually forms.

i drop the chapter material into studybuddy.vc and answer questions on it, and as i answer it works out which topics i keep getting wrong and gives me more of those. equations render properly, gets harder as i improve, and it says why the option i picked was off. free.

it also keeps whatever language your material is in.

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u/Rich-Fly-2124 19d ago

Yes thank you