Are there any physics majors who did not entirely not take all the introductory physics courses needed to become a physics major? For example instead of taken PY201, PY202, PY203, are there any physics but instead took PY205, PY208, and PY407, the substitutes for the primary introductory physics courses? How different are those two sets of introductory courses besides the fact that one sets for physics majors and the other sets for engineering majors?

7/20/2006 1:56:46 PM

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7/20/2006 2:14:25 PM

PY201, 202, and 203 and nothing like 205 and 208. They're entirely different courses with an entirely different level of expectation for performance.

7/20/2006 5:28:03 PM

^ true enough, but it was my experience that many of my friends and I did just fine w/o the major-based intro courses. Of course all of us had a passion for physics and a willingness to work hard. If you don't have that then the 400-level courses will crush you like an ant.

7/20/2006 10:32:23 PM

py201, py202, and py203 are more rigorous.

You can take py205, py208, and py407 but you may compromise your physics education, however, I bet that sequence will bolster your GPA (if your worried about that).

In the end, the most important thing to note about the NCSU physics dept. is,

Quote :

"...willingness to work hard. If you don't have that then the 400-level courses will crush you like an ant."

Best of luck!

7/21/2006 1:19:42 AM

I don't know who is teaching them now, but I took 205H and 208H because I came in off-sequence. I had Dr. Johnson, so I was prepared for the 400 level courses. However, 407 was a complete joke.

7/23/2006 1:18:13 PM

when I took 203 there was not enough enrollment to have both 203 and 407, they combined the classes and made it 203/407H cause 407H were required to go to the problem session

7/23/2006 7:45:37 PM

^^ Johnson is the man in the physics dept. (a little rough on the edges though)

7/24/2006 12:03:47 AM