Physics
We dove into RAD-131 (Physics) today. We had about 6 hours of lecture. This first physics class doesn’t have a lab associated with it, so we’ll be having lecture on Monday and Wednesday for the next 5 weeks from 9am to 4pm with a lunch break in the middle somewhere. The good thing about today’s lecture is that I haven’t seen anything I don’t really know yet. Most of what we covered today was basic math review, units of measurement, and we started into the physics fundamentals segment as well. One advantage that I may have in my favor is that I have had college level general physics in the past. Our instructor mentioned today that nothing we would cover would require any more math than the algebra level. My last physics class used algebra for some stuff but it also dug into trigonometry and calculus as well for a lot of the problems we solved. This stuff can’t be too mathematically complicated if algebra will cover it all. He even told us that we could make a list of formulas that we would need on a 5×7 index card and use it on the tests. That will take a lot of the work out of it, but most of the formulas I looked at today were familiar anyway.
We have our mid-semester clinical conference tomorrow afternoon, so I’ll get to leave clinical a little early. I have all my paperwork in place for that. I took the mid-semester film test online this afternoon and made a 93 on it.
It won’t be too long until we are welcoming in a new set of first-year students. They should have an orientation day sometime in July, and we will get to meet all of them.
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