The first year is always the hardest.

If you ask me, the hardest part of any STEM major is always the first year because you’re not used to thinking like a scientist. Throughout your entire life, you’ve never been forced to think about what the calculations or math intuitively means within your high school algebra courses.

The most successful students in intro chem/physics are the ones who can read these equations as relationships between the variables they’re studying. This is something that requires practice, time, and training and doesn’t come easily to most.

If you ever want to see a breakdown on the best ways to read equations in science as statements, check out my free webinar where I uncovered strategies and examples to read equations, units, and graphs intuitively!

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Coming Soon: How to Understand Physics as a Science!

Because physics is the most fundamental science, its laws can be described using highly accurate and highly specific mathematical equations that map cleanly onto reality. However, most people struggle in introductory physics courses because it’s laws—such as Newton’s second law and conservation of momentum—are introduced as equations to solve problems before being properly understood and read as statements about nature.

And because most physics curriculums emphasize problem-solving before intuition, that leaves most students—even the best ones—unsure about what they’re calculating.

That’s why I’m building a guide which focuses on teaching physics intuitively as a science so that students can understand how to read equations as statements of nature and graph them so that they understand what to do when they run into a new practice problem.

Once you understand the science, you’ll never have to memorize a problem set again!

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The hardest part about math isn’t the raw calculations: it’s understanding what the math means when rearranging and graphing functions. Most students aren’t trained to interpret the math from a qualitative perspective which is why many students who are ‘good at math’ struggle in introductory chemistry, physics, and engineering courses.

That’s why I’ve created the Ultimate Algebra Guide for Science & Engineering Majors which covers all of the relevant concepts from algebra, trigonometry, and precalculus courses that are applicable for science & engineering majors condensed into a 700+ page guide! 

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