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u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/UCSantaBarbara

Books - Chem Series

  • Any AP chemistry book. Textbook or exam review book. They will only carry you to 1B and a little into 1C though.
  • Any sort of general chemistry book....You can probably get a cheap used textbook that's older in edition (like this one) - I fucking LOVE used textbooks that are older editions because they are usually like 1 cent on amazon and generally have the same information.
  • Might as well just check out the textbook on the syllabus which is this - any of the older editions work. If I were you and if you were REALLY interested in starting, grab one of the cheap older editions ALONG WITH A STUDY GUIDE for that same edition (such as thiis one)

    Books - Physics Series

  • Any physics textbooks that you might have lying around from school....AP physics review books probably useful
  • To be honest, I'd just pick up one that's similar / the same from the syllabus. They are currently using a new book, which is really freaking expensive. I use a ~1$ book that is written by the same teacher, but just has some calculus in it. Everything is the same otherwise. I also picked up a study guide for it for like 2 dollars on amazon. This will send you to an Amazon search for the book that I use - just add study guide if you want a study guide (the text and the study guide have to match editions, since the study guide just gives you answers and help for the problems)

    My Notes

  • I don't really have any solid notes to give you for the courses; to be honest I doubt they would be of use to you. Learn to take notes for yourself so that they are useful to you
  • Check out this guy - he has great advice for notes and stuff in college.

    Math34B and Writing 2

  • I might offend some people out there but this is what I've heard: Math34B is for the mentally challenged (they dumb down the math way too much) and writing 2 is fine. If I were you I'd take Math3B - it's a little harder, but it's probably worth your time in comparison to 34B. Might want to look into that but yeah...a lot of people would probably recommend that you take 3B. Overall it sounds like a pretty chill FSSP schedule, and it might even be a little too chill. Maybe consider something else like Greek Myth or Dinosaurs?

    First/Second/whatever...

  • If you're an incoming freshman, don't say you're "Sophomore standing" or "Junior standing." Generally (suuper general), some freshman think they are big shots because they are junior or sophomore standing. Truth is, its not that big of a deal and no one cares. Story time....
  • My friend and I were at a party during FSSP. Totally new to the party scene, wtf is going on sort of mode. The party we were at was thrown at a frat house and it was super chill - BEST party experience I've ever had. The President of the Frat was talking to us and my friend says "oh I'm a freshman but I'm technically a junior because of my A-" Nope, the dude didn't even let him finish. Told him in a serious but chill way to not do that. Could've gone worse I guess.

    Carried away? hahaha

  • Well....I mean there are some people that get carried away (I know a guy that parties all day every day....) but 99% of the people here don't do that, so I wouldn't worry too much. Keeping your future goals in mind is definitely a good way to set yourself on track in terms of academics (and if you don't have a solid goal yet, that's fine too - takes some time to learn). My advice is, assuming you don't know what you want to do after college, is to explore college life here and to go to the various seminars on campus that expose you to the different fields of study. You learn a ton from them - a lot that I can't really tell you all in one little paragraph - it comes, and you'll be ready when it comes.

    Chem1, Phys6, gen ed

  • Sounds pretty awesome. Might consider some math as well - don't forget chem lab and physics lab. Consider your courses more after you've had some experience in FSSP with how heavy the courses are - that schedule sounds fine otherwise. There's a decent amount to learn and you'll definitely have work to do; however, that course load won't force you to stay in on Friday/Sat night.


    Let me know if you have any other questions. Sorry it took so long - had to catch up with my own courses
u/kentaro86 · 2 pointsr/UCSantaBarbara

I don't have any old problem sets off hand, but I could point you towards all the topics you should know and be familiar with. It's basically the first 3 chapters of Griffiths -- by the end of the quarter you should know everything from these chapters extremely well.
As for an explicit list of things to do, I would recommend (in this order, more or less)

  • get familiar with using probability distributions, complex numbers (i.e. integrating probability densities to find probabilities, means, standard deviations, complex conjugates, norm squared, normalization, etc.)

  • try to grasp the idea of operators (e.g. position, momentum), observables/hermitian operators, commutation relations, and what is means when two observables commute or not (thing about eigenstates, sequential measurements, uncertainty principle,...)

  • derive solution to infinite square well (0 < x < a ; -a < x < a)

  • derive solution to harmonic oscillator (focus on algebraic derivation, raising and lowering operators are extremely
    important later on)

  • calculate expectation values of x, x^2 for the oscillator using ladder operators (this is to highlight orthogonality of eigenstates)

  • derive free particle, examine scattering (E > 0) and bound (E < 0) states

  • derive delta well, finite square well and calculate transmission/reflection coefficients (and bound states for delta well)

  • read up on and use Dirac notation until it is second nature. redo first bullet point with this notation (this could be useful to do first so that you can practice it)

  • understand the level of abstraction for a ket and what it means to "multiply" by a bra and express an equation in the basis (as described by the bra)

  • revisit the idea of operators in a specific basis

  • derive generalized uncertainty principle, revisit non-commuting operators

    Hopefully, that gets you started off, but for 110A it may be worth the time to learn Einstein summation notation -- it'll come in handy.

    Good luck!

    Edit: formatting
u/jgthespy · 1 pointr/UCSantaBarbara

I didn't take any lower division classes here but the upper division classes are pretty great. I haven't really had any bad professors and they seem to be a lot better at teaching than the professors in my upper division physics courses were.

The quarter system isn't bad. I think it's actually a good pace and the courses that have more than 10 weeks of content are 2 or 3 quarters long, which is great because it means you're not stuck in a class that you hate for very long.

The difficulty depends entirely on the professor, but I haven't had a class that was super difficult and uncurved. Curves always seem fair for the difficulty of the class. Finals are usually fair but midterms really suck because they're only 50 minutes long. You will probably do horrible on a few of them before you figure out a way to make it work. We have a much cushier path to upper division than most schools. Instead of being dumped into linear algebra or real analysis and having to learning how to do proofs, we have an intro to proofs and logic prerequisite and another class where you essentially just practice proof techniques that you will use in analysis later. I loved it because it let me focus on the material in my more challenging classes without having to figure out the mechanics and techniques of general proof writing.

One thing to keep in mind is that upper division math is nothing whatsoever like the math that you're probably used to. You essentially start over and learn things correctly, and you usually have to pretend that you don't know anything that you've learned over the past 14 years of math classes outside of basic arithmetic and algebra. You will be writing paragraphs in plain English with occasional math symbols. It's all about taking definitions and theorems that you know and using them to argue that other theorems are true. It's a lot more fun than it sounds. If you want to get a feel for what it's going to be like, check out this book:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-Structured-Approach-2nd/dp/0521675995/

It's easy to find elsewhere. You don't need to know anything to get started and it's actually really fun to work through. This was the textbook for my intro to proofs class.

u/beetling · 0 pointsr/UCSantaBarbara

Yeah, that's not good - I'd feel sick too if I heard a roommate say that to their partner, and I'm glad you're trying to think about what you can do. I also understand that you don't want to mess up your roommate situation. Do you have any mutual friends with him or her, or do you know any of their friends who seem like decent people? You could ask the friend to talk to them about the relationship (and to keep confidential that you were the person who mentioned something was wrong).

You might also benefit from reading up about abusive relationship dynamics, to help you figure out whether to intervene (and how to intervene). It's helpful to have this knowledge - you never know if you might need it for helping a friend someday. The book Why Does He Do That? is well-recommended for this topic.

u/monredmen · 1 pointr/UCSantaBarbara

I applaud you actually deciding to respond with substance rather than attacks. Here is my response on a point-by-point basis:

  1. While I admit that I should have furthered clarified my original statement, I would suggest the my second, much longer comment adequately clarified my argument and "defined" the term I was using. Thus, while I admit my initial argument was lacking substance, I don't believe you can say the same about my argument as a whole.

  2. I appreciate this admission and dose of actual common sense and morality. Your opinion is much more nuanced and respectful than the comment by u/mikeyjett that expressed the sentiment that "all Nazis must fucking die." Saying any group of people should be killed for nothing more than who they are is inherently and obviously immoral and bordering on genocidal. I find it ironic that the same people who rightfully despise Nazis will turn around and advocate for policy prescriptions that resemble literal Nazi policy during the 1930s and 1940s.

  3. I agree that the argument is lacking in sufficient evidence, and thus I will now amend it to include more evidence that supports my point. The argument I made is that conversation can convince people, even very radically-opinionated people, to change their views. More evidence to support this claim is listed below:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-kkk-member-denounces-hate-groups-one-year-after-rallying-n899326

    "In the past 12 months, his beliefs and path have been radically changed by the people he has met."

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/humankind/2019/07/26/how-former-kkk-member-and-muslim-refugee-became-friends/1807639001/

    It was clear to his wife Melissa that Buckley wasn't going to change on his own. She reached out to Arno Michaelis, a man who had been in Buckley's shoes. Michaelis was once a neo-Nazi skinhead. He had a drastic change in mind and heart in the early 2000's. Now Michaelis spreads messages of inclusion and forgiveness and helps other people get out of hate groups. He flew from Wisconsin to Lafayette, Ga. to help Buckley leave behind the hateful life he was leading.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/80y3va/im_an_ex_white_supremacist_and_klansman_ama/

    Q: "What changed your mind and why did you quit?"

    A: "Life has a way of kicking your ass when you make bad or stupid decisions. I think after a few of these ass kickings you start looking at yourself critically. This happened to me, and once I accepted that I wasn't right about a few things from there my whole belief system kind of unraveled. At this same time, I met some black individuals who unwittingly played a part in the saga."

  4. Regarding "ok libtard," its mainly a joke, but yes I shouldn't have posted that. Sometimes I get caught up in the memeing. Regarding the second comment, what I meant is that I have some conservatives beliefs. I also have some, and probably more, liberal beliefs. Hence me identifying as a centrist, and actually a left leaning one. My position on the political compass (see below) and my support of Andrew Yang and Pete Buttigieg, both moderate liberals, support this.

    On the political compass I lie in the liberal lower left hand quadrant, even if I am close to the libertarian quadrant.

    https://www.politicalcompass.org/crowdchart?name=monredmen&ec=-1.5&soc=-5

    My online history has been suspect in regards to my rhetoric in the past. You have me there. But in my defense, I have a long history of having respectful and rational conversations with a wide variety of people and organizations, including some that hold views I am staunchly opposed to. In the past few years I have participated in debates and discussion with my very leftist AP Comp and APUSH classes at my high school, debated the UCSB College Republicans on Universal Basic Income and a few other issues, among other things. I intend to attend UCSB Campus Democrats meetings once I'm back in Santa Barbara and will also be talking with the co-chairs of the Multi-Cultural Center on some of the disagreements I have with them.
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u/notnarb · 3 pointsr/UCSantaBarbara

Get the same kind of modem you would for any cable ISP and buy your modem and router separate (trust me)

List of cable modems on amazon as sorted by popularity

My recommendation for a modem is either a Motorola
6121 or a 5101 Both will easily last you 4 years with the 5101 being cheaper but using older technology that 1) Limits you to ~35mbps actual speed and 2) slightly worse connection quality in some scenarios.

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This is probably a better question for a tech subreddit since there is probably nothing specific to Cox in IV that should influence what modem or router to buy.

u/drumndenver · 2 pointsr/UCSantaBarbara

Try looking on the course webpages such as for CS 31 and CS 32. Attempt to do the problems before learning the material for CS 33. This will test your understanding and solidify what you already know. Some of their homework problems are extremely challenging, but in most cases, the homework problems will not change from year to year that much. This means that if you start now, you will be done with the homework by the time you get here. This is awesome because your grade for these classes are all from your homework. The textbooks used for these courses are RHK, K&K, and Feynman.

While you're at it, you might want to start learning linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, vector calculus, and partial differential equations.

Source: I graded homework for CCS Physics.

u/crazysim · 1 pointr/UCSantaBarbara

A lot of this stuff you can just do yourself. Doesn't need to be near UCSB, or anywhere really.


I would just get the OEM rubber inserts/replacements from ebay or amazon or something for the car you have. The OEM wipers tend to be most compatible so simply replacing the consumables is all that's needed. No need to pay someone to slide some rubber out and in.

I also usually keep something like these in the spare tire compartment.

https://www.amazon.com/Milton-S-921-Passenger-Tire-Gauge/dp/B0002SQYTG/ref=sr_1_5?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1523723162&sr=1-5&keywords=tire+pressure+gauge

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Tire-Inflator-Pressure-Gauge/dp/B073VB41W3/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1523723021&sr=8-16&keywords=tire+pump

u/stoopid23 · 1 pointr/UCSantaBarbara

https://www.amazon.com/Intermediate-Microeconomics-Calculus-Modern-Approach/dp/0393123987

this is the book that i used in 10a for spring
however you might want to go to
ucsbstuff.com and fill it out to see everything required for your class

u/fghky · 2 pointsr/UCSantaBarbara

Intermediate Microeconomics, 8e by Varian

I dug up the schedule from the syllabus. The content shouldn't change much from professor to professor.

To me, the most important was chapter 4. Everything before it built up to it, almost everything after it was a spin-off of the material.

Tests were 50% MC, 50% free response. The questions were 90% concept-based math and equations, 10% definition-based questions. I found this in my Econ 10A folder; unfortunately I didn't save any other practice sets. Your experience may vary.

I'll have to agree with /u/MistaPickle that quite a few econ majors struggle with the math concepts. I am a stats major, math minor and I found the calculus in this class pretty chill but the econ graduate TAs struggled with it, and even the professor toned down the math explanations. I found that this hurt the learning experience. If you have trouble with it, I'd suggest going to CLAS sessions with Ed.