AP Physics Reflection Paper

When I first decided to expand my education, it had been so long since I had been to school, and I was very hesitant. I talked at length about my decision with my husband and with his encouragement, decided to enroll but still was not quite sure which degree program to enroll in. I knew that this was something that I had always wanted to do since I obtained my Associates Degree in Nursing, but I did not have the courage, nor did I want to give up the time with my family and children. I second guessed my abilities and my knowledge because it had been so long since I had been in college. Now that my children are about to graduate high school and

When it was obvious that I could not earn an A in this course at this time, I dropped the course so that I could regroup. I used my inner talents for analytical analysis and critical thinking to identify the reasons for my challenges in AP Physics. Quickly I realized that the pressure of getting a good GPA and good grades in every course had paralyzed me. I had channeled all my energy into earning a grade and neglected to consider that knowledge must

Before attending GCU and using the sources that they provide, I normally would use resources and tools that were provided by various universities. Two notable examples that I would use where Purdue University's OWL and also Calvin College's KnightCite. OWL is a particularly helpful source since it offers a wide variety of articles regarding various topics that play a key role within successful writing. KnightCite was also a source I widely used because of the fact that it was a great way in order to get MLA (which I used in high school) citations for works used in my papers. However, nowadays I mainly use the sources provided by GCU such as the writing center which I have found to be quite helpful. In particular, I enjoy the templates provided

This concept particularly stood out to me because when we started learning how to do this, I didn’t quite understand. As I got more and more help from Yenmin, I started to see where these ideas are coming from even though I still struggle. However, a concept that made me really think is when it came down to kinematic equation. Although the idea of kinematic equation seem easy when it was being taught in class, it still took a while for me to grasp on where each and every part of the equation came from and to understand the true meaning and importance. In the end of this though, I learned that it wasn’t that hard than I thought it was. In physics, I struggle a lot. Even though the idea of drawing and describing acceleration arrows, motion maps, x, and v, and graphs based on the given scenario stood out to me, I still struggle with that. Now that I am 2 months smarter, the advice that I would have given to my past self to be successful in physics is to try harder and to not be afraid to ask for help because Physics is not an easy concept. It is hard to expect that you’ll understand physics right when you learn it. It takes time and patient. In the next unit, my plan for success is to put more effort in Physics and to not give up

On a two-hour bus ride to a small, rural town in New Zealand with my school, we passed by numerous beautiful rolling hills and forests. While my classmates chatted, listened to music, and watched the landscape, I kept my eyes focused downward on my AP Physics binder. It was the summer before senior year, and instead of fully enjoying the month-long community service trip to a foreign country, I also focused on self-studying AP Physics 1 and 2. Because my school requires a prerequisite physics class before enrolling in AP Physics C, I had to learn an entire year’s worth of material over the summer. At the end of my Junior year when I was contemplating taking the harder physics class, one of the physics teachers told me, “No one has jumped straight into Physics C in many years, but I think you can do it.”

Ap Physics was a course that brought me the most pain and joy. Pain of constantly wanting to breakdown and cry from the complexity of it's course but once you understand it brings you so much joy. Knowing that I had to go to class, brought extreme anxiety upon me and it lingered all class period. My teacher Mr.Towne was so

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I have attached two memos the students from 42A1O Reclass typed in order to challenge two test questions. The test question from Enlistment Promotions PV1-SPC is the only valid challenge. 38 students total got the questions wrong on the test. There is 44 students in the 42A1O Reclass 001-18

I would like to drop the course OCG 110 because I no longer need the course for my major’s general education requirement. At the end of last semester, I switched my major from Marketing to English. While in the Marketing program, I needed only two natural sciences to complete my general education course requirement. As such, I took the course BIO 286 last semester and received a B-, and enrolled in OCG 110 for this semester. At the beginning of this semester, however, I decided to double major in English and Elementary Education. I had only officially changed my major to Elementary Education recently— within the first two weeks of October— and did not realize that I needed to take a science with a lab in order to meet the Elementary Education

In my essay topic I will be discussing my view on (G.A.S) P.N.I. illness, stress and coping. The topics covered in my paper will be based off of my own personal experiences with correlation to Chapter 14 “Stress, coping and wellbeing” and their connection to my own personal experiences.

Physics has been both a challenging and deeply beneficial course. The reason this course has been difficult for me isn’t because it is an AP class. It also isn’t because I am only a sophomore, my age has no real impact in this instance. This class has been difficult for me because it presented several ideas in ways I had never challenged before. It has truly made me question my way of thinking and has opened up my eyes to the world around me. Some of the things I’ve learned in class I’ve already observed before but never knew why. Other things I’ve been blind to and finding out the truth gives me a whole new perspective. I have had to retrain my brain out of its misconception of reality. Learning something entirely new is easy. The real challenge occurs when you have to forget what you thought you knew and replace it with something entirely different.

Just as the piano was my way to get my need for music out, the teacher I found was my resource to release this fire from my heart. My sophomore year I had found several basic equations and worked on them relentlessly into the night until I could work no more. After I had made several discoveries, I was stuck so I went to the AP Physics teacher Mr.Reif who was very impressed with my work considering I had no Physics experience at all. Eventually I had to limit my thoughts to just mathematics problems but I have such a burning desire for more. He saw my raw desire for more and invited me to join AP Physics even though I had not taken the introductory class. he had also encouraged that I be the president of the Astronomy club which initially I was reluctant but I saw it as a good way to further my interest in space If I had the ability to stay in AP Physics all day I would. I’m found in a world of such ecstasy when learning about topics I do not know of or subjects with new material such as Physics is. I often fall asleep at night thinking of neutron degeneracy pressure, Schwarzschild radii, and Kerr

My coach’s crude interpretation was not wrong, but a rather simplistic approach. As a result it led me to believe that physics was just a science based on something along the lines of the result of two blocks smashing into each other and trying to figure how far they bounce off each other. It wasn’t until PH201 that I realized that physics is, in my opinion, a supernatural science. I say this because PH201 is the first class that I have taken that I can say bridged the gap between me simply learning objective science material, to not only understanding the material and regurgitating it on a WPR, but also seeing how it applies to my future career as an officer. Physics should be included in West Point’s curriculum for the real life applications and lessons that cadets learn which are vitally crucial to the cadet’s success as officers and the reputation of the

I thought that I probably would qualify for AP Physics 1 because my grades in math and in science seemed to be very high and that was one of the components to the AP recommendation. Also, the math “quiz” that was given in class seemed very easy to me which was also a component of the course placement. Being recommended for AP Physics 1 is very exciting for me because I like math and I know that physics is a lot of math. In addition to being excited, I am very eager to get to the first class to see how difficult it is and I am up for the challenge. The labs that we have done this year I thought were very interesting and I enjoyed them, but they would have been better if they were a bit more difficult. For me, memorizing facts is definitely my

The first real lab we did in physics by ourselves was the first time I thought the teachers would see me for me. One of my good friends luckily was in the class and she helped me understand the material better so we worked together by bouncing ideas off one another, asking questions, and even getting feedback from the teacher who never said anything bad about our work. She watched us happily using