This was my prof's first time teaching here and I ended up stopping attending lecture to teach myself. My class was open book which helped a lot. Most can be learned through textbook and online videos and making sure you can do all the homework problems. This carried me for the first two exams which I did fairly well in (C and A I believe), and then the final, which was weighted quite heavily, was WAY harder, being less cumulative than advertised and having inertia problems solved in different ways than the homework. Almost everyone failed it with a high score of a C.

Practice homework and quiz problems and know how to use every possible variation of the equations, not just ones on the homework and quizzes. Understand conceptual word problems to and how different forces interact with each other, and equilibriums.