Foundational course for many fields of engineering. If vector calculus and basic physics are well understood, this class is a natural progression on the topics

Honestly this class was interesting. Sit down and truly understand what the concepts are cause purely memorizing it won’t help. Practice questions are the way to go

Dickrell was an amazing lecturer and very helpful whether in class or office hours

Don’t push off studying till the last minute

Easy class made unnecessarily difficult by prof. 1 hw assignment a week, 1 quiz a week, and a midterm worth 10% of your grade and a final worth a whole 40%. This class was more difficult to keep an A in than phy2049 purely because of how stupidly the exams are structured and the grades are calculated. The midterm and most quizzes have an average in the 60s. And, whoops! Half of your final exam grade (a whopping 20% of the grade total) is a topic you barely cover in class and you have to scour the internet to find practice problems for.

Starts with a review of basic physics 1 topics and moves on to 2d rigid body equilibrium, trusses and frames, internal forces, friction, moments of inertia and centroids, and 3d rigid body equilibrium. Pretty interesting and very useful to anyone doing structural stuff or in M.O.M.

Dickrell is an incredibly unprofessional and impolite person. He is actually a pretty solid lecturer but makes this class a nightmare. Frequently makes errors on quizzes, degrades students in announcements telling them they'll be made obselete, responds to emails in one word answers, and took over a week to grade the final (by the way, you can't see your score, just your final grade on oneuf). Awful.

First, don't take with dickrell. If you do have that misfortune, take this class seriously. The content is simple which might lull you into a false sense of security, but this draconian loser will squeeze every last drop of difficulty out of it. Don't lose points on quizzes; they pile up fast. For the final, do a lot of practice problems.