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Although I can't anticipate everyone's specific needs, I do want to supply you with some general links to resources and tools (mostly in the form of YouTube videos!) that might help with your overall goals here at CU.
LEARNING AND STUDYING
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9SptdjpJBQ
4 minutes: some tips on "How to Learn Faster" (but for some of them, it's not so much "faster" as it is "more efficiently").
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH95h36NChI
7 minutes: a slightly deeper dive into how your mind works, specifically applied to studying and helping you understand the "Beliefs that make you fail... or succeed." (One CU first-year student said "every freshman should learn this!")
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p60rN9JEapg
3 minutes: tips on how best to STUDY for science classes.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyBdA61GmJ0
4 minutes: tips on how to conquer EXAM ANXIETY.MATH
Some familiarity with basic algebra, geometry, and scientific notation will be helpful in this course. A few years ago, Prof. Fran Bagenal assembled a comprehensive math review web page that also contains some problems for practice.
There are some great videos (on YouTube and elsewhere) that go over these concepts in fun and innovative ways. My Teaching Assistant from Spring 2019 (Liz Butler) assembled some really good ones:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKCZn5MLKvk
4 minutes: crash course in converting units
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQpQ0hxVNTg
11 minutes: what are units, converting units, significant figures
- https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra-home/alg-intro-to-algebra
Khan Academy's Introduction to Algebra lesson series (see, for example, combining like terms)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NybHckSEQBI&list=PLUPEBWbAHUszT_GebJK23JHdd_Bss1N-G
10 video playlist: algebra basics
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USmit5zUGas
10 minutes: proportions, ratios, and cross-multiplying
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FYz162hmQw
14 minutes: proportionality in physics & algebra expressions
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFZuih2odo
17 minutes: proportionality in physics & algebra expressions