Learning physics

I am a week into a quantum physics course and the professor really sucks. I started reading the book "Modern Physics by Tipler and Llewellyn" and it's just so confusing and looks like a jumble of symbols. I had the mechanics course last year but I forgot much of it and this course seems to require pretty much everything in it as basics. orz ... I feel so lost.

How do I learnt on my own /sci/?

How the fuck do yuo "forget" mechanics when it's so obvious you can see it from orbit?

>>3
There are a lot of equations okay. The whole waves thing and stuff like how magnetic fields and current interact is just so much history to me. Guess I have to go back to my nonexistant notes.

>>1
Find out what the symbols mean shit for brains.

>>4
electromagnetism isn't mechanics :(

Mechanics is like momentum transfer and stuff....electrostatics is its own field. My advice would be to do civil engineering, i love it. Equations of equilibrium is like the easiest way to start a degree.

>>5
Best advice so far. Thanks.

I meant to say classical physics. We did momentum trasfer and stuff in the first semester. Seconds semester had horrible waves and magnetic and electric fields and em waves and light waves and convex/concave mirrors and crap like that and more waves. I wasn't following the class as much and got a low grade and this year all that stuff is like a foundation because all the professor and the textbook does is describe experiments and compare it with classical physics. Meh I could probably trudge though this. I don't even know what I am doing in college.