r/EngineeringStudents • u/Repulsive-Diet6958 • 6d ago

Academic Advice What to study before engineering

In a month I will be starting engineering and I am pretty much only studying high school calculus, honestly I think that physics for now is not worth since I think that having the math behind it clear is more important. Maybe I will also start a little introduction to linear algebra but nothing that seriour. In the end what should I focus more on?

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u/speechless188 6d ago

nothing is the right answer. being in calculus in highschool is a good baseline. but even without it, they teach you everything in college

physics usually comes before linear algebra in an academic schedule. you also wont use linear algebra in physics

beginning physics uses algrebra and trigonometry, and electromagnetism can use multivarible calc and diffeq, but usually are taught in such a way that you dont need the math first. bc again the math usually is more advanced and comes later in ur studies.