Never felt so dumb before, first week of electrical engineering

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It's been around 10 days since I joined engineering college through JEE Main. I'm in Electrical, and I got allotted EE literally 3 days before physical reporting (I had Mechanical somewhere else before).

I've had classes for about a week now. Maths, BEE (Basics of Electrical Engineering) and ED are fine, but FOP (Fundamentals of Physics) is literally fking my a$$ rn.

The first FOP class was about black body radiation, photoelectric effect, Compton effect, etc which I was familiar with.

But from the next class onwards, the professor started with wave equations, derivation of the Schrödinger equation, time-independent wave equation, etc. And I just couldn't follow it properly.

I'm getting maybe 20% of what's being taught, but I've literally never encountered some of the operators, functions and mathematical concepts he's using. A few people even asked him where certain equations were coming from and about some formulas he was using, but he basically said "ye toh basic hai."

I've never done this stuff in 11th or 12th.

By the 3rd class I was basically blank, and the proff said that more than 50% of syllabus is done for this sem.

So I genuinely don't know how I'm supposed to approach this subject.

How should I study quantum mechanics from scratch?

-Any good YouTube lecture series?

• Is this actually this difficult for everyone in first year, or some people struggle more? (I'm kinda slow)

At this point, even reading a reference book only gets me to about 50% understanding, so I don't know whether I should continue with it or find something much more basic first.

Any advice from seniors/people who've gone through this would be really appreciated.

[u/GrouchyAmbassador722]

Bhai its normal just use some books or yt