MST209 Mathematical Methods and Models

Part of my grand plan, is to push myself to destruction, trying to see how much university maths, I can intellectually cope with.  To this end, I am looking beyond MST121 and considering my next course.  I am pondering which path to take.  I am considering either taking MST209 Mathematical Methods and Models, with the OU; or, S207, The Physical World.  MST209 looks like a course that teaches you what I call advanced maths for science i.e. all of the maths that you need to cope with most second year university level physics courses.

I am hoping that by doing this, it will make the physics course, easier to navigate.

The only fly in the ointment, is that I really fancy studying S207 next.  S207 is a full whistle stop tour of all major areas of university level physics, including quantum theory etc.  Having looked at the course description, I suspect I could cope with it, by just studying MST121, but I would probably have to take MST209, afterwards, If I wanted to go onto all the cool subjects at third year level such as Astrophysics or Quantum mechanics.

So, I will continue to ponder and probably make my decision next month.  MST209 doesn't start until Jan 2012 and S207 starts in October 2011.  Decisions, decisions...