<p>ok heres the the lay down. The two classes I am worried about in community college is Calculus Based Physics and Organic Chemistry. Now I have no experience in Calculus or Chemistry. Should I take General Chem I and Calculus I concurrently with Calculus Based Physics and Organic Chemistry? How much is Calculus is in Calculus based Physics? How much material is actually covered in Organic Chemistry from General Chemistry? </p>
<p>Help please? :D</p>
<p>I HIGHLY suggest that in addition to deciding which courses you’re going to take, look at the professors that teach at your schools (ratemyprofessor.com- my best friend) haha. Good luck!</p>
<p>if I only found about this earlier when selecting my english teacher. Now I have a B in english T~T </p>
<p>but you got suggestions if i should take organic chem along with general chemistry I? D: I heard that organic chem is used to weed out wannabe doctors. lol but I also heard that if your good at memorization like in biology then you will do fine.</p>
<p>If you have no experience in calculus or chemistry don’t take those classes concurrently. You need to know the fundamentals from general chem to do well in organic chemistry and integrals pop up in the calculus based physics although there isn’t much calculus in that physics i still recommend taking it before hand. Hope this helped.</p>
<p>thanks it helped. How much do these integrals appear? lol how often do they pop up? I got some basics of chemistry. Im gonna take them all together. hopefully i have all A ;D</p>
<p>Is your physics class just mechanics?</p>
<p>If so, you probably don’t need to know too much calculus to get by. Most of the proofs are done using calculus methods, but the meat of the course doesn’t really require you to know any calculus. Basically, know F = ma and you’re set :P.</p>
<p>I took AP Physics in High School without a Calculus background. The Calculus in the course was easy. Mostly simple integrals and derivatives. The meat of the physics is what got me. Definitely make sure you have a good math background before jumping into Physics.</p>
<p>At my cc, Orgo has a pre req of a full year of Gen Chem. you can’t take it concurrently</p>
<p>gen chem is not hard, just pay attention and synthesize the material and you’ll be set</p>
<p>I don’t think you can directly take Physics and OChem w/o completing those fundamental classes. Most of the campus has their own pre-req for each course, and you must complete them in order to move to higher level. However, if your college doesn’t set the pre-req for the two classes, I strongly discourage you to take w/o previous acknowledge. First of all, the first calculus base Physics is about Mech which includes displacement, velocity, acceleration, vector and so on. That requires you to know how to take derivative of an fcn. Later chapter, you will be deal w/ moment of Inertia which you have to know integral of an fcn. For OChem, it’s almost impossible to get a good grade w/o having previous acknowledge. The teacher won’t teach you nomenclature again which you suppose to learn even before General Chemistry. Also, all the property, bounding, reaction, acid… which is in General Chemistry II… w/o that, I don’t believe a normal person can make it.</p>