<p>Hey I've been wondering if I should take this course because I'm not sure if I have adequate credentials.<br>
-I have no experience in physics
-I did pretty poorly in trig honors (got a B- although the teacher was pretty unfair) and i'm taking ap calc ab next year
-My sat math score was 650 (doubt if that means anything but... )</p>
<p>With all that being said I do like physics so far (based of the summer assignment we got) and I am willing to work as hard as necessary. Any opinions are welcome, thanks!</p>
<p>I took it this past year (senior year) after taking GT Physics during junior year. Honestly, it was the same class with one extra topic. I feel like Physics B is fine as an introductory Physics course. It is not very math intensive other than Kinematics, which is the first chapter or two. Very concept based and the questions are not very in-depth.</p>
<p>I ended up taking the C level exams instead of the B exam, and those require critical thinking; however, you should be fine with the B exam. It pretty much comes down to knowing what formulas mean, when to use them, and what number to plug into what variable.</p>
<p>I am taking AP Physics B as well, with no physics experience. I’m taking AP Calc AB and AP Chem along with it.
I asked the AP Physics teacher at my school and he said I should be fine. He even said student with calculus experience could take the Physics C exam.
The only physics I know is basic vectors that we covered for about 2 weeks in pre-calc last year…</p>
<p>You should be fine! I’m really good at math and I struggled in physics; it’s just a hard course, physics B is not really intense math, just a lot of calculation/formulas. The rest of the course is very conceptual and if you understand the concepts very well then you’ll be fine. I think you should go for it</p>
<p>You should If you’re willing to work at it. Like stated above it nothing but ‘plug n’ chug.’ You’re just putting number in the calculators. But remember some of the concepts can get confusing, so study hard. Good Luck.</p>
<p>you’ll be fine! I took it without any physics experience. math is not a problem; in my school, the biggest obstacle was just the breadth of the material, but nothing that can’t be sorted out with a good review book. good luck! (:</p>
<p>People should realize that AP exams are quite shallow in nature and that they barely graze over the material. AP Physics is a great example of this. In an actual university level physics class, such as MIT’s Classical Mech, all formulas are mathematically derived and are used to build intuition about a certain concept, not merely to find numerical answers which even a computer can do. </p>