AP Physics C: Mechanics Advice

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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I’m a sophomore currently taking AP biology (94%) and AP chemistry (96%). Next year, I plan to take AP Physics. However, I’m not that familiar with Calculus yet, as we just started learning about it in Honors PreCalc (We do PreCalc for 75% of the year and begin AB Calculus for 25% year). Do you guys have any tips that are just general to AP Physics and/or keeping up with the advanced math?

By the way, I’m taking AP Calculus AB next year, concurrently w/ AP Physics. ( I would take BC but that on top of 5 other AP’s would be hell)

Thanks in advance!

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I am taking Calc AB and C Mech concurrently. The calculus in Mech is limited to basic derivatives and integrals. If you have AB Calc for 25% of this year and concurrently next year, I don’t see why it would be a problem. If you have trouble with the math in Physics, its probably going to be the messy algebra not the calculus.