<p>Right now I am taking honors physics. However the teacher seems to be going quite slowly (only at chapter 6 with kinematics right now..year long course). I am going to be taking AP Physics C next year at a tech center with a different teacher and I am worried I won't be prepared as well as I should be for AP Physics. Would AP Physics still be doable even though I don't have a lot of physics experience?</p>
<p>I took AP Physics C with absolutely no experience. I hadn’t even taken Calculus yet (I was in AP Calculus at the same time.) It’s doable.</p>
<p>It depends on your intelligence, diligence, motivation, and mathematical intuition. I am sorry that you have a bad physics teacher. However, we can rejoice in our considerations that these people will be obsolete as education becomes revolutionized to be much more efficacious in the coming decades.</p>
<p>I self-studied both tests in about 6 weeks without any problems. You’ll be fine, so long as your calculus skills are decent.</p>
<p>Since it seems doable, are there any topics in physics or calculus (i’m only in precalc, have looked at a few topics in calculus though) that I should look over beforehand?</p>
<p>As I noted, solid math skills are critical for success in physics. To that end, I would consider picking up an AP calculus book off of Ebay (my personal favorite is by Larson) and covering some of the topics in the AP calculus AB syllabus. You don’t need to be a calculus master, but understanding basic differentiation and integration, plus vectors and applications of calculus to vectors (technically calculus III topics, but easy nonetheless) will be very helpful, particularly for the first half of the course.</p>