<p>honestly...does anybody here even know what's going on in this class? we just entered the third six weeks, and I honestly have no idea what the HELL is going on in that class....</p>
<p>ya dude same here. Its so dumb, i usually do so well in science and did so well in calculus but i guess i suck at physics. I think we just finished newtonian mech. and gonna start fluids.</p>
<p>Haha, I have no idea, either. It's these concepts that other people seem to see in real life that I can't see in real life. I feel that people are a step ahead of me because they can always see the "physics" in real life, but I need it to be explained to me. It's frustrating working a problem for many minutes when everyone else skims right through.</p>
<p>My AP Phys class is dumb. I think we're really far behind all the other classes around the nation and I'm doubtful that we'll even finish all the material before the AP test.</p>
<p>Right now we're doing momentum/impulse crap. So far we've done basic Newtonian mech and that's it really. Where is everyone else?</p>
<p>AP Physics deserves to die a dark death of destruction.</p>
<p>It doesn't help that my teacher is a maniac who looks like a certain dead president and likes spinning balls around his head and pretending to accelerate across the room and making stupid faces and stalking students and making the simplest things super out of control hard. Not to mention I'm contantly distracted because I sit behind my crush and end up spending half the time wiping my drool off of my desk because he is just that hot :)</p>
<p>I got a 44% on one test, and it got rounded to a 71%. So when I got a 48% on the next one, I thought, sweet, I'll get a 75%. But he dropped points off my rounded score because I made corrections in black ink.</p>
<p>I seriously want to tell my teacher to take his force diagrams and his vectors and SHOVE IT!</p>
<p>We just learned about Bernoulli's Principle today, but I'm a little confused as how a higher velocity gives off less pressure.</p>
<p>^princessbell, my teacher uses the same curve. 42%=70% curved. Does your teacher also give old ap exams for tests? In our class we got 63%=90% curved 53%=80% 42%=70% 33%=60% 15%=50%.
I dunno we did momentum like 3-4 weeks ago. Plus for us school starts in september. Some schools start in august, they have a slight advantage in terms of ap exams.</p>
<p>our teacher doesn't curve...he's crazy about physics and he is an awesome guy/teacher, but his tests are just beast...the class consists of the top 5% and me, and he has a full 2/3 of our class at a low B/C range, which is utterly hilarious because I (B) am beating the valedictorian (C) who has apparently never had a really difficult AP class in her A-studded life. HAH. Mr. L, you rule.</p>
<p>and we're only just finishing newton's laws. our class is screwed come may.</p>
<p>My year, about one-thirds of the class dropped out of AP Physics...
"omg a B!!"</p>
<p>It helps to have some prior knowledge to keep things in perspective.</p>
<p>I'm guessing we are talking about the B course. I don't really think it's all that hard. I have a high A in the class, but I think our class is moving slower than usual. We've been working on rotational inertia, momentum, etc. I haven't even been taking notes or anything in there. I am self-studying for the C exam and my class gets ****ed when I come in without doing anything and get a 5 on the test, haha! I think our class average is around a C, though, but we only have 12 kids in the class.</p>
<p>With physics and math, it's either you get it or you don't. We have a great teacher but some kids aren't able to pick it up. I guess you have to have a mind geared for thinking analytically.</p>
<p>we started out with 17 people in our physics C class..now we have 3. it's pretty awesome. beat that student/teacher ratio, harvard schmarvard.</p>
<p>deep springs still gotcha beat though josrk22</p>
<p>one day...</p>
<p>It's 3/4 into the semester and we've only done Newtonian mechanics. We're just now getting into waves.</p>
<p>But I'm obligated to go to AP review sessions in the spring to learn more material for the Physics B exam in exchange for my midterm grade being bumped from a C to a B.</p>
<p>The thing is i swear my mind is that analytical type etc. really good at math, but i just plain suck. All these smart kids aren't beating me. Its the kids who usually suck at everything else that are beating me. The kid who wants to goto harvard (and actually has a chance) is not beating me badly, its the kids who wants to goto the local state u that requires only a 3.0 who are. These kids i have always beaten on everything else school related and now they are beating the crap out of me.</p>
<p>Just started fluids and ideal gas law stuff. Eh, I could do without it. I'm started to get bored w/ physics (not b/c I'm doing well in the class but b/c it's hard for me to continually twist my mind to think about things in this new way). I know, I'm lazy.</p>
<p>I'm just glad the tests are curved so beautifully....</p>
<p>i likeee physics b.</p>