<p>Here's my situation, I am currently a junior in high school and soph. summer I took Calc I at a community collge (didn't have room for Calc AP AB because I have to take Religion and a second year of chemistry for Cham AP). This year I currently have--- Religion, Bio AP, US history AP, Eng. 3 AP, Chem II Honors, Latin 3 Honors (we have blocks, 4 classes each half with AP lasting all year except Eng AP). And these are the classes Im sure of for senior year: Physics AP-C, Chem AP, Eng. 4 AP. My problem is that I am not sure whether to take Cal AP AB at school, or take Calc II at a community college (no calc BC at my school). The Calc I prof. at the CC said that we covered mostly everything covered in AP AB. But when I look at practice AP tests the questions are so much more indepth (I got a 98 in the CC class). Here's what we covered in the class: limits, continuity, derivatives (all functions sin, sec, ...), implicit differentiation, rates of change, optimization, extrema, Mean Value Theorem, Rolle's Theorem, Basic Integration (+ u-substitution and Fundamental Theorem of Calc), and EXTREMELY basic differential equations.
So from this info should I take AP AB or Calc II CC. Would it look better to take Calc II? I could arrange to take the Calc AP BC test at a nearby school. And also, Taking Calc II would free up my schedule and allow me to take Christian Service H, which is basically a community service class (even though I have ~100h already), and I know colleges stuff like that. So what should I do???</p>
<p>Take Calc II.</p>
<p>But would a more in-depth understanding of Calc I help with Physics AP-C and college for that matter?</p>
<p>Take Calc II, self-study AP Calc BC, and take the test. =)</p>
<p>It certainly does, but your understanding will be much more in-depth when you take Calc II and learn new principles than when you spend a semester (or year?) at high school studying mainly the same principles again.
Did you ever have that experience in math (or any other science for that matter) that you don't fully grasp one certain principle until you learn something more advanced that is based on that? E.g. when I learned to solve basic linear equations, I could do that, but it never made much sense until we started to think of these equations as funtions and graphed them.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help</p>
<p>Calc 1 is basically CALC AB</p>