<p>i''m going to be a sophomore next year, and one of the classes in my schedule is physics. they list calc as a prerequisite, which i took my senior year of high school. however, i don't know if i remember too much from it. will i be fine???</p>
<p>Usually the calculus itself is pretty easy (straightforward integrals and derivatives), but it signals that the physics part is really hard.</p>
<p>ah. ive never taken physics either. would that be a problem?</p>
<p>From my experience, there are usually two courses covering the same topics. Almost everyone in the harder one has already taken physics in high school (some having taken AP, almost all having taken some kind of regular physics course), so you would probably be at a disadvantage. But it depends on your school. What’s the alternative to ‘calculus-based physics’? If the alternate is like ‘little baby physics’, it probably means your school prefers most people to enter the calculus version, even if they don’t have experience. If the alternate is just ‘normal physics’, it means your school expects non-experienced physics students to take that unless they have reason to believe they would succeed in the harder course.</p>
<p>they only offer one gen physics class, that’s calc based. i guess thats the general stadnard for everyone.</p>
<p>At my college, there are several 100-level physics courses but all use calculus to understand the concepts. Although I know people who went to big state schools with more course options and they took physics with algebra or ‘conceptual physics’ (physics with no math, hahaha)</p>