<p>Hi. I am one of those persons who decided to skip to AP Physics C, even though I didn't take Physics B, nor did I take calculus this past year. I will be in Calculus BC this coming year, however. My summer assignment for Physics includes calculus in chapter 2. I believe it has derivatives and limits; those are the two major calc topics that I'll have to learn over the summer in order to do my assignment. </p>
<p>I'm just wondering. Since I'll have to teach these to myself, how late into the year are these topics taught in Calculus BC? Or how early? I kinda wanna see how much I'll be skipping and how much I'll have to teach myself before going into limits and derivatives, whenever I get my hands on a calc book.</p>
<p>Limits and derivatives are the first things you learn in Calculus. The very very first thing. You can't do Calc without them.</p>
<p>Limits were introduced to us in precal. So you won't be skipping much.</p>
<p>I took Physics C my junior year and Calc BC my senior year, and did fine in Physics C (somehow managed a 5 on the exam), so you won't really have any problems in Physics C without having taken Calc. The calc that you'll need in Physics C is fairly basic anyway.</p>
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<p>How do you "skip" AP physics?</p>
<p>He skipped to AP Physics, not out of the class itself, but out of a prerequisite.</p>
<p>ah, never mind. i can read, i swear.</p>
<p>XRedComet;
you got a 5 on CALCULUS BASED physics without taking calculus??
HOW?</p>
<p>I've taken both Calc BC and Physics C this year (Sophomore yr), and I don't really see the big deal. Physics C is Calc based, but if you are learning both at the same time, it isn't that bad. And limits aren't that bad of a topic, definitely learnable by yourself over the summer.</p>
<p>Ahh, thank you so much. That makes me feel a bit better about this whole thing. Actually, I taught myself the basic limit materials today, but the derivatives are a bit confusing to me. That's alright, though. I have the rest of the summer to ask my friends and teacher for help.
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<p>and to XRedComet: Wow, that's pretty impressive. You didn't take Calc yet, yet you still got a 5? x_x</p>