<p>okay, the farther reaching applications it may have are, of course, not guaranteed. Like you might make some great friends doing it, or you might not. It’s hard to tell what affects it would have in a persons future.</p>
<p>I don’t think a calculus based competition would be any different from a competition that did not require concepts from calculus. That is just my feeling. Like I think in both cases what it tested is how you put together and utilize the concepts that are covered in the competition. And I think as long as the difficulty level is similar, the type of thinking required will be similar. And I don’t think difficulty is a limiting factor - as you know competitions that don’t involve concepts from calculus are sufficiently difficult to be able to distinguish between the most talented kids.</p>
<p>Why are you interested in physics?</p>