<p>Everybody at my school says it's hard. They say the class is fun, but the teacher doesn't teach anything. I signed up for it. Am I screwed?</p>
<p>lol, it’s easy at my school… but I mean physics isn’t that hard in itself. For the AP exam… you could be screwed, but I dunno, really. A bit of self-study wouldn’t hurt. If you’re good at this sort of thing a 4 or 5 could be easy.</p>
<p>At my school, AP Physics C is supposed to be quite challenging yet loads of fun. I mean you get a decent load of HW, but the class itself is quite enjoyable, if you have a proclivity for physics. But, maybe that’s because our teacher is just ridiculously chill?</p>
<p>My AP Physics class is exactly as you described ivers0n =(</p>
<p>For the mechanics section one you learn the basics you can figure out almost every question from first principles. As for Electricity and Magnetism, that’s far more knowledge based so I’d recommend a little bit of self-study.</p>
<p>at my high school you take ap physics b before ap physics c,
but you learn both of them out of the same textbook (serway)
so by the time you’re in ap physics c,
the class is ridiculously easy</p>
<p>of course maybe a third of the class fails out of ap physics b</p>
<p>anyway it’s pretty concept-based
so as long as you understand all the material
getting a 5 is pretty easy</p>
<p>Uh, I thought that test was awful. The multiple choice was easy, but the frqs were more than hard enough to make up for that. o.0</p>
<p>That could just be me though. I’m a humanities kid who blows at math, and it was a pilot course at my school. There were some mathy kids in my class who barely cracked a book all year and still got 90% on the practice tests. Of course, they STILL thought the frqs were hard because we didn’t do differential equations, lol.</p>
<p>no, it’s not</p>
<p>i’m taking it next year dude i want to know too</p>
<p>I can tell you that the test is pretty easy, I don’t know about the class because I self studied.</p>
<p>It’s fun as hell.</p>
<p>Don’t let these people fool you. It’s one of the hardest AP classes and exams, if not the hardest.</p>
<p>My S says it’s the toughest AP he’s taken by far, based on the AP test this year. He said some of the FRQs were “pure evil.” He’s pretty good at math too, AP Calc BC (5) in soph year and now completing a linear algebra class at an A level.</p>
<p>hard as hell at my school, but the ap test is filthy easy</p>
<p>lowest grade even with senioritis last year was a 4, and that too by only a single student out of 20+</p>
<p>^Obviously didn’t take this year’s AP test.</p>
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<p>Fail.</p>
<p>^ that is true…i heard this years frq was pretty rough</p>
<p>the differential on last year’s wasnt too bad tho</p>
<p>I think it is quite hard conceptually (especially E&M; its physics with calculus after all), although the teacher happened to be pretty easy (bad when it AP testing time came).</p>
<p>I would have to say this about it. It is hard to understand sometimes. (mostly just Mech. combined rolling and translational motion and E&M Magnetism and Induction, I think I read the E&M chapters in Barrons 3 or 4 times before they were clear) But once you get it, it is sooooo easy.</p>
<p>The only issue on the AP test is time. You have to be pretty familiar with question types, etc, b/c deriving things isn’t realyl going to work. </p>
<p>Mind you, this year’s MC was easy as hell. But the FRQ #2 raaaped me.</p>