<p>IB/AP Physics, is it a difficult class? How's the AP test?
Rate it on a scale of 1 to 10 on difficulty, YOUR opinions.</p>
<p>AP Physics B is rather easy after you understand kinematics (the foundation of physics)</p>
<p>1 to 10 = 6</p>
<p>It's all easy stuff. If you pay attention and digest the material.</p>
<p>If you like math Physics is basically all math. I have honors and he curves all our tests so that helps a ton. I like it, as long as you study and practice problems you'll do fine.</p>
<p>1 to 10, 10 being most difficult, AP Physics B gets a 5, to match my AP score.</p>
<p>kinematics is easy, but electricity and magnetism is difficult to understand and absolutely useless. I'd give kinematics a 4, and e&m an 8</p>
<p>our school only offers physics c and i'd probably fail.</p>
<p>"magnetism is difficult to understand and absolutely useless"</p>
<p>astrophysicist2b</p>
<p>"From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now- there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade."</p>
<p>Richard P. Feynman</p>
<p>The exam was soooo easy compared to our class. Our class was basically designed to kill us so when we got to the AP, we'd feel a lot more confident</p>
<p>btw, which AP Physics test is Mechanics? Is there an AP Physics WITHOUT Electro?</p>
<p>You gotta take both Mechanics and EM. They're all in one test. The course itself is chopped into two parts.</p>
<p>No, I read that if you take the C exam, you can take either part, or both. So yea, in physics C you can choose. But of course if you take the class, u gotta learn both.</p>
<p>And how exactly would I choose?</p>
<p>it's optional to take both, and it costs the same if you take both as if you take just one. ok, in stating that e&m is absolutely worthless, I meant that 99.9% of the population doesn't need to know a thing about it, and even science majors have no need for it. the only time people actually care about e&m is if you're an electrical engineer or something like that. most ppl don't build circuits in their free time.</p>
<p>I wanted to learn only mechanics because of the field I intend to research in. However, I feel I should get a bonus for my hard self-study as well, and undertake an AP Physics exam. Basically I don't HAVE to take Electro? How do I do that? When I sign up for the AP examination, do I indicate my preferences or what? Or not do this or that section during the test? So if I study SOLELY mechanics, I could get away with an AP credit?</p>
<p>If you learn mechanics, you won't get very far in research. The crap newtonian mechanics that they teach you in AP Physics is absolutely inapplicable to anything realistic. The field of classical mechanics is dead. The only reason most physics majors are required to take graduate level classical mechanics is to introduce them to topics that will serve as pathways into other, more researchable areas. In fact, even Quantum Mechanics is mostly dead. Most of it's seminal work was done in the 1930s 40s. The hottest areas of physics today are Quantum Field Theory, General Relativity/Cosmology, STring Theory, and others.</p>
<p>i tak AP phsycs to an' mi schol callz it "applied physacs" bcuz it haz no math. I do da physics w/no math an' dey say dat it iz even hardr cuz it iz all da theery, al da theery</p>
<p>mai finl AP exam if datz wut u meen i dink it wuz reely hard cuz we focus on all dat theori insted of da math it makez it so hard</p>
<p>on a skle i give it a 10 cuz itz so hrd</p>
<p>The AP Physics C exam is made up of two parts: Mechanics and E&M. Each of those parts gets its own AP grade (1-5). They are MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. Each Part is also an hour and a half long. IMO, only doing just mechanics isn't a bad idea, but only if the college you are going (or planning on going) to will accept the credit for it either as hours or as placement. The only college I have come across that will give credit to E&M is Carleton College up in Minnesota, and that's with a 4 or a 5. State schools will generally give credit for a 3 or better, while more selective schools (not to say all state schools are not selective, I don't want to get flamed by someone going to UC berkely) require a 4 or even a 5.</p>
<p>yeh, read the "silly bus" on CB. I don't intend to go directly into Physics research anyways. But the mechanics would give me a start on a new direction elsewhere. Better than high school physics wouldn't you say?</p>
<p>mruncleramos, I don't know where you get your information from, but Newtonian mechanics is still applicable.</p>