<p>For those who have taken Calc II in high school or at their colleges, could you give me an idea of the relative difficulty of my Calc II course? I am really curious because it's the honors version, and I have no way of knowing how it compares to a standard calc course, or if it even differs at all. Thank you for your insights!</p>
<p>Here was my last assignment:
<a href="http://www.math.ualberta.ca/%7Ebowman/m118/assign5.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~bowman/m118/assign5.pdf</a></p>
<p>I don’t know about Honors Calc at other schools, but at mine (both in high school and college), Honors Calc is the accelerated version of a Calc course. Also, at my university, Taylor’s Theorem isn’t even covered until either Calc III (3rd quarter Calc) or Calc IV (4th quarter Calc). For us, Calc II mainly dealt with integrals, antiderivatives, and finding volumes of revolution (for a disk, washer, and shell). I’ve also never heard of a Wallis product or the Cauchy–Bunyakowsky–Schwarz inequality in either Calc I or Calc II.</p>
<p>The homework looks similar to my AP Calc AB homework, but a little bit harder and it featured some things I’ve never learned (Wallis product and Cauchy-Bunyakowsky-Schwarz inequality). AP Calc AB is notoriously the one of the hardest classes offered at my school (second only to AP Bio and AP Physics)</p>
<p>Are you sure that your AP Calc AB is proof-based? I took Calc AB as well and we never had to prove anything; I know that the AP exam has no proofs. Perhaps you attend a really hard school, though.</p>
<p>Harder than a typical Calc 2 class.</p>
<p>At a quick glance, it appears to be about the same as my Calc 2 class was.</p>
<p>@ orion222 my h.s. isn’t that hard, but our AP calc class is. Most kids get AP credit and they find that college calc is a breeze. Our teacher is insane, but good at his job.</p>