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<p>For all of you engineers out there, do you guys have physics which required calculus during first year university?</p>

<p>I was somewhat disappointed that my university's physics (which people weren't allowed to skip with AP credits) is basically the first half of Physics B.</p>

<p>Is this an anomaly or is this normal? I used to want to attend MIT and watched lots of their Physics lectures (which used lots of calculus) and this difference with my university made me feel really let down...</p>

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<p>Why do they have you taking Algebra-based Physics for Engineering? This is an Engineering degree? Not Engineering Technology?</p>

<p>Anyway, yes, we have two semesters of Calc based Physics where I go. Pretty much everyone will take atleast the first of those semesters their freshman year (ignoring those who come with AP credit for it), and maybe about 50% will take the second their freshman year (again, ignoring those with AP credit for it), and the rest will mostly take it their sophomore or junior years.</p>

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<p>Do you mind to give a link to your school, and your degree in pursue as well?</p>

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<p>Did you complete the course yet?</p>

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<p>Don’t feel bad. Chances are you’ll take a dynamics and vibrations class that is very heavy in calculus and differential equations.</p>

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<p>I am curious as well. Many schools have “two sets” of Physics I & Physics II. One set without Calculus and the “Physics for Scientists and Engineers” set.</p>

<p>I would think any ABET program MUST require Calculus-based Physics (I am guessing and didn’t look at the ABET links).</p>

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<p>I prefer not to give my university out for privacy reasons…</p>

<p>Anyway, I just checked my university website again. Apparently my school’s engineering program is accredited by some official Engineering council in Canada, so should I still be worried?</p>

<p>Well, I haven’t finished the course yet (just started like 1 week ago actually) but this is a course that can’t even be skipped with Physics C credit. I just feel really disappointed that it feels like a review class…</p>

<p>Also, I am in an Engineer degree program, not Engineering Technology or other similar programs…</p>

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<p>I felt the same way the first week in Physics 1, as I already had 8 college Physics credits. It wasn’t until I started doing the problems that I realized how much I had forgotten.</p>

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I personal don’t see how link to the school will make you visible to the Internet, maybe you use the same name everywhere.
The fact that without a link is hard to tell some of the stuff. So you live in Canada?</p>

<p>But anyhow, if you get calculus-based later, then I don’t see any down side of it.
Maybe just a waste of time. Maybe not. Some people might want to dive into algebra-based first before calculus-based.</p>

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<p>now im confused. if you’re an Engineering major, then how is your physics class not “Calc based?”</p>