<p>I am so ecstatic! Throughout this pass week, we have been doing registration for our senior year schedules. In my Honors Chemistry class, the topic of AP Physics came up. My school hasn't offered AP Physics in over 6 years because of lack of interest. Mind you, I don't go to the amazing schools that offer one million AP classes; I attend a poor, inner-city school composed primarily of blacks and Hispanics. After we discussed the possibility of AP Physics, I wrote up a form of interest that I passed around. I got ten people with interest in the class! Proceeding from there, I took the form to our principle who said, "Sure, you have enough interest; I will allow it." I am so happy! AP Physics will be our fifth AP course offered at our school, alongside AP English Language, AP English Literature, AP US History, and AP Calculus AB. With this taken into account, I will be taking AP Physics B, AP English Literature, AP Calculus AB, and AP German (online) for the next semester. All of our AP courses are semester-long, however.</p>
<p>I am so happy that we got this going. Our school seriously needed more advanced course-work to satisfy the upper echelon of my class. So, is AP Physics B going to be do-able in one semester, without a physics background, and alongside AP English Literature, AP Calculus AB, and AP German? It's going to be a hard-core semester, but well worth it!</p>
<p>I'd say Physics B is actually harder than Physics C, because with Physics C you only have to understand mechanics and E&M really well, whereas with Physics B you have to understand all parts of physics. The calculus doesn't really make much of a difference unless you don't know calculus. (It's really just the same physics, except you have to apply more math in there.)</p>
<p>But maybe I'm just biased since I took Physics B before Physics C.</p>
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<p>That being said, congratulations. :) Physics of any sort is a fun class. You'll enjoy it if you understand it properly.</p>
<p>I'm taking B this year and C next year. From what I've experienced, one semester will be really intense for mechanics, fluids, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, waves, atomic, and nuclear topics. During first semester this year we did mechanics, fluids and half of thermodynamics.</p>
<p>wow, incredible! so you haven't taken physics H yet and you're going right on up to AP? good luck. :D you'll probably be ok, but maybe study up a little over the summer--in our school's AP physics C class, the people doing the best are ones who came from physics H. physics J kids seem to be having a hard time, even though they have a year of physics under their belt already.</p>
<p>I think I will be fine even though I haven't taken Honors Physics yet. The first time I picked up studying physics was eighth grade when I went out and bought "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Physics". So funny! I still have that book and I will go over it. May get another book over the summer to have practice problems, as it doesn't include many to begin with.</p>