<p>If, due to scheduling issues, a student needed to take Physics 2 while still officially enrolled in Calculus 1, what Calculus 2 topics should they cover in order to be prepared for Physics 2 material?</p>
<p>This student prefers Art of Problem Solving text books. TOC here: <a href="http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/products/calculus/toc.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/products/calculus/toc.pdf</a></p>
<p>The U uses Stewarts Calculus text and we will probably end up getting it as well. We know that AoPS works well for him (for self study) already though.</p>
<p>He has already started self studying Calc 1 primarily with Coursera online class, but is officially enrolled in precalc (at the high school) this year.</p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Integrals. He’s probably already covered antiderivatives in Physics I, the equations of an object moving at constant velocity are standard, but they are simple polynomials.</p>
<p>He’ll need to be competent in trig.</p>
<p>This is assuming physics 2 covers electricity and magnetism.</p>
<p>Physics E&M courses for physics and engineering majors may require at least concurrent enrollment in calculus 3, due to the multivariable calculus that may be used.</p>
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<p>Physics courses for biology majors and pre-meds will likely need at most basic differential and integral calculus, or no calculus at all.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. We have heard other mention that often the math sequence is one semester ahead of the physics (not at our Univ in particular, just in general terms–at our U actually a recent grad told us not to worry about it, but tehy didn’t go into details). The catalog lists the calculus based Physics 2 for non-majors as having a calc 2 co-req.</p>
<p>DS spoke with an advisor (at the U) today who approved him for fall enrollment in calculus based Phys 2-non majors w/o the Calculus 2 co-req. </p>
<p>He can request enrollment in Physics 2 for majors for spring semester but it causes a lot of scheduling problems. Calculus 2 is also the co-req math for that class. </p>
<p>Hmm…I never thought the scheduling of classes would be causing us so many problems. Now I realize the AP classes in high school end up with the students being off by a semester when they are ready to dual enroll at the Univ. </p>
<p>Thanks so much for the thoughts. The advisor said he can work on calculus on his own and gave him a link to an online math placement exam and he can make the final decision in the summer but she is leaving it up to him.</p>