<p>Hello! I'm a dual enroll student at my high school and am panicking a little about next semester.
My schedule will look like:
1st period:Health Science (Like advanced biology)
2nd period: Health Science (It's 2 periods)
3rd period: IB English
6th period: Precalc
4th 5th and 6th arent during normal high school hours because they are taken at a community college, they are:
College Physics 1
Fundamentals of Chem
Nutrition</p>
<p>I'm a little worried about this. I'm willing to study 6 hours a week for each Physics and Chem class. Up to 12 hours each week depending on how difficult those are. How difficult and time consuming is physics and chem? I have strong math skills and enjoy science. I can't judge if im good at science yet because high school science is always a joke, so I'm a little worried. What are the 3 hour labs like and how are the lessons? Is the material difficult? Are they interesting subjects? And does my schedule above look good to colleges as long as I get A's? I'm gonna major in exercise science then go to PT school. That's the plan. So how are College physics and chem?</p>
<p>Have you taken any sort of physics classes before?
If you have then it should just be review. If not it shouldn’t be that hard. I’m assuming you’ll only be going through mechanics, and mechanics is much easier than E&M.
Since you said it isn’t calculus based, that means its algebra based, and that’s good for you. The algebra parts of physics are just setting up the correct formulas. One tip I have is practice drawing free body diagrams, it makes things much simpler.
Kinematics is very straightforward. Shouldn’t have any issues if you can do algebra.
Forces is easy as long as you draw good free body diagrams, my teacher taught this well (I’m in ap physics b) so I had no issues.
Circular motion is not bad, it only gets bad when combined with gravitational force, other than that straight horizontal/vertical circles are simple enough
Energy is easy, again just learn the formulas and know how to manipulate them, energy is often combined with circular motion
Impulse and Momentum, the hardest part of mechanics in my opinion. 1D momentum is very straightforward. 2D though requires more abstract thinking and a use of system of equations in order to get your answers.</p>
<p>Overall pay attention in class, do your homeworks, spend time on the labs, and when it comes to test review, find the problems you had most difficulty understanding in class and replicate them on your own. You’ll be fine as long as you stay on top of it. </p>
<p>Chem should be easy if you’re strong in the sciences. My professor scared the class by saying that to do well you must study at least 4 hours for every (1 hour) lecture, but no one actually does that (I averaged at most 3 hours a week studying and got an A). There’s nothing that requires more than Algebra II skills. However, you could have a bad professor and/or one that writes terrible questions, but this was just my experience.</p>
<p>Physics will likely take up most of your time, as some of the concepts involve a lot of Not Being ■■■■■■■■ to grasp. I took the calc-based version, but either way you should spend a lot of time drawing free body diagrams and doing practice problems until you actually understand the derivations and why that equals that but doesn’t equal that when that is doing that. But yeah, depends entirely on the professor. Mine crushed 2/3 of my class into oblivion by finals.</p>