<p>what is the class like? i was wondering of taking it next year. is there physics in the class room? can people tell me.what are the preparations for the class?</p>
<p>It’s a lot of work compared to other classes. It depends on your teacher.
My teacher expected us to learn it on our own because she has never taught it before.</p>
<p>my teacher made it really easy for us. we literally had no homework, and all we did was take notes and do a bunch of examples in class. i didn’t have to read the textbook or anything, but then again, he did miss a lot of stuff that’s in ap chem. so it really depends on your teacher, and whether you’re a chem guy or not. ask the students who took it from your school because they’ll know about the class</p>
<p>The only physics is some real simple quantum mechanics stuff. Like, you need to know the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. But, I would not recommend you take the class unless you really, really like chemistry, because AP Chem is A LOT different from honors chem, and in my opinion, it has been one of the hardest (if not the hardest) class I have taken up to date.</p>
<p>@nyjunior</p>
<p>Don’t scare him off like that!!</p>
<p>Basically I will teach you the H U principle in 2 lines:</p>
<p>Electrons move at superbly fast speeds in orbitals. These orbitals are simply drawings of where electrons are most likely to appear. Hence, UNCERTAINTY.</p>
<p>It would be 0 to 1 questions on the AP exam.</p>
<p>Ask people in your school. In my school, our teacher is ranked 10th at ratemyteacher.com and he makes it pretty easy. You can get an A in my class without any homework. In other schools, they make this a very hard course.</p>
<p>The people who do badly on the tests are those who don’t understand the basic concepts. If you have good retention (be able to vaguely recall things you learned from a while back), then the AP should be a joke.</p>
<p>I’m taking it now and it is probably my favorite class.</p>