My school is replacing Pre-AP Physics with AP Physics B next year...

failboat
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:09:22 +0000

I tend of view the physical curriculum as follows:

The B course is mostly a blend of conceptual knowledge mixed in with a bunch of “formulas” that you need to learn. The C course abstracts the said “formulas” through a calculus based curriculum. I would not recommend that you take the C course without either taking the B course or at the very least a conceptual physics course. With that said, be sure to retain everything that you’ve learned in Calculus this year as C/HL is heavily dependent on a thorough understanding of the preliminary calculus taught in the AB/BC course. (And it’ll even go further than that)