<p>to answer the threadstarter’s question, no. you’ll find lots of people haven’t taken physics before college, and if they did, it was such a simplified version of physics that it wouldn’t have helped them anyways. physics depends much more on your ability to problem-solve and reason rather than rely on a previous foundation of knowledge.</p>
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i imagine you didn’t take engineering physics…</p>
<p>my Electromagnetic Physics class last semester may have been one of the most time consuming and, easily, most challenging classes i’ve ever taken. i’m no genius, but i’d say i’m pretty smart, and the course dominated me. still pulled off an A, but not without lots of studying when i usually study very little for anything. the physics class i’m in now, Wave Optics and Quantum Mechanics (for Engineers), is actually lots easier than EM, ironically, if only because it does somewhat revert back more to “plug-and-chug” physics. also, it’s quite a bit more interesting…</p>