<p>precalc is SO much easier.</p>
<p>then again… my only experience with physics was the AP death that it was (physics C: newtonian mechanics).</p>
<p>i thought precalc was so easy though. our school offers it the year after geometry, and to me, geometry was death.
are you an algebra person or a geometry person? if you’re an algebra person, precalc shouldn’t be bad at all.</p>
<p>okay… either I’m taking the wrong class or ya’ll are talking about AP physics… cuz I’m taking physics summer school right now and it is MUCH MUCH easier than precalc…</p>
<p>Or it’s just the consensus on here…</p>
<p>My brother struggled with chemistry, but when reaching physics, he did well when he tried. I sort of liked chemistry this year, and when I tried, I got an A- or better for the quarter. Maybe physics will be a subject I will come to enjoy…</p>
<p>If you’re not prepared in math, physics will be a nightmare. I don’t know how it is in other schools, but at mine, you couldn’t even take physics without passing precalc first.</p>
<p>But yeah, I’d say precalc is way easier.</p>
<p>I talked to the AP Physics B teacher, and apparently he’ll teach everything (including the math) we’ll need to know for the class. </p>
<p>salamander, are you talking about regular physics, AP Physics B, or AP Physics c?</p>
<p>Man, I remember Precalc being one of the easiest math classes I ever took. I think I finished the class with something like a 99.8%. That was after getting something like an 80% in geometry the previous year, haha.</p>
<p>Physics was way harder, since you have to be able to link the physical concepts to the math, while precalc is just memorizing a few identities and graphs.</p>
<p>Actually, you need some precal to do physics. Sine, cosine, tangents, pythagorian theorem, vectors, etc are precal stuff that are routinely used as tools in physics.</p>
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<p>None of the above. The physics I took is offered as a “co-op” course: it’s taught at the college level, and I got UConn credit for passing, not AP credit. Judging by what collegeboard’s site says about the curriculum, my class was closest in content to Physics B. We didn’t use calculus, but I did need precalc quite a bit. If your physics teacher is willing to explain all the precalc concepts you need, you’ll probably be okay, although I’d worry that it’d slow down the class and necessitate rushing through other things (but that’s just my paranoid nature).</p>