Taking AP Calculus BC Exam without learning BC material?

Nonexistent
Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:36:24 +0000

Thesos76–I’m pretty sure we don’t need to know dot products, parallel/perpendicular vectors, or angles between two vectors. Usually vector questions are like “A particle’s position at time t is denoted by the vector <2t^2 + 5, 3t^3>. Find the magnitude of the acceleration at t = 2” or something, so you’ll have to know how to find the magnitude of a vector (which is just pythagorean theorem), but that’s pretty much it…
Knowing types of polar graphs doesn’t seem necessary, but it’s helpful so that you know whether to integrate from 0 to pi or 0 to 2pi. It’s also helpful for when you’re finding the area between two polar curves, since you can get an idea of what each curve looks like and which one is on the outside.