Will Physics with Calculus be hard for me in college?

Silicongene
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 05:59:44 +0000

I am going to USF starting this fall. I am majoring in computer science. I am not much of a math person.

This semester I am taking an online Physics Honors class that mainly just goes over the concepts. I am in AP Calculus AB. I got a B in it last semester. I am also taking AP Chemistry, which I got a B in last semester.

AP Calculus and AP Chemistry have been so frickin hard. It makes me terrified of AP Physics, which I expect to be a combination of science and math like AP Chemistry, and which I know will use Calculus.

The math used in Chemistry is horrible because it is just too much to memorize. AP Calculus (which I am getting much better at) is pretty enjoyable because it is all based around graphs and everything ties together. I hate the math in Chem though, because it has so many different types of mathematical problems and way more concepts attached to each type of math problem.

Based on my strengths and weaknesses mentioned here, how well do you think I will do in Physics with Calculus in my first semester of college? I will be taking Calculus 2 at the same time as Physics. Will that make things easier?

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