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My high school calculus and physics teachers synchronized their classes, so shortly after we learned something in calculus, we would use it in physics. Since th
by wrs 9y ago
My high school calculus and physics teachers synchronized their classes, so shortly after we learned something in calculus, we would use it in physics. Since then I’ve learned this is not as common as it should be!
Perhaps it works especially well in that case because calculus was literally invented to do the kind of physics you learn in high school, so it’s a very natural combination. Linear algebra (e.g.) is so general-purpose that the overlap with another course might not be so continuous.
- ams6110 9y agoMy high school only taught physics without calculus. In 12th grade when I took calculus separately I was sort of annoyed to realize how much easier physics would have been using calculus.
- ethbro 9y agoThis was my experience too. I remember doing integrals in high school, but didn't take calculus-based physics until my second year of college. Jesus christ, it explained a lot of things.