Re:MIT launches free online 'fully automated' course
by freehunter on Monday February 13, 2012 @11:05PM
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>They didn't say EE (electrical engineering). They said electricity and magnetism (E&M).
A lot of people are picking up on that. I didn't type the whole name out partially because I didn't know a better, standardized abbreviation for it, and partly because I was typing on my phone at the time and didn't want to spell it all out. I hoped everyone would know what I meant, but apparently not. My blue ribbon high school didn't have E&M physics classes.
The AP physics curriculum has AP Physics B, AP Physics C (Mechanics), and AP Physics C (Electricity and Magnetism). At my high school (a fairly well-off public high school), in the AP Physics class, we were supposed to do both Mechanics and E&M, but we fell behind and had only just started E&M by the time the test rolled around. Some people just took the mechanics test; I took both, and got a 5, but the college I went to didn't accept AP Physics for credit, just for placement in the honors physics track. In college, E&M was the second-semester physics class in the honors track.
So, I don't think it's too unusual to expect a talented high school student or first or second year college student to have taken an E&M course.