Re:Ask HN: What Are You Learning?
by kingkongjaffa on Sunday July 16, 2023 @05:37AM
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You can get surprisingly far without calculus.
In the UK you can take A level physics which is like the study you do before you go to university.
You can take A level mathematics at the same time and you learn calculus there, but for people who take physics without mathematics, a lot of the physics course is not calculus based.
That being said the more mathematics you know the easier physics concepts will be to understand, recognise patterns and see how a system model is generalised, I.e there’s an analogue across multiple topics because it’s all basically differential equations used to model the situation.
In the UK you can take A level physics which is like the study you do before you go to university.
You can take A level mathematics at the same time and you learn calculus there, but for people who take physics without mathematics, a lot of the physics course is not calculus based.
I.E assume constant acceleration and use the suvat equations https://mmerevise.co.uk/a-level-maths-revision/suvat-equatio...
That being said the more mathematics you know the easier physics concepts will be to understand, recognise patterns and see how a system model is generalised, I.e there’s an analogue across multiple topics because it’s all basically differential equations used to model the situation.