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[quote=Anonymous]Its because Physics is split into 2 subjects, Mechanics and Electromagnetism

So there is a choice to do 2 semesters of Mechanics as one AP Physics C year (because full year courses  are easier to schedule than semesters), or one year of Honors both and 1 year of AP Mech+EM.

AP Physics 1 messes everything up because it's supposed to be Physics 1 Mechanics and  2 EM (less mathy version of Honors and AP C, for non STEM majors). But that's too many options, and Physics requires higher math than Bio or Chem, so students start physics later, so Physics 1 (Mechanics) is used as a bad replacement for Honors Physics (Mechanics + EM).

It would be like if biology did microbiology as a separate half course from microbiology ecology, and you could do only one of them or the other if you wanted.

This by the way is how  Micro/Macro Economics does work -   two separate AP half courses, but in that case there's no "high school level" version first.

Then for all of this stuff, different schools make different choices about whether any particular piece of this is one semester or two semesters or one double. Semester or two double period semesters.

It's all very, very arbitrary. [/quote]

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