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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who doesn’t remember doing the egg drop project in their HS physics class? That was so fun. I forget the physics behind it though - something similar to how airbags work in collisions[/quote]

Did not have the egg drop project.

Also did not do the bridge-building project that is discussed in the book about Walt Whitman.

I vaguely remember a lab involving electrical circuits, a few bad science jokes, and that's it. Also that our main curriculum resource was a Schaum's Outline.  We learned and were tested on lots of equations that promptly drained out of my memory after the course ended. It was indeed like a math class. The teacher did not seem bad...he was competent and funny.

This was an Honors class at a "good school" in a town where many fathers were engineers.  Long enough ago that "engineer mothers" were not a recognizable population.  Gen X.

You are lucky to have had an interesting class.[/quote]

Physics at the introductory level does not have to be just like an applied math class. It can be conceptual in nature. That is the whole point of AP Physics 1. The focus is on conceptual physics more than on mathematical calculations. Kids who do well in it have strong critical thinking and abstract reasoning skills [/quote]

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