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F=MA basic physics

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.

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.

<3 I love physics, too.

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