>designed to serve as a first course in an undergraduate
>In order to succeed in this course, you must have taken an AP level physics course in electricity and magnetism.
Do high schools actually offer AP EE Physics classes? I went to a blue ribbon high school and they sure as hell didn't offer anything that specific at that advanced of a level. Even the university I went to had EE Physics as a 200 level class.
They didn't say EE (electrical engineering). They said electricity and magnetism (E&M).
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.
>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.
I want to try this, but...I never studied electromagnetism or linear algebra. Is it feasible to pick up enough of those to get through the course (the docs mention remedial math is included).
If it is possible to learn those quickly, where should one start? Perhaps the relevant OCW courses?
It's definitely possible but it might be a bit tough. I'd say Electromagnetism will probably be much more important than linear algebra. You can check out 8.02 on OCW (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-02-electricity-and-magn...) which covers basically the same material as AP Physics but with more calculus and a higher level of difficulty of course. Good luck!
"AP level physics course in electricity and magnetism" is referring to AP Physics C. Generally corresponds to the second semester of freshman physics: it covers electricity and magnetism fairly in depth but you won't see any circuit design, signal processing, etc.
>In order to succeed in this course, you must have taken an AP level physics course in electricity and magnetism.
Do high schools actually offer AP EE Physics classes? I went to a blue ribbon high school and they sure as hell didn't offer anything that specific at that advanced of a level. Even the university I went to had EE Physics as a 200 level class.