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by comte7092 1145 days ago
High schools often teach physics and without calculus as a prerequisite. It definitely makes it more challenging, but you can still communicate the concepts at a different level of detail.
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> High schools often teach physics and without calculus as a prerequisite.

Does it though? For example, you simply cannot teach Newton's laws of motion without knowing what a derivative is.

> For example, you simply cannot teach Newton's laws of motion without knowing what a derivative is.

You absolutely can do that. You might now want to, but you can, and people do.

It does, my kid finished calculus-free high school physics last year.