I am interested in taking this course, but unlike say Couresa MIT does not give any idea what I need to know to be able to take it(or perhaps handle it would be a better way to put it), what are the prerequisites for the course?

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anonymous · Answer

From my understanding, there is no prerequisite for it. It is generally a first year course. If you wanted to "get ready" for it, you could try and find a calculus course, or some other advanced math course.

anonymous · Answer

So in other words I need to know advance math up to calculus to be able to follow the course? I am using prerequisites in the sense of knowledge not in the academic sense of having to have this course completed to take this course, its a free online course so of course there is no other course I am force to do first before taking it. Coursera tells me what I need to know to handle x class, MIT does not.

So can someone sum up the types of math I would need to be familiar with to be able to handle this course?

anonymous · Answer

Calc, Trig are the biggest ones I would think. You need to know cos, sin, tan as well as their inverses. They are pretty much the premise of Physics.

anonymous · Answer

What this course says in unit three about what you should know, is single and multiple-variable calculus, Newtonian Mechanics as well as Electricity and Magnatism