I've never, ever seen any calculus on a test at nationals*. I don't think you should expect to see any.windu34 wrote:Thanks for all the responses! As far as previous nationals tests have been for compound machines, wind power, its about time, etc physics tests, has calculus ever been present (or helpful to know by the competitor.
Additionally, the topics on the hovercraft rules (kinematics, kinetic energy, etc) are conventionally physics-math problems, but I suppose there are history aspects that could be asked. Thoughts? Thanks
As for the types of questions in Hovercraft - I really hope they're (very hard, akin to f=ma level if not a bit harder) physics/math problems, but I think there'll probably be a few history questions too T_T
*The only Division C study event I've ever done at nationals was Astronomy, but I'm pretty sure there's like an unwritten rule not to make calculus required to solve any questions. In Division B crave the wave, there was (obviously) no calculus