<p>Hello all, I'm interested in teaching myself some calculus, and am not intending on taking the AP anytime soon. For the purpose of just knowing calculus for advanced physics, which review book should I get:</p>
<p>Barron's AP Calculus vs. Peterson's (ARCO) AP Calculus </p>
<p>I just need to teach myself.
Thank you all very much !</p>
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<p>Any and all are good. There’s no bad book for calculus.</p>
<p>yeah, honestly, it’s not like you’re going to learn incorrect math…</p>
<p>I just bought Barron’s for next year. It has so many practice questions and tests, and I hear they are a little harder than the actual exam which I like.</p>
<p>Barron’s is much harder than necessary. I only used The Princeton Review and I just took the AP Calculus AB exam. I thought that it was very easy after preparing with PR. Get The Princeton Review and you’ll be set for the exam.</p>
<p>But with Barron’s, wouldn’t you be overprepared and easily get a high score? That’s what I would like to think.</p>
<p>He’s not even taking the AP, so that doesn’t apply</p>
<p>EDIT: Now I see you’re not interested in taking the AP exam. So never mind I guess. I’ll just leave my comments for anyone else wondering which book to get for the AP exam, since this is the AP forum.</p>
<p>You could do that, but I think Barron’s goes overboard, even if you want to be overprepared. If you used Barron’s and did well on the practice problems, you can be sure you’ll get a 5. But I don’t think you have to do problems that much more difficult to get a 5. I only say this because I just took the AP exam and the problems in Barron’s were much harder than necessary to comprehend the ones on the exam. In comparison to Barron’s, the AP exam was much easier. I felt overprepared only using The Princeton Review, and I had a first-year AP Calculus teacher. Princeton Review and AP Central FRQs were more than enough for me to feel very confident on the exam. I’d be surprised if I scored below a 5. Barron’s will work just fine, so go ahead and use it if you want to, but IMO it’s not necessary to do problems that difficult. I hope this helps. :)</p>
<p>For calculus-based physics, I suggest reading an actual Calculus textbook to grasp some real understanding of Calculus.</p>