<p>Hey, I'm a junior and I was wondering if I could get some advice for self-studying Physics C. I took Physics B last year as a sophomore and got a 5 on the AP, but my school doesn't offer AP Physics C, which irritates me since I have a solid interest in physics. </p>
<p>I do know all the calculus involved, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem. But I was wondering what prep book should I use? Could I self-study that way? </p>
<p>I do have Halliday but I'm sort of lazy to go through an actual textbook versus the lighter prep book. Should I just force myself through it? I really don't have that much time this year. </p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
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<p>After the prep book, i’d buy more books with practice problems and the like, but if you don’t get something in the prep book, you can always look for it in the textbook.</p>
<p>Pretty much what I did:
The videos on apphysicslectures.com are pretty good, they’re a lot less dense than the MIT OCW lectures.
I didn’t really bother reading a textbook much, but I did have a review book, the AP Advantage one by James Mooney. I did read the few chapters on rotational motion/SHM in Giancoli though.
There’s a link floating around CC somewhere with like 8 released exams for E&M and Mech.
Practice all of the released FRQs, the format’s generally similar each year (for E&M: 1 problem on circuits, one on gauss’s law or ampere’s law, one graphing thing, etc).</p>