<p>anyone has some kind of notes or guides? easy to know stuff or something of that kind?? what do you expect in the exam?? (especially, the FR)</p>
<p>sorry, what topics do you expect for the free response or your teachers told you...</p>
<p>For mechanics, Work/power/force, Rotation, and Kinematics are almost guarenteed to be on every exam. For less common topics, I'm expecting a pendulum problem and a gravitation problem.</p>
<p>For E and M, Circuits, Gauss and Induction are guarenteed topics.</p>
<p>I'm expecting more of the gravitational for mechanics this year, pendulum may be tied in with another topic like work or such.</p>
<p>topics and their respective distributions</p>
<p>another Question: What rotational inertias do we have to remember?? (for rotation shapes, like, hoops, rod, cylinder and such)</p>
<p>OK...ANYTHING that we have to remember for the AP Physics C test, Free Response??</p>
<p>don't memorize them just remember I=int(r^2*dm) then you can find the rotational inertia for any object. </p>
<p>here's a quick review of mech if anyone wants it:
<a href="http://invadersrealm.com/physics/Motion.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://invadersrealm.com/physics/Motion.pdf</a></p>
<p>I think we only need to know inertia for a point mass (I=mr^2), and then they expect us to be able to derive anything else if need, which usually is pretty easy. The only one I would just try to remember is a sphere (I=2/5 * mr^2), as it's a little tricky to integrate.</p>
<p>and of course, a loop is just MR^2</p>
<p>oh man oh man.. i'm going to blow away the exam tomorrow... So confidenttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt</p>
<p>to be constructive: A hollow sphere is 2/3 mr^2</p>
<p>and a uniform roudn object is 1/2MR^2</p>
<p>A rod: 1/12ML^2</p>
<p>Okay, people answer honestly. Did anyone actually study for this thing tomorrow? I feel like there is no way to study if you understand the bulk of the material, because the hardest part of the test, it seems, is to recognize what you need to do to answer the problem. Most of the MC require diligence, and the rest requires sometime that studying cannot teach you. To answer some of the free response questions require some type of genius, if even only the slightest touch of it, to make the connections between what you have and what you need to have. No one can gain such insight with studying; unless, of course, one has seen the same question before the test. But even such luck cannot be gained through studying, only luck, only a flip of the coin, a roll of a die. Studying released test seems foolish and memorizing the steps to every question is not only a waste a time, literally, for there is no guarantee that promises that any of those questions will be on the administered test. So, what can you do to prepare for the test? I understand the concepts; I understand the equations. What is there left to learn? How can I bring up a 4 to a 5?</p>
<p>I actually got a 5 on each Mechanics and E+M practice tests, but I have not been doing well on the MC.</p>
<p>Any tips?</p>
<p>if by studying you mean doing lots of old exams then yes, if you mean memorizing eqns then nope.</p>
<p>and yes, we do need to know maxwells equations. my teacher gave out the course guidelines and it says you need to have a solid understanding of maxwells equations</p>
<p>tips?
its a little late now but ive found practice helpful. also i try to fly through and get each section done in ~30 min or less then redo it in the remaining time. doing that has helped a lot at least in the practice tests.</p>
<p>Yep, you should know the connections to everything by now, maybe review some types of problems tomorrow morning or something and then.. this is it! :D Good luck to all of you!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>ya tomorrow should be a breeze. unless you're taking the bio also.</p>
<p>well, i will need luck!</p>
<p>any tips for Electricity and Magnetism...well lets just say random stuff like theorems and stuff....</p>
<p>For E&M do we get to use a graphing calculator? Also how long is just the E&M test? Lol....i feel so unprepared for this test.</p>