<p>which study guide is the best?
PR of barron's?</p>
<p>pr to get the basics down then go over barron's for in-depth. actually, if you can get your hands on one of the halliday, resnick, krane(or walker) use those. if you're really lucky, you might be able to get the feynman lectures(oh god are those expensive). some people have recommended the giancoli books but looking back, that book did almost nothing for me. hope that helps</p>
<p>I didn't look at either very much, but it seemed to me that PR (as is typically the case) was much better than Barron's.</p>
<p>I've read some of the feynman lectures and I don't think they'd be helpful for studying for the AP. They're very good lectures, don't get me wrong, but they aren't study guides. You'd spend too much time looking for the bread and butter parts and sorting out all the lecture-ey parts. My class used Halliday Resnick and Walker (the latest edition, which is very similar to the one before it) and it was very good. It's very efficient in the way it condences everything into study-able info and leaving out the stuff that's not important.</p>
<p>PS: You'll learn the material all year long and you'll take practice tests all year long from earlier years' tests, but when it comes test day, you'll wonder what the hell you'd done since September. That's just the way this test is: brutal.</p>
<p>I advise downloading FRQs from the prior APs. They are available on the CB site.</p>
<p>Feynman lectures? Are you guys crazy?</p>
<p>"PS: You'll learn the material all year long and you'll take practice tests all year long from earlier years' tests, but when it comes test day, you'll wonder what the hell you'd done since September. That's just the way this test is: brutal."</p>
<p>Using PR, I learned half of EM in one week :D It's called "memorize first, understand later" lol...so yeah, get PR...it's awesome...</p>
<p>well maybe that's me but i just like physics. well the lectures go pretty in-depth and aren't that easy to read(true there is A LOT of material and is typically used as college texts but then again most ap texts are also college texts). the reason i suggested it was because it offers really creative ways at looking at problems and different approaches. again this is a very challenging text (even for most college students) but let's just say this: if you can get through them you're guaranteed a 5.</p>
<p>@tanonev well maybe you're just smarter than i am or maybe not as stubborn</p>
<p>I don't think many or any college professors would use the feynman lectures as their text. Maybe as a guide to writing their own lectures, but they would not be good as a text for students.</p>