<p>Hey what's the best prep book for Ap Physics?</p>
<p>yeah -- tell me about it. WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE FOR DOING WELL IN AP PHYSICS?</p>
<p>understand the concepts and be uber good in math. either gonna be easy or insanely hard 4 u</p>
<p>Resnick, Halliday & Walker is my fav physics textbook and all my friends like it too.</p>
<p>but halliday is for Physics C not B...btw</p>
<p>i took PhysicsB
For the prep book, Princeton Review's one is good. its explanations are easy
to understand and good questions, i think. I went it over for a few times and got five.
but some say it's too easy and they are sort of right :)</p>
<p>For Physics B, College Physics by Serway is a good textbook.</p>
<p>where are you guys now? We're going into potential energy..</p>
<p>I would say Barrons is a pretty good prep book. The practice exam questions in most Barrons books are actually harder than the AP exam's themselves, which makes them excellent prep books.</p>
<p>for Physics B, 5 Steps to a 5 AP Physics by Jacobs and Shulman</p>
<p>Wonderful preparation would also be to review from the textbook.. Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Serway (5th edition).. it is crammed full of examples to problems you would encounter on the test, and if you can do them, especially the 'challenging' ones, you are guaranteed a 5.</p>
<p>I'm an idiot in physics, last year i had one of the worst grades in my class, something like a C. I failed all the tests, but i bought the Barron's Physics B book. I looked over it for about a week and got a 3. yeah I know i only got a 3 but i was only 1 of 3 to pass from my school and everyone else had an A in the class. Get Barrons and pay attention in class(ask teacher and understand concepts), if i would have i might of gotten a 4 or 5.</p>
<p>We just finished torque in B.</p>
<p>we just got to torque!</p>
<p>off topic, but does anyone know why the lever arm affects the torque? and don't just say it is in the equation :-P</p>
<p>is physics b generally harder than physics C?</p>
<p>The lever arm affects the torque because it increases the radius from the axis of rotation so you can apply less of a force to generate the same torque.</p>
<p>enerwalc, I think C is definately harder than B.</p>
<p>True...</p>
<p>Physics C is essentially 1st year college-level Physics based on Calculus... </p>
<p>.....while Physics B is 1st year college-level Physics based on Alegbra.</p>
<p>Here's a good example that my Physics teacher gave:</p>
<p>Why do you think doorknobs are located as far away from the hinge as possible? Why not put them more towards the middle of the door? The reason is, if you were to put them towards the middle of the door, it would result in a shorter 'lever arm'...and more force (aka torque) would have to be applied to get the door to open.</p>
<p>Another example would be, longer crowbars can exert more force. Longer lever arm = more torque output.</p>
<p>athlon, that is just the equation!</p>
<p>jimmy, yea I can understand it by using everday examples. But what I want to knw is WHY that occurs.</p>