<p>@Tech</p>
<p>Oh wow! Do you have anything like that for electricity and magnetism? Please respond ASAP thanks</p>
<p>Cram sheets for mech and e&m:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.rosephysics.com/Reviews/MECH_EQ.pdf[/url]”>http://www.rosephysics.com/Reviews/MECH_EQ.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://www.rosephysics.com/Reviews/EM_EQ.pdf[/url]”>http://www.rosephysics.com/Reviews/EM_EQ.pdf</a></p>
<p>Anyone here taking the late test on May 25th? My school forgot to order me a test (because I’m self-studying Physics C) so I have to take it late.</p>
<p>@math</p>
<p>Words cannot express how grateful I am. I am literally crying at this pdf. Thank you so much.</p>
<p>I took Mechanics last year and got a 5. I went into the class without taking regular physics because I heard it was too easy. I’ll be honest, I struggled with even kinematics for the first two months or so… haha.
The test turned out to be not too bad at all. I think an important thing to learn is the units. For some of the concept questions, knowing your units can get you to the answer :D</p>
<p>This year, I’ll be taking E&M (I have Biology in the morning… so I get a 2 hour lunch break !) and I think I’m somewhat ready… at least enough to get the 55% or so needed for a 5.
We’ll see :P</p>
<p>Starting to get a little nervous, but I think I’ll be OK (especially with the generous curve). Really not looking forward to taking both Physics C and Bio on the same day though</p>
<p>Hi, does anyone have any advice in regards of the Mechanics FRQs? The questions look very intimidating to me. Yes, I’ll expect a 3 or an unlikely 4 on the exam. Thanks!</p>
<p>Well, for the FRQs I would say to use the information in a previous part to get to the answer of a subsequent part. For example, if you got a final velocity answer in part c, part d might ask you for the change in kinetic energy (or the work from the work-KE theorem). So think about solving the problem with the answers from previous parts of the question.</p>
<p>Just taking mechanics on Monday since I already took 4 AP exams and a dual enrollment chem class, so I decided to be careful not to overload myself. hahah I regret not signing up for both. I’m way better than I thought I would be for the mechanics since I took both physics B last year and AP calc BC this year, as well as self studying a lot of physics over the summer. </p>
<p>Oh well, I could knock off a semester of calc based physics in college next year with a good mechanics score.</p>
<p>What mathwizard1 said is very important to remember!</p>
<p>The Physics Free response always leads you as to what you are doing. The only useful piece of information for this problem may be at the very end. But if there are lots of intermediate steps then they will be asked first. (ex: using conservation of momentum to find a final velocity on a then finding kinetic energy on b, then using conservation of energy to find a rotational kinetic of c, and so on…)</p>
<p>Are differential equation questions pretty rare?</p>
<p>^Ok thanks! And good luck on your exams everyone!</p>
<p>Diff. equations are not actually rare, from the free response I’ve taken for Physics C Mech (I’ve taken every one since 2004 to 2011). Out of the 8 FRQ’s I’ve taken, I think diff. equations showed up on 4. Just remember that the diff. equation solutions usually involve e^t and are solved by integrating the general equation dv/v = dt (with constants, of course).</p>
<p>the differential equations are not difficult. If you know AB stuff they are simple</p>
<p>I heard a rumor that you can’t use your calculator nor the equation sheet on the multiple choice. Please tell me this is not true.</p>
<p>According to the course description, equation sheets and calculators can only be used in FRQs. Equations, but not the sheet may be given in the multiple choice section.</p>
<p>The math in the MC is all symbols. Very few questions have actual numbers, and the ones that do are things like 2/4 = 1/2.</p>
<p>I’ve also checked some diff eq. questions on the FRQ and I think I’ll be good since it doesn’t ask you to actually solve them.</p>
<p>Anyone know if the 1998 released exam on the AP website is easier or harder then most. I took it and got a solid 5 but when I took the test in the back of the Princeton Review book I got a low 4. (not exactly sure on FR scoring in that test).
Just wondering if I should look more at the test from AP Central or Princeton Review.</p>
<p>No calculators or data table for MC.</p>
<p>^I did both 1998 and 2004 and found 1998 way easier too. But still, I guess tests from AP Central are more reliable that those from PR as they are the ones who make the ‘actual’ exam.</p>
<p>Does anybody else think it’s pretty likely there’s going to be a Faraday’s law (and its applications) FRQ this year? There’s been on each year for the past decade except for last year…</p>