<p>Anyone here planning on self studying?</p>
<p>I want to but I don’t know yet. Is it feasible if I’m in physics b right now?</p>
<p>Sorry old thread but just putting it out there #lastmonthcramming</p>
<p>If I take AP Physics C both parts this year, is there any use in taking the AP Physics B test for college credit or college admissions purposes? I have been self studying for AP Physics C this year, but a friend of mine is self studying for and taking all three APs this year. I thought that since AP Physics C was harder, taking AP Physics C is automatically more than B and taking it has no difference from taking all three tests. Am I right? If not, I’m a junior so I can still take AP Physics B next year (though it will be AP Physics 1 and 2 technically).</p>
<p>I’m on not an expert on this but unless you are intrigued by the topics in B which are not covered in C (wave and optics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and atomic and nuclear physics), it wouldn’t earn you any extra credit at most colleges so there would not be any point in taking it. </p>
<p>How’s everyone’s preparation for the test coming along. I have been using PR’s 2014 review book, Viren’s physics lecture videos and past FRQ questions. Anyone have any recommendations for resources?</p>
<p>I’ve been preparing for my other exams and not really physics because I believe I know my physics quite well B-)
Im going to do all FRQs and all released MC over the weekend for both M and E&M</p>
<p>@pretzel729 by all FRQ’s do you mean all the ones from 1973 to 2013 (123 questions)?</p>
<p>@pidude well, not ALL of them. Only all from past 10 years</p>
<p>If you’ve been doing physics for the last year (or even the last month for that matter) then all that’s to be done this week is just revising the formula and what certain words like flux and <em>insert technical physics term here</em> mean.
At least that’s what I’m gonna do. Unfortunately for me, studying for Comp and Calc BC over the last two days has really turned the physics part of my brain off. I really need to kickstart it again soon.</p>
<p>@TheSlimyDog yeah I took Comp and Calc BC and now the physics part of my brain is turned off too. The problem is I’m self studying E and M and there are still a few concepts/topics that I’m not very good with, so I need to master those.</p>
<p>@pretzel729 haha that’s what i presumed.</p>
<p>@pidude Yeah. I’m self studying too. There are some parts which I really want to understand but at this point of time just have to take for granted since trying to understand them would probably take a lot of time. Understanding and applying formulae and deriving equations are always the easy part. But when you have to justify something… Gosh I hate doing that.</p>
<p>pidude snd TheSlimyDog, I am also self-studying and it sucks. Gauss gets me every time. I hate that man</p>
<p>What I hate is the MC questions. Like I feel that I can do all of them but the time is not enough.</p>
<p>HaminhTran, I suck at MC. I usually get around a 20. I need to bring the score up, or I’m gonna fail!</p>
<p>@TheSlimyDog Yeah justification can be hard. Usually I’ll make something up or reference the name of a law.</p>
<p>@HaMinhTran @randomandweird I suck at the MC too. I got 21 when I took a practice test today. Hopefully I’ll get that up soon. I used to not like Gauss’s law because I didn’t get it, but now it’s really cool when I’m able to apply it because it makes electric field calculations so easy.</p>
<p>@pidude
You’re so lucky to understand Gauss. I’ve been trying everything and I still don’t get what he’s on about. I mean, I understand the concept, but I need help with application.</p>
<p>Lol I was the same way with Gauss law. I remember when I started learning EM two months I ago it was soooo hard to imagine all of the abstractness of it so I was like maybe if I put it off till the next week I might magically gain wisdom between now and then.
Then after doing that multiple times it happened! 
Mechanics I’m getting a sure 5.
EM I still gotta do more practice… Don’t know it like the back of my hand like I do mechanics.</p>
<p>The thing I hated the most was the application of calculus! I was like whaaat that stuff is used in real life??(x</p>
<p>I haven’t touched mechanics for an entire month. I mean I’ve been learning it for an entire year but after the academic year got over for me (in March where I live) I’ve been working on EM, Calc and Comp. A few practice tests are probably enough. Conservation of energy, free body diagrams and understanding torque is all you need anyway.
For Gauss’s law just remember 3 things: Enclosed charge, flux and the surface where the magnitude of the electric field at each point is the same. That’s how I go about understanding it.</p>
<p>EM is much more intuitive to me, it just makes sense. I don’t know why. Mechanics on the other hand, is totally counterintuitive to me…and is much more difficult…I think I might be the only one who finds EM easier</p>