<p>I have 3 big sections to finish: Thermal, Optics, and Atomic and Nuclear Physics. Which ones should I study first/last? Do you think I'll be able to finish these in 2 weeks time? Should I start reviewing old chapters or just focus on the new ones?</p>
<p>i think your order should be: 1) thermal, 2) optics, 3) Atomic, 4) Nuclear ((in the order you gave above)) - this order was confirmed by my physics b teacher :)</p>
<p>I'm doing thermal right now and I can't understand much of it. It doesn't make sense to me. So.. should I review the mechanics and E/M or just study on?</p>
<p>look on the collegeboard rubric, thermodynamics is around 7% (or was it 15%), so you should base your decisions on that. personally, i would continue ... because kinematics doesnt take long to review</p>
<p>all I would add is to make sure you know Newtonian Physics, since it makes up the largest portion of the test.</p>
<p>They've started to ask fewer thermal questions.
I konw they havent really asked anything on heat of fusion/vaporization in a while. Just konw the gas laws well (1 equation really), know how to calculate work from the PV diagrams, dont get confused with work done/added to system, and know how to use the calculate Q U + W</p>
<p>Well I've taken released exams and I got:
2004- 10 wrong, 31 omit (taken a few weeks ago)
1998- 12 wrong, 19 omit on MC (taken a few weeks ago and taken today)</p>
<p>so assuming that I got half of my free response correct, what scores would I recieve? A 3? So yeah what should I do?</p>
<p>2004 - 2 or 3
1998 - 3 and if u do a lil better on fr 4</p>
<p>The topics you have left are among the easiest. </p>
<p>For thermal: know the laws of thermodynamics, expansion stuff, and specific heat stuff (Q=mcDt)</p>
<p>For optics: know your ray diagrams... I have seen quite a few FRQs with this</p>
<p>Nuclear stuff: know decay and fission/fusion</p>
<p>These should take you know more than a few hours.</p>
<p>Also, I would recommend omitting less/none. If you even know how to spell phsyics, it is more beneficial to make an EDUCATED guess. Just pick an answer that looks even close to reasonable.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your replies. So I'm still unsure if whether I should review more or study more or both. because I see that the exams require you to have good understanding of the material and not just memorize equations.</p>
<p>Princeton Review is the best review book to use for Physics B right? I'm studying Mirrors right now (On the mirror/magnification equation) and I think I've come across another typo on page 366. For example 16.12, shouldn't the answer to part d) be 2 cm instead of 6cm? </p>
<p>So far, I've come across a lot of typos in this book, even in the solutions they provide for the pratice tests! So, how can I make sure that I'm learning the correct information? Is there like a list of all of the typos found in the 2006-2007 ed of PR Physics B and C? Thanks.</p>