Physics B, I still have 3 big sections left to finish, which ones first/last?

<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>Optics is easiest to do on short notice, then nuclear physics. Thermal would be the hardest.</p>

<p>I suggest you call sick for a couple days to study for the exam (if your school's policies are lenient enough). It's a lot of material, if you include reviewing other chapters. Not to mention you probably have other tests. :D</p>

<p>If you have no basis in any of the three...dont try now...you won't be able to learn it all in time.</p>

<p>My suggestion is that you review Mechanics and E/M...review what you've already learned so that you get ALL of the Mechanics problems right and you could still be in great shape to get a 3 or 4.</p>

<p>I'm not taking any more exams so I'm just studying for physics. So I should just review the larger sections instead of learning more material?</p>

<p>You could always do both :)</p>

<p>You probably know some nuclear physics already from middle school, and optics can be learned pretty fast. But what you should do depends a lot on how well you remember the other stuff. I assume you've taken a diagnostic test already?</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>depends on free response, but basically you need to get 45% for a 3. (refer to PR)</p>

<p>Atomic and nuclear physics is actually pretty easy, because they cut out a lot of stuff about radioactivity and half-life from the AP.</p>

<p>Optics is fairly simple concept-wise, but I pretty muched learned everything the day before our school test and ended up mixing up what happens in convex vs concave and lenses vs mirrors.</p>

<p>I'd say study those first, because you're more likely to learn them than thermal. Then read through the thermal chapter, but don't waste too much time on it and concentrate your studying on things that you already learned.</p>

<p>Remember, the physics AP isn't for another 2 weeks, so hopefully you might get a bit farther ahead in class!</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>

<p>Princeton Review is a good book, but my physics teacher recommended Barrons for Physics B. I used PR anyway, and got a 5.</p>

<p>Be careful with thinking the answers are typos, in optics it's really easy to get confused as to what signs you should be using. Meaning that even if it seems very obvious that an answer should be one thing, it could still be something else.</p>

<p>Yeah, but I'm pretty sure the book's solution has a typo. Ahh, this confuses me =[ Anyways, I'm doing quite a bit of problems from serway faughn text 7 ed. Should I work a lot of problems on each of the chapters or just do some go on to other chapters? How long do you think thermal, optics, atomic/nuclear physics will take me? Can someone tell me how long I should spend on each section? So far I'm almost done with mirrors and going on to lenses. I still need dispersion, interference/diffraction for optics.</p>