<p>Ok so i have taken general physics and am planning to take ap physics next year
i was thinking of taking the physics sat2 in november, so i just had a few questions</p>
<p>how hard will it be to self-study for the sat2 in 2 months? (with knowledge from a good pre-ap physics class)
what is the best book to self-study for the physics sat2 from?</p>
<p>thanks a lot</p>
<p>I spent about two months self-studying and got an 800, so it’s definitely possible.</p>
<p>I used PR (read through it twice and memorized all the formulas), then took all the tests from PR, Sparknotes, and CB.</p>
<p>"I spent about two months self-studying and got an 800, so it’s definitely possible.</p>
<p>I used PR (read through it twice and memorized all the formulas), then took all the tests from PR, Sparknotes, and CB."</p>
<p>Did you take the physics SAT practice test in the “The Official Study Guide for all SAT Subject Tests” (which only has 1 physics test)? That was the only one I took so far, and what I noticed was that since the test generally progressed via difficulty, the relationship questions (i.e. relationship between the perceived amplitude 100 m from the source of sound and 200 m from it) toward the middle and the end of the test were usually NOT something simple like (in the previous example) a/2 but a/(radical 2). So my questions are:</p>
<p>1) Is this a viable strategy, or not a strategy at all?
2) Is it true that the amplitude squared is directly related to distance (just to make sure)?
3) Is the CB test in that particular book (the generic SAT Subject Test one) accurate in that sense, then?</p>
<p>Other people are welcomed to answer</p>
<p>Ok you can’t just go off that strategy. Because there are questions where you are presented with a whole bunch of numbers and parameters but the answer is “Cannot solve with provided info” or “There is no relationship” or something like that.</p>
<p>The SAT, unfortunately, is NOT a logical test. It’s based on tricks. So that is not going to work. I studied for 2 weeks along with an IB course in physics and I failed.</p>
<p>yea, but what about when you narrow a specific question down to 2 options? like if you know for sure that the relationship is inverse, and the only inverse relationships are a to b and a to b^2? i am by no means substituting studying and knowing the concepts with this</p>
<p>to be honest i only really want to know if that example i listed in my previous post was correct</p>
<p>As a general rule, yes it is correct. However, it really depends on the formula depicting that relationship. If you don’t remember the formula exactly during the test, think logically. If worse comes to worse, then guess if its between 2 choices.</p>