<p>So I've never taken Physics at the high school level before but considering I finished Calc BC as a Junior, the AP Physics teacher at my school recommended that I take Physics B. But would it be possible for me to self study (and what should I use to study) Physics C? I'm open to all review book suggestions (tho I've browsed the section on AP prep books) but mostly any textbook or extra materials I can use. Many thanks in advance!!</p>
<p>If you can handle Physics B using calculus, you could self-study and do alright. Just make sure you do a ton of problems and get your teacher’s help when/if you need it.</p>
<p>^you don’t need calculus for Physics B.
as for C…it’s not offered at my school, and barely anyone I know takes it.
I have friends who self-studied Calc BC and Phys C concurrently.
No idea how well they did but I think it’s possible.</p>
<p>anything is possible.</p>
<p>i self studied biology, french and calc bc this year…and i think i got 5,4,4 accordingly.</p>
<p>alright, the way things look i guess i’m going to have to take physics c next year … thanks for all your input!</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>dolcevalse,</p>
<p>I just finished self-studying physics C this year and took the make-up AP exam last friday. </p>
<p>First off, I only studied mechanics (thank god) and I had taken algebra-based physics before in 11th grade (long story, but basically I dropped that class after we finished basic mechanics, so I’ve never had exposure to e&m).</p>
<p>I’ll be honest with you: I had a few friends of mine take this self-study course with me and we never studied. As in, NEVER. I only started studying physics two weeks before the make-up date. I had a schedule and everything going into the class, but it fell apart once I got caught up in other senior year happenings, my “real” classes like calc BC and chemistry started kicking in, and I contracted serious senioritis.</p>
<p>So yeah. I’m pretty sure that I passed the AP exam, maybe even got a 4, but I wouldn’t make the decesion again if I had to do it over. I would never take college credit for the class because I seriously doubt my understanding of the material. </p>
<p>If you do choose to do the self-study, I highly recommend the MIT Walter Lewin videos and I suggest that you gfo to your high school physics teacher and ask him or her for as many real AP physics C exams she has, with their scoring guides. Those two combined will really help. Barron’s also maes a really good physics book. Halliday and resnick (sorry if the spelling is wrong) was the text book that i got but never opened. I’ve heard it’s very good.</p>
<p>Good luck, and don’t make the same mistake I did if you decide to pursue physics alone.</p>
<p>I don’t recommend it if you’ve never taken physics before.</p>
<p>I took physics freshman year (of which I forgot almost everything, so basically no prior physics class) and AP C (both E&M and mechanics) this year. However, because of 2nd semester not trying and the way my class was structured, I learned almost nothing in E&M. I was seriously in trouble for the AP test, but then I found a site the night before (hippocampus.com), where in two hours I learned more than the entire E&M unit in class. Check that site out, see if you understand things after a few minutes, and decide for yourself if you think that would be adequate to learn an AP course of material. Because honestly, I don’t think there is any other better “review” out there.</p>