Peterson's Ap Success Physics B/C 2001: Boost Your Score on the Ap Exams in Phsics B/C

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So, also when it is not the Ap-test now and I did not work through the whole book, I worked myself through most of it and now have to say that this surely is not the best buy. There are no tips on how to take the test (they are helpful also when not necessary), there are nop divisions between what is Physics B and what is Physics C, what is very bad and confusing. But the worst is that it is written very dry and does not help to explain the material very well. An shocking example for me is: "Some potential differences must be positive and some negative" this is given with Kirchhoff's rules and that is all. There is NO further explanation of what some is, so confusing you, and in the best case just not helping you, because you need to find out what "Some" actually is. these bad explanation mistakes are made throughout the whole book. I would buy this book only when taking physics C (because you need to know everything in this book) and when you know the stuff pretty...Read more

While this book helped to review the topics for the AP Physics examination, the explanations were non-existant. The practice tests were very similar to the real questions on the test, however, in the answer key, the explanations made no sense, not telling you which equations to use, or why. I would recommend the Princeton Review Physics study guide over this one any day. There are a lot better review guides available than this one, I could have done better on the exam having only used the textbook.

Since I contributed to the first edition, the book has been edited to the point of incorrectness. Case in point: It now says incorrectly that aiplane lift can be explained using Bernoulli's principle.