Cracking the AP: Physics, 1999-2000 Edition

by Steven LeDuque, The Princeton Review, L.L. Lishing, et al.

WE KNOW THE AP PHYSICS EXAM The experts at The Princeton Review study the AP Physics exam and other standardized tests each year to make sure you get the most up-to-date, thoroughly researched books... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375752897
• ISBN13: 9780375752896
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Princeton Review
• Length: 614 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Great overall but only focuses on the harder aspects

The Princeton Review did a great job with this book; it covers everything you need to know and more. It does have one drawback, however. This book focuses on preparing you for the hard questions on the test without spending enough time on the simpler, more conceptual questions (which the AP test does cover). If this book were to be used in conjunction with Barron's AP Physics, you'd have all your bases covered. I used those two books to help me score my "5" in AP Physics B.

Good Preparation

This book gives nice, brief explanations of all the required topics on the Physics AP while going more in-depth in the example problems. The only downfall, and this may be true with other prep books too, is that the practice problems aren't similar enough to the real AP problems to give you good practice. The practice test is rather discouraging, but most prep books are harder than the real AP. In short, learn from this book, but don't practice too much from it.

Lots of good review and problems.

This a a nice, large study aid that works as an excellent review but doesn't teach you everything there is about physics, just what you need to know for the exam.