AP Physics 1 Essentials: An APlusPhysics Guide

Great book. Break down if concepts is clear and efficient. Followed up with great questions and answers with explanations.

Used for review of high school level physics. Problems were a good exercise.

Outstanding book. Simple, thorough explanations of concepts and problems.

This book has been so helpful for my physics class. The extra help online is also amazing. I love the explanations and problems. However, I wished it had more varied problems for each section as well as the answers in another place. The answers being right underneath the questions posed a problem for me since even before I attempt the problems, my eyes would stray downward. It's not something a few sticky notes would fix though. And I also found that if I am ever in need of more varied problems to do, the internet is a good place to look for worksheets with solutions.Overall, I love this book and would recommend it to everyone. In fact, I have and it has been a great help to my friend as well. I am really tempted to buy the physics 2 book at the moment.

This was at a my physics teachers recommendation. I will say he did his research well. This has a lot of information that you will see on the physics exam and it even provided examples that were similar to ones I took on my exam. Although be warned that it doesn’t have a ton of questions since the book is really compact. However it does have good and useful information.

This book is excellent! There are numerous helpful practice questions and explanations. The book explains concepts in clear and consise methods. The book is written with humor and can be entertaining to read! Another thing I like about AP Physics 1 Essentials is that it has helped me understand the concepts, not just how to memorize definitions, equations, and processes. The material in this book is very similar to the material in my textbook and many of the practice questions are very similar to AP questions. Some practice questions are straightfoward and probably wouldn't appear on the AP exam, but they allow me to check my understanding on key concepts. Some of the harder questions are like AP questions. All in all, this book has greatly helped me in my AP Physics 1 class and I highly recommend this book!

This book saved my son's life in AP Physics 1! Given that this AP exam was new at the time, there weren't a lot of study guides available to prep students. Although this book does not go in depth, it does lay the foundation of understanding to build on. Even his high school teacher did not have any real material to go by - not even an updated classroom textbook. Hiring expensive tutoring service was out of the question. I recommend that students study this guide in the summer before taking the class. Happy to say that this book, coupled with the Sterling Test Prep AP Physics 1 Practice Questions, and strong test-taking strategies paid off. My son passed the AP exam!

I am disappointed by this book. While it is not a horrible review of physics, little time is spent discussing the concepts and much of the "teaching" is done through the problems. Having said that, important parts of the text are unclear, ambiguous, or misleading. And some of the problems are poorly worded and the answers are not clearly explained. Question 5.39 is a great example of this. We are not using this for AP exam prep, but instead to supplement homeschooled physics. There are better books and free sources out there.

nice and simple book. I strongly recommend it for those who want to get the basics of physics in a simple and powerful way

Great for high-school AP physics

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