AP Advantage: Physics C

By James Mooney

This book reviews content from recent AP Physics exams. The book contains everything students need to prepare for success on the AP exam, including: * Numerous worked-out examples and practice... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1413804926
• ISBN13: 9781413804928
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Peoples Pub Group
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Condition - Good Price

The book came in great condition and within the specified days given. I do wish I had paid more attention and paid for faster shipping. My son needed the book for school, and it ended up coming a few days after he wanted it. Other books from other vendors that I've paid "regular" shipping for have come much quicker. I don't fault this vendor for that - just myself.

Physics C is a great review

This is a great review for the AP Physics student! Mooney does a great job condensing the material tested in the Physics C exam in both the Mechanical and E & M areas and provides great examples to drive home the concepts. I would suggest this book to any student as a supplement to their classroom textbooks.

Excellent for the Physics C AP test

I bought several AP Physics books to supplement my daughter's physics class at school. After buying 4 AP guides, 2 textbooks, looking up the openly available free response questions for the last 7 years,and the available multiple choice questions, I found this book to be the best guide for the Physics C exam. The author does an excellent job of presenting the material in a way that is very similar to the material available from prior actual tests. There is no doubt that the author's strength is in the calculus based approach to the exam (which after all is what the Physics C exam is supposed to be about). His methods are clearly presented and easily understood. Importantly, he doesn't overly focus on the mathematics by presenting every possible physics - calculus connection. Just the ones that you need to know. The physics concepts themselves are also well done. The problems are quite clever but yet test the simple concepts of physics well. My impression is that the actual test is similar in this regard. In essence the format is (a) do you know the concept that is being tested?, (b) can you efficiently solve the problem in one, two, or three steps? The author is able to reproduce this format. My last piece of advice is to avoid the fairly basic guides claiming to cover both the Physics B and C exams, as they are good for the Physics B but NOT for the Physics C exam. This is book is far superior (see my other reviews).

The most recently published AP Physics book by a master

If I remember correctly, James Mooney has taught physics to boarding school kids in New England for 20 years, so there's no doubt that this book is as good as, possibly even better than, Princeton Review, which most people buy for AP Physics. There were two reasons why I chose to use this book although I owned PR as well. This book is twice as thin as Princeton Review. Some may attribute PR's thickness to the fact that it contains materials for both B and C. However, the apparent thickness is important because it often determines whether one finishes a book. Secondly, the pages were white. In other words, the book was not made from recycled paper(like PR). This feature had a cathartic effect on my studying. Had I chosen to stare at gray-looking pages for eleven hours on one particular Sunday I remember, I would have thrown it at the wall.