Practice to Mastery: AP Physics 1 Workbook
Practice to Mastery: AP(R) Physics 1 Workbook is a unit-by-unit practice book for students preparing for the AP(R) Physics 1: Algebra-Based Exam. It follows the eight units of the current course framework, from kinematics to fluids, and gives you enough original practice to make every topic secure before test day.
The book holds 1,162 original questions: 1,102 multiple-choice questions and 60 free-response questions. Every question comes with a full answer. Multiple-choice explanations show why the correct answer is right, step by step, with the physics principle stated and every calculation worked. Free-response questions come with point-by-point scoring guides and model responses, so you can grade your own work the way an exam reader would.
What is inside:
- Eight complete units: Kinematics; Force and Translational Dynamics; Work, Energy, and Power; Linear Momentum; Torque and Rotational Dynamics; Energy and Momentum of Rotational Systems; Oscillations; and Fluids.
- Questions labeled Easy, Medium, and Hard within each unit, so you can build from core skills to exam-level reasoning.
- Graphs, diagrams, data tables, and multi-question sets built on shared stimuli, in the style of the exam.
- All four free-response question types on the current exam: Mathematical Routines, Translation Between Representations, Experimental Design and Analysis, and Qualitative/Quantitative Translation.
- Questions that connect ideas across units, the way the exam does, with each connection named in the explanation.
- A full-length practice exam at the end, built to the published format: 42 multiple-choice questions in 85 minutes and 4 free-response questions in 95 minutes, with a review table that sorts your misses by unit.
Built for accuracy and fairness:
- Every question, figure, data set, scoring guide, and explanation is original. No item is copied or adapted from released or secure College Board exam material.
- Every numerical answer has been recomputed, using g = 9.8 m/s consistently throughout the book.
- Answer keys are balanced and randomized, and answer choices are written so that option length gives nothing away. You can only get the answer by doing the physics.
How to use this book:
Work through a unit after you study it in class, starting with the Easy questions and moving up. Check each answer right away and read the explanation even when you are right; the reasoning is the part that transfers to new problems. Use the free-response scoring guides to learn how points are actually earned: stating the principle, showing the substitution, giving units, and justifying a claim in words. Finish with the practice exam under timed conditions, then use the review table to decide which units to revisit.
The book suits students taking AP(R) Physics 1 in a full-year or accelerated course, students studying on their own, and teachers looking for a bank of original, fully explained practice for homework, quizzes, and review. Its companion volume, Practice to Mastery: AP(R) Physics 1 Practice Exams, offers 12 more full-length exams for timed practice and contains no question from this workbook.
AP(R) and Advanced Placement(R) are registered trademarks of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.
Customer Reviews
ThriftBooks ® and the ThriftBooks ® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
