Kenneth Rideout - AP Physics 1 Premium, 2023: 4 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Practice

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Ken Rideout has a B.S. in Honors Physics from Purdue University and an M.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been teaching high school physics for more than fifteen years in the Boston area and is currently the science department head at Wayland High School in Wayland, MA.

Jonathan Wolf has been teaching physics at both the secondary school and college levels for more than thirty-five years, and has also been an adjunct assistant professor of astronomy at Hofstra University. He has published over forty professional papers in the fields of astronomy, physics, and physics education and served for more than ten years as assistant editor for The Science Teachers Bulletin published by the Science Teachers Association of New York State (STANYS). In addition to being the author of Barrons AP Physics B, he is also the author of Barrons College Review: Physics and previously was co-author of Barrons SAT Subject Test in Physics. Jonathan Wolf is currently an adjunct professor of physics at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

First, take the Diagnostic Test to gain an understanding of your strengths and weaknesses. Read the answer explanations for all questions, as they provide valuable insight into correct and incorrect answers. Refer to the Answer Key to identify the areas you need to brush up on. Here you can find the Topic and Chapter numbers that correspond to each of the questions in the Diagnostic Test.

This books review chapters that align with the curriculum for the AP Physics 1 course. You may find it helpful to read the text along with your textbook when you are first learning the material and studying for course exams, or you may choose to read the chapters together as a review after you have completed most of your AP Physics 1 course. By answering the practice questions that follow each chapter, you will be able test your learning as you progress through the book.

The final section of the book offers the opportunity to take two full-length practice tests that include all question types found on the actual exam. A comprehensive answer explanation is provided for each question.

In addition to the diagnostic test and two practice tests within this book, there are also two full-length online practice exams. You can take these exams in practice (untimed) mode or in timed mode. All questions include answer explanations.

As you review the content in this book to work toward earning that on your AP Physics 1 exam, here are five things that you MUST know above everything else:

In this review book, you will find all the material you need to review and prepare for the AP Physics 1 exam, a first-year precalculus course. This book is a newly updated, targeted, and enriched version of Barrons AP Physics 1, including the 2021 College Board update regarding the new scope of their exam.

Each chapter has review questions that vary in style and level of difficulty. These are intended to test your level of understanding of the review material. Some of these chapter questions may be easier, harder, or in a slightly different style from the actual AP exam as they are limited to the content of that particular chapter. Likewise, each chapter has a mix of traditional problem-solving examples as well as the more text-based and conceptual type of questions that appear on the AP Physics 1 exam. The tests, on the other hand, are broad in scope and draw from several different content areas at once. Included in this book, as well as online, are several full-length practice tests that mirror the actual AP exams in style, content, and difficulty. All questions have full solutions and explanations provided. Before the review chapters is a diagnostic test that can be used for practice or to guide you specifically to certain content areas you may need to review before the AP exam. Additional problem-solving strategies are provided throughout the book.