Rating: 
Summary: Great Book
Review: This is probably one of the best Ap prep books I have ever bought. Going along with my AP Physics class, I was able to snooze through my teachers lectures and still obtain perfects on all my teacher's exams. With using this book alone, I was able to achieve the highest grade on every test in my AP Physics class out of all 150 students taking the course at my school. The average student with an A in the course would get 60%, but with this book I would get 130%.
Rating: 
Summary: The best AP Physics Prep-book
Review: This review is based on the 2000-2001 Edition, but the only difference I am aware of between this edition and the one I have is the addition of fluid dynamics. So you won't find any new problems to solve if you have other editions.(I took the B exam last year.)As with any prep books out there, this one is no substitution for your AP class, but it does come in handy when you want to review all the subjects in the month before the AP exam. It covers all the materials on the syllabus:
1. Vectors (A nice review but you don't need to know too much about them, knowing what they are and how do some simple operations with them will suffice. C students should know how dot product and cross product work) 2.Kinematics 3.Newton's Laws 4.Work, Energy, and Power 5.Linear Momentum 6.Rotational Motion 7.Newton's Law of Gravitation 8.Oscillations 9.Thermal Physics 10.Electric Forces and Fields 11. Electric Potential and Capacitance 12.Direct Current Circuits 13.Magnetic Forces and Fields 14.Electromagnetic Induction 15.Waves 16.Optics 17.Atomic and Nuclear Physics 18.Fluid Mechanics
Each chapter is about 20-30 pages in length. The examples it gives are very good and have clear solutions. Every practice question has detailed solution and is very similar to those you may see on the actual exam. (this means most of the questions you will see are conceptual questions that require some thoughts) Now for the flaws of this book:
1. For some odd reason, the number of (practice) multiple choice questions in each chapter is strictly restricted to 10. There are certainly many more types of questions it can include.
2. The free response questions in this book are generally very mathematical. If you have seen a real AP question you will know I mean. I did all 7 FR questions and got 5 on the AP, but I could only solve 75 percent of the questions to completion. On the AP exam you will have 15 min to do each question, but give yourself more time when you do problems in this book. They are hard but it is good practice for you.
3. Although this book is intended for both B and C courses, it really concentrates on the B exam, so C students should try to find more problems elsewhere. In particular, Barron has a really good review book on the C exam, I highly recommend it.
4. For B students: if you still want more multiple choice questions for practice after you tried all B-type questions your teacher has given to you, ask your teacher for questions from the C exams, you can do at least 70 percent of the problems on them. Some advice:
1. Your teacher should have test questions from past years, be sure to do those.
2. You can find some free response questions on [the internet].
3. Concentrate on the concepts when reviewing for the AP. Physicists always place concepts before actual math. You will get one or two points off for mathematical mistakes on the FR part, no matter how horrible they appear to your math teacher; but a wrong concept might cost you the entire 15 points.
4. Chances are you will have many free response questions on the AP that you have never seen before. The questions aren't as hard as they appear, and the questions often guide you to solve the entire problem. Anyway, this is best review book I have seen so far. Barron's review book on the B exam might be helpful too, just don't buy the one from REA, I saw two horrible errors just by skimming through a few pages, and the questions it provides are in no way in resemblence with the questions on AP....
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