AP Physics 1 Essentials: An APlusPhysics Guide

by Dan Fullerton

AP Physics 1 Essentials is an easy-to-read guide to the entire AP Physics 1 course, featuring more than 500 worked-out problems with full solutions and deeper understanding questions. AP Physics 1 Essentials covers all major topics included in the AP Physics 1 course, kinematics, dynamics, momentum, impulse, gravity, uniform circular motion, rotation, work, energy, power, mechanical waves, sound, electrostatics, and circuits. This book is designed to assist physics students in their high school AP Physics courses both as a guide throughout the course as well as a review book to guide end-of-course exam preparation. AP Physics 1 Essentials is integrated with the APlusPhysics.com website, which includes online question and answer forums, videos, animations, and supplemental problems to help you master the essential concepts of physics.

324 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 10, 2013

About the author

Dan Fullerton is a physics teacher at Irondequoit High School in Rochester, NY, an adjunct professor of microelectronic engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, and director of APlusPhysics.com. He lives in Webster, NY, with his beautiful wife, indefatigable daughters, and sleepy dog.

You can follow Fullerton on twitter as @aplusphysics, read his personal blog at danfullerton.com, and his physics blog at http://aplusphysics.com/flux.

Reviews

[Tylee Britton-Havard]

It was good, but his videos on YouTube (he basically goes through the book) are better.

[Aubrey]

As a physics teacher, I appreciate having the condensed information available for my students.

[orna]

it helped with the basics

[Aditi]

guess we're getting desperate
anyway i probably failed the exam

[James Liu]

I read this book and I still failed ap physics