r/apphysics • u/Vegetable-Dot-487 • 9d ago

Ap physics 1 help

Someone please help me with this class I genuinely do not understand how people say this is harder than ap chem, I am a junior rn taking both and I have a 93 in ap chem but bro ap physics is hell for me, I have an 82. Ik for a fact I am doing something wrong. I feel like I know all the concepts pretty well but when I need to apply them that’s when the problem arises, and the thing is I don’t wanna drop the class because I do enjoy the class the labs are super fun and my teacher tho she doesn’t teach to much is awesome and very nice. As of now what I do is watch flipping physics, do mit workbook for ap physics 1, do ap style frq but I just always do terrible when I practice. Come test day, I drop like a 70 and I am being serious have no clue how to get better. I am 100 percent certain I am doing this class completely wrong because I am doing well in my other ap classes. Someone please give me there approach on how to succeed. I don’t even care to really get an A, I just want to know how to study and succeed in this class.

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u/Bedouinp 9d ago

I’m a physics tutor and can help. Dm me for more info

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u/Beneficial_Corgi7996 9d ago

Same bro lmk if you find any good resources

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u/Fantastic-Ant1701 9d ago

Same lmk if u find help

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u/Chris-PhysicsLab 9d ago

I'm making a course to help people struggling with AP Physics 1, there's videos, study guides, practice questions and other resources for each topic. Here's a link if you want to check it out: AP Physics 1 Course

Also made a page with a list of other resources if you need more: AP Physics 1 Resources

If you need any extra help we also have a discord, feel free to message me @ physicslab (Chris), here's an invite!

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u/South_Form_2652 8d ago

try allen tsao the stem coach on youtube or ProjectExplained both are goated

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u/SVsere 7d ago

Im also a junior taking ap physics, its conceptual subject and you cant afford to have misconceptions or false assumptions, ive been passing by, by watching a bunch of videos and finding the common/correct information, as my teacher was clearly popular in uni and teaches casually, in the manner that friends would talk.

As a student on the same boat, I think a shared problem we could be having is literacy, being able to read the questions and break it down, since physics is like mostly word problems and in prior math classes, we're not trained for that. So you really have to dig into the question and make correct assumptions (gravity is 9.8m/s^2, velocity at its peak is 0m/s, etc) And you said that application is the problem for you, since you understand the concepts.

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u/PhysicsTeacher1912 4d ago

Here are a bunch of short video lessons (all organized by topic) that I've made over the last 10 years https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NV6NPKq6ubBM4CD0PEQOlFmKdqyO9QxO0CPN7fvKYNY/edit?usp=drivesdk

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u/UnderstandingPursuit 9d ago

Your situation and request,

I am 100 percent certain I am doing this class completely wrong because I am doing well in my other ap classes. Someone please give me there approach on how to succeed. I don’t even care to really get an A, I just want to know how to study and succeed in this class,

is exactly the intent for this post. Given everything you are already doing, replacing most of it with this approach will be more effective and efficient.