BIBLIOGRAPHY
Your AP Physics textbook may have seemed difficult to read early in the year. But now that you have
heard lectures, solved problems, and read our guide, try reading your text again—you’ll be amazed at
how much more clear the text has become.
If you’d like to look at another textbook, here is one that we recommend:
• Tipler, P. A., Mosca, G. (2007). Physics for Scientists and Engineers (6th ed.). New York: W. H.
Freeman.
You might also find this book helpful:
• Hewitt, P. G. (2009). Conceptual Physics (11th ed.). San Francisco: Addison Wesley.
(Hewitt’s is the classic text for readable, non-mathematical expositions of physics principles. If you
are having trouble seeing the meaning behind the mathematics, check out this book.)
Just for fun, we also recommend these books ... they might not help you too much for the AP exam,
but they’re great reads.
• Feynman, R. (1997). Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman! New York: W. W. Norton. (Collected stories
of the 20th century’s most charismatic physicist. If you ever thought that physicists were a bunch of
stuffy nerds without personality, you should definitely read this book. One of our all-time favorites!)
• Hawking, S. (1998). A Brief History of Time . New York: Bantam. (The canonical introduction to
cosmology at a layperson’s level.)
• Lederman, L. (1993). The God Particle . New York: Dell. (Written by a Nobel Prize–winning
experimental physicist, this book not only discusses what kinds of strange subatomic particles exist, but
goes through the amazing and interesting details of how these particles are discovered.)
• Walker, J. (2007). The Flying Circus of Physics (2nd ed.). New Jersey: Wiley. (This book provides
numerous conceptual explanations of physics phenomena that you have observed. The classic “Physics
of the world around you” book.)