What is the difference between AP A and AP B? I am a British person, currently studying a book designed for the American market.
It is for students studying the AP B course.
I know that AP stands for Advanced Placement, which is similar to the UK A-Level courses we study at 17-18 years of age.
However, I do not know what the difference is between the A and B part. For example, AP Physics A in comparison to AP Physics B?
AP courses are designed for US high school students to gain some transfer credits when they begin university study by passing a standardized exam with a sufficient score, effectively giving a jump on their first year.
There's no such thing as &quot;AP A&quot; and &quot;AP B&quot; except in the context of particular courses. Some subjects may have multiple parts, but they aren't named in any cohesive fashion across subjects.
I suggest going directly to the College Board for info on what the AP courses cover, but from Wikipedia it seems that both AP Physics A and B are defunct, with AP Physics A never fully existing.
You can see a full course list here: https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/course-index-page
Looks like AP Physics 1 is Newtonian mechanics, AP Physics 2 is electricity and magnetism.  They have a separate track AP Physics C: Mechanics and AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism which use calculus. Of course different universities are different, but probably 1&amp;2 are roughly equivalent to 2 semesters of a US university &quot;not for majors&quot; physics track, and the two AP Physics C branches are roughly equivalent to 2 semesters of a US university &quot;for majors&quot; track (including majors in engineering, physics, possibly biology and other science/quantitative areas). Whether a university actually would accept even high scores on these AP tests as equivalents to their own courses is up to the individual schools.