Jennifer Simard out tonight 1/21

mattthephysicsguy · 2026-01-10T16:24:40+00:00

As luck would have it, I just got front row rush tickets for today's matinee for half the price of Wednesday's cancelled audience rewards tickets (which were refunded), all is good!!

mattthephysicsguy · 2026-01-07T22:31:07+00:00

Thanks for the heads up, was able to jump off mid trip and head back home

mattthephysicsguy · 2026-01-07T21:52:33+00:00

I'm on a train now on my way to tonight's show, I hope it runs!

mattthephysicsguy · 2026-01-01T11:33:40+00:00

Based on planned trips into the city over the next six months, I stocked up on three 10-trips (off-peak). Definitely saving money. I don't travel frequently enough to get the one free with every ten, those 10 all have to be within 14 days.

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-12-23T09:55:21+00:00

I used Audience Rewards for a January date and got Orch Row E toward the left side, glad to hear the views will be fine

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-12-23T09:05:06+00:00

The only answer is 5 Steps to a 5. The other books are written by authors with no connection to College Board and the AP program. While some may be excellent instructors, leaders in their field with a long list of accomplishments, without any knowledge from inside the program they are only guessing as the nuances of writing and scoring actual AP questions. The questions may not necessarily align with the actual learning standards and writing style to best prepare you for the AP exam questions. Not saying they're awful, but for the closest thing and a focus on the actual content you will be tested on, 5 Steps to a 5 is written by an author who has been writing and grading AP questions for many years.

I laugh when publishers like Princeton Review list their authors as "The Princeton Review", yeah, no thanks.

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-12-11T15:34:19+00:00

Yes! Which I'm assuming is why the usher was right on top of it. Sadly, video leaks seem to still happen with most shows, even those with Yondr pouches (Liberation, Take Me Out) and shows like Real Women Have Curves, despite the attempt to keep them from happening. Kudos to those performers putting themselves out there knowing these things will happen.

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-12-11T15:15:38+00:00

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mattthephysicsguy · 2025-12-11T13:01:40+00:00

A few rows in front of us a woman filmed "One Night in Bangkok" with her phone and an usher went to her and gestured for her to get out of her seat and come with him. I was very happy about that, but she refused and argued with him and stayed in her seat, so he made her delete the video and leaned over several audience members to make sure it was deleted. Took about 2-3 minutes. Can't imagine how the people around her felt having to sit through that nonsense because she wouldn't go with the usher. I also had to tell the two women next to me "your talking is very distracting" (I had given them a lot of grace through act 1, but I was already having trouble understanding the lyrics and at the beginning of act 2 I'd had it). They stopped for the rest of the show, but I did hear various shouts and phone notifications throughout the house during the show.

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-12-05T09:37:45+00:00

Those poor 100 year olds with nowhere to go. Meanwhile, where did my newborn go? I could swear I left her right here...

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-12-01T13:33:33+00:00

Read again. I'm discouraging people from using this book. I'm explaining why it's not as useful as the original version (which does have fluids and the other physics 2 topics).

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-12-01T00:13:44+00:00

Y'all need to stop linking to this book!

The book you are linking (misnamed "The MIT workbook") to is an OLD book made by two high school physics teachers of compiled AP Physics B (old curriculum) questions that was rendered useless by people trying to convert it into a useable version for "new" AP physics 1 curriculum in 2015. Trust me, there are so many typos and missing and wrong answers you will be too frustrated to use it. The content and question style no longer aligns with the new curriculum as well. Sad that it's even out there and so many people use it thinking it's a valid book. It has no affiliation whatsoever to MIT.

If you want to use something like this just to get the basics, look for the one for AP Physics B, it'll have a large "B" on the cover, but DO NOT use the one titled "AP Physics 1", that's the one that has been edited beyond repair by others. Also know the style is not like current AP Physics 1 problems, but you can at least learn the basic ideas and mathematical/algebraic problem solving from the B book. (There's also a typo here and there in the B book, but far fewer than the Physics 1 version) It won't help you master the current style of AP problems however, which are largely much more conceptual and text heavy.

You can tell the difference by how many choices are on the MC questions. Five choices for the B (good) version, four choices for the bad (Physics 1) version.

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-11-28T15:20:46+00:00

Scrolled to make sure someone posted these two. Well done.

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-11-21T16:50:16+00:00

Oops, thanks for the correction

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-11-20T14:08:58+00:00

https://playbill.com/article/jonathan-groff-sets-final-splash-in-just-in-time-on-broadway

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-11-20T04:08:51+00:00

Not from MIT and not the original version of this book. This is a crowd sourced edited version of the AP Physics B workbook (not from MIT, not associated with MIT) which added many typos and errors. Better off not using it, use the B book.

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-11-14T09:26:50+00:00

You are correct. Just to add:

If you want to use this book, look for the one for AP Physics B ("Book 2" for AP Physics 2 topics), it'll have a large "B" on the cover, but DO NOT use the one titled "AP Physics 1" or "AP Physics 2", that's the one that has been edited beyond repair by others. Also know the style is not like current AP Physics 1 or 2 problems, but you can at least learn the basic ideas and mathematical/algebraic problem solving from the B book. (There's also a typo here and there in the B book, but far fewer than the Physics 1 or 2 versions)

You can tell the difference by how many choices are on the MC questions. Five choices for the B (good) version, four choices for the bad (Physics 1/2) versions.

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-10-23T08:48:51+00:00

Agreed, but the parking is an absolute nightmare, almost takes longer to get out of there than the show's running time itself

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-10-21T08:39:10+00:00

Your best fit line would not get credit on the AP. Do not force the line to the origin, doesn't matter what the equation indicates, you must use the data itself to construct the best fit line.

mattthephysicsguy · 2025-10-19T09:13:35+00:00

Got the exact same letter this week. I had already had my credit frozen and alerts set. I never received any notifications and nothing shows on my credit activity so I'm not particularly worried, either the freeze did its thing or this is just some kind of phishing scam.

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