Why the AP Physics 1 redesign narrowed the curriculum without solving the real problem: how physics is taught Summary: The College Board replaced AP Physics B with AP Physics 1 and 2 in an effort to reduce breadth and promote deeper conceptual understanding, but the real problem was never that Physics B covered too much content in 2014,. The deeper failure was instructional design: students were often taught physics as disconnected formula-matching rather than as a coherent structure of...