AP Physics Review Schedule

 

Tuesday’s Zero Period and Wednesday’s 3:00-4:00

Check this website frequently as I will post “things you need to bring with you to the review” just before each review date.

 

What will we do at these sessions:  I will go over some pre-selected problems which I feel are indicative of what will be asked (they will be old homework problems).  I will also try to provide you with “Young’s Fancy Schmanzy Formula Sheets” for many of these topics.  The Formula sheets will be provided at this website.  I highly recommend that you start putting them into your calculator.

 

Dates and Topics:

 

1.  March 4/5:  Vectors, Free-Body Diagrams, Tension, Atwood’s Machine

Here are the problems we will go over:  p. 93 #36 and #38;  p. 118 Example 4.8;  p. 120 Example 4.9;  p. 133 #58; p. 134 #64;  p. 136 #88 and #90;  FRQ 1998 #1.

     All of these problems (except the “example problems” from pages 118 and 120) are covered in this:

pre-review session packet.  

 

Please download it and look at it BEFORE you come to the review!  I’m just going to zip through these – I’ve only got an hour!  If you have familiarity with the problems, then you won’t ask _______ questions!  Remember, I like donuts!

 

2.  March 11/12:  Projectile motion, quadratic equations.  P. 60 #51; P. 96 #83

Pre-Review Session Packet – Projectile Motion

 

3.  March 18/19:  Sliding down ramps with friction and without.  Momentum, Impulse, conservative vs. non-conservative forces.

Pre-review Session Packet - Energy

 

4.  March 25/26:  Angular Speed/Circular Motion/ Centripetal Acceleration:  Remember, we are now meeting Tuesday’s in the afternoon and Wednesday mornings.

Pre-Review session packet – Circular Motion

 

5.  April 1 and April 2 Simple Harmonic Motion – pendulums and sinusoidal functions. Remember, we are now meeting Tuesday’s in the afternoon and Wednesday mornings.

Pre-Review Session Packet – Simple Harmonic Motion

 

6.  April 8 and 9:  Fluids – Bernoulli’s Law, Pascal’s Principle. Remember, we are now meeting Tuesday’s in the afternoon and Wednesday mornings.

Pre-Review Session Packet - Fluids

 

 

7.  April 22 and 23:  Thermodynamics (this will be brand new as we won’t have time to discuss it in class!  Make sure you make this one!)

 

8.  April 29 and 30:  Atomic Structure (this will be brand new as we won’t have time to discuss it in class!  Make sure you make this one!)

 

Electricity Review Packet     Key electricity Questions