AP Physics Review

 

What you need to do on your own:

 

1.  Call up the old on-line quizzes and go over those in your study groups.

2.  Look at the old in-class exams and re-work the problems.  Remember that I gave you detailed answer sheets for most of those quizzes.

3.  Look at the AP Physics Equation Sheet and make sure that all of the equations you want are on it.  If they are not, then you need to add some.  Make sure that you make equalities so you can easily reference them.

            eg)  F = ma = kq1q­/r2=Gm1m2/r2 = mv2/r…..etc

 

AP Physics Review Sessions

 

Sessions will run from 3 – 6 pm.  Pizza will arrive at 3:00.  Money for Pizza will be collected on the day preceding the review session.  If you don’t pay, you won’t eat.  BTW, you are buying my pizza.

 

Session I:  Nothin’ but Newton  Monday April 15th.   3:00-6:00

Session II:  Fluids and Thermal  Monday April 22nd.  3:00-6:00

Session III:  Electro-Shock Therapy  Monday April 29th.  3:00-6:00

 

What will you get at each session?

 

Session I:  Nothin’ but Newton  Monday April 15th.  

1.  Vector Review – adding component vectors…etc

2.  Free-body diagram review – how to draw them and label all forces

3.  Go over homework problems from the book which deal with the following:  I will pre-select the homework problems.  There will be at least one from each of the following areas, sometimes two or three.

            a.  Tension

            b.  Atwood’s machine

            c.  Projectile motion (with quadratic answers)

            d.  Sliding friction down a ramp

            e.  Elastic/inelastic collisions

            f.  Angular Speed/circular motion/ centripetal acceleration

            g.  Simple Harmonic motion – pendulums and oscillations

4.  One or two free-response questions from an old AP exam dealing with the items mentioned above.

 

Session II:  Fluids and Thermal  Monday April 22nd. 

1.  Go over homework problems from the book which deal with the following:  I will pre-select the homework problems.  There will be at least one from each of the following areas, sometimes two or three.

            a.  Pascal’s principle

            b.  Bernoulli’s law

            c.  Thermodynamics – includes Carnot Cycle, P-V graphs and adiabatic process

2.  One or two free-response questions from an old AP exam dealing with the items mentioned above.

 

Session III:  Electro-Shock Therapy  Monday April 29th.  3:00-6:00

1.  Go over homework problems from the book which deal with the following:  I will pre-select the homework problems.  There will be at least one from each of the following areas, sometimes two or three.

            a.  Electrostatics

            b.  Conductors and electric fields

            c.  Electric potential energy

            d.  Capacitors (series and parallel)

            e.  Electric Circuits – Resistance, Power, Series/Parallel resistors

            f.  Right hand rule of magnetism

 

2.  Mr. Young’s Fancy Schmancy Formula/units sheet. For Electricity

3.  One or two free-response questions from an old AP exam dealing with the items mentioned above.