AP Physics

AP Physics

• Newtonian mechanics
  • Angular velocity
  • Center of gravity
  • Centripetal acceleration and force
  • Collisions and explosions
  • Displacement, velocity and acceleration
  • Freefall and projectile motion
  • Impulse
  • Kinetic and potential energy
  • Moments
  • Momentum
  • Newton's first law
  • Newton's law of gravitation
  • Newton's second law
  • Newton's third law
  • Power and efficiency
  • Satellites and orbits
  • Simple harmonic motion
  • Simple harmonic motion systems
  • Work
• Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Physics
  • Ideal gases
  • Molecular kinetic theory
  • Thermal energy
• Electricity and Magnetism
  • Capacitance
  • Coulomb's law
  • Current, voltage and resistance
  • Currents and magnetic fields
  • Discharging a capacitor
  • Electric field strength
  • Electric potential
  • Electromagnetic induction
  • Electrical power
  • Energy storage in a capacitor
  • Kirchhoff's laws
  • Moving charges and magnetic fields
  • Ohm's law
  • Resistivity
  • Resistors in series and parallel
• Waves and Optics
  • Converging lenses
  • Diffraction
  • Dispersion
  • Measuring waves
  • Mirrors
  • Refraction
  • Standing waves
  • Superposition and interference
  • Types of wave
• Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • Atomic energy levels
  • Fission and fusion
  • Mass and energy
  • Observing line spectra
  • Particles and interactions
  • Structure of the atom
  • The photoelectric effect
  • Wave-particle duality