Adapted from: AP Physics Course Description.
A. Review of crucial AP Physics 1 topics
1. 1D and 2D motion
2. Newton's laws, forces, and gravitation
3. Work and energy
4. Momentum
B. Fluid Mechanics
1. Hydrostatic pressure
2. Buoyancy
3. Fluid flow continuity
4. Bernoulli’s equation
C. Temperature and heat
1. Mechanical equivalent of heat
2. Heat transfer and thermal expansion
D. Kinetic theory and thermodynamics
1. Ideal gases
a. Kinetic model
b. Ideal gas law
2. Laws of thermodynamics
a. First law (including processes on pV diagrams)
b. Second law (including heat engines)
E. Electrostatics
1. Charge and Coulomb’s law
2. Electric field and electric potential (including point charges)
F. Conductors, capacitors, dielectrics
1. Electrostatics with conductors
2. Capacitors
a. Capacitance
b. Parallel plate
G. Electric circuits
1. Current, resistance, power
2. Steady-state direct current circuits with batteries and resistors only
3. Capacitors in circuits – steady state
H. Magnetic Fields
1. Forces on moving charges in magnetic fields
2. Forces on current-carrying wires in magnetic fields
3. Fields of long current-carrying wires
I. Electromagnetism
1. Electromagnetic induction (including Faraday’s law and Lenz’s law)
J. Physical optics
1. Interference and diffraction
2. Dispersion of light and the electromagnetic spectrum
K. Geometric optics
1. Reflection and refraction
2. Mirrors
3. Lenses
L. Atomic physics and quantum effects
1. Photons, the photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, x-rays
2. Atomic energy levels
3. Wave-particle duality
M. Nuclear physics
1. Nuclear reactions (including conservation of mass number and charge)
2. Mass–energy equivalence