In Honors Advanced Physics, we learned most of the fundamental concepts of Newtonian Mechanics. The content we learned in class corresponds very closely to that on the AP Physics - Mechanics exam, but a few of the topics on that exam were not covered in class. I wanted to supplement my knowledge of physics by teaching myself all the rest of the concepts that students in an AP Physics - Mechanics class would learn in a normal year, and I also chose to study one additional topic that even AP Physics - Mechanics students do not learn in their class.

In our class, we studied kinematics, force, work, energy, and linear momentum with regard to non-rotational particle-like objects, and the kinematics, torque, inertia, work, and energy of solid objects rotating about fixed axes. So, I started my independent study by picking off where we left off in class, and finishing our unit on rotating bodies by studying angular momentum.

From there, I moved on to two topics taught in AP Physics - Mechanics that we had not yet covered: orbital dynamics and simple harmonic oscillators. I also covered one other unit not taught in Honors Advanced Physics or in a generic AP Physics - Mechanics class: fluid dynamics.

I gave a presentation on several of the core topics I had learned in my independent study to my Honors Advanced Physics class to conclude my project. Above is the recording of my live presentation, and below are the slides I used in the presentation.

All photo credit goes to David Halliday et al, Fundamentals of Physics (8th edition, part 1).