AP Physics C Units 9 and 10- Gravitation and Oscillation

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Connecting Circular and Simple Harmonic Motion Simple Harmonic Oscillator Orbits (hyperphysics)

Cavendish Experiment (torsional pendulum) Differential Equations

This unit is an investigation of periodic motion and gravitation. What do these two things have in common? Kepler was one of the originators of descriptive mathematical models of periodic motion. Newton explained those models with his theory of gravitation.

Unit 9, Gravitation and Oscillation Standards for APC

This corresponds with Chapters 13 and 15 in the Knight Textbook