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Marc Reif
The students in AP Physics C have nearly all had AP Physics 1 and are enrolled in AP Calculus AB or BC. (In 2016-2017 there were 20 students in the class, 1 was not enrolled in calculus, and 1 had not had a physics class before).
Instruction begins on Monday, 14 August 2017. Our school is on A/B block. Each class meets five 90-minute sessions every two weeks. We have 80 blocks before the AP Exam. that is 7200 minutes or 120 hours or 5 complete days.
There are 40 blocks in the first semester and 40 blocks in the second semester before the AP 1 and 2 Exams. Some units, as noted, do not include tests.
I estimate 75 days (allowing a few days for interruptions due to state testing) of instruction before the AP 1 Exam on Tuesday, 8 May 2018.
~~~~~1111111~~~~Begin Semester 1~~~~~~1111111~~~~~~~
Unit 01 - Tools (no test for this unit)
[3 blocks (no test) - 37 remaining in the 1st semester]
Knight Chapter 1
Activities: Experimental methods, curve-fitting from data
Review: Vectors, scalars, dimensional analysis, significant figures
Review: motion diagrams and concepts of motion
Unit 02 - 1d Kinematics
[4 blocks ( including test) - 33 remaining in the 1st semester]
Knight Chapters 1 and 2
Falling Chain Lab - Jerk Model
Introduce derivative and anti-derivative
Calculus and Kinematics Activities
Unit 03 - 2d Kinematics
[4 blocks (incl. test date) - 29 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 9/12 or 9/13]
Knight Chapters 3 and 4
Projectile Lab
Circular kinematics lab
Relativity of velocity
Unit 04 - 1d Forces
[6 blocks (incl. test date) - 23 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 10/2 or 10/3]
Knight Chapters 5 and 6
Systems of multiple objects
Atwood's Machine Lab
Drag lab
Spreadsheet simulations
Unit 05 - 2d Forces
[4 blocks (incl. test date) - 19 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 10/16 or 10/17]
Knight Chapters 7 and 8
Circular motion and gravitation
No Lab
Unit 06 - Energy
[6 blocks (incl. test date) - 13 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 11/5 or 11/6]
Knight Chapters 9 and 10
Springs and Rubber band lab
Energy dissipation lab
Unit 07 - Impulse and Momentum
[5 blocks (incl. test date) - 8 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 12/4 or 12/5]
Knight Chapter 11
Impulse to stop a falling chain
Increasing mass system
Unit 08 - Rotation
Knight Chapter 12
[8 blocks (no test other than semester exam) - 0 remaining in the 1st semester]
Lab finding an unknown rotational inertia
22222~~~~Begin Semester 2~~~~22222~~~~~~~~
Unit 09 - Gravitation and Oscillation
[6 blocks (incl. test date) - 34 remaining before AP Exam - test on 1/19 or 1/20]
Knight Chapters 13 and 15
Lab Physical pendulum
Unit 10 - Electric Charge, Force, and Field
[5 blocks (incl. test date) - 29 remaining before AP Exam - test on 1/26 or 1/27]
Knight Chapters 22 and 23
Electrostatic devices Lab
Coulomb's Law Lab
Unit 11 - Gauss's Law
[4 blocks (incl. test date) - 25 remaining before AP Exam - test on 2/08 or 2/09]
Knight Chapter 24
Unit 12 - Electric Potential, Potential Energy, and Capacitance
[5 blocks (incl. test date) - 20 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 2/23 or 2/24]
Knight Chapters 25 and 26
Capacitance Lab
Electric Potential Lab
Unit 13 - DC Circuits
[4 blocks - 16 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 3/6 or 3/7]
Knight Chapters 27 and 28
Lab Kirchhoff's Laws
Lab RC Circuit
Unit 14 - Magnetostatics
[5 blocks (incl. test date) - 11 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 4/9 or 4/10]
Knight Chapter 29
Bar magnet fields Lab
B-field of a slinky Lab
Pole strength of a magnet Lab
Unit 15 - Induction
[5 blocks - 6 remaining in the 1st semester - test on 4/24 or 4/26]
Knight Chapter 30
Faraday's Law Lab
Unit 16 - Maxwell's Equations
[2 blocks - 4 remaining in the 1st semester - no test - Mock Exam on 5/1 or 5/2]
Knight Chapter 31
No Lab
AP C Exam on Monday, 14 May 2018
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