AP1 Syllabus

Introduction and Review

• Simple conversions

• Significant figures

• Linearization of data

1. Kinematics

• • Vectors and Scalars

  • One Dimensional Motion, including graphing position, velocity and acceleration

  • Two Dimensional Motion, relative motion and projectile motion

2. Statics and Dynamics

• Forces, types and Free-Body diagrams

  • Newton’s Laws of Motion 

  • Systems of interacting objects

3. Universal Law of Gravitation

• Circular Motion – kinematics and dynamics

  • Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion 

4.  Energy

• Work and Power

  • Work-Energy Theorem

  • Conservation of Energy

5.  Linear Momentum

• Impulse and Momentum 

  • Conservation of Momentum

  • Elastic and inelastic collisions

  • Center of Mass

6. Rotation

• Torque and Center of Mass

• Rotational Kinematics 

  • Rotational Dynamics 

  • Rotational Energy 

  • Angular Momentum

7. Simple Harmonic Motion

• Restoring forces and simple harmonic motion

  • Simple Pendulums 

  • Mass-Spring Oscillators

8. Fluid Mechanics

• • Density, Buoyancy, Pressure

  • Fluid Flow, Continuity