AP Physics Info

AP Physics @ Westwood

Two different AP courses are offered at Westwood Regional High School.

AP Physics 2: an algebra based course that dives into special topics in physics beyond the first year physics. This course correlates strongly with the second semester of college General Physics courses that many science majors will take including pharmacy, medical school etc. This course is only available to non-Freshmen who have already completed first year physics.
AP Physics C: a calculus-based course that dives into first year physics topics with a deeper emphasis on mathematics and engineering principles. This course correlates strongly with the first semester or even year of college Engineering Physics that physics and engineering majors will take. This class is only available to seniors concurrently taking Calculus AP BC preferred.

AP Physics 2

Currently Westwood ONLY offers AP Physics 2 as a second year course after successfully finishing a first year physics course

AP Physics 2 centers around non-traditional but highly diverse topics such as:

- - Thermodynamics
  - Static Electricity
  - DC and RC Circuits
  - Magnetism
  - Geometric Optics
  - Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves
  - Modern Physics

This course correlates to the second semester of introductory algebra-based physics courses offered at the college level.
Scoring a 4 or 5 may result in college credit for certain colleges. The experience of an AP class is invaluable and correlates strongly to future success in college level courses.

Westwood has an outstanding AP Physics 2 program whose scores regularly beat the NJ state and Global average. Below for full transparency are the statistics of all the classes that have taken the AP exam from the years 2016 - 2026.

pictured below is THE Thirteen, the 11th AP Physics 2 class.

AP Physics C

Currently Westwood ONLY offers AP Physics C to seniors who are concurrently taking AP Calculus

AP Physics C centers around diving deeper into first year physics topics using calculus such as:

Kinematics
Dynamics
Circular Motion and Gravitation
Conservation of Energy
Conservation of Momentum
Rotational Motion and Dynamics
Rotational Energy and Momentum
Simple Harmonic Motion

The course had its first pilot year during 2025 - 2026

The class was comprised of 11 seniors,
8 of the seniors returned from AP Physics 2 for a total of three years of physics taken at Westwood,
All 8 of the returning seniors scored 4 or 5 on the exam.
The class scored an average exam score of 4.09

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