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Advanced Placement Physics
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Amundsen High School
Room 215
Instructor: Eman Sarhan
Tel. (773)534-2320
Email: Esarhan29@email.com
Textbooks:
- Principles of Physics by Beuche
- AP Physics, Advanced Placement Examination by Steven
Brehmer, Larry Dale Brown, Michael L. Lemley
- Glenco: Physics-Principles and Problems by Paul W.
Zitewitz, James T. Murphy
- Mechanics
- Kinetics
- Newton's Laws of Motion
- Work, Energy, Power
- Systems of Particles
- Rotation
- Oscillations
The important things here are kinetics, Newton's
Laws, and work, energy, and power. Kinetics can be thought of as
momentum and velocity/acceleration.
- Heat, Kinetic Theory, Thermodynamics
- Temperature and Heat
- Kinetic Theory and Thermodynamics
For examples of this, see the practice exam. It's a
smaller section of the exam, so skip this unless you feel you
have the time to study it in more detail. We will not be doing
this in class.
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Electrostatics
- Conductors, Capacitors, and Dielectrics
- Electric Circuits
- Magnetostatics
- Electromagnetism
This, with mechanics, is over half the exam. We'll
be doing more with electrostatics and some electromagnetism.
Don't worry so much about magnetism. We'll touch on capacitors a
little, but you might read about them in the Bueche textbook.
- Waves and Optics
- Wave Motion
- Geometric Optics
The important thing about waves is that the velocity
is equal to wavelength times frequency. We'll do a little with
optics following electricity.
- Modern Physics
- Atomic Physics and Quantum Effects
- Nuclear Physics
- Special Relativity
The important thing here is some special relativity
and some nuclear physics. Also, we'll definitely go through some
photoelectric effect problems, which Einstein also did (that's
what he got his Nobel Prize for).
- Miscellaneous
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