Text: College Physics. Wilson and Buffa. 5th edition. Prentice Hall, 2002.
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Topic |
% of Exam /Periods |
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Graphical Motion (Displacement, speed, velocity, graphical analysis) |
2% 7 Periods |
Ch 1: Sec 6 Ch 2: Sec 1 to 3 |
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Accelerated Motion in 1 Dimension (Accelerated motion, falling objects) |
2% 10 Periods |
Ch 2: Sec |
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Vectors and Projectile Motion (Vectors, stay-on-course, blown-off-course, projectiles) |
3% 7 Periods |
Ch 3: Sec 1 to 4 |
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9% 17 Periods |
Ch 4: Sec 1 to 6 |
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Work, Energy, and Power |
8% 12 Periods |
Ch 5: Sec 1 to 5 |
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Momentum |
4% 8 periods |
Ch 6: Sec 1 to 6 |
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Circular Motion and Gravitation |
5% 10 Periods |
Ch 7: Sec 1 to 6 |
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Torque and Rotational Statics |
2% 8 Periods |
Ch 8: Sec 1 to 5 |
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Fluid Mechanics |
5% 8 Periods |
Ch 9: Sec 1 to 4 |
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Temperature, Heat, and Thermodynamics (Heat, specific and latent heat, calorimetry, heat transfer, thermal expansion, ideal gas law, laws of thermodynamics) |
10% 12 Periods |
Ch 10: Sec 1 to 5 Ch 11: Sec 1 to 4 Ch 12: Sec 1 to 6 |
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Electrostatics and Electrical Theory (Static electricity, batteries, capacitors, voltage, current) |
6% 10 Periods |
Ch 15: Sec 1 to 5 Ch 16: Sec 1 to 5 Ch17: Sec 1 to 2 |
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Midterm exam |
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Electrical Circuits (Resistance, Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s law, power, semiconductors) |
10% 16 Periods |
Ch 17: Sec Ch 18: Sec 1 to 4 |
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Magnetism and Electromagnetism (Forces on: moving charges in magnetic fields and current-carrying wires in magnetic fields, fields of long current-carrying wires, electromagnetic induction, Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law) |
9% 12 Periods |
Ch 19: Sec 1 to 6 Ch 20: Sec 1 and 4 |
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Waves, Sound, Color, and 3-D (Simple harmonic motion, sound, Doppler effect, superposition, color, polarization and 3-D) |
5% 21 Periods |
Ch 13: Sec 1 to 5 Ch 14: Sec 1 to 6 Ch24: Sec 4 Ch 25: Sec 1 and 5 |
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Optics (Interference, diffraction, dispersion, reflection, refraction, mirrors, lenses) |
10% 16 Periods |
Ch 22: Sec 1 to 5 Ch 23: Sec 1 to 4 Ch 24: Sec 1 to 4 Ch 25: Sec 1 |
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Atomic and Nuclear Physics Review (Photoelectric effect, atomic energy levels, wave-particle duality, nuclear reactions, mass-energy equivalence) |
10% 6 Periods |
Ch 27: Sec 1 to 5 Ch 28: Sec 1,2,4 Ch 29: Sec 1 to 4 Ch 30: Sec 1 |
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Review for AP exam |
7 Periods |
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AP Exam |
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Other (circuitry, household electricity, computer technology) |
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Final Exam |
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