AP Physics C Calendar


Monday Tuesday Wednesday (Lab) Friday
January 2 - 6 Christmas Holiday - No School Notes: Conserved quantities, types of energy
Homework: 2006 Mechanics #3 parts b, c, d
Notes: Conservation of energy, work being done on a system
Lab activity: Work and Energy
Classwork: WebAssign
January 9 - 13 Examples: Conservation of energy, oscillations Lab: Conservation of Energy (Potential, Translational Kinetic, Rotational Kinetic) Examples: Conservation of energy, work and energy Examples: Gravitational forces, work, and energy
January 16 - 20 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday - No School Practice: Energy, work, and gravitation Unit I Test: Energy (Chapters 7, 8, 13)
January 23 - 27 Notes: Coulomb's Law examples Notes: Coulomb's Law, electric charge behavior, charging by induction Notes: Electric charge behavior
January 30 - February 3 Notes: Multiple-choice review: Electric forces Notes: Electric fields Notes: Electric fields from multiple charges Notes: Electric dipole, distributing charge
February 6 - 10 Notes: Multiple-choice review Activity: Electromagnetism program Notes: Integrating charge distributions, electric force and work Notes: Electric forces outline
February 13 - 17 Quiz: Electric forces and electric fields Notes: Integrating electric fields Notes: Electric field vectors, flux Notes: Gauss' Law, electric fields around distributions
Homework: Problems 13, 17, 21 from Chapter 23
February 20 - 24 Notes: Using Gauss' Law for charge distributions
Homework: Chapter 23, Problems 22, 23, 25, 29
Notes: Gauss' Law
February 27 - March 2 Notes: Gauss' Law Summary Notes: Work on charges, electric potential, electric potential energy
Homework: Chapter 24, Conceptual Questions 2 through 7
Notes: Gauss' Law for surface charges
March 5 - 9 Spring Break - No School
March 12 - 16 Notes: Gauss' Law examples, electric energy and electric potential Notes: Electric potential, old AP problems, capacitance Notes: Potential around charge collections, potential as integrals
March 19 - 23 Notes: Electric potential, electric current
Homework: Chapter 26 Questions 1, 2, 4, 8
Notes: Basics of electric circuits Notes: Series and potential examples
March 26 - 30 Notes: Homework examples, Kirchhoff's Loop Law Notes: RC circuits Notes: Loop rule, junction rule, circuits overview
April 2 - 6 Notes: Circuits practice Notes: Old AP problems, potential drops, capacitors in circuits
 

Last updated September 11, 2011.