1. New Material, but also builds on AP Physics 1

2. Class Items Notebooks Either get a new one or start a new section
New Table of Contents
Use for Warm-Ups, Most labs, notes
Class Items

3. AP Physics 2 Topics Electricity
More about Circuits: Series and Parallel
Calculating Voltages and Currents for circuits
More about Electric Fields that surround charges
Capacitors & Electric Fields
Capacitors in circuits with resistors
AP Physics 2 Topics

4. AP Physics 2 topics Magnetism (Electro-Magnetism)
What are magnets & magnetic properties
Electric fields vs. magnetic fields
Interactions between magnetic and electric fields
Magnetic Forces
How do we “make” electricity
Electricity and Magnetism messing with each other, it’s all about MOTION
AP Physics 2 topics

5. AP Physics 2 topics Waves and Optics
Mostly about light (or electromagnetic waves)
How light behaves like a wave
Optics: Bending (refraction) of light or reflecting light
How lenses and mirrors are used to make / alter images
Magnification, image formation,
How do contact lenses & glasses work?
AP Physics 2 topics

6. AP Physics 2 topics Fluid Mechanics
Why did your aluminum “boat” hold pennies?
Does aluminum float?
Buoyancy and why things float (or not)
Moving fluids, how do metal airplanes fly?
Most importantly, why do frisbees fly ?
AP Physics 2 topics

7. AP Physics 2 topics Thermal Physics Some review from chemistry
How heat is used as a source of energy
Expansion of materials when heated
AP Physics 2 topics

8. AP Physics 2 topics Modern Physics
A little bit about quantum physics ideas
Photo-electric effect, energy is quantized
Watt does E = mc2 mean?
AP Physics 2 topics

9. AP Physics 2: review and the AP test
Reviewing for AP 1 and AP 2 test
Planning on reviewing in class
Good idea to get a review book like Princeton or Barron’s
May also hold a couple of weekend practice sessions
We will look at how the test is formatted, etc.
AP Physics 2: review and the AP test

10. After the AP tests Projects, etc. Bridge with popsicle sticks
Research / connections project (you choose the topics and investigate, demonstrating the physics involved)
Likely another engineering / design, build project
After the AP tests

11. Reflections, etc. Get in groups of 3-4 people
One person write on paper, will turn this in. Anonymous or not
Spend about 2 minutes on each topics
Topic 1: Best topic(s) or part of AP Physics 1
Topic 2: Something physics-y you saw or thought about outside of class last semester
Topic 3: What was good/bad about physics olympics?
Topic 4: AP Physics 2? Intriguing topics or looking forward to…..
Reflections, etc.