AP College Physics 1

• Course Overview

Motion and its Description

• Reference frames
• Displacement, distance, velocity, and speed
• Average and instantaneous velocity
• Acceleration
• Free fall
• Position-time, velocity-time, and acceleration-time graphs
• Interpreting and analyzing graphs
• Horizontal and vertical components
• Projectile trajectories and calculations

Forces and Motion

• Newton's first, second, and third laws of motion
• Free-body diagrams
• Mass and weight
• Applications of Newton's laws (inclines, friction)
• Net force and acceleration
• Equilibrium
• Tension and normal force

Circular Motion and Gravitation

• Uniform circular motion
• Centripetal force and acceleration
• Period and frequency
• Newton's law of universal gravitation
• Gravity near the Earth's surface
• Satellites and weightlessness
• Kepler's laws

Energy

• Work done by a force
• Kinetic energy
• Work-energy theorem
• Potential energy (gravitational and elastic)
• Conservation of mechanical energy
• Definition and calculation of power

Momentum

• Momentum and its conservation
• Impulse and change in momentum
• Collisions (elastic and inelastic) in one and two dimensions

Simple Harmonic Motion

• Simple harmonic motion
• Hooke's law
• Period, frequency, and amplitude
• Energy in SHM
• Mass-spring systems and simple pendulums

Torque and Rotational Motion

• Torque and its calculation
• Center of mass
• Rotational equilibrium
• Angular displacement, velocity, and acceleration
• Rotational equations of motion
• Rotational inertia
• Torque and angular acceleration
• Rotational kinetic energy
• Angular momentum and its conservation
• Rolling without slipping

Waves and Sound

• Types of waves (transverse and longitudinal)
• Wave characteristics (amplitude, wavelength, frequency, period)
• Wave speed
• Energy transmission
• Reflection and refraction
• Interference and standing waves
• Doppler effect
• Sound production and propagation
• Standing waves in strings and pipes
• Beats

Electric Charges and Fields

• Electric charge and its conservation
• Conductors and insulators
• Charging methods (conduction, induction)
• Electric force between charges
• Electric field
• Electric field lines

DC Circuits

• Electric current and its measurement
• Ohm's law
• Resistance and resistors
• Resistivity
• DC circuits
• Series and parallel circuits
• Kirchhoff's rules
• Electric power
• Internal resistance

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