AP College Physics 2

Introduction and Review

Fluid Mechanics

Density and pressure
- Density and specific gravity
- Pressure as a function of depth
- Pascal's principle
Buoyancy
- Buoyant force
- Archimedes' principle
Fluid flow continuity
Bernoulli's Equation

Thermal Physics

Temperature and Heat
- Mechanical equivalent of heat
- Heat transfer and thermal expansion
Kinetic Theory
- Ideal gases
- Gas laws
Thermodynamics
- Thermodynamic processes (adiabatic, isothermal, isobaric, isochoric, cyclic)
- PV diagrams
- First Law of Thermodynamics
- Second Law of Thermodynamics

Electrostatics

Electrostatics
- Coulomb's Law
- Electric Field
- Electric Potential
- Electrostatics with Conductors

Current Electricity

Capacitors
- Capacitance
- Energy and charge stored
- Parallel plates
Electric Current
- Definition of direction of current
- Ohm's Law
- Resistance and Resistivity
- Power
DC Circuits
- Schematic diagrams/Kirchhoff's Laws
- Resistors
- Terminal voltage and internal resistance
- Steady-state RC circuits

Magnetism

Magnetostatics
- Magnetic field
- Forces on moving charges
- Forces on a current-carrying wire
- Magnetic field of current-carrying wires
Electromagnetism
- Magnetic flux
- Faraday's Law and Lenz's Law
- Induced emf and induced current

Optics

Physical Optics
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- Interference
- Diffraction
- Thin films
Geometric Optics
- Reflection and refraction
- Images formed by mirrors
- Images formed by lenses

Atomic and Nuclear Physics

Atomic Physics and Quantum Effects
- Discovery of the Electron and Atomic Nucleus
- Photons and the Photoelectric Effect
- Bohr Model
- DeBroglie Wavelength
- Production of X-rays
- Compton Scattering
Nuclear Physics
- Atomic number, mass number, and atomic mass
- Nuclear processes
Mass-Energy equivalence
- Einstein's famous equation, E=mc², expresses the fundamental relationship between energy (E) and mass (m). It states that energy and mass are interchangeable; they are different forms of the same thing.

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