Description
AP® Physics is the result of an effort to better serve teachers and students. The textbook focuses on the College Board’s AP® framework concepts and practices.
The AP® Physics curriculum framework outlines the two full-year physics courses AP® Physics 1: Algebra-Based and AP® Physics 2: Algebra-Based. These two courses focus on the big ideas typically included in the first and second semesters of an algebra-based, introductory college-level physics course. They provide students with the essential knowledge and skills required to support future advanced coursework in physics. The AP® Physics 1 curriculum includes mechanics, mechanical waves, sound, and electrostatics. The AP® Physics 2 curriculum focuses on thermodynamics, fluid statics, dynamics, electromagnetism, geometric and physical optics, quantum physics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. AP® Science Practices emphasize inquiry-based learning and development of critical thinking and reasoning skills. Inquiry-based learning involves exploratory learning as a way to gain new knowledge. Students begin by making an observation regarding a given physics topic. Students then explore that topic using scientific methodology, as opposed to simply being told about it in lecture. In this way, students learn the content through self-discovery rather than memorization.
The AP® framework has identified seven major science practices, which are described using short phrases that include using representations and models to communicate information and solve problems, using mathematics appropriately, engaging in questioning, planning and implementing data collection strategies, analyzing and evaluating data, justifying scientific explanations, and connecting concepts. The AP® framework’s Learning Objectives merge content with one or more of the seven science practices that students should develop as they prepare for the AP® Physics exam. Each chapter of AP® Physics begins with a “Connection for AP® Courses” that explains how the content in the chapter sections align to the Big Ideas, Enduring Understandings, Essential Knowledge, and Learning Objectives of the AP® framework. These sections help students quickly and easily locate where components of the AP® framework are covered in the book, as well as clearly indicate material that, although interesting, exceeds the scope of the AP® framework. Content requirements for AP® Physics are prescribed in the College Board Publication Advanced Placement Course Description: Physics, published by The College Board (http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112/ch112d.html#112.64) and (http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112/ch112d.html#112.65).
This open-education-resource instructional material by TEA is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License in accordance with Chapter 31 of the Texas Education Code.
Book Outline
- 1.1 Static Electricity and Charge: Conservation of Charge
- 1.2 Conductors and Insulators
- 1.3 Coulomb's Law
- 1.4 Electric Field: Concept of a Field Revisited
- 1.5 Electric Field Lines: Multiple Charges
- 1.6 Conductors and Electric Fields in Static Equilibrium
- 1.7 Applications of Electrostatics
- Glossary
- Section Summary
- Conceptual Questions
- Problems & Exercises
- Test Prep for AP® Courses
- 2.1 Electric Potential Energy: Potential Difference
- 2.2 Electric Potential in a Uniform Electric Field
- 2.3 Electrical Potential Due to a Point Charge
- 2.4 Equipotential Lines
- 2.5 Capacitors and Dielectrics
- 2.6 Capacitors in Series and Parallel
- 2.7 Energy Stored in Capacitors
- Glossary
- Section Summary
- Conceptual Questions
- Problems & Exercises
- Test Prep for AP® Courses
- 5.1 Magnets
- 5.2 Magnetic Fields and Magnetic Field Lines
- 5.3 Magnetic Field Strength: Force on a Moving Charge in a Magnetic Field
- 5.4 Force on a Moving Charge in a Magnetic Field: Examples and Applications
- 5.5 The Hall Effect
- 5.6 Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor
- 5.7 Torque on a Current Loop: Motors and Meters
- 5.8 Magnetic Fields Produced by Currents: Ampere's Law
- 5.9 Magnetic Force between Two Parallel Conductors
- 5.10 More Applications of Magnetism
- Glossary
- Section Summary
- Conceptual Questions
- Problems & Exercises
- Test Prep for AP® Courses
- 6.1 Induced Emf and Magnetic Flux
- 6.2 Faraday’s Law of Induction: Lenz's Law
- 6.3 Motional Emf
- 6.4 Eddy Currents and Magnetic Damping
- 6.5 Electric Generators
- 6.6 Back Emf
- 6.7 Transformers
- 6.8 Electrical Safety: Systems and Devices
- 6.9 Inductance
- 6.10 RL Circuits
- 6.11 Reactance: Inductive and Capacitive
- 6.12 RLC Series AC Circuits
- Glossary
- Section Summary
- Conceptual Questions
- Problems & Exercises
- Test Prep for AP® Courses
- 10.1 The Wave Aspect of Light: Interference
- 10.2 Huygens's Principle: Diffraction
- 10.3 Young’s Double Slit Experiment
- 10.4 Multiple Slit Diffraction
- 10.5 Single Slit Diffraction
- 10.6 Limits of Resolution: The Rayleigh Criterion
- 10.7 Thin Film Interference
- 10.8 Polarization
- 10.9 *Extended Topic* Microscopy Enhanced by the Wave Characteristics of Light
- Glossary
- Section Summary
- Conceptual Questions
- Problems & Exercises
- Test Prep for AP® Courses
- 12.1 Quantization of Energy
- 12.2 The Photoelectric Effect
- 12.3 Photon Energies and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
- 12.4 Photon Momentum
- 12.5 The Wave Nature of Matter
- 12.6 Probability: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- 12.7 The Particle-Wave Duality Reviewed
- Glossary
- Section Summary
- Conceptual Questions
- Problems & Exercises
- Test Prep for AP® Courses
- 13.1 Discovery of the Atom
- 13.2 Discovery of the Parts of the Atom: Electrons and Nuclei
- 13.3 Bohr’s Theory of the Hydrogen Atom
- 13.4 X-Rays: Atomic Origins and Applications
- 13.5 Applications of Atomic Excitations and De-Excitations
- 13.6 The Wave Nature of Matter Causes Quantization
- 13.7 Patterns in Spectra Reveal More Quantization
- 13.8 Quantum Numbers and Rules
- 13.9 The Pauli Exclusion Principle
- Glossary
- Section Summary
- Conceptual Questions
- Problems & Exercises
- Test Prep for AP® Courses
- 16.1 The Yukawa Particle and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Revisited
- 16.2 The Four Basic Forces
- 16.3 Accelerators Create Matter from Energy
- 16.4 Particles, Patterns, and Conservation Laws
- 16.5 Quarks: Is That All There Is?
- 16.6 GUTs: The Unification of Forces
- Glossary
- Section Summary
- Conceptual Questions
- Problems & Exercises
- Test Prep for AP® Courses