AP Physics 2

AP Physics 2

• AP Physics 2 course and exam description

• Course at glance

Table of contents

Term 1

Unit 1: Fluids

• Fluid's Pressure

• Buoyancy and Dynamic

• Fluid mechanics

Unit 2: Thermodynamics

• Temperature

• Kinetic Theory

• Ideal gas law

• Phase change

• Heat capacity and transfer

• The First law of thermodynamics

• PV Diagram

• The Second law of thermodynamics

Unit 3: Electric Force, field, and Potential

• Electric field and

• Electric force

• Electric potential energy

• Electric potential

• equipotential lines

• Capacitance and dielectrics

• RC circuits

Unit 4: Electric Circuits

• Conservation of Electric Charge

• Electric Charge

• Resistivity and Resistance

• Capacitance

• Kirchhoff’s Loop Rule

• Kirchhoff’s Junction Rule

• Conservation of Electric Charge

Term 2

Unit 5: Magnetism

• Magnetic Systems

• Magnetic Permeability

• Vector and Scalar Fields

• Monopole and

• Dipole Fields

• Magnetic Fields and Forces

• Magnetic Forces

• Forces Review

• Magnetic Flux

Unit 6: Optics

• Waves

• Periodic Waves

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Images from Lenses and Mirrors

• Interference and Diffraction

Unit 7: Modern Physics

• Systems

• Fundamental Forces

• Radioactive Decay

• Energy in Modern Physics

• Radioactive Decay

• Mass–EnergycEquivalence

• Properties of Waves and Particles

• Photoelectric Effect

• Wave Functions

• Probability