AP Physics C: Mechanics Exam Prep Course

AP Exam Prep

Course Overview

Lessons & Practice

I. Welcome

1. Foundations / Introduction / Measurement

55min

1.1.2. Example: Converting between units4 min

1.1.3. Practice: Volume Conversion

1.2.1. Significant Figures5 min

1.2.2. Significant Figures in Calculations7 min

1.2.3. Example: Significant Figures4 min

1.2.4. Practice: Significant Figures

1.2.5. Practice: Significant Figures

1.3.1. Percent Error2 min

1.3.2. Example: Percent Error2 min

1.3.3. Practice: Percent Error

1.4.1. 4 Fundamental Forces in Nature

1.5.1. Systems of Multiple Objects

1.6.1. Open System and Closed Systems

1.7.1. Example: Dimensional Analysis7 min

1.7.2. Dimensional Analysis3 min

1.7.3. Practice: Dimensional Analysis2 min

1.8.1. Unit Conversion5 min

1.8.2. Example: Unit Conversion4 min

1.8.3. Example: Unit Conversion Practice 2 min

1.8.4. Practice: Counting heartbeats2 min

1.9.1. Orders of Magnitude4 min

1.10.1. Scientific Notation

1.10.2. Example: Scientific Notation

1.10.3. Practice: Scientific Notation

2. Introduction to Vectors

1.2hr

2.1.1. Vectors and Their Components5 min

2.1.2. Vector's Magnitude2 min

2.1.3. Components of a Vector Using the Angle It Makes Respect to x or y Axis8 min

2.1.4. Example: Vector Algebra7 min

2.1.5. Practice 3 min

2.1.6. Practice: Magnitude of a Vector3 min

2.2.1. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Algebraic Method 54 sec

2.2.2. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Graphic Methods9 min

2.2.3. Example: Vector Addition and Subtraction 6 min

2.2.4. Practice: Resultant of Two Vectors

2.2.5. Practice: Find Missing Vector

2.3.1. Dot Product or Scalar Product4 min

2.3.2. Example: Dot product2 min

2.3.3. Practice: Dot Product46 sec

2.3.4. Practice: Concept Clarifier2 min

2.4.1. Cross Product10 min

2.4.2. Right Hand Rule5 min

2.4.3. Example: Cross Product4 min

2.4.4. Practice: Cross Product

2.4.5. Practice: Cross Product2 min

3. Unit 1: Kinematics (14-20%)

3hr

3.I. Chapter Intro3 min

3.1.1. Distance and Displacement ..8 min

3.1.2. Speed and Velocity8 min

3.1.3. Acceleration6 min

3.1.4. Example: Acceleration4 min

3.1.5. Practice: Average speed vs. Average velocity10 min

3.2.1. One-Dimensional Kinematics (Constant Acceleration)8 min

3.2.2. Example: Deceleration8 min

3.2.3. Practice: Acceleration and Constant Velocity (Copy catches Car)12 min

3.3.1. Instantaneous vs. Average Velocity and Acceleration

3.4.1. Free Fall1 min

3.4.2. Example: Free Fall7 min

3.4.3. Practice: Free Fall 5 min

3.5.1. Kinematic Graphs9 min

3.5.2. Example: Kinematic Graphs3 min

3.5.3. Practice: Flying a Drone (Tricky!)27 min

3.5.4. Practice: Velocity vs Time Graph9 min

3.6.1. Relative Velocity11 min

3.6.2. Example: 9 min

3.6.3. Practice: Relative Velocity11 min

3.7.1. Two-Dimensional Kinematics : Part 19 min

3.7.2. Two-Dimensional Kinematics: Part 27 min

3.7.3. Example: Particle Motion in 3D8 min

3.7.4. Practice: Projectile motion

3.8.1. Projectile Motion9 min

3.8.2. Example: Projectile Motion4 min

3.8.3. Practice: Projectile Motion10 min

4. Unit 2: Newton's Laws of Motion (17-23%)

4hr

4.1.1. Free Body Diagrams7 min

4.1.2. Example: Free Body Diagrams 8 min

4.1.3. Practice: Free Body Diagram II

4.1.4. Practice: Free Body Diagram I

4.2.1. Newton's Laws of Motion7 min

4.2.2. Practice: Interacting Blocks11 min

4.2.3. Practice: Tension

4.2.4. Practice: Three books on a table8 min

4.2.5. Example: Newton's

4.3.1. Normal Force 6 min

4.3.2. Example: Weightlessness6 min

4.3.3. Practice: Man in an elevator

4.4.1. Kinetic and Static Friction10 min

4.4.2. Rolling Friction2 min

4.4.3. Example: Sliding on Rough Surface8 min

4.4.4. Practice: Static vs Kinetic (Tricky!)6 min

4.5.1. Terminal Velocity

4.6.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

4.6.2. Period and Frequency 7 min

4.6.3. Example: Uniform circular motion6 min

4.6.4. Practice : Circular Motion - Ball on a String

4.6.5. Practice: Circular Motion - Car Rounding a Curve5 min

4.7.1. Non-uniform Circular motion6 min

4.7.2. Practice: Non-Circular Motion - Acceleration3 min

4.7.3. Example: Non-Circular motion

4.8.1. Centripetal force12 min

4.8.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

4.8.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

4.8.4. Practice: Marble Sliding on a Rotating Hoop (Tricky!)14 min

4.9.1. Car Turning Around a Circular Section of Road6 min

4.9.2. Example: Car Around a Circular Flat Ramp4 min

4.9.3. Practice: Car Rounding a Banked Turn8 min

4.10.1. Tension4 min

4.10.2. Example: Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion7 min

4.10.3. Practice: Box Hanging from To Wires8 min

4.11.1. Spring Force4 min

4.11.2. Practice: Spring Force function graph2 min

4.11.3. Practice: Hooke's Law

4.11.4. Example: Hooke's Law4 min

4.12.1. Inclined Surfaces 7 min

4.12.2. Example: Inclined Surface8 min

4.12.3. Practice: Connecting Blocks on an Incline11 min

4.13.1. Propulsion4 min

4.13.2. Practice: Sliding on Friction

4.13.3. Example: Propulsion

5. Unit 3: Work, Energy, and Power (14-17%)

2.1hr

5.1.1. Mechanical Work10 min

5.1.2. Example: Positive vs. Negative Work4 min

5.1.3. Practice: Work Involving Incline Surface (Ramp)15 min

5.2.1. Mechanical Work13 min

5.2.2. Practice: Work Done by Varying Force

5.2.3. Example: Work Done by a Varying Force (Calc-Based)

5.3.1. Work-energy theorem7 min

5.3.2. Example: Work-Energy Theorem11 min

5.3.3. Practice: work and energy - PE

5.3.4. Practice: Spring and slope problem6 min

5.3.5. Practice: work done2 min

5.4.1. Conservative vs Non-Conservative Forces - Part 17 min

5.4.2. Conservative vs Non-Conservative Forces - Part 25 min

5.4.3. Practice: Conservative Forces

5.4.4. Example: Non-Conservative Forces

5.5.1. Conservation of Energy9 min

5.5.2. Example: Work Done by Friction12 min

5.5.3. Practice13 min

5.6.1. Power3 min

5.6.2. Example: Power in Lifting4 min

5.6.3. Practice: Towing a Car7 min

6. Unit 4: Systems of Particles and Linear Momentum (14-17%)

2.1hr

6.1.1. Center of Mass

6.1.2. Center of Mass of Complicated Objects5 min

6.1.4. Practice5 min

6.2.1. Momentum and Impulse (Basic)3 min

6.2.2. Momentum and Impulse (Calculus-Based)6 min

6.2.3. Example: Impulse on a Soccer Ball3 min

6.2.4. Practice: Impulse on a Ball Hitting Wall11 min

6.2.5. Practice: Momentum of a Force Function (Calculus Based)4 min

6.3.1. Conservation of momentum12 min

6.3.2. Practice: Conservation of Momentum - 2 Carts8 min

6.3.3. Practice: Conservation of Momentum - Two Carts Colliding4 min

6.3.4. Practice: Conservation of momentum - Ball Colliding with Block3 min

6.3.5. Example: Collision2 min

6.4.1. Elastic Collision3 min

6.4.2. Elastic Collision with One Object Initially at Rest12 min

6.4.3. Inelastic Collision3 min

6.4.4. Perfectly Inelastic Collision4 min

6.4.5. Example: Inelastic Collision8 min

6.4.6. Practice: Inelastic Collisions4 min

6.4.7. Practice: Elastic Collision (Tricky!)7 min

6.5.1. Shell Explosion

6.5.2. Momentum Conservation in the Center of Mass Frame5 min

6.5.3. Shell Explosion (One Object Separating into Two Objects) with Center of Mass Frame3 min

6.6.1. Example: Shell Explosion

6.6.2. Practice: Collision of Two Objects (2D)

6.6.3. Momentum Conservation in 2D Collisions5 min

6.6.4. Practice: 2D Inelastic Collision - Car Crash3 min

6.6.5. Momentum and Impulse3 min

7. Unit 5: Rotation (14-20%)

4hr

7.1.1. Torque14 min

7.1.2. Example: Torrque5 min

7.1.3. Practice: Torque9 min

7.2.1. Moment of Inertia of Discrete Particles3 min

7.2.2. Moment of Inertia3 min

7.2.3. Example: Moment of Inertia (Calculus Based)7 min

7.2.4. Practice: Rotational dynamics - Rotating Blade6 min

7.2.5. Practice: angular momentum - Satellite

7.3.1. Parallel axis theorem3 min

7.3.2. Example: Moment of Inertia16 min

7.3.3. Practice4 min

7.4.1. Kinematics Equations for Rotation7 min

7.4.2. Example: Rotating Wheel7 min

7.4.3. Practice: Falling Mass Attached to a Rotating Pulley11 min

7.5.1. Note for Rolling Motion8 min

7.5.2. Example: Static Friction for Rolling Down a Slope10 min

7.5.3. Practice (Tricky!)14 min

7.6.1. Rotational Analog of Newton's Second Law2 min

7.6.2. Example: Rotating Rod7 min

7.6.3. Practice: Falling Mass Attached to a Rotating Pulley11 min

7.7.1. Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Body4 min

7.7.2. Example: Falling Mass Attached to a Rotating Pulley8 min

7.7.3. Practice: Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Body (Tricky!)7 min

7.8.1. Rotational Work and Torque6 min

7.8.2. Example: Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Wheel6 min

7.8.3. Practice: Rotational kinetic energy - falling rod6 min

7.8.4. Practice: Objects rolling down a slope10 min

7.9.1. Angular Momentum10 min

7.9.2. Example: Angular Momentum of Pendulum5 min

7.9.3. Practice: Angular Momentum - Spinning Weight5 min

7.10.1. Conservation of Angular Momentum5 min

7.10.2. Example: Angular Momentum Conservation

7.10.3. Practice: Angular Momentum - Spinning Weight5 min

8. Unit 6: Oscillations (6-14%)

4hr

8.1.1. Concepts of Oscillation (Basic Version)10 min

8.1.2. Concepts of Oscillation (Advanced Version)14 min

8.1.3. Practice: Angular motion2 min

8.1.4. Example: SHM position function

8.2.1. Velocity and Acceleration in SHM (Advanced)7 min

8.2.2. Velocity and Acceleration in SHM (Basic)10 min

8.2.3. Finding Acceleration by Knowing Displacement (Advanced)6 min

8.2.4. Practice: Oscillations - Acceleration Graph

8.2.5. Practice: Oscillations - Displacement Function7 min

8.2.6. Example: SHM with mass on a spring

8.3.1. SHM as the Projection of a Uniform Circular Motion11 min

8.3.2. Example: SHM from Circular Motion - Equation of Position (x)

8.3.3. Practice: SHM from Circular Motion - Equation of Position (y)

8.4.1. Finding the Phase Constant27 min

8.4.2. Example: Drawing the Position Graph16 min

8.4.3. Practice: Displacement Function10 min

8.5.1. Energy of an Oscillator11 min

8.5.2. Example: Spring & Mass System 10 min

8.5.3. Practice: Energy of Oscillation 4 min

8.6.1. Vertical springs13 min

8.6.2. Example: Vertical Springs7 min

8.6.3. Practice: Vertical Springs6 min

8.6.4. Practice: Oscillations (Tricky!)8 min

8.7.1. Simple Pendulums 7 min

8.7.2. Example: Simple Pendulum3 min

8.7.3. Practice: Simple Pendulum7 min

8.8.1. Physical Pendulum4 min

8.8.2. Example: Physical Pendulum4 min

8.8.3. Practice: Simple Harmonic Motion: Pendulum

8.8.4. Practice: Simple Pendulum7 min

8.8.5. Practice: Oscillations - Displacement Function7 min

9. Unit 7: Gravitation (6-14%)

48min

9.1.1. Gravitational Force7 min

9.1.2. The Special Case of Earth 4 min

9.1.3. Example: Weight at Higher Elevations6 min

9.1.4. Practice: Gravitational Forces8 min

9.2.1. Satellites and Objects in Orbit

9.2.2. Orbital Energies10 min

9.2.3. Kepler's Laws12 min

9.2.4. Escape Speed

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