Physics 2
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Review: Unit 1

     The 59 minute video below gives an overview of what to expect on the Unit 1 Test along with many example problems. Additionally, the learner objectives for this unit, given by the College Board, are listed and explained. Knowing these objectives provides a very real advantage to the student on the AP* exam, because the questions on the exam are all related to the learner objectives.

NOTE: At the 28:07 mark on the video, there is a miscalculation. The distance across the capacitor should be 1/5 m (or 0.2) m instead of 5 m.

Login to your MYAP account at the College Board Website and attempt some or all of the "Progress Check" problems that have been opened for our class. Please keep in mind that the unit numbers on the MYAP website are associated with different topics than the unit numbers here at Physics Prep. Use this guide to help with which MYAP units correspond to our Physics Prep Units:

 Topics  MYAP Unit  Physics Prep Unit
 Fluids 1 3
 Thermodynamics 2 3
Electrostatics 3 1
Circuits 4 1
 Magnetism 5 2
Light 6 4
Modern Physics 7 5

As an alternative to the "Progress Checks", you can view a list of questions I've compiled from the MYAP website for our unit 1.  Unfortunately, the College Board deleted the file at their website and all I have is a solution guide that shows the question AND the answer. So, it would be more of a "checking that you know how they found the answer" exercise for you. But you can access that here:  MYAP Review Test: Unit 1 Solutions

Respond to this False Claim: "A student uses a voltmeter to measure the electric potential at various positions on the surface of an irregularly-shaped charged hunk of metal. She gets readings that are high in some locations and low in other locations." 

Please write your false claim rebutals with formatting that highlights the claim in yellow, the evidence in green, and the justification in blue. Recall that evidence is something you can observe or measure, while justification is the conceptual rationale for why the evidence is supportive of the claim. You can view an example of a strong argument against this false claim in the answers to the conceptual questions listed below.

Click here to see an example of a good response to this false claim.

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