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Electricity and Magnetism notes, labs, test prep and other class materials.
AP Physics C Electricity and Magnetism
Course Information:AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism Course Syllabus (pdf file) (must have Adobe Reader to view)
AP Physics Test/Quiz Correction Guidelines (pdf file)
Online Practice Problems
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Lab Information:No lab information posted yet. Please check back later.
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Class Notes:
All sets of notes are PowerPoint files. If you do not have PowerPoint, Open Office is a free product, similar to Microsoft Office, and includes a program similar to PowerPoint. You can find Open Office here
Also you can download a PowerPoint Viewer from the Microsoft website.
Class Information
Day 1 Information
Chapter 1: Introduction
Introduction to Physics
Chapter 3: Vectors
Introduction to Vectors
Vectors in Physics
Vector Methods - Unit Vectors, Dot Product, Cross Product
Important Calculus Ideas (Not from Physics Textbook)
Rules for Derivatives
Basic Ideas of Integration
Chapter 22: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law
Types of Charge, Charging Objects, and Coulomb's Law
Chapter 23: Electric Fields
Introduction to Electric Fields
Chapter 25: Electric Potential
Introduction to Electric Potential
Equipotential Lines
Electric Field and Voltage for concentric cylinders
Chapter 26: Capacitance
Capacitance
Capacitance Test Review
Chapter 27 and 28: Current, Resistance and DC Circuits
Current, Resistance, Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws, and DC Circuits (including RC circuits)
Kirchhoff's Law Example Problem (pdf)
DC Circuit Test Review (pdf)
Homework Hints from April 4th (pdf)
Homework Hints from April 7th (pdf)
RC Circuit example solution (pdf)
Chapter 29: Magnetic Forces and Fields
Introduction to Magnetism, Magnetic Forces, Magnetic Fields
Chapter 30: Biot-Savart Law and Ampere's Law
Using Biot-Savart Law and Ampere's Law to Find Magnetic Fields
Chapter 31: Induced Voltage and Current
Induced Voltages and Currects, Magnetic Flux, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law
Chapter 23: Electric Fields (revisited)
Integrating to Find Electric Field
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Resources:
Online Labs: (you may need to have Macromedia Shockwave or Java Run-Time installed for some of these)
A site with online simulations
List of Virtual Labs for Many Topics
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