Table of Contents

⊕These are working notes for two courses, AP Physics C Mechanics and AP Physics C Electricity & Magnetism, being taught in the Science & Engineering Program at Manalapan High School. They will be updated throughout the 2025-2026 school year.

• Course introduction
  • Mechanics
  • Electricty and magnetism
• Math review
  • Vectors and other topics from precalculus
  • Derivatives
  • Integrals
  • Multivariate calculus for electricity and magnetism
• Unit 1: Kinematics
  • Position, velocity, and acceleration
  • Motion in one dimension
  • Motion in two and three dimensions
  • Relative motion
  • Circular motion
  • Numerical methods
• Unit 2: Forces
  • Systems and center of mass
  • Force and free body diagrams
  • Newton’s laws
  • Examples of force
  • Statics example
  • Internal forces and truss example
  • Gravitational fields and potentials
• Unit 8: Electric fields
  • Coulomb’s law
  • Electric field
  • Electric field for point charges, and using integration to find electric field for distributions of charge
  • Gauss’ law (for electrostatics)
• Unit 9: Electric potential
  • Electric potential energy between point charges
  • Electric potential
  • Conservation of (electric) energy
  • Potential for distributed charges
  • Potential inside devices
  • Numerical methods