CLIFFSAP PHYSICS B & C
HOW YOU SHOULD USE THIS BOOK THE AP EXAMS IN PHYSICS: B AND C HINTS FOR TAKING THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS PART II: SUBJECT AREA REVIEWS WITH SAMPLE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VECTORS DEFINITION ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION GEOMETRIC ADDITION OF VECTORS GEOMETRIC SUBTRACTION OF VECTORS SIMPLE MULTIPLICATION OF VECTORS VECTOR COMPONENTS IN TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONS (C EXAM) VECTOR MULTIPLICATION: DOT PRODUCT AND CROSS PRODUCT (C EXAM) DOT PRODUCT (?) DOT PRODUCTS AND UNIT VECTORS WHEN IN UNIT VECTOR NOTATION CROSS PRODUCT (×) CROSS PRODUCTS AND UNIT VECTORS REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS MECHANICS: FORCES WEIGHT AND MASS GRAVITATION GRAVITATION FROM THE INSIDE OUT KEPLER’S THREE LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION EQUILIBRIUM FRICTION CENTRIPETAL FORCE, CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION VARIABLE FORCES: ELASTIC FORCES AND SPRINGS VARIABLE FORCES (C EXAM) MOTION DISPLACEMENT, SPEED, VELOCITY, AND ACCELERATION IMPORTANT LINEAR MOTION EQUATIONS NEWTON’S LAWS FALLING BODIES AND FREEFALL PROJECTILE MOTION TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION PENDULUMS AND PERIODIC MOTION PERIODIC MOTION SOME PERIODIC MOTION RELATIONSHIPS SPRING PENDULUM AND SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION ROTATIONAL MOTION AND TORQUE COMMON ROTATIONAL PROBLEMS COMMON TORQUE PROBLEMS MOMENTUM, ENERGY, WORK, AND POWER MOMENTUM LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM IMPULSE AND MOMENTUM IMPULSE PRODUCES MOMENTUM MOMENTUM AND COLLISIONS CENTER OF MASS (C EXAM) ANGULAR MOMENTUM ENERGY LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY INTERNAL (B EXAM) SOUND (B EXAM) CHEMICAL (B & C EXAMS) RADIANT (B EXAM) ELECTRICAL (B & C EXAMS) ATOMIC OR NUCLEAR (B EXAM) MECHANICAL (B & C EXAMS) KINETIC ENERGY POTENTIAL ENERGY ROTATIONAL ENERGY WORK WORK DONE BY A VARIABLE FORCE POWER ENERGY/WORK/POWER/FORCES AND SIMPLE MACHINES SIX SIMPLE MACHINES: DEFINITION, ILLUSTRATION, AND MECHANICAL ADVANTAGE THERMODYNAMICS HEAT AND TEMPERATURE (B EXAM) FORMS OF ENERGY (“I S C R E A M”) SPECIFIC HEAT AND LATENT HEAT HEAT TRANSFER AND THERMAL EXPANSION MECHANICAL EQUIVALENT OF HEAT KINETIC THEORY GASES GAS LAWS LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS HEAT ENGINES WORK DONE ON OR BY A GAS GAS GRAPHS (P – V GRAPHS) WAVES (B EXAM) TRANSVERSE AND LONGITUDINAL WAVES SUPERPOSITION OF WAVES PITCH BEATS STANDING WAVES DOPPLER EFFECT RED SHIFT INTERFERENCE DISPERSION GEOMETRIC OPTICS (B EXAM) VISIBLE LIGHT REFLECTION IMAGES MIRRORS RAY DIAGRAMS REFRACTION CRITICAL ANGLE TOTAL REFLECTION LENSES RAY DIAGRAMS AND CALCULATIONS FOR LENSES REFRACTED IMAGES CONVEX LENS RAY DIAGRAMS FLUID MECHANICS (B EXAM) FLUID PROPERTIES HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE GAUGE PRESSURE BUOYANCY TERMINAL VELOCITY FLUID FLOW BERNOULLI’S PRINCIPLE EXPLANATION OF BERNOULLI’S EQUATION ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS (B EXAM) PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT PHOTOELECTRIC FACTS ATOMIC ENERGY LEVELS EQUIVALENCE OF MASS AND ENERGY WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY NUCLEAR REACTIONS RADIOACTIVE DECAY ELECTRIC FIELDS AND FORCES ELECTROSTATICS ELECTRIC CHARGE ELECTRIC FIELD AND ELECTRIC POTENTIAL FACTS ABOUT ELECTRIC FIELDS ELECTRIC POTENTIAL AND ELECTRIC POTENTIAL ENERGY ELECTRIC POTENTIAL EQUIPOTENTIALS COULOMB’S LAW GEOMETRIC CHARGE DISTRIBUTION GEOMETRIC CHARGE DISTRIBUTION AND ELECTRIC FIELD CONSIDERATIONS GAUSS’ LAW (C EXAM) CONDUCTORS, CAPACITORS, AND DIELECTRICS