AP Physics C (Mechanics)

  • Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy

    • POTENTIAL ENERGY

    • CONSERVATION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY

    • READING A POTENTIAL ENERGY CURVE

    • WORK DONE ON A SYSTEM BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE

    • CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

  • Center of Mass and Linear Momentum

    • CENTER OF MASS

    • NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR A SYSTEM OF PARTICLES

    • LINEAR MOMENTUM

    • COLLISION AND IMPULSE

    • CONSERVATION OF LINEAR MOMENTUM

    • MOMENTUM AND KINETIC ENERGY IN COLLISIONS

    • ELASTIC COLLISIONS IN ONE DIMENSION

    • COLLISIONS IN TWO DIMENSIONS

    • SYSTEMS WITH VARYING MASS: A ROCKET

  • Rotation

    • ROTATIONAL VARIABLES

    • ROTATION WITH CONSTANT ANGULAR ACCELERATION

    • RELATING THE LINEAR AND ANGULAR VARIABLES

    • KINETIC ENERGY OF ROTATION

    • CALCULATING THE ROTATIONAL INERTIA

    • Torque

    • NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR ROTATION

    • WORK AND ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY

  • Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum

    • ROLLING AS TRANSLATION AND ROTATION COMBINED

    • FORCES AND KINETIC ENERGY OF ROLLING

    • THE YO-YO

    • TORQUE REVISITED

    • ANGULAR MOMENTUM

    • NEWTON’S SECOND LAW IN ANGULAR FORM

    • ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A RIGID BODY

    • CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM

    • PRECESSION OF A GYROSCOPE

  • Equilibrium and Elasticity

    • EQUILIBRIUM

    • SOME EXAMPLES OF STATIC EQUILIBRIUM

    • ELASTICITY

  • Gravitation

    • NEWTON’S LAW OF GRAVITATION

    • GRAVITATION AND THE PRINCIPLE OF SUPERPOSITION

    • GRAVITATION NEAR EARTH’S SURFACE

    • GRAVITATION INSIDE EARTH

    • GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY

    • PLANETS AND SATELLITES: KEPLER’S LAWS

    • SATELLITES: ORBITS AND ENERGY

    • EINSTEIN AND GRAVITATION

  • Measurement

    • MEASURING THINGS, INCLUDING LENGTHS

    • TIME

    • MASS

  • Motion Along a Straight Line

    • POSITION, DISPLACEMENT, AND AVERAGE VELOCITY

    • INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY AND SPEED

    • ACCELERATION

    • CONSTANT ACCELERATION

    • FREE-FALL ACCELERATION

    • GRAPHICAL INTEGRATION IN MOTION ANALYSIS

  • Vectors

    • VECTORS AND THEIR COMPONENTS

    • UNIT VECTORS, ADDING VECTORS BY COMPONENTS

    • MULTIPLYING VECTORS

  • Motion in Two and Three Dimensions

    • POSITION AND DISPLACEMENT

    • AVERAGE VELOCITY AND INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY

    • AVERAGE ACCELERATION AND INSTANTANEOUS ACCELERATION

    • PROJECTILE MOTION

    • UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION

    • RELATIVE MOTION IN ONE DIMENSION

    • RELATIVE MOTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS

  • Force and Motion—I

    • NEWTON’S FIRST AND SECOND LAWS

    • SOME PARTICULAR FORCES

    • APPLYING NEWTON’S LAWS

  • Force and Motion—II

    • KINETIC ENERGY

    • WORK AND KINETIC ENERGY

    • WORK DONE BY THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE

    • WORK DONE BY A SPRING FORCE

    • WORK DONE BY A GENERAL VARIABLE FORCE

    • POWER