AP Physics                           Advanced Placement

(380) All year                       6 Credits

Open to Grade 12 only

Prerequisite: B+ in Physics Honors, concurrently enrolled in B.C.Calculus, consent of instructor

Advanced Placement Physics is equivalent to a first year College Physics course. Six general areas are intensively studied: Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Special Relativity, Bohr Theory, Radioactivity, and Nuclear Physics. Calculus methods will be used where appropriate. Each May, students are expected to take the Advanced Placement Examination given by the Educational Testing Service. Most colleges, in turn, grant credit or advanced placement to those who have done well on the examination. Thus, the student is provided with the opportunity either to have an accelerated college program or to satisfy a basic Science requirement.

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

·         solve complex quantitative problems in the six areas studied

·         derive necessary equations from first principles use technology to gather, analyze, and interpret data from laboratory experiments