AP Physics 2 curriculum

Start with AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based and AP/College Physics 2. Take notes until you can explain: Use thermal systems, pressure, ideal gases, heat transfer, work, collisions, probability, and entropy.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Analyze a thermal process with an energy-flow diagram, state variables, calculation, and entropy argument.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Connect particle models to macroscopic laws.

Start with AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based and AP/College Physics 2. Take notes until you can explain: Use charge, Coulomb force, electric fields, flux, potential, and energy.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Solve an electrostatic scenario with a force diagram, field or potential model, and conservation check.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Represent continuous and discrete charge systems.

Start with AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based and AP/College Physics 2. Take notes until you can explain: Use current, resistance, capacitance, Kirchhoff rules, power, and transient reasoning.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Build and analyze a multi-loop or capacitor circuit, then propose measurements that test the model.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Connect circuit diagrams to measured voltage and current.

Start with AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based and AP/College Physics 2. Take notes until you can explain: Use magnetic fields, dipoles, forces, flux, and electromagnetic induction.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Trace an electromagnetic system from source through field, force or induced response, with direction justified.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Apply vector directions and conservation ideas.

Start with AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based and AP/College Physics 2. Take notes until you can explain: Use reflection, refraction, mirrors, lenses, and image formation.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Solve an image-formation problem using both a scaled ray diagram and an algebraic model.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Draw and interpret ray diagrams with sign conventions.

Start with AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based and AP/College Physics 2. Take notes until you can explain: Use amplitude, wavelength, period, frequency, speed, sound, Doppler effect, interference, and diffraction.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Analyze a wave or interference pattern with a graph, equation, and experimental prediction.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Connect wave representations across media.

Start with AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based and AP/College Physics 2. Take notes until you can explain: Use radioactive decay, mass-energy equivalence, blackbody radiation, wave-particle behavior, and the photoelectric effect.

Do the first sequenced checks until the definitions, vocabulary, and setup are correct without hints.

Produce the assignment artifact, then pass the application and analysis checks tied to: Explain one failure of a classical model, apply the modern replacement, and complete a final error-audited AP set.

Any miss becomes an error-log entry, a clean redo, and one nearby transfer problem before advancing.

Bring your attempted work, the exact missed check, and one question about: Complete mixed AP experimental and free-response reasoning.