Croom Physics

Advanced Placement Physics 2 Assignments

Practice Problems and Handouts

Based on Walker Physics 4th edition

1. Universal Documents
   1. AP Physics 2 Equation Sheet
   2. Conversion Table
   3. Common Variable Representation Chart
   4. Graph Paper
   5. Paper Protractor
   6. Trigonometric Ratios Table
   7. Trigonometric Ratios Conversion Table
   8. Computer Shortcuts
   9. AP Statistical Analysis Guidelines
   Chapter 13 - Oscillations About Equilibrium
   1. Chapter 13 Assignment
   2. Cosine Functions
   3. Derivations
   Chapter 14 - Waves and Sound
   1. Chapter 14 Assignment
   2. Properties of Waves
   3. Interference
   4. Sound Waves
   5. Musical Instruments
   6. The Doppler Effect
   Chapter 15 - Solids and Fluids
   1. Chapter 15 Problem Assignment
   2. Bernoulli's Principle
   Chapter 16 - Temperature and Heat
   1. Chapter 16 Assignment
   Chapter 17 - Heat and Phase Change
   1. Chapter 17 Assignment
   2. Kinetic Theory of Gas Derivation
   3. Gas Law Summary Handout
   Chapter 18 - The Laws of Thermodynamics
   1. Chapter 18 Assignment
   Chapter 19 - Electric Charges, Forces, and Fields
   1. Chapter 19 Assignment
   2. Coulomb
   3. Chapter 15 Problems College Physics 6th (extra problems)
   Chapter 20 - Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy
   1. Chapter 20 Assignment
   2. Chapter 16 Problems College Physics 6th (extra problems)
   Chapter 21 - Electric Current and Direct Current
   1. Chapter 21 Assignment
   2. Series Problems
   3. Parallel Problems
   4. Chapter 17 Problems College Physics 6th (extra problems)
   5. Chapter 18 Problems College Physics 6th (extra problems)
   Chapter 22 - Magnetism
   1. Chapter 22 Assignment
   Chapter 23 - Magnetic Flux and Faraday's Law of Induction
   1. Chapter 23 Assignment
   Chapter 24 - Alternating-Current Circuits
   1. Chapter 24 Assignment
   Chapter 25 - Electromagnetic Waves
   1. Chapter 25 Assignment
   Chapter 26 - Geometrical Optics
   1. Chapter 26 Assignment
   Chapter 27 - Optical Instruments
   1. Chapter 27 Assignment
   2. Light and Color Book Reading
   3. Color Reading Supplement
   4. Light and Color
   5. Color Mixing Chart
   6. The Eye and Color
   Chapter 28 - Physical Optics: Interference and Diffraction
   1. Chapter 28 Assignment
   Chapter 29 - Relativity
   1. Chapter 29 Assignment
   2. Chapter 29 Assignment (Shorter)
   Chapter 30 - Quantum Physics
   1. Chapter 30 Assignment
   2. Photoelectric Effect
   Chapter 31 - Atomic Physics
   1. Chapter 31 Assignment
   2. Bohr Atom
   Chapter 32 - Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Radiation
   1. Chapter 32 Assignment
   2. Binding Energy
   Concept Clickers
   1. Chapter 13
   2. Chapter 14
   3. Chapter 15
   4. Chapter 16
   5. Chapter 17
   6. Chapter 18
   7. Chapter 19
   8. Chapter 20
   9. Chapter 21
   10. Chapter 22
   11. Chapter 23
   12. Chapter 25
   13. Chapter 26
   14. Chapter 28
   15. Chapter 29
   16. Chapter 30
   17. Chapter 31
   18. Chapter 32
   Final Project
   1. Procedure and Grading Rubric
   2. Wiki Submittal Procedure

1. Universal Lab Documents
   1. AP Statistical Analysis Guidelines
   2. Plagiarism
   3. Statistical Analysis Notes
   4. UofPenn Lab Manual - Error Section
   5. Rice University Lab Manual - Error Section
   AP Physics 1 / Accelerated / Academic Labs
   
   
   1. 01-1:Fortune Fish Lab
   2. 01-1: Fortune Fish Lab (Grading Rubric)
      
   3. 01-2:Excel Lab
   4. 01-2: Excel Lab (Grading Rubric)
      
   5. 01-7: Circumference Analysis
   6. 01-7:Density Table
   7. 01-V1: Graping Lines (Demo-PhET)
   8. 01-V2: Curve Fit - Least Square
   9. 01-7: Error Analysis Check List
   
   

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   10. 02-1:What's my motion Part 1
   11. 02-1:What's my Motion Pasco Files
   12. 02-1:What's my Motion Part 2 Pasco Files
   
   
   13. 02-4: Remote Control Car Inquiry Lab
       
   14. 02-7: Does Paper Fall Like a Book Activity
       
   15. 02-9: Picket Fence Free Fall
   16. 02-11:Reaction Time

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   17. 03-1: Flow Charting
   18. 03-1: Flow Charting Notes
   19. 03-1: Lucid Chart Software
       
   20. 03-2: Addition and Resolution of Vectors Handout

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   21. 04-6: Projectile Lab

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   22. 05-1:Inertia Balance
   23. 05-2:Mass vs. Weight
   24. 05-2:Mass vs. Weight Capstone File
       
   25. 05-V1: Forces and Motion (Demo-PhET)
       
   26. 05-3:Newton's Third Law
   27. 05-3:Newton's Third Law Capstone File
       
   28. 05-4: Weight on an Elevator Demo
   29. 05-4: Weight on an Elevator Lab
       
   30. 05-5:Static Equilibrium - Hanging Lab
       
   31. 05-6:Static Equilibrium - Incline Plane Lab
       
   32. 05-8: Atwood's Machine

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   33. 06-9:Friction Lab
   34. 06-V1: Friction (Demo-PhET)
       
       
   35. 06-10: Friction Graph
       
       
   36. 06-11: Pressure Lab
       
       
   37. 06-12: Coffee Filtter Lab
       
       
   38. 06-13: Viscosity

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   39. 07-3:Measure Your Own Power
   40. 07-V1: Energy Skate Park(Demo-PhET)
   41. 07-V2: Conservation of Energy in the Skate Park (Concord Consortium Activity)
   42. 07-4: Conservation of Energy Lab (Motion Sensor)
   43. 07-5: Conservation of Energy Lab (Photogate)

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   44. 08-V3: Masses & Springs(Demo-PhET)
   45. 08-7: Hooke's Law, The Period of a Spring, and Elastic Potential Energy
   46. 08-7: Hooke's Law, The Period of a Spring, and Elastic Potential Energy Data Table
   47. 08-V4: Spring Energy(Demo)
   48. 08-7: Part 4 Example
   49. 08-V5: Pendulum Lab(Demo-PhET)
   50. 08-9:Pendulum
   51. 08-9: Pendulum Table

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   52. 09-V1: 1D Collision(Demo-PhET)
   53. 09-V2: 2D Collision(Demo-PhET)
   54. 09-1: Momentum and Impulse
   55. 09-1: Momentum and Impulse Capstone File
   57. 09-3: Conservation of Momentum
   58. 09-3: Conservation of Momentum Capstone File

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   59. 10-2:Torque Lab
   60. 10-V1: Torque (Demo-PhET)

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   61. 11-3:Moment of Inertia Lab

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   63. 12-1: Centripetal Motion Lab
   64. 12-1: Centripetal Motion Lab (NEW)
   65. 12-1: Centripetal Motion Lab Capstone File (NEW)
   66. 12-3: Amusement Park Swing (Demo)
   67. 12-V1: Horizontal Circles (Demo)
   68. 12-V1: Vertical Circles(Demo)
   69. 12-5: Kepler's 3 Laws Lab Lab
   70. 12-V1: Kepler's 1st Law Laws(Demo)
   71. 12-V2: Kepler's Second Laws(Demo)
   72. 12-V2: Kepler's Second Laws(Demo 2)
   73. 12-V3: Newton's Cannon (Demo)
   74. 12-V3: Planatary Motion (Demo)
   75. 12-V4: The Seasons(Demo)
   76. 12-V5: Lunar Phase(Demo)
   77. 12-V6: Eclipses(Demo)
   78. 12-V7: Escape Velocity(Demo)

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   79. 13-2:Waves on a String
   80. 13-2: Waves on a String Data Sheet
   81. 13-1: Simple Harmonic Motion
   82. 13-2: Waves on a String (Inquiry Based)
   83. 13-2: Waves on a String (Inquiry Based)(Grading Rubric)

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   84. 14-1: Longitudinal Waves on a Spring (DEMO)
   85. 14-2:Speed of Sound
   86. 14-2 Oscilloscope / Signal Generator Introduction
   87. 14-2:Speed of Sound
   88. 14-3:Chladni Plates (DEMO)
   89. 14-4:Intensity of Sound
   90. 14-5: Sympathetic Tuning Fork and Beat (Demo)
   91. 14-V1: Doppler Effect(Demo)
   92. 14-6:Doppler Rocket (Demo)
   93. 14-6:String Telephone (Demo)
   94. 14-7:Bell in the Jar (Demo)
   95. 14-8: Speakers Creating Interference
   96. 14-V8: Beats (Demo)
   AP Physics 2
   1. 15-V1: Buoyancy (Demo-PhET)
   2. 15-2: Archimedes' Principal Lab (W/Balance).pdf
   3. 15-2: Archimedes' Principal Lab (W/ Force Senor).pdf
   4. 15-V2: Balloons (Demo-PhET)
   5. 15-V3: Fluid, Pressure, and Flow (Demo-PhET)
   6. 15-17: Bernoulli's Principle
   7. 15-18: Flow Rate - Tower/Can Problem
   8. 15-20: Flow Rate - Water Fall

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   9. 16-V1: Gas Properties (Demo-PhET)
   10. 16-V1: States of Matter (Demo-PhET)
   11. 17-1: Transfer of Heat in Liquids
   12. 17-2: Specific Heat of a Solid
   13. 17-2: Specific Heat of a Solid Spreadsheet
   14. 17-3:Heat of Fusion
   15. 17-V2: Energy Forms and Changes (Demo-PhET)
   16. 17-5: A Cool Glass of Water Case Study

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   17. 19-1:Triboelectric Series
   18. 19-2:Electroscope (Demo)
   19. 19-V1: John Travoltage (Demo-PhET)
   20. 19-V2: Balloons and Static Electricity(Demo-PhET)
   21. 19-4: Charge Producers and Proof Plane(Introduction)
   22. 19-5:Faraday's Ice Pail
   23. 19-6:Charge Distribution
   24. 19-V4: Electrostatics (Concord Consortium Activity)
   25. 19-7:Coulomb's Law
   26. 19-V4: Charges and Fields (Demo-PhET)
   27. 19-V5: Electric Field of Dreams (Demo-PhET)
   28. 19-V6: Electric Field Hockey (Demo-PhET)
   29. 19-9: Electric Field Mapping
   30. 19-9: Electric Field Mapping (Additional Layouts)

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   31. 20-V1: Capacitors (Demo-PhET)
   32. 20-2: Parallel Plate Capacitors
   33. 20-3: Parallel Plate Capacitors (Pasco)
   34. 20-4:Breadboard
   35. 20-4:Breadboard Model Simulator
   36. 20-4: Capacitors in Series and Parallel
   37. 20-V2: Capacitors and Spring Comparison

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   38. 21-1A:Penny Battery
   39. 21-1B:Lemon Battery
   40. 21-V1: Voltaic Cell(Demo-Simulation)
   41. 21-V2: Ohm's Law (Demo-PhET)
   42. 21-V3: Resistance in a Wire (Demo-PhET)
   43. 21-V4: Battery-Resistor Circuit (Demo-PhET)
   44. 21-V5: Electric Current(Concord Consortium Activity)
   45. 21-V6: DC Circuit Construction Kit(Demo-PhET)
   46. 21-3:Propagated
   47. 21-3: Propagated
   48. 21-4:What is a Multimeter
   49. 21-4.5:Properties of Resistance Inquary Lab
   50. 21-4:Advanced Multimeter
   51. 21-4:Multimeter Worksheet
   52. 21-5: Series and Parallel DC Circuits
   53. 21-5: Circuit Analysis (Inquiry Based)
   54. 21-6:Resistors Lab 1 and 2
   55. 21-6:Resistors Lab 4, 5 and 6
   56. 21-7:Ohm's Law
   57. 21-8:Kirchoff's Law
   58. 21-9:Wheatstone Bridge
   59. 21-10:RC Circuit Lab
   60. 21-12:Electric Equivalent of Heat

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   61. 22-1: Dip Needle
   62. 22-V1: Earths Magnetic Field(Demo-PhET)
   63. 22-V2: Magnetic Field Lines(Demo-PhET)
   64. 22-3: 3-D Magnetic Field Demonstrator
   65. 22-V3: Ampere's Law (Demo)
   66. 22-7: Counter Balance (2 Amp Max)

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   67. 23-V1: Faraday's Law(Demo-PhET)
   68. 23-V2: Faraday's Law / Transformers/Generators(Demo-PhET)
   69. 23-4: Electromagnetic Induction (Pasco Voltage Sensor)

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   70. 24-1:AC Electronics Labs

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   71. 25-1: Polarization - Law of Malus'

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   72. 26-1:Reflection
   73. 26-2:Snell's Law
   74. 26-V1: Bending Light(Demo-PhET)
   75. 26-3: Total Internal Reflection
   76. 26-V2: Virtual Optics Bench
   77. 26-V3: Geometric Optics(Demo-PhET)
   78. 26-5:Lenses
   79. 26-6:Hallow Lenses
   80. 26-7:Apparent Depth
   81. 26-8: Reversibility and Dispersion
   82. 26-12:Shadows
   83. 26-13V:Reflection Simulation
   84. 26-13V:Reflection Simulation
   85. 26-13V:Refraction Simulation
   86. 26-13V:Lens Simulation
   87. 26-12:Shadows
   88. 26-12:Shadows

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   89. 27-V1: Color Vision(Demo-PhET)
   90. 27-2:Color
   91. 27-3:Human Eye
   92. 27-4:Magnifier
   93. 27-7/8:Telescope and Microscope
   94. 27-7:Telescope (Old)
   95. 26-13V:Telescope Simulation
   96. 27-8:Microscope (Old)

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   97. 28-V1: Wave Interference (Demo-PhET)
   98. 28-4: Radiometer (light-mill)
   99. 26-13V:Doulbe Slit Simulation
   100. 26-13V:Diffraction Simulation

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   101. 29-V1: Relativity Thought Experiment(Virtual Lab)
   102. 29-V2: Space Travel Rocket(Demo)
   103. 29-V3: Gravitational Lensing(Demo)

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   104. 30-V1: Black Body Radiation(Demo-PhET)
   105. 30-V2: Photoelectric Effect(Demo-PhET)
   106. 30-V3: Quantum Tunneling(Demo-PhET)

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   107. 31-V1: Rutherford Scattering (Demo-PhET)
   108. 31-V2: Model Hydrogen Atom(Demo-PhET)
   109. 31-V3: Bohr Atom(Demo)
   110. 31-V4: Spectroscopy (Concord Consortium Activity)
   111. 31-V5: Neon Lights(Demo-PhET)
   112. 31-V6: Lasers(Demo-PhET)

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   113. 32-V1: Alpha Decay (Demo-PhET)
   114. 32-V2: Beta Decay (Demo-PhET)
   115. 32-V2: Decay Rate (Demo)
   116. 32-V2: Decay Series (Demo)
   117. 32-V3: Nuclear Fission(Demo-PhET)

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   118. 33-V1: Transistors(Concord Consortium Activity)

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