Physics by Appel 2025-2026

AP Physics C

AP Physics 1

Physics

Current Unit: Unit 1: Kinematics

AP-C Plan For This Week (Oct. 6 - Oct. 10):

This Week's Reading: Sections 4.4 - 4.5

Unit 1 Calendar - AP-C

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 1 - Kinematics

Graphing and Calculus Quiz (Monday)

Small Dose of Projectile Goodness (Solutions)

Uniform and Non-Uniform Circular Motion
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Roundabout Goodness (Solutions)

AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests:
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Oct. 6	Galileo Lab Report and Graphing and Calculus Quiz

Oct. 7	Assignment 1-14 (Solutions)

Oct. 9	Assignment 1-15 (Solutions)

Oct. 13	Assignment 1-16 (Solutions)

Oct. 14	Assignment 1-17 (Solutions)

Oct. 17	Assignment 1-18 (Solutions) and Projectile Challenge Score Sheet

Oct. 20	Test #1

Oct. 23	Assignment 2-1 (Solutions)

Oct. 24	Assignment 2-2 (Solutions)

Oct. 27	Assignment 2-3 (Solutions)

Oct. 28	Assignment 2-4 (Solutions)

Oct. 31	Assignment 2-5 (Solutions)

Nov. 3	Assignment 2-6 (Solutions)

Nov. 4	Pre-lab for Whirling Good Time ***

Nov. 6	Assignment 2-7 (Solutions)

Nov. 7	Assignment 2-8 (Solutions) and Force Your Way Through Lab Quiz

Nov. 13	Assignment 2-9 (Solutions)

Nov. 14	Assignment 2-10 (Solutions) and Key Mass'ter Lab Quiz

Nov. 17	Assignment 2-11 (Solutions)

Nov. 18	Test #2

AP-C Weekly Reading:

Oct. 6	Sections 4.4 - 4.5

Oct. 13	Section 4.6

Oct. 21	Sections 5.1 - 5.6

Oct. 27	Sections 5.7, 5.8, and 6.1

Nov. 3	Sections 6.2 and 6.3

Nov. 10	None This Week

AP-C Some Recent Assignments:

Sept. 8	Assignment 1-1 (Solutions)

Sept. 9	Assignment 1-2 (Solutions)

Sept. 12	Assignment 1-3 (Solutions)

Sept. 15	Assignment 1-4 (Solutions)

Sept. 16	Assignment 1-5 (Solutions)

Sept. 18	Uncertainty in Data Lab Quiz and Tables

Sept. 19	Assignment 1-6 (Solutions)

Sept. 22	Assignment 1-7 (Solutions)

Sept. 25	Assignment 1-8 (Solutions) and Galileo Data (Done in Class)

Sept. 26	Assignment 1-9 (Solutions)

Sept. 29	Assignment 1-10 (Solutions)

Sept. 30	Assignment 1-11 (Solutions)

Oct. 2	Assignment 1-12 (Solutions)

Oct. 3	Assignment 1-13 (Solutions)

Current Unit: Unit 1: Kinematics

AP-1 Plan For This Week (Oct. 6 - Oct. 10):

This Week's Reading: Section 3-6 to 3-8 and Angled Projectiles and Vectors Reading

Unit 1 Calendar - AP-1

Unit Guide AP-1 - Unit 1 - Kinematics (CB Version)
Unit Guide AP-1 - Unit 1 - Kinematics (Nara Version)

Monkey and Hunter / Projectiles Launched at an Angle
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

An Angled Launch Problem

Complex Projectile Problems

Trajectory Goodness (Solutions)

2-D Motion Without Acceleration aka River and Wind Problems

River Problems Handout

River Problems Sample Questions (Solutions

ConcepTests:
These have multiple choice questions on the topics indicated. We borrowed this some another teacher, so some questions address things we do not cover. And we cover topics not included in them. That being said, they're still good practice.
One Dimensional Motion
Two Dimensional Motion

Textbook Links:

Giancoli Textbook

OpenStax Textbook

AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
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Oct. 6	Free Response Kinematics 3 (Rubric)

Oct. 7	An Angled Launch Problem (Solutions)

Oct. 13	Bull's Eye Lab Quiz

Oct. 15	Kinematics Test, Part 1: Multiple Choice

Oct. 17	Kinematics Test Part 2: Free Response

AP-1 Weekly Reading:

Oct. 6	Section 3-6 to 3-8 and Angled Projectiles and Vectors Reading

Oct. 13	None This Week

AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:

Sept. 5	Keep Up with the Buggy Lab

Sept. 9	Assignment 1-1 (Solutions)

Sept. 10	Practice with Constant Velocity (Solutions)

Sept. 12	Assignment 1-3 (Solutions) and Acceleration on a Ramp Lab

Sept. 15	Kinematics Equations Packet (Solutions)

Sept. 17	Assignment 1-4 (Solutions)

Sept. 22	Free Response Kinematics 1 (Solutions)

Sept. 23	Acceleration on a Ramp Lab Using Graphs

Sept. 26	Acceleration of a Falling Object Mini-Lab Whiteboard Directions Data Table

Sept. 29	Free Response Kinematics 2 (Rubric) and Walk the Graph Lab Quiz

Sept. 30	Assignment 1-5 (Solutions)

Oct. 1	Horizontal Projectile Goodness (Solutions)

Current Unit: Unit 1: Kinematics

Physics Plan For This Week (Oct. 6 - Oct. 10):

This Week's Reading: None This Week

Unit 1 Calendar - Physics

Pan Phlutes Concert

Pan Phlutes Music Sheets

Prep for Waves Test / Make Index Card

Waves - Things to Consider (Solutions)

Waves and Sound Test (Thursday)

***If absent, you will take test in class the next day you are present***

Textbook Link:

Textbook

Physics Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments

Oct. 6	Speed of Sound Lab and Pan Phlute Concert

Oct. 9	Waves and Sound Test *If absent, you will take test in class the next day you are present*

Oct. 16	Shady Business Lab

Oct. 17	Light Goodness (Solutions)

Oct. 20	Pixel Peeping Lab

Oct. 21	Adding Colors (Solutions)

Oct. 23	Dude! The Colors! Lab and Electro-Magnetic Spectrum Quick Quiz

Oct. 24	Color Shadows and Color Addition and Subtraction (Solutions) and Concept-Development 28-1 (Solutions)

Oct. 27	Comic Time Lab and Viewed in Another Light (Solutions)

Oct. 28	Primary Colors of Paint and Light and Pigments and Paints (Solutions 1, Solutions 2)

Oct. 31	Unit 2 Mini-Test -- Light and Color

Physics Weekly Reading:

Sept. 8	Sections 25.1 - 25.6 and Book of Phyz - Wave Notes

Sept. 15	None This Week

Sept. 22	Sections 25.7 - 25.11, 26.6 - 26.10

Sept. 29	Sections 26.1 - 26.5

Oct. 6	None This Week

Oct. 13	Sections 27.1 - 27.3, 27.7 - 27.9

Oct. 20	Sections 28.1 - 28.7

Oct. 27	None This Week

Physics Some Recent Assignments:

Sept. 8	Keep Up With the Buggy Lab and Hunt for Blue November (Solutions)

Sept. 11	A Swinging Good Time Lab

Sept. 12	Let's Do the Wave Lab

Sept. 16	Wave Goodness (Solutions)

Sept. 18	Concept-Development 25-1 (Solutions) and Describing Waves (Solutions) and In Class Wave Problems Checked Off (Solutions)

Sept. 19	Ranking Pendulums and Waves (Solutions) and Short Waves Quiz

Sept. 23	Concept-Development 25-2 (Solutions)

Sept. 25	Superposition of Waves (Solutions)

Sept. 26	Waves Can Stand? Lab

Sept. 29	Harmonic Goodness XE Part 1 (Solutions)

Sept. 30	Harmonic Goodness XE Part 2 (Solutions)

Oct. 2	Stand By Your Wave (Solutions) and Standing Wave Math (Solutions)

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