Physics by Appel 2025-2026

AP Physics C

AP Physics 1

Physics

Current Unit: Unit 1: Kinematics

AP-C Plan For This Week (Oct. 13 - Oct. 17):

This Week's Reading: Section 4.6

Unit 1 Calendar - AP-C

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 1 - Kinematics

Relative Motion
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Show Me the Goodness! Two-Dimensional and Relative Motion (Solutions)

Appel's Projectile Motion Challenge (Score Sheet Due Friday)

Prep for Test

Work on Unit 1 Progress Check

AP-C Homework and Upcoming Tests:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments

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. 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. 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)

Oct. 6	Galileo Lab Report

Oct. 7	Assignment 1-14 (Solutions)

Oct. 9	Assignment 1-15 (Solutions)

Current Unit: Unit 1: Kinematics

AP-1 Plan For This Week (Oct. 13 - Oct. 17):

This Week's Reading: None This Week

Unit 1 Calendar - AP-1

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

Bull's Eye Lab Quiz (Monday)

Practice 2-D Motion Without Acceleration

Practice 1-D and 2-D Motion

Discuss Kinematics Quiz

Prepare for Unit Exam

Kinematics Test, Part 1: Multiple Choice (Wednesday)

Kinematics Test Part 2: Free Response (Friday)

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:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments

Oct. 13	Bull's Eye Lab Quiz

Oct. 15	Kinematics Test, Part 1: Multiple Choice

Oct. 17	Kinematics Test Part 2: Free Response

Oct. 23	Heaviness of Mass Lab

Oct. 29	Pulley My Finger Lab

AP-1 Weekly Reading:

Oct. 13	None This Week

Oct. 20	Sections 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.6

Oct. 27	Sections 4-5, 4-7

Nov. 3	Sections 5.1 to 5.3, 5.5 to 5.7

Nov. 10	Section 5.8

Nov. 17	None This Week

AP-1 Some Recent Assignments:

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)

Oct. 6	Free Response Kinematics 3 (Rubric)

Oct. 7	An Angled Launch Problem (Solutions)

Current Unit: Unit 2: Light & Color

Physics Plan For This Week (Oct. 13 - Oct. 17):

This Week's Reading: Sections 27.1 - 27.3, 27.7 - 27.9

Unit 2 Calendar - Physics

Optical Illusions

Shady Business Lab (Due Thursday)

Electro-Magnetic Spectrum Research (Due Friday)

Powers of Ten Website

Discuss E-M Waves, Polarization, and Light in General

Light Goodness (Due Friday)

Pixel Peeping Lab (Due Monday)

Appel Colors File

Color Vision - Photons | Monochromatic Light | White Light - PhET Interactive Simulations (colorado.edu)

Color Thesaurus

Textbook Link:

Textbook

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

Oct. 16	Shady Business Lab

Oct. 17	Light Goodness (Solutions) and Electro-Magnetic Spectrum Research

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 (Handout, PowerPoint) and Viewed in Another Light (Solutions)

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

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

Physics Weekly Reading:

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. 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)

Oct. 6	Speed of Sound Lab and Pan Phlute Concert

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