Physics by Appel 2025-2026

AP Physics C

AP Physics 1

Physics

Current Unit: Unit 1: Kinematics

AP-C Plan For This Week (Sept. 15 - Sept. 20):

This Week's Reading: Sections 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7

Unit 1 Calendar - AP-C

Unit Guide AP-C - Unit 1 - Kinematics

More Linear Motion and The Big Five Kinematic Equations
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

Take the Big Five for a Drive (Solutions)

Uncertainty in Data Lab Quiz

Linear Motion Goodness (Solutions)

Begin What Does Motion Look Like in Graphs?
Notes
Sample Graphs

What Does Motion Look Like in Graphs?
Notes
Sample Graphs

Creating Graphs
Notes
Sample Question
Solutions

Graphing Standards

Good Graphs vs. Bad Graphs

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

Sept. 15	Sections 2.3, 2.4, 2.6, 2.7

Sept. 22	Section 2.9

Sept. 29	Sections 3.1 - 3.4, 4.1 - 4.3 and Vectors 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)

Current Unit: Unit 1: Kinematics

AP-1 Plan For This Week (Sept. 15 - Sept. 20):

This Week's Reading: Sections 2-5, 2-6, and 2-8

Unit 1 Calendar - AP-1

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

Take the Big Five for a Drive (Solutions)

Motion Represented by Graphs. x vs t, v vs t, a vs t. Slope and Area
Notes
Sample Questions
Solutions

How to Create a Graph

Good Graphs vs Bad Graphs

Creating and Analyzing Graphs (Solutions)

Converting Graphs (Solutions)

Walk the Graph Lab (Lab Quiz Monday, 9/29)
Handout
Basic Shapes
Challenge Shapes

LoggerPro Files (Right click each file and save it to your laptop)
Position vs Time Graph
Velocity vs Time Graph
Both Graphs

Textbook Links:

Giancoli Textbook

OpenStax Textbook

AP-1 Homework and Upcoming Tests/Quizzes:
Scroll to the bottom of this column for recent assignments

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. 24	Kinematics Multiple Choice and Free Response Quizzes

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)

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:

Sept. 15	Sections 2-5, 2-6, and 2-8

Sept. 22	Section 2-7 and Freefall Reading

Sept. 29	Section 3-1 to 3-5 and Horizontal Projectiles 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

Current Unit: Unit 1: Kinematics

Physics Plan For This Week (Sept. 15 - Sept. 20):

This Week's Reading: Sections 25.1 - 25.6 and
Book of Phyz - Wave Notes

Unit 1 Calendar - Physics

Wave Goodness (Due Tuesday)

More Practice with Waves

Concept-Development 25-1 (Due Thursday)

Describing Waves (Due Thursday

Solve Wave Problems on Tables (You'll Be checked off during class, or if not checked off will do the work as homework)

Ranking Pendulums and Waves (Due Friday)

Short Waves Quiz

Work on Wave Concept Builders
Frequency and Period
Period and Frequency of a Pendulum
Rocking the Boat
Wave Basics
Matching Pairs: Wave Characteristics
Wavelength
Waves - Case Studies

Textbook Link:

Textbook

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

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

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

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

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

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