AP Physics C Electricity and Magnetism-Concise Summary Notes

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Unit 1: Electrostatics

1.1 Electrostatics: Charge and Coulomb’s Law
1.2 Electrostatics: Electric Field and Electric Potential
1.3 Electrostatics: Electric Potential Due to Point Charges and Uniform Fields.
1.4 Electrostatics: Gauss’s Law
1.5 Electrostatics: Fields and Potentials of Other Charge Distributions

Unit 2: Conductors, Capacitors, Dielectrics

2.1 Electrostatics with Conductors
2.2 Capacitors
2.3 Dielectrics

Unit 3: Electric Circuits

3.1 Current and Resistance
3.2 Current, Resistance, and Power
3.3 Steady-State Direct- Current Circuits with Batteries and Resistors Only

Unit 4: Magnetic Fields

4.1 Forces on Moving Charges in Magnetic Fields
4.2 Forces on Current Carrying Wires in Magnetic Fields
4.3 Fields of Long Current Carrying Wires
4.4 Biot–Savart Law and Ampère’s Law

Unit 5: Electromagnetism

5.1 Electromagnetic Induction (Including Faraday’s Law and Lenz’s Law)
5.2 Inductance (Including LR circuits)
5.3 Maxwell’s Equations

Course Content

The AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism Exam assesses student application of the science practices and understanding of the learning objectives outlined in the course framework. The exam is 1 hour and 30 minutes long and includes 35 multiple-choice questions and 3 free-response questions.

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