AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based priorities to protect every week
A useful plan is course-specific. Whatever else a week contains, keep time for the content and response habits that decide AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based scores.
- Free-body diagrams
- Conservation-law selection
- Linearizing data
- Experimental uncertainty
- Paragraph-length justification
AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based unit-by-unit response plan
Kinematics
Motion representations and models
Practice recognizing how kinematics can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Force and Translational Dynamics
Newton's laws and systems
Practice recognizing how force and translational dynamics can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Work, Energy, and Power
Energy models and conservation
Practice recognizing how work, energy, and power can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Linear Momentum
Impulse, collisions, center of mass
Practice recognizing how linear momentum can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Torque and Rotational Dynamics
Angular acceleration and inertia
Practice recognizing how torque and rotational dynamics can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Energy and Momentum of Rotating Systems
Rotational conservation laws
Practice recognizing how energy and momentum of rotating systems can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Oscillations
Springs, pendulums, energy
Practice recognizing how oscillations can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Fluids
Pressure, buoyancy, continuity
Practice recognizing how fluids can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.