AP Physics 2: 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 2: Algebra-Based scores.
- Field versus potential
- Circuit reasoning before arithmetic
- Thermodynamic sign conventions
- Ray diagrams
- Modern-physics proportional reasoning
AP Physics 2: Algebra-Based unit-by-unit response plan
Thermodynamics
Ideal gases, energy transfer, laws
Practice recognizing how thermodynamics can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Electric Force, Field, and Potential
Charge interactions and energy
Practice recognizing how electric force, field, and potential can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Electric Circuits
DC circuits, power, capacitors
Practice recognizing how electric circuits can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Magnetism and Electromagnetism
Forces, fields, induction
Practice recognizing how magnetism and electromagnetism can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Geometric Optics
Reflection, refraction, lenses
Practice recognizing how geometric optics can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Waves, Sound, and Physical Optics
Interference and wave models
Practice recognizing how waves, sound, and physical optics can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.
Modern Physics
Quantum, atomic, and nuclear models
Practice recognizing how modern physics can be tested, naming the evidence or method required, and writing a concise response that earns credit.