| Acknowledgments |
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| About the Author |
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| Introduction: The Five-Step Program |
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STEP 1 Set Up Your Study Program |
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1 How To Approach Your Ap Physics Course |
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Don't Bang Your Head Against a Brick Wall |
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Ask Questions When Appropriate |
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2 What You Need To Know About The Ap Physics 2 Exam |
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Some Frequently Asked Questions About the AP Physics 2 Exam |
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3 Building Your Personal Attack Plan |
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Memorization and Cramming Won't Help |
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Building a Plan That Is Right for You |
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Plan A I'm Starting in September |
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Plan B I'm Starting in January |
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Plan C It's Spring Break and I Just Got Started! |
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STEP 2 Determine Your Test Readiness |
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4 Test Yourself: Ap Physics 2 Fundamentals |
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AP Physics 2 Fundamentals Self-Assessment |
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Answers to AP Physics 2 Fundamentals Self-Assessment |
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What Do I Know, and What Don't I Know? |
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5 Test Yourself: Ap Physics 2 Question Types |
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AP Physics 2 Question-Types Self-Assessment |
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Answers to AP Physics 2 Question-Types Assessment |
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STEP 3 Develop Strategies for Success |
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What Do I Need to Remember from AP Physics 1? |
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Get to Know the Relationships |
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What Information Can We Get from a Graph? |
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7 Strategies For The Multiple-Choice Questions |
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How to Get Better at Multiple-Choice Problems |
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Multiple-Correct Questions |
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Additional Strategies and Words of Wisdom |
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8 Strategies For The Free-Response Questions |
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The Structure of the Free-Response Section |
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Getting Off to a Good Start |
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Paragraph-Length Arguments |
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Student-Contention Questions |
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Qualitative-Quantitative Transition (QQT) Questions |
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What the Exam Reader Looks For |
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Final Advice About the Free-Response Section |
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STEP 4 Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High |
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How the Nano-World Influences the Fluid World We Live In |
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Applications of Static Fluids |
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Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle |
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Dynamic Fluids---Continuity |
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Dynamic Fluids---Bernoulli's Equation |
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Solutions to Practice Problems |
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10 Thermodynamics And Gases |
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Start Small---Atomic Behavior That Produces Thermal Results |
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Heat, Temperature, and Power |
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First Law of Thermodynamics |
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Round and Round We Go: Cycles |
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Four Special Processes (Paths) on a PV Diagram |
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Solutions to Practice Problems |
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11 Electric Force, Field, And Potential |
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Quanta of Charge, Conservation of Charge, and How Charge Moves Around |
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Charge Distribution on Different Objects |
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Force of an Electric Field |
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Electric Field Vector Diagrams |
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Special Geometries for Electrostatics |
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Electric Fields Around a Point Charge and a Charged Conducting Sphere |
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Electric Potential Associated with a Point Charge and a Charged Conducting Sphere |
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The Force Between Two Charges |
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Solutions to Practice Problems |
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Resistors in Series and in Parallel |
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Circuits from an Experimental Point of View |
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Real Batteries and Internal Resistance |
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Changes in a Circuit---Switches |
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Parallel and Series Capacitors |
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184 | (4) |
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Solutions to Practice Problems |
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13 Magnetism And Electromagnetic Induction |
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Magnetic Dipoles in a Magnetic Field |
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Magnetic Field Around a Straight Current-Carrying Wire |
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Force on a Moving Charged Particle |
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Force Between Two Parallel Wires |
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Charges in a Magnetic Field and the Mass Spectrometer |
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Particles Moving Through Both Magnetic and Electric Fields |
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Electromagnetic Induction |
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Magnetic Behavior of Materials |
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Solutions to Practice Problems |
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14 Geometric And Physics Optics |
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Transverse and Longitudinal Waves |
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Diffraction and the Point-Source Model |
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Wave Behavior at Boundaries |
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Snell's Law and the Critical Angle |
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Solutions to Practice Problems |
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15 Quantum, Atomic, And Nuclear Physics |
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Space, Time, the Speed of Light, and E = mc2 |
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De Broglie Wavelength and Wave Functions |
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Bohr Model of the Atom and Energy Levels in an Atom |
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Three Types of Nuclear Decay Processes |
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E = mc2 and Conservation During Nuclear Reactions |
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Mass Defect, Binding Energy, and the Strong Nuclear Force |
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Solutions to Practice Problems |
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STEP 5 Build Your Test-Taking Confidence |
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The AP Physics 2 Practice Exams |
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Taking the Practice Exams |
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297 | (1) |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 1: Section 1 (Multiple Choice) |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 1: Section 2 (Free Response) |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 1: Solutions: Section 1 (Multiple Choice) |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 1: Solutions: Section 2 (Free Response) |
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How to Score Practice Exam 1 |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 2: Section 1 (Multiple Choice) |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 2: Section 2 (Free Response) |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 2: Solutions: Section 1 (Multiple Choice) |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 2: Solutions: Section 2 (Free Response) |
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How to Score Practice Exam 2 |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 3: Section 1 (Multiple Choice) |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 3: Section 2 (Free Response) |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 3: Solutions: Section 1 (Multiple Choice) |
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AP Physics 2 Practice Exam 3: Solutions: Section 2 (Free Response) |
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How to Score Practice Exam 3 |
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| Words of Encouragement |
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| Appendix: Constants |
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| AP Physics 2 Equations |
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