
AP Physics I
✨ 8-Week Curriculum✨
Week
#1
✏️ Topic 1: Kinematics
Students study motion, speed, velocity, and acceleration in one and two dimensions. Understand how to read and interpret motion graphs.
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#2
✏️ Topic 2: Newton’s Laws
Students explore force, mass, and acceleration using Newton's three laws. Includes free-body diagrams and frictional forces.
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#3
✏️ Topic 3: Circular Motion
Students learn about centripetal acceleration, orbital motion, and Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation in curved paths.
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#4
✏️ Topic 4: Work & Energy
Students study kinetic and potential energy, work-energy theorem, and conservation of mechanical energy in systems.
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✏️ Topic 5: Momentum
Students explore impulse and momentum, collisions (elastic and inelastic), and momentum conservation principles in 1D and 2D.
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✏️ Topic 6: Simple Harmonic Motion
Students investigate oscillations, including springs and pendulums. Understand concepts of frequency, period, and amplitude.
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✏️ Topic 7: Torque & Rotation
Students examine rotational kinematics, moment of inertia, torque, and angular momentum. Apply Newton’s laws to rotational systems.
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✏️ Topic 8: Mechanical Waves
Students study wave properties, sound, and wave interference. Includes standing waves, wave speed, and resonance.