AP Physics C

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Table of Contents: Barron's Essential Introduction Diagnostic Test 1 Background 2 One-Dimensional Kinematics 3 Three-Dimensional Kinematics 4 Newton's Laws 5 Work, Energy, and Power 6 Linear Momentum and Center of Mass 7 Rotation I: Kinematics, Force, Work, and Energy 8 Rotation II: Inertia, Equilibrium, and Combined Rotation/Translation 9 Simple Harmonic Motion 10 Universal Gravitation 11 Coulomb's Law and Electric Fields Due to Point Charges 12 Calculating Electric Fields and Voltages Due to Continuous Charge Distributions 13 Gauss's Law 14 Analysis of Circuits Containing Batteries and Resistors 15 Capacitors 16 RC Circuits 17 Magnetic Fields 18 Faraday's and Lenz's Law 19 Inductors 20 Maxwell's Equations Practice Test 1 Practice Test 2 Appendix: Physics C Equations and Constants Index

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Robert Pelcovits is a professor of physics at Brown University, where he has taught since 1979. He earned his B.A. and M.S. degrees at the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. at Harvard University. The author of over 80 publications in theoretical condensed matter physics, he has lectured on his research at many universities throughout the world. He has taught a wide range of courses at Brown, from introductory to advanced graduate level. In 1999 he was awarded the Philip J. Bray Award for Teaching Excellence in the Physical Sciences by Brown. In 2008 he was named a Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence at Brown, and in 2011 the university awarded him the Harriet Sheridan Award for Distinguished Contribution to Teaching and Learning.Having earned both Sc.B. and M.S. degrees from Brown University and an M.D. degree from Cornell University, Joshua Farkas is currently an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Vermont. He was also a National Merit Scholar, a Goldwater Scholar, and a Faculty Scholar at Brown University, with experience teaching college-level calculus and calculus-based physics. Having scored 5s on AP exams in BC Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics C, as well as 800s in SAT I Math and on SAT II exams in Math IIC, Chemistry, and Physics, he brought a student’s perspective to this book.