The AP® Physics 1 exam is one of many Advanced Placement exams offered by the College Board. If you are taking AP Physics 1, you may be wondering if it’s the right time to purchase a test prep book for your upcoming exam in May. Perhaps you have already started looking on Amazon or elsewhere,…
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Many Physics students get overwhelmed when they start their first Electricity & Magnetism (E&M) class, even if they were pretty good at Mechanics. And it is hard to blame them. Most of them have at least an intuitive feel for concepts like mass, velocity, momentum, and gravity, and they feel that these ideas in Mechanics…
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In Part 1 of this blog series, I showed you a way to approach kinematics problems for horizontal motion, and in Part 2, I did the same for vertical motion. Now it is time to put it all together so that we can solve kinematics problems for arbitrary two-dimensional projectile motion problems. You may have…
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In Part 1 of this series, I showed you a new way of looking at horizontal kinematics problems and of organizing your information so that you could avoid confusion and get the right answer every time. In this post, I am going to demonstrate how you can use the same method to make vertical motion…
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If you are starting out in a new Physics class, you may have come across (or will come across) a class of physics problems known as kinematics problems. These have to do with the relationship between position, velocity, and acceleration, and are often the first heavy calculation problems that students encounter in their study of…
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