AP Physics C: Mechanics

Every lesson in the AP Physics C: Mechanics slide course, in full text: 4 decks, 253 slides.

• Unit 1 - KinematicsPosition, velocity and acceleration as derivatives and integrals: the calculus ladder, deriving the constant-acceleration equations, motion graphs as slopes and areas, projectile and relative motion, and the non-constant-acceleration techniques (separation of variables and v dv/dx) that separate Physics C from Physics 1.
• Unit 2 - Force and Translational DynamicsNewton's three laws and the free-body diagram: inertial frames, third-law pairs, tilted axes on inclines, the normal force as an unknown, static versus kinetic friction, connected bodies and internal forces, uniform circular motion as a second-law problem, and velocity-dependent drag solved as a differential equation.
• Unit 3 - Work, Energy, and PowerWork as a dot product and as an integral, the work-energy theorem derived from v dv/dx, conservative forces and why only they have a potential energy, conservation of mechanical energy with and without friction, potential energy diagrams and stability, force as minus the gradient of the potential, and power as force dotted with velocity.
• Unit 4 - Linear MomentumImpulse as the time integral of force, why momentum is conserved whenever the external forces vanish, elastic and inelastic collisions including the relative-velocity rule, two-dimensional collisions component by component, the centre of mass by summation and integration, and the variable-mass problems where F = ma fails.