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AP Physics C: E&M

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Unit 1 – Electrostatics

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Unit 5 – Electromagnetism

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Exam Skills- FRQ/MCQ

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Overview

💡1.1: Electric Charge & Coulomb's Law

What is Charge? 🌩️


Common Charges

Law of Electrostatics


Attract or Repel?

Conservation of Charge

Conductors and Insulators

Charging and Discharging

Electrostatic Force & Coulomb's Law

Practice Questions:

Unit 1: Electrostatics

Electric Fields

Simple Fields

Electric Field Strength

Electric Fields in Conductors & Insulators

Practice Questions

Electric Fields & Electric Potential

Electric Fields & Work

Potential Difference


Electric Potential of a Point Charge

Practice Questions: 

Point Charges - Fields & Potentials

What the Flux?!?

Gauss' Law

Density in Gauss' Law

Practice Problems

Practice FRQ

Extended Charge Distributions

Gauss' Law for Various Shapes

Potential Difference for a Variety of Shapes


Practice Questions


Other Charge Distributions - Fields & Potentials

2.0 Unit 2 Overview: Conductors, Capacitors, Dielectrics 

Key Terms

2.1 Conductors 

2.2 Capacitors 

2.3 Dielectrics

Questions for Review

Unit 2 Overview: Conductors, Capacitors, Dielectrics

Electric Field on the Surface of a Conductor

What Even Is a Conductor??

Electric Field Inside a Conductor 🔲

Application—Electric Shielding & Faraday Cages 🌩️🚘

Summing it up 😎

Practice Questions (courtesy of the AP Physics C EM Workbook)

Electrostatics with Conductors

What's a Capacitor?

Theory Time - Parallel Plate Capacitor 🎓


Other Types of Capacitors

Energy in a Capacitor 💡

Practice Questions 👍

Capacitors 📸

2.3: Dielectrics 

What are Dielectrics?

Why Does Adding a Dielectric Increase the Capacitance? 😕


Practice Question 👍

Dielectrics

Key Vocabulary 

3.1 Current and Resistance & 3.2 Current, Resistance, and Power 

3.3 Steady-State Direct-Current Circuits with Batteries and Resistors Only 

3.4 Gauss's Law

Unit 3 Overview: Electric Circuits

3.0: Overview 🌐

3.1: Circuit Quantities 🔋

Current 💨

Resistance 🛑

Ohm's Law 💡

Power

Circuit Symbols & Measuring Tools 🛠️

Drawing Parallel vs Series Circuits

Practice Question

Unit 3: Electric Circuits

Power in a Circuit 

Power 🌊

Power in a Circuit 🔦

Types of Circuits (Series vs. Parallel)

Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (Loop Rule) ➿

Kirchhoff's Current Law (Junction Rule) ❌

Resistors in Series & Parallel

Resistivity

Non-Ideal Batteries and EMF 🚨

Steady State Circuits 🔁

Capacitors in Series & Parallel

Steady State Behavior 🎯

RC Circuits 🏍️

Capacitors in a Circuit 📸

4.1 Forces on Moving Charges in Magnetic Fields

4.2 Forces on Current Carrying Wires in Magnetic Fields

4.3 Fields of Long Current Carrying Wires

4.4 Biot–Savart Law and Ampère’s Law

Unit 4 Overview: Magnetic Fields

4.0: Overview 👀

4.1: Forces on Moving Charges in a Magnetic Field 🧭

What Does a Magnetic Field Look Like?

Magnetic Force & the Right Hand Rule for Magnetic Fields 🖐️

Paths of Charged Objects 🗺️

Magnetic & Electric Field Interactions 🏗️

Unit 4: Magnetic Fields

Forces on a Wire in an External Magnetic Field ✅

Torque on a Wire 🚨

Magnetic Fields From a Current Carrying Wire 🌐

Forces Between Two Wires 🧲

Current-Carrying Wires & Magnetic Fields 🧲

Biot-Savart Law ☑️

Common Geometries for using Biot-Savart Law 🧭

Ampère's Law ➰

Solenoids 🏎️

Biot–Savart Law and Ampère’s Law 💯

5.0 Unit 5 Overview: Electromagnetism

5.1 Electromagnetic Induction (Including Faraday’s Law and Lenz’s Law)

5.2 Inductance (Including + LR circuits)

5.3 Maxwell’s Equations

Unit 5 Overview: Electromagnetism

5.0: Overview 🧭

5.1: Electromagnetic Induction

Making Magnets from Electricity 🧙

Magnetic Flux 🌐


Faraday's Law & Lenz's Law 🔦



Practical Applications ⚡

Maxwell's Equations 👨‍🔬

Practice Problems ✅

Unit 5: Electromagnetism

What is an Inductor? 🤔

Energy Stored in an Inductor 🔋

LR Circuit Behavior 🔍

LC Circuit Behavior 🧲📸

Practice Problem ✅

Inductance

Introduction

Key Vocabulary

Maxwell's Equations

1. Gauss's Law for Electric Fields:

2. Gauss's Law for Magnetic Fields:

3. Faraday's Law of Electromagnetic Induction:

4. Ampere's Law with Maxwell's Correction:

5. Ampere-Maxwell Law:

Maxwell’s Equations

The Ultimate AP® C: Electricity & Magnetism Exam Guide



A quick pep talk before we start

Exam Logistics 🤔



Section 1: Multiple Choice Questions



Strategies For the Multiple Choice Section 💪

Sample MC Questions



Section 2: Free-Response Questions



Strategies for the FRQ 🤨

Sample Free Response Questions

Exam Guide

Your guide to the 2022 AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism exam 

Format of the 2022 AP Physics C: E&M exam

When is the 2022 AP Physics C E&M exam and how do I take it?

How should I prepare for the exam?

Pre-work: set up your study environment

AP Physics C E&M 2022 Study Plan

⚡️ Unit 1: Electrostatics

🔋 Unit 2: Conductors, Capacitors, Dielectrics

🔌 Unit 3: Electric Circuits

🧲 Unit 4: Magnetic Fields

⚛️ Unit 5: Electromagnetism

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2022 AP Physics C: E&M Exam Guide

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