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AP Physics C: Mechanics
Calculus-based mechanics from Newton's laws through rotation, oscillations, and gravitation.
📚 7 units🤖 AI-guided support✅ Practice questions included
Course Units
2025–26 College Board CED1
Kinematics6–14% of exam
1.1
Derivatives of Motion — Calculus-Based Kinematics
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1.2
Projectile Motion — Exact Calculus Treatment
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1.3
Relative Motion and Non-Inertial Reference Frames
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1.4
Circular Motion with Calculus
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1.5
Constraints and Coupled Systems
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1.6
Variable Acceleration Problems
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1.7
2D Motion with Variable Forces
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1.8
Parametric Equations and Motion Analysis
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2
Newton's Laws of Motion17–23% of exam
2.1
Newton's Laws with Calculus — Variable Forces
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2.2
Free Body Diagrams for Complex Systems
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2.3
Friction and Constraint Forces
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2.4
Circular Motion — Vertical and Banked Turns
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2.5
Drag Forces and Terminal Velocity
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2.6
Spring-Mass Systems with Calculus
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2.7
Fictitious Forces in Rotating Frames
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2.8
Numerical Methods for Newton's Laws
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3
Work, Energy, and Power14–17% of exam
3.1
Work as a Line Integral
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3.2
Potential Energy Functions from Force
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3.3
Conservative vs. Non-Conservative Forces
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3.4
Power and Efficiency with Variable Forces
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3.5
Energy Methods for Complex Systems
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3.6
Gravitational PE Beyond Near-Earth Approximation
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3.7
Vibration Energy and Coupled Oscillators
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3.8
Energy in Variable-Force Particle Motion
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4
Systems of Particles and Linear Momentum14–17% of exam
4.1
Center of Mass with Calculus — Continuous Distributions
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4.2
Momentum and Variable-Mass Systems
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4.3
Elastic Collisions — Full Calculus Treatment
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4.4
Angular Momentum of Systems
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4.5
Impulse and Variable Forces
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4.6
Collision Analysis in 2D with Calculus Methods
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4.7
Mechanical Waves from Particle Dynamics
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4.8
Inelastic Collisions and Deformation Energy
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5
Rotation14–20% of exam
5.1
Moment of Inertia by Integration
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5.2
Torque and Angular Acceleration with Calculus
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5.3
Rolling Motion and Rolling Constraints
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5.4
Angular Momentum — Vector Form and Conservation
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5.5
Rotational Energy and Work
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5.6
Gyroscopes and Precession — Full Treatment
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5.7
Lagrangian Mechanics Introduction
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5.8
Precession, Nutation, and Stability of Rotating Bodies
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6
Oscillations6–14% of exam
6.1
Deriving SHM from the Differential Equation
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6.2
Energy Methods in SHM
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6.3
Damped Oscillations and Resonance
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6.4
Physical Pendulum and Torsional Oscillator
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6.5
Coupled Oscillators and Normal Modes
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6.6
Non-Linear Oscillations and Chaos
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6.7
Waves in Extended Media
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6.8
Anharmonic Oscillators and Perturbation Theory
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7
Gravitation6–14% of exam
7.1
Gravitational Field as Vector Field — Calculus Treatment
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7.2
Gravitational Potential and Potential Energy
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7.3
Orbits — Derivation of Orbital Mechanics
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7.4
Extended Mass Distributions and Tidal Forces
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7.5
Energy Analysis of Gravitational Systems
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7.6
Gravity in Non-Spherically-Symmetric Distributions
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7.7
Relativistic Gravity — Conceptual Overview
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7.8
Three-Body Problem and Chaos in Orbital Mechanics
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