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AP Physics C: E&M mentoring

A calculus-based electricity and magnetism course equivalent to a second-semester university physics course: fields, Gauss's law, potential, capacitance, circuits, magnetic fields and induction.

Units
6
Topics
29
Concepts tracked
39
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Who this course suits

Students who have completed or are taking AP Physics C: Mechanics and calculus.

Every student starts with the free diagnostic, so mentoring begins at the right concept rather than at chapter one. Your mentor then works through the units below in the order your learning path recommends, with practice between classes targeting the exact concepts and errors that need work.

What AP Physics C: E&M covers

Unit structure follows the current AP course framework. Open a unit to see its topics and the concepts we track in each.

  1. Unit 8Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss's Law5 topics

    • 8.1Charge and electric force

      • Electric charge and conservation
      • Coulomb's law

    • 8.2Electric fields

      • Electric field
      • Superposition of fields

    • 8.3Fields of continuous charge distributions

      • Fields of continuous charge distributions

    • 8.4Electric flux

      • Gauss's law
      • Dot and cross products

    • 8.5Gauss's law

      • Gauss's law
  2. Unit 9Electric Potential4 topics

    • 9.1Electric potential energy

      • Electric potential energy

    • 9.2Electric potential

      • Electric potential

    • 9.3Potential and field

      • Field as the gradient of potential
      • Equipotentials and field

    • 9.4Conservation of electric energy

      • Electric potential energy
      • Conservation of energy
  3. Unit 10Conductors and Capacitors5 topics

    • 10.1Conductors in electrostatic equilibrium

      • Conductors in electrostatic equilibrium

    • 10.2Capacitance

      • Capacitance

    • 10.3Dielectrics

      • Dielectrics

    • 10.4Energy stored in capacitors

      • Energy stored in capacitors

    • 10.5Capacitors in series and parallel

      • Capacitance
      • Series and parallel combinations
  4. Unit 11Electric Circuits6 topics

    • 11.1Current and current density

      • Electric current

    • 11.2Resistance, resistivity and Ohm's law

      • Resistance and Ohm's law
      • Resistivity

    • 11.3Electric power

      • Electric power

    • 11.4Compound circuits and internal resistance

      • Series and parallel combinations
      • EMF and internal resistance

    • 11.5Kirchhoff's rules

      • Kirchhoff's loop rule
      • Kirchhoff's junction rule

    • 11.6RC circuits

      • RC circuits with differential equations
      • RC circuits
  5. Unit 12Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetism4 topics

    • 12.1Magnetic fields and forces on moving charges

      • Magnetic fields
      • Magnetic force on moving charges

    • 12.2Forces on current-carrying wires

      • Magnetic force on current-carrying wires

    • 12.3Biot-Savart law

      • Biot-Savart law
      • Magnetic field of a current

    • 12.4Ampere's law

      • Ampere's law
  6. Unit 13Electromagnetic Induction5 topics

    • 13.1Magnetic flux

      • Magnetic flux

    • 13.2Faraday's and Lenz's laws

      • Faraday's law
      • Lenz's law
      • Motional emf

    • 13.3Inductance

      • Inductance

    • 13.4RL circuits

      • RL circuits

    • 13.5LC circuits

      • LC circuits

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