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College Board AP Physics C: Mechanics physics-c-mechanics

112 points in 7 topics, with College Board's codes and titles.

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1 Kinematics

1.1 Scalars and Vectors
1.1.A Scalars and vectors
1.2 Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration
1.2.A Change in position
1.2.B Average velocity and acceleration
1.2.C Instantaneous position, velocity and acceleration
1.3 Representing Motion
1.3.A Representations of motion
1.4 Reference Frames and Relative Motion
1.4.A Reference frames
1.4.B Motion in different inertial reference frames
1.5 Motion in Two or Three Dimensions
1.5.A Motion in two or three dimensions

2 Force and Translational Dynamics

2.1 Systems and Center of Mass
2.1.A Properties and interactions of a system
2.1.B Centre of mass
2.2 Forces and Free-Body Diagrams
2.2.A Forces as interactions
2.2.B Free-body diagrams
2.3 Newton’s Third Law
2.3.A Newton’s third law
2.4 Newton’s First Law
2.4.A Conditions for constant velocity
2.5 Newton’s Second Law
2.5.A Conditions for changing velocity
2.6 Gravitational Force
2.6.A Gravitational interaction between masses
2.6.B When gravitational force is constant
2.6.C Apparent weight
2.6.D Inertial and gravitational mass
2.6.E Gravity from a uniform spherical mass
2.7 Kinetic and Static Friction
2.7.A Kinetic friction
2.7.B Static friction
2.8 Spring Forces
2.8.A Ideal spring forces
2.8.B Equivalent spring constant
2.9 Resistive Forces
2.9.A Motion with a resistive force
2.10 Circular Motion
2.10.A Circular motion
2.10.B Circular orbits and Kepler’s third law

3 Work, Energy, and Power

3.1 Translational Kinetic Energy
3.1.A Translational kinetic energy
3.2 Work
3.2.A Work done by forces
3.3 Potential Energy
3.3.A Potential energy
3.4 Conservation of Energy
3.4.A Energies in a system
3.4.B Conservation of mechanical energy
3.4.C System choice and energy change
3.5 Power
3.5.A Power

4 Linear Momentum

4.1 Linear Momentum
4.1.A Linear momentum
4.2 Change in Momentum and Impulse
4.2.A Impulse
4.2.B Impulse and change in momentum
4.3 Conservation of Linear Momentum
4.3.A Conservation of linear momentum
4.3.B System choice and momentum change
4.4 Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
4.4.A Elastic and inelastic collisions

5 Torque and Rotational Dynamics

5.1 Rotational Kinematics
5.1.A Angular displacement, velocity and acceleration
5.2 Connecting Linear and Rotational Motion
5.2.A Linking linear and rotational motion
5.3 Torque
5.3.A Identifying torques
5.3.B Describing torques
5.4 Rotational Inertia
5.4.A Rotational inertia
5.4.B Rotational inertia about an off-centre axis
5.5 Rotational Equilibrium and Newton’s First Law in Rotational Form
5.5.A Conditions for constant angular velocity
5.6 Newton’s Second Law in Rotational Form
5.6.A Conditions for changing angular velocity

6 Energy and Momentum of Rotating Systems

6.1 Rotational Kinetic Energy
6.1.A Rotational kinetic energy
6.2 Torque and Work
6.2.A Work done by torques
6.3 Angular Momentum and Angular Impulse
6.3.A Angular momentum
6.3.B Angular impulse
6.3.C Angular impulse and change in angular momentum
6.4 Conservation of Angular Momentum
6.4.A Conservation of angular momentum
6.4.B System choice and angular momentum change
6.5 Rolling
6.5.A Energy of rolling systems
6.5.B Rolling without slipping
6.5.C Rolling with slipping
6.6 Motion of Orbiting Satellites
6.6.A Motion of two gravitationally bound objects

7 Oscillations

7.1 Defining Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM)
7.1.A Simple harmonic motion
7.2 Frequency and Period of SHM
7.2.A Frequency and period in SHM
7.3 Representing and Analyzing SHM
7.3.A Displacement, velocity and acceleration in SHM
7.4 Energy of Simple Harmonic Oscillators
7.4.A Energy in SHM
7.5 Simple and Physical Pendulums
7.5.A Physical pendulums