AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

Notes and Exercises on Advanced Placement Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism. I took notes based on the videos tutorials at educator.com and the past exams collected below. You can also download a PDF version of the notes here.

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Table of Contents

Notes

• 1. Electricity
  • 1.1 Electric Charge & Coulomb's Law
  • 1.2 Electric Fields
  • 1.3 Gauss's Law
  • 1.4 Electric Potential & Electric Potential Energy
  • 1.5 Electric Potential Due to Continuous Charge Distributions
  • 1.6 Conductors
  • 1.7 Capacitors
• 2. Current Electricity
  • 2.1 Current & Resistance
  • 2.2 Circuits I: Series Circuits
  • 2.3 Circuits II: Parallel Circuits
  • 2.4 RC Circuits: Steady State
  • 2.5 RC Circuits: Transient Analysis
• 3. Magnetism
  • 3.1 Magnets
  • 3.2 Moving Charges In Magnetic Fields
  • 3.3 Forces on Current-Carrying Wires
  • 3.4 Magnetic Fields Due to Current-Carrying Wires
  • 3.5 The Biot-Savart Law
  • 3.6 Ampere's Law
  • 3.7 Magnetic Flux
  • 3.8 Faraday's Law & Lenz's Law
• 4. Inductance, RL Circuits, and LC Circuits
  • 4.1 Inductance
  • 4.2 RL Circuits
  • 4.3 LC Circuits
• 5. Maxwell's Equations
  • 5.1 Maxwell's Equations

Problem Set

• 1998 Multiple Choice
• 2004 Multiple Choice
• 2009 Multiple Choice
• Practice Exam Multiple Choice
• Princeton 1 Multiple Choice
• Princeton 2 Multiple Choice
• Sample Questions