AP Physics 2: 4 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Practice

by Kenneth Rideout M.S., Jonathan Wolf M.A. Ed. M

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ISBN-13:	9781506262116
Publisher:	Barrons Educational Services
Publication date:	02/02/2021
Series:	Barron's AP
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

About the Authors
Ken Rideout has a B.S. in Honors Physics from Purdue University and an M.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been teaching high school physics for more than fifteen years in the Boston area and is currently the science department head at Wayland High School in Wayland, MA.

Jonathan Wolf, M.A., Ed.M., has taught all levels of physics at both the secondary school and college level for over 36 years. He spent 25 of those years teaching physics at Scarsdale High School in Scarsdale, New York and retired from there in 2014. He has taught introductory college physics lectures and introductory college physics labs as a member of the adjunct faculty at Hofstra University, Seton Hall University, and most recently at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. 

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Table of Contents

Barron's Essential 5

AP Physics 2 vii

Preface ix

Introduction 1

Study Skills and Tips 3

Diagnostic test

AP Physics 2 19

Answer Key 28

Answers Explained 29

Review and practice

1 Electric Fields and Potentials 37

The Nature of Electric Charges 37

The Detection and Measurement of Electric Charges 38

Coulomb's Law 39

The Electric Field 41

Electric Potential 43

Capacitance 46

Practice Exercises 49

Answers Explained 52

2 Steady-State Circuits 55

Current and Electricity 55

Electric Resistance 57

Electric Power and Energy 60

Kirchhoff's Rules 60

Combination Circuits 65

Capacitors in Circuits 66

Electrical Energy Is Potential Energy 69

Practice Exercises 72

Answers Explained 74

3 Magnetism and Electromagnetism 77

Magnetic Fields and Forces 77

Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge 79

Magnetic Fields Due to Currents in Wires 84

Magnetic Force Between Two Wires 86

Induced Motional EMF in a Wire 87

Magnetic Flux and Faraday's Law of Induction 90

Practice Exercises 92

Answers Explained 95

4 Physical Optics 99

Electromagnetic Waves 99

Reflection 101

Refraction 102

Total Internal Reflection 104

Interference and Diffraction of Light 105

Polarization of Light 109

Practice Exercises 112

Answers Explained 115

5 Geometrical Optics 119

Image Formation in Plane Mirrors 119

Image Formation in Curved Mirrors 120

Image Formation in Lenses 124

Practice Exercises 128

Answers Explained 130

6 Fluids 133

Static Fluids 133

Pascal's Principle 133

Static Pressure and Depth 134

Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle 135

Fluids in Motion 136

Bernoulli's Equation 137

Practice Exercises 141

Answers Explained 143

7 Thermodynamics 147

Temperature and Its Measurement 147

Molar Quantities 148

The Ideal Gas Law Equation of State 149

Kinetic-Molecular Theory 151

Work Done by Expanding Gases 152

The First Law of Thermodynamics 153

The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Heat Engines 154

Heat Transfer 158

Practice Exercises 160

Answers Explained 163

8 Quantum, Atomic, and Nuclear Physics 167

Photoelectric Effect 167

Photon Momentum 170

Matter Waves 171

Spectral Lines 172

Special Relativity 173

Mass-Energy Equivalence 174

Atomic Structure and Rutherford's Model 175

The Bohr Model 177

Quantum Mechanics and the Electron Cioud Model 178

Nuclear Structure and Stability 179

Binding Energy 181

Radioactive Decay 182

Fission 184

Fusion 184

Practice Exercises 187

Answers Explained 190

Practice tests

Practice Test 1 199

Answer Key 213

Answers Explained 213

Test Analysis 224

Practice Test 2 227

Answer Key 239

Answers Explained 239

Test Analysis 247

Appendix

Table of Information for AP Physics 2 251

Formula Sheet for AP Physics 2 252

Glossary 255

Index 269