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AP Physics 1 Course Content
Students explore principles of Newtonian mechanics (including rotational motion); work, energy, and power; mechanical waves and sound; and introductory, simple circuits. The course is based on six Big Ideas, which encompass core scientific principles, theories, and processes that cut across traditional boundaries and provide a broad way of thinking about the physical world. The following are Big Ideas:
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Objects and systems have properties such as mass and charge.Systems may have internal structure.
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Fields existing in space can be used to explain interactions.
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The interactions of an object with other objects can be
described by forces.
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Interactions between systems can result in changes in thosesystems.
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Changes that occur as a result of interactions are constrainedby conservation laws.
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Waves can transfer energy and momentum from one locationto another without the permanent transfer of mass andserve as a mathematical model for the description of otherphenomena
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