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Welcome to the website for the AP Physics C class at Brookstone School.

This website will be a primary communication tool in the AP Physics class. It will contain your assignments, lecture notes, presentations, handouts, other useful websites and ultimately a site to turn-in homework.

To the left, under Navigation, Sitemap is the primary navigation tool, which will take you to separate pages for each chapter in the text. At the top of each page you will find links to each section in that chapter, and assignments for the chapter. The section links will take you to the material pertinent to that section: lecture notes, handouts, demonstrations and other useful links and resources.

Each chapter page has a comments page attached. Please use it to rate any of the links you visit. If you have ideas for improvement of this site or find other sites which I should consider including or if you find any broken links, please add comments to the comments page or contact me directly at chappelle.brookstone@gmail.com. I would prefer this form of input rather than face to face since this will help me keep it organized. Each chapter page will have a page for student comments and a form to collect student ratings for each link on that chapter's page. There will be a spreadsheet of student ratings on the last page which will display average ratings.

You will be expected to have read the material in the chapter prior to class. We will not lecture or read the text to you. Emphasis will be on conceptual understanding and application of it to solving problems. This will not be a memorization course. Read the text, and use the material presented on this website prior to class. Be prepared when you come to class. Have questions about the concepts you don't understand.

Text: Knight, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 2ed

Homework: Homework will be assigned by chapter and will be completed for grade on WebAssign. The cutoff for having homework completed is 3 AM the morning of the review day prior to the chapter test. Group work on homework is encouraged; however, be advised that for the majority of problems, the numerical values in the problem will be randomly changed. To do well in this course you must be able to analyze problems, not memorize formulas and algorithms.

**Online Texts and Tutorials: The following websites offer different verbalizations of the concepts of physics. I suggest that you look at all of them to determine if there is one you understand better than others and use it to supplement your text

[|Don't Panic]  This is an excellent text. Written in everyday language, it gives excellent explanations in non-technical language. Link sends you to Amazon.com, but do a web search and you may find better deals.

[|Calculus Based Physics Text]     1st  semester mechanics available in MS Word or pdf. Excellent set of problems with solutions. Contains many links to potentially valuable sites.

[|Newtonian Physics]   A set of six books that together constitute a textbook for a two-semester algebra-based physics course.

[|The Physics Hypertext]    Clear simple language explanations of physical phenomena. Worked problems.

[|U of Calif Open Access AP Physics C]   AP Physics C online course for students in rural areas where a conventional class could not be supported

[|The Physics Classroom]    Tutorial, multimedia site and a variety of question and answer pages

[|The Interactive Textbook for Math and Science]    Click on link at the bottom of the left panel. Emphasis is on the mathematics of physics, excellent review

[|Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics]   Basic tutorial site.

[|Physics 1 Online Course]    Excellent site with numerous applets.

[|AP Physics C Tutorial Videos]    Videos on all physics topics. Good beginning conceptualization of concepts. Limited depth.

[|Simple Nature]    Three semester calculus based course. Material is in pdf format for download only.

[|Newtonian Dynamics Text] Advanced undergraduate text in mechanics. Advanced discussion.**

Applets Applets are small java programs which demonstrate principle of physics. They will help you visualize the concepts.

[|Georgia Tech Applet Page] [|Walter-Fendt Applet Page] [|Physlab Simulations] [|Albemarle HS Physics Teacher Resources] These pages contain over 90 Flash(tm) animations used during lectures and labs.