Honors & AP^® Physics 1

Honors Physics 1 is a course designed for high school students in grades 11 & 12. The honors course includes more breadth and more depth than the CP1 course, and includes most (but not all) of the content covered in AP^® Physics 1. Units studied include laboratory & mathematics, motion & forces, work, energy & momentum, electricity & magnetism, waves, heat, and atomic, particle & nuclear physics. The course requires that students be able to describe and solve problems using algebra. The course also requires basic trigonometry and vector math, but these topics are taught at the beginning of the course. The course is supported by an interactive laboratory environment where students gain hands-on experience with the concepts being studied. The content of the course exceeds the requirements of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for high school physics.

Administrivia

• Syllabus, Policies & Classroom Expectations
• Student Information Form

Online Course Sites

Schoology

The Lynn Public Schools uses Schoology as its Learning Management System (LMS). All of the required course content except for tests will be available in Schoology.

• Schoology Honors Physics 1 Course
• Mobile Apps:
  • Schoology Mobile App for Apple iOS devices
  • Schoology Mobile App for Android devices

MOODLE

In 2006 (long Before Schoology existed), I setup my own MOODLE site, which I have used ever since. (Moodle is another LMS that has been around since the 1990s.) Because MOODLE has more options for giving tests, including test banks and customizeable questions, you will be taking tests for this course on my MOODLE site. I have created an account for you (using your LPS username). You will need to make sure that you can log into MOODLE (your starter password is your student ID) as well as Schoology.

• MOODLE Honors Physics 1 Course
• Mobile Apps:
  • MOODLE mobile app for Apple iOS devices
  • MOODLE mobile app for Android devices

Text & Reference

These are books and other useful reference materials for Physcis 1.

• Physics 1 Class Notes by Mr. Bigler (your class notes for the entire year; 666 pages)
  • downloadable PDF file (15.4 MB; this is about the size of 5 pictures on your phone)
  • paperback book self-published using Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. List price is $14.99 plus tax & shipping. However, I do a bulk order at the beginning of the year so my students can get copies at cost (about $10), so if you are my student, talk to me before you order from Amazon.
• Physics Reference Tables (your formula & reference sheet for the entire year)

AP^® Materials

Resources

• AP^® Physics 1 Equation Tables
• Paragraph-Length Response
• Analysis of Uncertainty on the AP^® Exam

Practice Questions

These are released questions from previous AP^® exams and other documents from the College Board. Note that the AP^® Physics B questions are similar to questions on the AP^® Physics 1 exam, but the format of the exam and questions has changed. Note also that the old AP^® Physics B course included topics from both AP^® Physics 1 and AP^® Physics 2.

• practice problems by topic (login required)
• Released AP^® Physics 1 free-response questions from previous exams.
• Released AP^® Physics B free-response questions from 1999-2014.