AP® Physics 1 - Boston University

Get ready to ace your AP Physics 1 exam in this interactive prep course! Whether you are preparing for an upcoming exam or looking for a more challenging Physics course to add to your current curriculum, AP Physics 1 is a great place to start. This challenging course is designed to help high school students prepare for the AP Physics 1 test, and covers all of the material for the test supported by videos, simulations, and online labs. Topics include motion, forces, gravitation, energy and momentum, rotation, harmonic motion, and an introduction to electric charge and basic circuits. Each module ends with an assessment, with questions similar in style to those on the AP test, and the course wraps up with a mock AP test. The course runs from September through May, which parallels many high school AP Physics 1 courses. You may choose to take this course simultaneously with a high school AP course, or on its own to help you prepare for the AP exam. Five peer-grading exercises that are part of the course will be available starting in January. Learn more about our High School and AP* Exam Preparation Courses This course is authorized as an Advanced Placement® (AP®) course by the AP Course Audit. The AP Course Audit was created by the College Board to give schools and students the confidence that all AP courses meet or exceed the same clearly articulated curricular expectations of colleges and universities. By taking an AP course and scoring successfully on the related AP Exam, students can: Stand Out in College Admissions Earn College Credits Skip Introductory Classes Build College Skills Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, these offerings.

What you'll learn

• ​The basics of motion and forces
• Gravitation and circular motion
• Conservation of momentum and conservation of energy
• Rotational motion, torque, and static equilibrium
• Waves and simple harmonic motion