AMC 10A/12A Contests (High School and Advanced Middle School Students)
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N230 - Advanced Physics Olympiad
This class prepares students to take the United States Physics Olympiad Preliminary and Quarter-Final Rounds as well as AP Physics C - Electricity and Magnetism.
Textbook
There are many books suitable for AP Physics C. The followings are recommended textbooks:
- Tipler, Paul A. and Gene P. Mosca. 2004. Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th ed. New York: W.H. Freeman.
- Pelcovits, Robert A. 2002. How to prepare for the AP Physics C., Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
Alternative textbooks:
- Giancoli, Douglas C. 2000. Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
- Serway, Raymond A., Robert J. Beichner and John J. Jewett. 2000. Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th ed. Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Publishing.
Schedule
| week | Topic | Summaries |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Electric Charges | Electric Charges, Polarization, Electric Force, Coulomb's Law |
| 2 | Electric Field | Electric Field, Field Lines, Inductive Charging, Dipoles |
| 3 | Gauss's Law | Electric Flux, Gauss's Law |
| 4 | Electrostatic Potential | Electrostatic Potential, Electric Energy, eV, Conservative Field |
| 5 | Capacitance | Capacitance, Capacitors |
| 6 | Dielectric Capacitors | Capacitor, Dielectric |
| 7 | Current and Resistance | Currents, Resistivity, Ohm's Law |
| 8 | Power in Electric Circuits | Power, Semiconductors, Superconductors |
| 9 | Single-Loop Circuits | Batteries, EMF, Energy Conservation, Circuits |
| 10 | Multiloop Circuits | Junction Rule, |
| 11 | Magnetic Field | Magnetic field, Lorentz Force, Torques |
| 12 | Moving Charges | Moving Charges in B-fields, Cyclotron, Synchrotron |
| 13 | Biot-Savart Law | Biot-Savart Law, Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields |
| 14 | Ampere's Law | Ampere's Law, Solenoids, Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper |
| 15 | Lenz's Law | Electromagnetic Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz Law |
| 16 | Physics Olympiad Review | Preliminary Exam |
| 17 | Motional EMF | Motional EMF, Dynamos, Eddy Currents, Magnetic Braking |
| 18 | Motors | Displacement Current,Synchronous Motors, Induction Motors |
| 19 | RL Circuits | Inductance, RL Circuits, Magnetic Field Energy |
| 20 | Magnetic Materials | Magnetic Materials, Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism |
| 21 | Maxwell's Equations | Electromagnets, Bohr Magneton, Maxwell's Equations |
| 22 | RC Circuits | Transformers, Car Coils, RC Circuits |
| 23 | Resonance | Driven LRC Circuits, Resonance |
| 24 | Waves | Traveling Waves, Standing Waves, Musical Instruments |
| 25 | Electromagnetic Waves | Electromagnetic Waves, Speed of Light, Radio - TV |
| 26 | Refraction | Index of Refraction, Oscillating Charges, Radiation Pressure |
| 27 | AP Physics C - Review I | Electric Field and Gauss's Law |
| 28 | AP Physics C - Review II | Capacitors and Circuits |
| 29 | AP Physics C - Review III | Megnetic Fields, Faraday's Law, and Lenz's Law |
| 30 | AP Physics C - Review IV | Maxwell's Equations, Inductors |
NOTE: All lectures are provided by Professor Walter Lewin of MIT via MIT OpenCourseware and YouTube. Students are required to view the video lecture before attending problem solving classes.
Important Dates:
- 2010 United States Physics Olympiad Preliminary Exam: Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. Time and Location TBD
- 2010 United States Physics Olympiad Quarterfinal Exam: March 2010. Date, time and location TBD
- 2010 United States Physics Olympiad Semifinal Exam: April 2010. Date, time and location TBD
- 2010 Physics Bowl Exam: May 2010.
- 2010 AP Physics C Exam: Monday, May 11, 2010.
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