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Schedule

 

College Board Subject Areas and Recommended Percentages

 

Subject Area

Time %

Chapters in Course Text See Below

Newtonian Mechanics

35

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,9

Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Physics

15

10, 13, 14, 15

Electricity and Magnetism

25

16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Waves and Optics

15

11, 12, 22, 23, 24

Atomic and Nuclear Physics

10

27, 30, 31

Monthly Schedule - In Accordance College Board Recommended Recommended Percentages

Month

Subject

Chapters

August

Measurement, Estimating

1

 

One-Dimensional Kinematics

2

September

Two-Dimensional Kinematics, Vectors

3

 

Dynamics: Newton's Laws of Motion

4

Circular Motion, Gravitation

5

 

Work and Energy

6

October

Work and Energy

6

Linear Momentum

7

Linear Momentum

7

November

Rotational Motion

8

Static Equilibrium, Elasticity, and Fracture

9

December

Fluids

10

Temperature and Kinetic Energy

13

January

Temperature and Kinetic Energy

13

Heat

14

The Laws of Thermodynamics

15

 

Electric Charge and Electric Field

16

February

Electric Potential

17

Electric Currents

18

DC Circuits

19

 

Magnetism

20

March

Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's Law

21

Vibrations and Waves

11

Sound, Electromagnetic Waves

12, 22

April

Light: Geometric Optics

23

The Wave Nature of Light

24

Early Quantum Theory and Atomic Models

27

 

Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity, Nuclear Energy, Radiation uses and Effects

30, 31

May

Course Review

All

Course Text

Physics, Sixth Edition, Giancoli