AP Physics C
Free Response Questions

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• v 2018.1  drop sphere. h and t for g lab - simple
• v 2019.set2.2  toy rocket, a(t) calculus, a bit of energy - cw
• v 2013.1 spring launched glider lab, v(t), x(t) curves. a bit of energy, shm
  

• v 2021.set1.1  fan cart and incline - simple
• v 2021.set2.1  PAScar with friction - simple
• 2016.1  pull cart lab - simple
• 2012.2  pascar lab set-up
  
• v 2019.set2.1 Atwood, 2 blocks on incline
• 2017.1  Basic Atwood - simple
• v 2015.1 block on incline, x/v/a(t) curves, friction t_up vs t_down
• 2007.1 block on friction surface, pull at angle - simple
• 2006.1 block slides to a stop - simple
  

• v 2021.set1.2 pendulum knocks block off table  
• v 2019.set2.3 loop the loop, energy, a bit of rotational inertia shapes - simplish
  
• v 2011.2 roll down quarter circle and -kv brakes. DE - simplish
• v 2007.2 circular orbit, ME, Kepler conservation of angular momentum
• v 2005.2 circular orbit - Kepler's 3rd
• 2004.1
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• 2019.set1.1 fluid, given eqn v find displacement and a - conceptual, just calculus, no DE
  
• v 2017.2 block on incline, collide with spring and slows, drag -bv^2 on surface. energy, a bit SHM period, DE, xva(t) curves, nice.
  
• v 2014.2 circle and DE - cw
• v 2013.1 spring glider reaches terminal speed. concept graphs, a bit of energy SHM period - simplish
  
• v 2013.2 classic drag DE with ln
• v 2010.1 cupcake drag experiment concept, no DE - simple
• v 2008.1 skiier downhill, -bv drag, DE - summer packet
• v 2005.1 upward ball, drag -kv, no solving - concept
  

• v 2021.set2.3  spring launched mass to above qtr loop-the-loop , projectile - similar to cw
• v 2009.3 rope slither-falls off table
• v 2004.1 Tarzan catches object and projectile into water
• v 2003.1 pull a box a(t), work
  

• v 2012.2 design lab for conservation of energy
• v 2007.3 spring and block on ramp, tilted, lab, consv of energy
  
• v 2009.1 U(x) - cw packet

• v 2018.2 impulse F(t) collide
• 2016.2 nonideal spring launches block and collides head-on 
• v 2015.2 projectile onto ballistic pendulum, SHM
  
• 2019.set1.2 ballistic pendulum and then off table projectile - simple
• v 2011.1 launch bullet out of, and into another block
• v 2014.1 nonideal spring launches cart, U, speed, impulse
• 2006.2 block collides with nonideal spring
• v 2010.3 skier on slope with drag DE, tough, energy and impulse - summer packet

• v 2021.set1.3  nonuniform Rod, calculus I and CM, torque(time), omega(time), swing energy
• v 2021.set2.2 L shape swings energy, alpha(time), omega(time), calculus I, sigma CM
• 2015.3 horizontal rod pivot falls
• (2004.3 rod pivot and part c) SHM

• v 2016.3 mass stretches spring while rotating, v^2/r, a_r+a_tan ideas
  
• v 2013.3 Two strings holding up disk, find tension, a.vv 2008.2 rotating bar, angled string tension (like static equilibrium sign question)
• 2004.2 mass falls heavy pulley, tension a, energy - like cw
  
• v 2003.3 catapult (tricky?)

• v 2019.set2.3 rolling race around loopy
  
• v 2018.3 three spokes. calculus I. force, energy up incline 
  
• 2017.3 classic energy down incline energy, and off table projectile
• 2010.2 roll down incline freebody and energy, and slope off roof projectile - can combo with 2017.3
• 2006.3 roll down incline freebody -simple
• v2012.3 rolling and slipping - like cw

• v 2019.set1.3 energy motor-driven wheel on platform, rotational perfectly inelastic collision
• v 2014.3.de  rotational explosion
• v 2007.2e basic circle orbit, ME, Kepler conservation of angular momentum
• 2005.2 G
• v 2005.3 rod pivot hits ball

• v 2012.1 mass on spring classic
• v 2011.3 rotational SHM 
• v 2009.2 rod pivot falls and rotational SHM
• v 2004.3 rod pivot at L/3 SHM. parallel axis thm.
• new equilibrium vertical spring
• v 2003.2 clay onto vertical spring tray  - cw
• v 2008.3 like vertical spring, ideal spring string k, fall and find max speed location

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• v 2019.set1.1 segment with lambda, find E, can you Gauss

• v 2011.1 Gauss, point at corner of cube Gaussian surface, flux ideas of arrows - cw5

• v 2019.set2.2 spherical nonconductor, Gauss rho(r) to get E(r), V to KE
  
• v 2018.1 plastic sphere in conducting shell, Gauss integrate for q, E(r), V high to low rank
• v 2013.3 spherical rho(r), q(r), E(r), Gauss, integrate to get q
  
• v 2003.1 spherical cloud rho(r), kQ/r, KE, integrate for Q and Gauss - cw2
• 2008.1 metal sphere in metal shell, E(r), electron speed (simple)
• 2007.2 nonconducting sphere in nonconducting shell, E(r) by Gauss, V
  

• v 2013.1 nonconducting cylinder of rho, Gauss, E(r), dV by integrate
  
• v 2004.1 coaxial cable, noncentered E lines, centered Gauss - cw4

• v 2017.1 slab, Gauss to E, integrate for V
  
• also see 2015.1 (with capacitor parallel dielectrics)
  

• v 2016.1 isolines, E by dV/dx, KE
  
• v 2005.1 isolines to KE, motion idea - cw1
• v 2012.1 spherical conducting shells, potential between by integral, tricky - cw3
• v 2010.1 segment of circle, kq/r, rank V, KE, find E by integrating x comp
• v 2009.1 spherical V(r), find E, dV/dr, Gauss, add Qs, F(r)  - cw6
• 2006.1 E of 4 charges on square, Vtot (simple)

• 2016.2 resisitivity, line (simple)
• v 2015.2 internal resistor, line
• v 2012.2 rhoL/A, parallel R, RC constant, charge up v(t)
  

• 2018.2 capacitor find kappa of paper, fit line, RC idea (simple)
• v 2015.1 slab, Gauss, kappa dielectric side by side in parallel, dV/dx, energy stored in capacitor

• v 2019.set2.1 RC capacitor as wire or open idea, DE but not solve,  i(t) sketch
  
• v 2017.2 RC charge, discharge idea (cap as wire or open), time constant, energy dissipated - cw2
• v 2014.1 (ef RC charge up)
• v 2013.2 RC by time constant exp^ idea, ln ratio, line fit
• v 2010.2 RC, two capacitors, switch, idea as wire or open
  
• v 2007.1 RC discharge idea a~e) hw,  f) Find ratio if kappa, use e^-t/Tau -cw3
• v 2006.2 RC tricky switch ideas (cap as wire, open, or battery)- cw1
• v 2004.2 RC charge discharge, cap as wire or open or V source ideas, energy in cap
  
• v 2003.2 RC a~c) hw, d) switch to charge/discharge cycle - cw4

• v 2019.3 electron accelerates through V into B circle, find e/m ratio by line
• v 2009.2 like Hall effect, balance E and B so electron goes straight - cw3

• v2017.3 teslameter experiment B(I) line
• 2005.3 Hall probe B(n) line to find permeability

• v2016.3 Falling bar in field, Lenz, solve D.E. like air drag - cw4
• 2012.3 falling bar in field, Faraday ideas, DE no solve, v_T

• v 2008.3 ab Biot-Savart circle, cd flux and Faraday -cw1

• v 2011.3 Ampere coaxial cable, r<a, a<r<b, r>b - cw2

• v 2019.set1.3 solenoid Ampere mu N/L I, B(V) line for R, Faraday - cw
• v 2014.2 rectangular loop going through region of B, graph speed, current, DE for v
  
• v 2007.3 motional emf; u shaped wire with bar, pulling force in B
  
• v 2003.3 airplane motional emf
• v 2006.3 loop hanging on spring in B; ab em balance (Lorentz), cde pulling force motional emf
• v 2018.3 crossed wires, mg balances F_B, and rectangular loop near I(t), integrate for flux, Faraday
• 2010.3 rectangular loop near I(t), integrate for flux, Faraday, power, f) for the time between I_0 decreasing to 0 Amperes, how much energy is dissipated by the bulb? 
• v 2004.3 rectangular loop near I(t), integrate for flux, Faraday, total energy integral - cw
• v 2015.3 Farday, loop at angle in B(t), torque (part e)
  
• v 2013.3 Faraday, circle B(t), derivative, energy dissipated
• v 2009.3 Faraday, flux B(t), 2 rectangles circuit
  

• v 2019.set1.2 Kirchhoff R, RC idea, RL idea
• v 2008.2  R, RC, RL idea review i(t) for each - cw
• v 2005.2 RL idea, and add in DE solving - cw

• v 2011.2 RC and LC idea and Ldi/dt - cw