AP
Physics II (E & M) Course Outline
I.
Electricity and Magnetism
A.
Electrostatics
i.
Charge, field, and potential
ii.
Coulomb’s Law and field and potential of point charges.
iii.
Fields and potentials of other charge distributions
1.
Planar
2.
Spherical symmetry
3.
Cylindrical symmetry
iv.
Gauss’s Law
B.
Conductors, capacitors, dielectrics
i.
Electrostatics with conductors
ii.
Capacitors
1.
Parallel Plate
2.
Spherical and cylindrical
iii.
Dielectrics
C.
Electric circuits
i.
Current, resistance, power
ii.
Steady-state direct current circuits with batteries and resistors only
iii.
Capacitors in circuits
1.
Steady state
2.
Transients in RC circuits
D.
Magnetostatics
i.
Forces on moving charges in magnetic fields
ii.
Forces on current-carrying wires in magnetic fields
iii.
Fields of long current-carrying wires
iv.
Biot-Savart and Ampere’s Law
i.
Electromagnetic induction(including Faraday’s Law and Lenz’s Law)
ii.
Inductance(including LR and LC circuits)
iii.
Maxwell’s equations