AP Physics B
Summer Assignment.
The purpose
of this summer assignments is to give you, and your teacher, a head start on
the introductory material in your AP Physics course. Many students find AP Physics to be a challenging time consuming
course and devote many hours of their time over the course of the year. The course is for serious students and
requires dedication, commitment to hard work and a willingness to be challenged
and pushed. The pace of the course will
most likely be more rapid than most courses you have taken and will seem overwhelming
at times (the breadth and scope of this course covers the content of more than
2 semesters of college physics). AP
Physics is NOT an honors level course; it is a college level course and is
above the level of typical honors classes.
Your teachers are here to help you and guide you through this process of
learning, but to a large degree you will be responsible for developing an
understanding through your own efforts (this is a skill you need to develop for
college anyway).
The
information contained in this assignment will not be reviewed when you come to
class the first day, it will be assumed that you learned it and your teacher
will begin with the next chapter of the textbook.
The
assignment begins with introductory photocopied notes, as well as directions to
find website links with information to read.
If you will not have internet
access over the summer, please go to these links and print out these notes
prior to the end of school this year.
After you
have read the information in the attached notes and from the referenced
websites, you will complete the attached assignment which will be collected the
first week of school.
If you have any questions regarding this summer assignment, you can email Mr.
Sckalor or Mr. Wells at
Mr.
Sckalor - physics1@optonline.net
Mr. Wells
– werekdells@yahoo.com
Good Luck.
Reading
Assignment
Part 1
– Basic Math and Unit Operations