⚛️ AP Physics 1 lesson plans
Free, standards-aligned high school AP Physics 1 lesson plans. Each one is a full, ready-to-teach plan with an objective, direct instruction, activities, and formative assessment. Make a free account to unlock the printable worksheet, slides, and unit test for any lesson.
Fluids in Motion: Continuity and Bernoulli's Principle
Students will apply conservation of mass (continuity, A₁v₁ = A₂v₂) and conservation of energy (Bernoulli's principle) to predict and calculate flow speeds and pressures at differe…
Read the full lesson →Representing and Analyzing SHM: The Quarter-Cycle Phase Shift
Students will represent simple harmonic motion using sinusoidal position, velocity, and acceleration functions of time, and given any one of the three graphs will construct the ot…
Read the full lesson →Rolling Without Slipping: Energy, Constraint, and the Friction That Does No Work
Students will apply the rolling constraint v = rω and mechanical-energy conservation to predict and rank the speeds of round objects rolling down an incline, and justify the role…
Read the full lesson →Newton's Second Law in Rotational Form: Στ = Iα
Students will apply Στ = Iα as the rotational analog of ΣF = ma to solve for angular acceleration of a rigid body, and analyze a coupled hanging-mass-and-massive-pulley system by…
Read the full lesson →Rotational Kinematics: Describing Spin with θ, ω, and α
Students will apply the constant-α rotational kinematic equations and interpret ω-vs-t graphs to determine angular acceleration, angular displacement, and number of revolutions fo…
Read the full lesson →Linear Momentum as a Vector: p = mv
Students will calculate and compare linear momentum p = mv for objects with different masses and velocities, treat momentum as a vector (including sign and components), and justif…
Read the full lesson →Translational Kinetic Energy: Why Speed Matters More Than You Think
Students will calculate translational kinetic energy using KE = ½mv², justify why KE depends quadratically on speed and linearly on mass, and rank/compare kinetic energies of obje…
Read the full lesson →Newton's Second Law: ΣF = ma in Component Form and Connected Systems
Students will translate a free-body diagram into component equations ΣFₓ = maₓ and ΣF_y = ma_y, apply ΣF = ma to a connected two-object system to predict its shared acceleration,…
Read the full lesson →Systems and Center of Mass
Students will locate the center of mass of a multi-object system using a weighted average, distinguish internal from external forces for a chosen system, and justify that the cent…
Read the full lesson →Scalars and Vectors in One Dimension: Signs That Save Points
Students will assign a consistent one-dimensional sign convention, distinguish scalar from vector quantities, compute distance and displacement for collinear motion, add collinear…
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