Dawson High School
AP Physics 2
Assignment Sheet 1: Weeks 1-4
All dates subject to change
August 24- Classes begin.
August 26- Take Mechanics Baseline Test
August 27- Do Reaction Time lab. Lab report is due Sep. 3.
September 3- Do Archimedes Principle lab. Lab report is due Sep. 10.
September 14- Homework Unit 1 due at 7:00 a.m.
September 15- Take multiple choice test.
September 16- Take free response test. The objectives covered are:
Predict the densities, differences in densities, or changes in densities under different conditions for natural
phenomena and design an investigation to verify the prediction.
Select from experimental data the information necessary to determine the density of an object and/or compare
densities of several objects.
Explain contact forces as arising from interatomic electric forces and that they therefore have certain directions.
Use the relationship between force and pressure to make calculations related to a fluid at rest.
(a) Apply the relationship between pressure, force, and area.
(b) Apply the principle that a fluid exerts pressure in all directions.
(c) Apply the principle that a fluid at rest exerts pressure perpendicular to any surface that it contacts.
(d) Determine locations of equal pressure in a fluid.
(e) Determine the values of absolute and gauge pressure for a particular situation.
(f) Apply the relationship between pressure and depth in a liquid at rest.
Predict the motion of an object subject to forces (including buoyant forces) exerted by several objects using an
application of Newton’s second law in a variety of physical situations.
(a) Determine the forces on an object immersed partly or completely in a liquid.
(b) Apply Archimedes’ principle to determine buoyant forces and densities of solids and liquids.
Make calculations of quantities related to the flow of a fluid using mass conservation principles (the continuity
equation).
Use Bernoulli’s equation, the relationship between force and pressure and/or the continuity equation to make
calculations related to a moving fluid.