STEM Resources
- Genes, cells, organisms, proteins
- Cell division, growth
- Matter
and energy in organisms: photosynthesis, cellular respiration, energy
- Interactions in ecosystems: Ecosystem resilience, human impact
- Inheritance
and variation: Gene expression, regulation, inheritance, genetics)
- Evolution, natural selection
- Adaptation,
Species, and environmental change
- Biodiversity,
sustainability, resource management, human impacts
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Chemistry
of Life - water, elements of life, macromolecules, proteins,
lipids, nucleic acids, carbohydrates
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Cell structure and function, plasma membranes, transport, organelles, compartmentalization:
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Cellular Energetics- enzymes, photosynthesis, cellular respiration:
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Cell communication, signal transduction, feedback, cell cycle, cell cycle regulation
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Heredity, meiosis, genetic diversity, mendelian genetics, non-mendelian genetics, chromosomes, crossing over:
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Gene expression, DNA and RNA, transcription, translation, mutations, promoters, operons:
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Gene expression overview
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Operons
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Natural selection, artificial selection, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, evolution, phylogeny, cladograms, speciation, origin of life:
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Ecology, energy flow, populations, community ecology, biodiversity, ecosystem disruption
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Experiments and Data Interpretation
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Atomic Structure and Properties, moles, electron configurations, periodic trends, mass spectroscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy:
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Molecular and ionic compound structure, ionic bonds, covalent bonds, ionic solids, molecular/atomic solids, metallic solids, covalent network solids, alloys, lewis structures, resonance, formal charge, VSEPR theory, hybridization:
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Intermolecular forces, IMFs, ideal gas law (and deviations), kinetic molecular theory, solutions, chromatography, solubility, UV/vis/infrared spectroscopy, Beer Lambert law
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Chemical reactions, net ionic equations, stoichiometry, oxidation reduction reactions, redox, acid base reactions, introduction to titration (for more advanced questions go to “Acids and Bases”):
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Thermodynamics, heat transfer, calorimetry, phase changes, Hess’s law, enthalpy/heat of formation, bond enthalpies:
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Equilibrium, equilibrium constant, Q, reaction quotient, Le Chatelier’s principle, ICE charts, ICE boxes, Ksp, solubility equilibria, precipitation, will a precipitate form?:
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Acids and Bases, pH, pOH, strong acids and weak acids/bases, weak acid equilibria, acidic/basic salts, buffers, acid base titrations, half-equivalence, Henderson-Hasselbalch equation:
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Calculation pH
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Weak Acid calculation, weak acid equilibria, weak bases
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Acid-Base titration
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Buffers, Henderson-Hasselbalch equation
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Applications of Thermodynamics, entropy, gibbs free energy, delta G, delta S, ΔG, ΔS, galvanic cells, voltaic cells, electrolytic cells, E cell, standard reduction potential, salt bridge, anode, cathode, cell potential, oxidized, reduced:
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Kinematics, position, velocity, acceleration, systems, contact forces, free-fall:
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Newton’s Laws, inertia, forces, F=ma, free body diagrams, action reaction:
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Circular motion and gravitation, vector fields, fundamental forces, gravitational force, centripetal acceleration, centripetal force:
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Energy and momentum, work, work-energy theorem, conservation of energy, momentum and impulse, conservation of linear momentum:
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Simple harmonic motion, rotational motion, period of a simple harmonic oscillator, simple pendulum, rotational kinematics, torque, angular acceleration, angular momentum, torque:
AP Physics C: Mechanics
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General Resources
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Kinematics
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Newton’s Laws of Motion
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Work, Energy, and Power
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Systems of Particles and Linear Momentum
- Rotation
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Deriving moments of inertia examples
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Oscillations
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Gravitation
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
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General Resources
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Electrostatics
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Capacitors
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Electric circuits
- Magnetic Fields
- Overview
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Biot-Savart Law
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Ampere’s Law
- Electromagnetism
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Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s Law
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Inductors, RL or LR circuits
AP Calculus
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General resources
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Limits and Continuity:
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Differentiation (Definition, product rule, quotient rule):
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Differentiation (Chain rule, implicit diff., inverse trig functions):
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Applications of differentiation (Related rates, rectilinear motion, velocity, acceleration, l’Hopital’s rule):
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Related rates
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Rectilinear Motion
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L’Hopital’s rule
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Function Analysis (Mean Value Theorem/MVT, extrema, absolute maxima minima, concavity, curve sketching, optimization):
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Mean Value Theorem
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Curve Sketching
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Optimization
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Integration and Accumulation of Change (Riemann sums, fundamental theorem of calculus, definite integrals, u substitution):
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Riemann Sums
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Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
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U-Substitution
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Integration by Parts
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Linear Partial Fractions
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Improper integrals
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Differential Equations (Separation of variables, slope fields, general solution, particular solution):
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Separation of variables
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Slope Fields
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Euler’s Method
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Parametric Equations, Polar Coordinates and Vector Valued Functions
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Parametric Equations
- Polar Coordinates
- Infinite Sequences and Series
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Categorical variables, statistics for two categorical variables, bar graphs, two way tables:
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Displaying one variable data, dot plots, histograms, stem plots, distribution:
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One-variable summary statistics, center, spread, mean, median, variability, standard deviation:
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Percentiles, z scores, normal distribution, density curves:
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Two variable quantitative data, correlation, r value, residuals, regression line, line of best fit, r2, correlation coefficient:
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Collecting data, sampling, random samples, simple random sample, SRS, stratified random sample, cluster sampling, experiments, controlled experiment, observational study:
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Probability, conditional probability, venn diagrams, Bayes theorem, independence, mutually exclusive events, independent events:
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Random variables, pdf, probability density function, cumulative distribution function, mean and distribution of a random variable, transforming a random variable, combining random variables, binomial distribution, binomial random variable, geometric random variable:
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Sampling distribution, central limit theorem, biased and unbiased estimators, sampling distribution of sample means, sampling distribution of sample proportions:
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Inference for proportions, confidence intervals for proportions, significance test for population proportion, difference between two proportions, conditions for significance testing,
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Inference for means, confidence interval for population mean, significance test for population mean, difference between two means,
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Chi square test, goodness of fit, independence, homogeneity:
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Confidence interval for slope of a regression model, testing for slope: