one year course, calculus based, equivalent to a semester of college level physics
Exam Details
1 Electrostatics (26–34%)
1.1 Charge and Coulomb’s Law
1.2 Electric Field and Electric Potential
1.3 Electric Potential Due to Point Charges and Uniform Fields
1.4 Gauss’s Law
1.5 Fields and Potentials of Other Charge Distributions
2 Conductors, Capacitors and Dielectrics (14–17%)
2.1 Electrostatics with Conductors
2.2 Capacitors
2.3 Dielectrics
3 Electric Circuits (17–23%)
3.1 Current and Resistance
3.2 Current, Resistance, and Power
3.3 Steady-State DirectCurrent Circuits with Batteries and Resistors Only
3.4 Gauss’s Law
4 Magnetic Fields (17–23%)
4.1 Forces on Moving Charges in Magnetic Fields
4.2 Forces on Current Carrying Wires in Magnetic Fields
4.3 Fields of Long Current Carrying Wires
4.4 Biot–Savart Law and Ampere’s Law
5 Electromagnetism (14–20%)
5.1 Electromagnetic Induction (Faraday’s Law and Lenz’s Law)
5.2 Inductance (LR circuits)
5.3 Maxwell’s Equation
Exam Format
Section I: Multiple choice, 35 questions, 45 minutes, 50% weight
Section II: Free response, 3 questions, 45 minutes, 50% weight