0:01 all right I've been wanting to make this
0:03 video for a while for you guys um I just
0:06 want to get through all the AP Physics
0:09 exams this past year just because if I
0:11 if I talked about the changes for next
0:13 year it might confuse you guys who were
0:15 prepping for this this past Year's exam
0:18 so there are some big changes to the
0:21 entire AP Physics curriculum and exam
0:23 format for next year and I'm want to go
0:24 through that line by line and just
0:26 explain because it's like a it's it's a
0:28 pretty big deal it's a lot of prep
0:31 changes the exam format changes for a as
0:34 a quick summary for AP Physics 1 and 2 a
0:37 bit of content change and a medium
0:40 pretty decent size um AP exam format
0:42 change and then for AP Physics C it's
0:45 primarily a huge AP exam format change
0:47 right the content itself isn't really
0:49 changing so um let's kind of just kind
0:53 of dive right into it here so um the
0:55 first thing um let's talk about AP
0:57 Physics 1 and we're going to go through
0:59 one class at a time so first off they're
1:01 adding fluid this is probably like a
1:04 huge portion right here they are adding
1:08 in fluids into um the this was usually
1:10 previous part of AP Physics 2 but
1:11 they're adding fluids it would now be
1:14 unit a um this is a little bit confusing
1:16 they're changing the it they're re
1:19 they're also renumbering some
1:21 units so there is some renumbering
1:23 that's going on here it's not simply
1:25 this they're getting rid of unit three
1:28 unit three two and three are being
1:31 combined and this this is more in line
1:35 uh oops jeez combined um for forces so
1:37 unit 3 was circular motion and gravity
1:39 it's being combined into here and then um
1:41 um
1:48 units okay so it is correct the number
1:50 of units but there are some changes uh
1:52 in that structure and this makes sense
1:54 it was really tough to make rotation a
1:56 lot of people I think it under I think
1:57 people underestimate how much work
2:00 rotation was by calling it one unit
2:02 rotation is really you learning all of
2:04 it all of the linear motion you just
2:06 apply the rotation motions so you got to
2:08 learn like four units of stuff into one
2:10 unit I my curriculum had already split
2:12 this up I always split it into like
2:14 rotation and Dynamics and then energy
2:15 and momentum and college board's doing
2:17 the similar thing here so that's
2:19 probably like but ultimately it's one
2:23 additional unit in fluids um they're
2:24 going to be doing some stuff with power
2:26 that's pretty minor they didn't really
2:28 talk about power much before or require
2:31 it so it's like a one it's just like a
2:33 three minute explanation on something
2:34 like that and then the equations for
2:37 motions for a simple harmonic motion the
2:38 equations were given there on the
2:40 equation sheet but very rarely used so
2:41 now we're actually going to be using
2:44 this a lot more um and that's just to
2:45 beef up the simple harmonic motion so
2:47 those are pretty minor changes uh a
2:49 little bit in here and this is just
2:52 saying like they can add in more styles
2:53 of questions for multiple choice and
2:56 objective so um overall like so the big
2:58 thing I would say take away is really
3:00 the addition of
3:02 of fluids the addition of fluids is
3:04 going to be kind of a big deal um the
3:07 the the bigger deal for a lot of you are
3:08 going to be the exam format I think some
3:10 of you who have taken AP Physics one
3:12 might feel like oh man this is way so
3:14 much better first of all there's um
3:16 we're going down to 40 multiple choice
3:18 instead of 50 multiple choice okay and
3:20 then removing the two select questions I
3:22 think that's really good that was a very
3:24 confusing one I think some people didn't
3:26 quite understand it there was only like
3:28 five of those on an exam every year um
3:30 that was a little bit tricky
3:32 so we are decreasing the time from 90 to
3:36 80 minutes so you're you're decreasing
3:38 it to uh 10 multiple choice you decrease
3:41 to 10 minutes you're getting more uh
3:42 time per
3:45 question which is always nice uh I think
3:48 the McQ is always a bit of a rush so
3:49 this reduction is actually pretty good
3:51 you get about 2 minutes whereas you had
3:55 about 1.8 minutes per qu McQ on average
3:57 before now you have 2 minutes per McQ
3:59 that's a that's a nice little make it a
4:01 little bit less time pressured um you're
4:04 also going to go down to four F frqs and
4:05 then notice the time you're going to get
4:08 100 minutes on those four F frqs so this
4:10 is going to make the F frqs much less
4:12 time pressure now don't don't get me
4:15 wrong the the frqs are going to be a
4:16 little bit longer and I'm going to
4:18 probably dig into the frq Styles in a
4:22 separate video but um the frqs will
4:24 probably get a little bit longer overall
4:26 but um overall you'll feel less time
4:28 pressure because part of the hard part
4:30 of five f varus is you're trying to
4:31 understand the scenario you're trying to
4:33 break down the situation and that's that
4:36 takes time no matter how short the frq
4:38 is right so now you have less scenarios
4:41 to kind of read um you're given more
4:44 time the big thing here is these two in
4:46 terms of the F frqs these two are are
4:50 are kind of new um previously you had short
4:51 short
4:54 answer and then the dreaded paragraph
4:56 answer paragraph answer which is a short
4:58 answer they are getting rid of the
5:00 paragraph answer there is no more
5:03 paragraph frqs So any of you who've
5:05 studied or prepped for paragraph F frqs
5:06 or any of you teachers who pre them you
5:08 don't need to do a paragraph answer
5:10 anymore mathematical routines is going
5:13 to both of these I would say are very
5:16 similar to um just what they were kind
5:18 of CED in in the short answer short
5:20 answer mathematical routines is going to
5:22 be a kind of a derivation related one
5:24 and like I said I'm going to dig into
5:26 that in a separate video uh the details
5:28 on each of the frq Styles and I'm going
5:30 to be adding that my curriculum to the
5:33 free curriculum to explain what are the
5:34 different frq styles and how to prep for
5:36 them um in the translation between
5:38 representations this is one where you're
5:40 going to be doing a lot of graphing as
5:42 well as equations like you're making
5:44 sure you understand the equation the
5:47 graphing sketches that kind of thing
5:48 that's what they mean by translation
5:50 between representations there so
5:53 definitely a gra highly emphasize a
5:54 graphing question on this part like
5:57 sketch aaph like I said short answers
5:58 used to cover those kinds of things but
6:00 now they're going to be explicitly
6:02 separated and and identified and we're
6:04 getting rid of that paragraph answer the
6:06 experimental design and the qualitative
6:08 quantitative are largely staying the
6:09 same I think the qualitative
6:10 quantitative is going to be a shorter
6:13 frq overall this was one of the bigger F
6:14 frqs and I think they I saw in the
6:16 timings they are going to shorten that
6:17 one a little bit but like I said I'll
6:19 have a separate video to talk about the
6:22 details of each of those frq Styles so
6:25 overall I think net positive obviously I
6:27 actually do like this I think less time
6:29 pressure on the McQ less time pressure
6:32 on the frqs and I like these frqs
6:35 paragraph answered I like the idea I
6:37 like the attempt I think it was just one
6:39 of those things that a lot of students I
6:41 know it's it's good if you can write and
6:42 explain things I think one of the
6:44 challenges with a paragraph answer is
6:47 you're not entirely sure what it is
6:48 you're supposed to be putting in there I
6:50 think that's the big challenge is like
6:53 what is it that you want to see at a
6:54 like if you like for the greaters what
6:56 are they looking for explicitly I think
6:58 that's sometimes hard even for me when I
7:00 was going through through the paragraph
7:01 answers I think that was a bit of a
7:03 challenge sometimes to be like well do
7:06 that do how much detail do I have to put
7:08 in here and I'm experience so I know the
7:10 kinds of major things but for a student
7:13 to say like can you stitch together
7:14 everything that's required what is sort
7:16 of given knowledge that you don't have
7:18 to explicitly State and what are things
7:21 that you do have to explicitly State I
7:23 think getting rid of that is nice it
7:26 does help in that sense um so overall I
7:28 think this is a great uh great positive
7:31 uh increase the the addition of fluids
7:34 by the way is also nice I think is also
7:36 um very common for algebra based physics
7:39 classes in college like my my common
7:41 analogy is if you look at like at
7:42 Berkeley just CU I know the numberings
7:45 there physics 7A is the engineering
7:47 physics class the equivalent of physics
7:50 C physics 8A is the equivalent of the um
7:52 non-engineering physics class which is
7:53 kind of like supposed to be like AP
7:55 Physics one and that one they will cover
7:56 fluids they actually cover
7:59 thermodynamics in there usually but you
8:00 know at at least adding in fluids is
8:04 more common whereas in um the physics 7A
8:05 the calculus based or engineering
8:08 physics fluids is sometimes included not
8:10 necessarily always included um so I
8:12 think this is pretty common for more
8:15 alignment with with a topic this is
8:16 definitely better than when they had the
8:18 circuits and electricity back a few
8:22 years ago fluids is a more natural fit
8:24 for um for AP physical one for mechanics
8:26 class I also think the addition of
8:28 fluids will make the exam a little bit
8:30 easier you have more content to cover
8:31 but fluids is one of those that like
8:33 it's an added topic you usually don't
8:35 confuse it with a rotation problem or
8:38 any or or energy or momentum it's a
8:42 pretty like not a standalone topic but
8:44 um it will be easier to identify this is
8:45 a fluid's question so I need to apply
8:47 fluids principles when I'm doing this
8:51 problem okay AP Physics 2 um so they're
8:53 not they're getting rid of the fluids as
8:57 we just talked about um and then um
9:00 they're also renumbering him like unit 9
9:03 through sorry unit 9 through 14 or
9:04 something like that instead of starting
9:06 over at one just to just sort of say
9:08 there's some continuity with AP Physics
9:10 1 um they're bringing back waves okay
9:14 waves disappeared in AP Physics 1 in
9:19 2020 um during Co and um it disappeared
9:20 with electricity electrostatics and now
9:22 and it was kind of like whoa what
9:24 happened to waves cuz in physics 2 you
9:25 would learn electromagnetic waves but
9:27 there was no like treatment of waves
9:29 well that's being brought back in uh
9:31 full treatment of waves mechanical waves
9:34 resonance and sound Doppler effect beats
9:36 things like that um I've actually
9:39 started I've put together the curriculum
9:41 and the lessons actually for sound
9:43 already in the AP Physics 2 curriculum
9:45 if you want to check it out um so I've
9:50 already I've already added that stuff in
9:53 um they're also splitting up the geom
9:55 and physical this is just organization
9:58 still same topic still Optics and still
10:00 um electromagnetic waves but they're
10:02 just sort of like separating them out
10:04 reorganizing a little bit of
10:06 reorganizing this and um I I think this
10:08 one's interesting a more comprehensive
10:10 treatment of circuits I think a a more
10:13 detailed analysis of circuits this one
10:14 we'll kind of see how that goes I
10:16 usually give a pretty detailed treatment
10:18 of circuits um obviously as an
10:21 electrical engineer I know a lot lot lot
10:24 more circuit techniques and Analysis I
10:26 do not think you will need to know that
10:27 much more but it's just sort of like a
10:29 little bit more rigorous that then just
10:31 sort of some of the qualitative stuff
10:34 they've done before um on some of that
10:36 um and they're adding in a new topic
10:38 about black body radiation which
10:39 connects thermodynamics and modern
10:41 physics so and confident scattering so
10:42 these are pretty minor topics these are
10:46 pretty easy things to um cover they're
10:47 not like major things to include in
10:49 there and then the exam format will be
10:51 identical to the AP Physics one change
10:55 so again decrease to 40 mcqs shorten the
10:57 time so more time there and then again
10:58 the same four techniqu so there's going
11:01 to be this alignment between AP Physics
11:04 1 and 2 um in terms of the exam format
11:07 cuz you know in 2024 right for you guys
11:08 the last one who just took the exam it
11:12 was four frqs versus uh five F frqs in
11:14 AP Physics 1 a little bit inconsistent
11:16 so now it's going to be standardized
11:18 going to be very similar almost in ex
11:20 identical exam format that's probably
11:21 the biggest change that leads us into AP
11:23 Physics C is that there's no real
11:27 content changes but we are doing the
11:29 exact same things that AP phys phys 1
11:32 and 2 so now there's an alignment
11:34 between AP Physics C exams and AP
11:37 Physics 1 and 2 exams to make them more
11:40 similar um you are guys are getting a
11:43 huge change in timing in order to align
11:46 with the AP Physics 1 and two you you
11:47 went from 40 you're going to go to
11:49 you're going to go from 35 to 40 but
11:51 look at this you're doubling your time
11:54 here okay not doubling but like a huge
11:56 increase in time so again going up to
11:58 that 2 minutes per time you know I've
12:00 done the practice test for AP Physics C
12:02 I've gone through them honestly I think
12:04 this is a good change the AP Physics C
12:07 multiple choice and frqs tend to be
12:09 heavily heavily time pressured in the
12:12 past which is why the curve was so
12:14 generous it was so generous that like it
12:16 was very very difficult for students to
12:19 complete and have a high accuracy I I
12:21 think there's no one ever gets a perfect
12:24 score on the AP Physics C exams because
12:26 of the intense time pressure you're
12:28 under I don't think it's like a
12:30 necessarily a good thing in terms of
12:32 like you know identifying whether or not
12:35 you're good at physics I I think you
12:37 know it needs to be timed I think the
12:38 time pressure was a little intense
12:40 before so I think this is going to be
12:43 better I think what you'll see as a
12:45 result of this is that the scoring is
12:48 going to be a little bit tougher it's
12:50 not going to be that 50 60% to get a
12:52 five that you need AP Physics I think
12:55 the threshold will be higher closer to
12:58 AP Physics 1 and two in order to get
12:59 that five so for for some of you might
13:01 think the test is easier I think the the
13:03 threshold for getting a five is actually
13:05 going to be higher because more people
13:07 are going to do better because more
13:09 people are not just going to be getting
13:11 things wrong simply because of the time
13:13 pressure okay the frq Styles it used to
13:16 be three F frqs 15 minutes per frq for
13:18 45 minutes total now you'll get four F
13:21 frqs that are um good I think the other
13:23 important thing of this four F frqs is
13:25 with three f frqs it was always tough to
13:27 give you a question at every topic you
13:30 kind of missed the topic some sometimes
13:32 now with this new change of having these
13:35 frqs similar to the AP Physics 1 and 2
13:36 and then you have four of them you're
13:38 definitely going to hit a lot more of
13:39 the topic so it's not going to be as
13:42 much R RNG when it comes to like what
13:43 kind of questions and what kind of
13:45 topics you're going to be tested on this
13:46 is going to give you a more
13:48 comprehensive look at all of the topics
13:50 and be tested on everything instead of
13:52 just being like hey this year I didn't
13:55 get a rotation question woo lucky me so
13:57 there's kind of like that that kind of
14:00 um uh advance es for having the the
14:02 questions like this and then you're
14:04 going to 100 minutes for the frq so way
14:06 less time pressure on the frqs this is
14:08 the one I most familiar with on how time
14:10 pressured the AP Physics C exam used to
14:14 be just because um you were always I
14:16 mean I did all the F frqs in one sitting
14:19 and I was like look takes me about 25
14:22 minutes to do them that's an experienced
14:25 teacher good rule of thumb is that uh an
14:27 exam should take at least two to three
14:29 times longer than the it takes the
14:31 teacher to do it and that's a good rule
14:34 of thumb and there's no way for like 45
14:36 minutes was the fqs before 15 minutes
14:38 for me to do each of those fqs in about
14:41 like say seven six or seven minutes was
14:45 a little bit unrealistic okay so um I
14:47 think this is going to be a good like
14:50 good good change to the exam format I'm
14:52 actually really excited for this even if
14:53 some of you feel like well now it's a
14:56 huge longer exam I know the downside
14:58 being that you feel like you won't be
15:01 able to do it one afternoon um but it is
15:02 a better assessment you got to think
15:04 that this is a test that's supposed to
15:07 assess your entire year there's I've
15:10 never seen a physics final over a whole
15:13 semester in the entire mechanics be
15:16 simply like a 90minut exam like that is
15:18 going to cut out so much stuff so this
15:20 is going to be a better representation a
15:23 better evaluation and a better thorough
15:25 treatment of like what it is that you
15:28 guys have learned over the past um over
15:32 the past topic enm going to be primarily
15:34 the same there's a there's a few oh I
15:36 did talk about some of these things um
15:39 they were talking about um uh using
15:44 similar language as AP Physics 1 um so
15:46 basically like stronger alignment
15:48 between some of the terminology their
15:50 terminology was sometimes misaligned so
15:51 they're just going to be more consistent
15:54 so um enm is going to be very similar
15:56 with AP Physics 2 they're going to align
15:57 they're going to align some of the
16:01 curriculum um um um and then they're
16:03 going to add in a couple of minor topics
16:06 like LC circuits which is like AA very
16:08 rarely maybe on a practice test you
16:09 would have seen an LC circuit they're
16:11 going to do a more in- depth or make
16:13 make sure that you understand what an LC
16:15 circuit is uh some of you might be like
16:17 who taken AP Physics enn might be like
16:19 what the heck is LZ circuit it's a
16:20 little oscillator that happens but
16:23 sometimes we talk about um it not being
16:25 tested very heavily but that's going to
16:27 be like a more important topic now that
16:29 they have more a longer exam to evaluate
16:32 more of your understanding um so
16:33 stronger alignment and then basically
16:36 some ring of the units content wise
16:38 nothing really major in the enm it's
16:40 really about the exam format which is
16:42 identical to the physics C mechanics
16:44 changes too again all the things that I
16:48 think are really good longer exam format
16:51 um less time pressured um com
16:53 encompassing more of the topics you're
16:54 supposed to know for those things I
16:56 think those are all great things for AP
16:58 Physics C the downside being that you
17:00 won't NE NE it will be harder to
17:03 schedule both AP exams cuz they will be
17:05 full three-hour exams so that means like
17:07 you're going to have to you know pick
17:10 and choose a little bit or scheduling is
17:12 if you're if you're on a case where
17:14 you're taking both of these exams um it
17:16 could be a little bit you know more
17:17 overlap with your schedule with your
17:21 other AP exams so anyway um put in the
17:22 comments below if you have any other
17:24 follow-up questions I will be doing a
17:27 more depth uh look at what each of those
17:30 frq Styles going to be in the com months
17:32 um just to help you prep for what it is
17:34 that the exam format that uh you're
17:35 going to be looking what what it's going
17:38 to be looking like just because um and
17:39 and I you know I'm going to probably be
17:42 busy trying to
17:45 extract past questions that align with
17:46 those things but put in the comments
17:49 below if you have any other questions or
17:51 any comments or any thoughts about the
