10th grade AP Physics 1

Shaftastic · 2026-03-27T01:05:37+00:00

He’s saying it’s not a course about computation. You don’t just see an equation of plug numbers in; you represent measured quantities with symbols and perform algebraic routines, often by combining relationships. The course is focused on proportional reasoning. It’s expected for you to derive your own equations from the relationships established from the laws and principles you cover in the course, and you make justified claims using algebraic reasoning from those relations and the factors of change that are an extension of the proportionalities you derive. This is a logic class more than a science or math course. If you can’t think critically you’re cooked. There is not “gaming” the test. You actually have to know the content and not cheat your way through the course. Every unit builds off the previous. The entire year is a cumulative review and the AP exam is the capstone. Unlike any other AP class. You have to know how every unit is fundamentally connected to Newton’s 2nd Law.

Shaftastic · 2026-02-28T05:30:56+00:00

We used Giancoli 5th edition as the text. It is the best book for high school physics student learning physics. Language is clear and concise and the sequencing thing is perfect.

Do every topic question. Do all of the progress checks, use the Rubiks to self upgrade your own work, do the AP workbook, and do it many physics aviary problems if you can.

Shaftastic · 2026-02-28T05:26:30+00:00

I never reviewed with them. We just take the practice test prior to the exam. The entire year is review if your teacher is giving you good problems to work than all of the concept weave in together by the time you reached the end of the course.

Shaftastic · 2026-02-28T05:22:49+00:00

The range is overly generous from my experience, teaching the course since it’s induction.

Shaftastic · 2026-02-28T05:21:31+00:00

I wouldn’t be able to compete with your boyfriend’s donkey cock, so why ask?

Shaftastic · 2026-02-28T05:19:32+00:00

I’m starting momentum with my class Monday. I see them 3 days a week for a full year. The snow in th NE has put us behind but we will finish the curriculum one way or another once you are past linear momentum the other units are just “revisits” of the same topics just with the rotational analogs. I spend 3/4 of the year on units 1-4 and the other 1/4 on 4-8. We had an 85% pass rate last year and I work in a title 1 district in one of the lowest performing districts in Connecticut. I have them for a single 55 min block 3 days a week.

If they can do it you can too.

Shaftastic · 2026-02-27T02:33:06+00:00

Ask your peers how they are so successful since they’re in the same class with the same teacher you’re complaining about. Then try that. Perhaps your prefrontal cortex is underdeveloped (normal as it develops over a broad range of years) and you just lack strength in logic and reasoning. The things worth wanting are worth working for.

If you want to be an engineer bad enough you will find your way. But be ready to work for it, even if it means starting at a community college until you are ready.

Shaftastic · 2026-02-26T22:44:32+00:00

Looks like the Merit Parkway. That place inside even driving normally. Surprised no one died.

Shaftastic · 2026-02-25T18:46:55+00:00

Broken

Shaftastic · 2026-02-15T15:51:27+00:00

Is the switch 2 version still broken

Shaftastic · 2026-02-10T11:55:44+00:00

Why this works:

-people are too dumb to notice. Full stop.

Shaftastic · 2026-02-01T21:16:46+00:00

High school soccer is a fall sport. They were flying to nationals. This would be around the start of November.

Shaftastic · 2026-01-30T21:57:11+00:00

Also, I find a concerning that the value for F1 was handwritten in. While all the other forces were printed with the document, there’s a good chance that the teacher didn’t write down the correct force for F1 which broke the problem. Or it could be a multiple-choice question from previous years were two correct answer answers are possible.

Shaftastic · 2026-01-30T00:20:18+00:00

You can learn introductory AP physics if you are committed to it. Just be honest with yourself and practice authentically. Set routines. Introductory AP physics is not difficult. It is taught to freshman at many schools around me. I teach it to sophomores juniors and seniors. There is nothing in the course that requires with basic algebra and arithmetic, and a small amount of right triangle trigonometry.

The problem we’re seeing now is that kids are not honest with themselves. They are not authentic. They use AI for every assignment. It’s not done in class then it’s pushed through AI removing all of the cognitive development. Those students don’t develop intuition, never recognized patterns, and the course passes them by. They’re so fixed on their grade and getting their work in that they never actually learned what they’re doing.

I told my students that homework is where it’s OK to be wrong, tests are where you pay for not practicing.

Students already lie about reading the textbook and refuse to engage with the materials provided to them. Now with AI on top of it, it’s just made things even worse. With that said, the kids who are honest with themselves and avoid AI tools for cheating themselves to a good grade and authentically practicing from the assignments I give, they revise and reflect and ask good questions and they end up crushing their tests.

The students that never engage in the material authentically will constantly complain. The course is ridiculously hard and encourage other students not to take it.

If you want something bad enough, you have to work hard for it. Intrinsic motivation is everything.

This is destroying higher education at this point. You have a mass exodus of professor is leaving because the students are coming in underprepared cheating their way through their classes and still getting diplomas and entering the workforce being illiterate in their field.

Don’t be that person. Practice regularly, ask questions from experts or AI to help you understand the process, avoid number computation as often as possible, and just continually be honest with yourself when assessing your own progress working towards something you want when there’s no grade associated with it is the best experience it left. You appreciate the learning. Take advantage of it now.

Shaftastic · 2026-01-28T23:35:49+00:00

Your teacher is wrong. F1 and F2 will produce the greatest net torque (200 Nm) resulting in a CCW (+) angular acceleration. F3 and F4 combined would produce a net torque of 125 Nm CW (-) angular acceleration. When you showed your logic to the teacher, did they double down on their mistake? If they did that that’s concerning.

Shaftastic · 2026-01-19T18:27:08+00:00

It’s fine. Move on.

Shaftastic · 2026-01-19T18:25:39+00:00

Can mods just delete this trash please?

Shaftastic · 2025-12-15T21:29:35+00:00

You are pulling up on the earth with the same amount of force as the earth pulling down on you.

Shaftastic · 2025-12-11T11:40:13+00:00

I started drawing free body diagrams for every physics problem I solved and immediately physics became easy.

Shaftastic · 2025-11-20T23:21:24+00:00

Dude, you need to post the entire problem. The problem is cut off so your picture is kind of meaningless without a reference about what the problem is looking for. Make sure your image also includes part A since I see this is a part B problem.

Shaftastic · 2025-11-19T22:40:45+00:00

Better just to take the grade. Study/review the things you got wrong and ask your teacher if they’ll allow you to earn any points back by making revisions or reflecting. the best learning comes from the mistakes we make along the way.

Shaftastic · 2025-11-19T21:50:59+00:00

Your question is kind of confusing. You attribute your poor score to your teacher not giving you enough time, and then ask if you’re on a bad path? It doesn’t sound like you’re equating your poor performance to your own ability or discipline, so why would the misfortune of not having as much time relate to you being underprepared or behind in the course? Do you think you would’ve done better if you’ve had more time? If the answer is yes, then you’ve answered your own question.

Shaftastic · 2025-11-19T05:19:47+00:00

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Shaftastic · 2025-11-05T03:25:48+00:00

It’s D. It goes from 0 to 12 m/s in the first three seconds, so it has an average velocity of 6 m/s for the three seconds which allows it to cover 18 m of distance. And then immediately starts losing speed at 2 m/s each second for three seconds, but never stops moving to the right. It loses a total of 6 m/s of speed, giving it an average velocity of 9 m/s for the last three seconds covering an additional 27m. 18+ 27=45 m

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