As I’ve mentioned, I’m spending some time this summer preparing for the AP Physics B course that we will be teaching for the first time this fall. I recently finished creating the assessments for this course.

With one exception (fluids multiple choice), all questions are from previous AP Physics B exams. Thanks to the handy indexes available from Secure PGP, it was relatively easy to review relevant questions and problems and choose those I wanted.

While compiling the assessments, I refined the granularity of the units a bit.

Fall Semester

• Special Relativity
• Kinematics
• Statics and Dynamics
• Fluid Mechanics
• Work, Energy, Power
• Thermodynamics
• Linear Momentum
• Oscillations, Gravity, Waves
• Capstone Project

Spring Semester

• Electrostatics
• Electric Circuits
• Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetism
• Geometric Optics
• Physical Optics
• Particle Physics
• Atomic Physics and Quantum Effects
• Nuclear Physics
• Cosmology

For each unit, I compiled a quiz that contains representative free response problems to be used as a formative assessment. I then created an end-of-unit exam consisting of multiple choice and free response questions. The exam is intended to be completed in a 50-minute class period or less. To support the flavor of standards-based grading that I’m using in this class, I also created a reassessment consisting of multiple choice and free response questions. Scoring rubrics for all free response questions have also been compiled for each assessment.

I uploaded the assessments as an archive for each semester to Secure PGP. I included the original Pages documents as well as versions exported as PDFs and Word files. I hope that some of you find these helpful. Please let me know if you find any mistakes.