College Board-Aligned
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
This page follows the current official College Board course outline. Each unit/topic links to original local notes built for studying, practice, and review.
Course Snapshot
6
official units
21
linked topics/skills
Alignment Sources
Units & Topics
Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss’s Law
On the AP exam: 15%-25% of multiple-choice score.
- Unit 8 Topic 1: Coulomb’s Law Original Notes
- Unit 8 Topic 2: Electric fields due to point charges or combinations of charges Original Notes
- Unit 8 Topic 3: Electric Flux and Gauss’s Law Original Notes
- Unit 8 Topic 4: Electric fields of charge distributions Original Notes
Unit 9: Electric Potential
On the AP exam: 10%-20% of multiple-choice score.
- Unit 9 Topic 1: Electric potential Original Notes
- Unit 9 Topic 2: Electric potential due to point charges and uniform fields Original Notes
- Unit 9 Topic 3: Electric potential due to configurations of charge Original Notes
- Unit 9 Topic 4: Energy conservation when electric charges interact with each other or electric fields Original Notes
Unit 10: Conductors and Capacitors
On the AP exam: 10%-15% of multiple-choice score.
- Unit 10 Topic 1: Electrostatics with conductors Original Notes
- Unit 10 Topic 2: Capacitors Original Notes
- Unit 10 Topic 3: Dielectrics Original Notes
Unit 11: Electric Circuits
On the AP exam: 15%-25% of multiple-choice score.
- Unit 11 Topic 1: Current and resistance Original Notes
- Unit 11 Topic 2: Current, resistance, and power Original Notes
- Unit 11 Topic 3: Steady-state direct-current circuits with batteries and resistors only Original Notes
- Unit 11 Topic 4: Gauss’s Law Original Notes
Unit 12: Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetism
On the AP exam: 10%-20% of multiple-choice score.
- Unit 12 Topic 1: Forces on moving charges in magnetic fields Original Notes
- Unit 12 Topic 2: Forces on current carrying wires in magnetic fields Original Notes
- Unit 12 Topic 3: Fields of long current carrying wires Original Notes
- Unit 12 Topic 4: The Biot-Savart Law and Ampère’s Law Original Notes
Unit 13: Electromagnetic Induction
On the AP exam: 10%-20% of multiple-choice score.
Notes
Original EduCompanion Notes
These local notes follow the current College Board AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism unit/topic list.
Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss’s Law
Unit 8 Topic 1: Coulomb’s Law
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 8 Topic 2: Electric fields due to point charges or combinations of charges
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 8 Topic 3: Electric Flux and Gauss’s Law
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 8 Topic 4: Electric fields of charge distributions
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 9: Electric Potential
Unit 9 Topic 1: Electric potential
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 9 Topic 2: Electric potential due to point charges and uniform fields
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 9 Topic 3: Electric potential due to configurations of charge
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 9 Topic 4: Energy conservation when electric charges interact with each other or electric fields
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 10: Conductors and Capacitors
Unit 11: Electric Circuits
Unit 11 Topic 1: Current and resistance
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 11 Topic 2: Current, resistance, and power
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 11 Topic 3: Steady-state direct-current circuits with batteries and resistors only
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Unit 11 Topic 4: Gauss’s Law
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Unit 12: Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetism
Unit 12 Topic 1: Forces on moving charges in magnetic fields
Open College Board-aligned original notes
Unit 12 Topic 2: Forces on current carrying wires in magnetic fields
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Unit 12 Topic 3: Fields of long current carrying wires
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Unit 12 Topic 4: The Biot-Savart Law and Ampère’s Law
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Shared Google Drive Notes
No shared Google Drive notes are currently mapped for this course. Local original notes are still available above.
Practice Questions
Each note page includes a quick practice prompt. Use these unit practice cards to review the same way AP questions ask you to apply ideas, evidence, and reasoning.
Unit 8 Practice
Use the linked notes for Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss’s Law to answer AP-style prompts, then check your explanation against the official topic list.
- Define the most important concept from this unit.
- Apply it to a scenario, graph, source, passage, or data table.
- Explain the reasoning that connects evidence to the answer.
Unit 9 Practice
Use the linked notes for Electric Potential to answer AP-style prompts, then check your explanation against the official topic list.
- Define the most important concept from this unit.
- Apply it to a scenario, graph, source, passage, or data table.
- Explain the reasoning that connects evidence to the answer.
Unit 10 Practice
Use the linked notes for Conductors and Capacitors to answer AP-style prompts, then check your explanation against the official topic list.
- Define the most important concept from this unit.
- Apply it to a scenario, graph, source, passage, or data table.
- Explain the reasoning that connects evidence to the answer.
Unit 11 Practice
Use the linked notes for Electric Circuits to answer AP-style prompts, then check your explanation against the official topic list.
- Define the most important concept from this unit.
- Apply it to a scenario, graph, source, passage, or data table.
- Explain the reasoning that connects evidence to the answer.
Study Guides
Use this as a unit review index. Open each unit, work through the topic notes, then return here to move to the next unit.
Unit 8: Electric Charges, Fields, and Gauss’s Law
4 topics to review, 15%-25% of multiple-choice score
Unit 9: Electric Potential
4 topics to review, 10%-20% of multiple-choice score
Unit 10: Conductors and Capacitors
3 topics to review, 10%-15% of multiple-choice score
Unit 11: Electric Circuits
4 topics to review, 15%-25% of multiple-choice score
Unit 12: Magnetic Fields and Electromagnetism
4 topics to review, 10%-20% of multiple-choice score
Unit 13: Electromagnetic Induction
2 topics to review, 10%-20% of multiple-choice score