AP Physics 2 placement candidates

These 141 questions from the original textbook cover AP Physics 2 topics. Each has a full prompt and a separate worked answer.

• Braking heat raises temperature · Separate answer
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• Where Celsius and Fahrenheit agree · Separate answer
• Mix two water samples · Separate answer
• Include the calorimeter itself · Separate answer
• Efficient electric kettle · Separate answer
• Brake heating from a stop · Separate answer
• Partial melting after warming ice · Separate answer
• Ice cools a drink · Separate answer
• Steam condenses into water · Separate answer
• Read material properties from a heating curve · Separate answer
• Wax cools and solidifies · Separate answer
• Length of a heated brass wire · Separate answer
• A hole in a heated plate · Separate answer
• Differential expansion of two rails · Separate answer
• Density changes when a liquid expands · Separate answer
• Thermal stress in a constrained steel rod · Separate answer
• Heat conducted through window glass · Separate answer
• Composite wall and interface temperature · Separate answer
• Radiative cooling at the initial instant · Separate answer
• Convective heat transfer from a panel · Separate answer
• Calorimetry with a measured heat leak · Separate answer
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• Gas amount in a sampling vial · Separate answer
• Isothermal piston compression · Separate answer
• Warming a rigid tire · Separate answer
• Weather balloon in colder air · Separate answer
• Mass of nitrogen in a chamber · Separate answer
• Carbon dioxide density · Separate answer
• Competing real-gas corrections · Separate answer
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• Reading a wave’s parameters · Separate answer
• Signed displacement at one event · Separate answer
• Phase difference and resultant amplitude · Separate answer
• Third harmonic on a fixed string · Separate answer
• String tension and travel time · Separate answer
• Beating tuning forks · Separate answer
• Sound speed in a liquid · Separate answer
• Particle displacement in a sound wave · Separate answer
• An isotropic loudspeaker · Separate answer
• Distance needed for a lower sound level · Separate answer
• Two different background noises · Separate answer
• A passing ambulance siren · Separate answer
• A cyclist moving away from a horn · Separate answer
• Doppler shift of a reflected ultrasound signal · Separate answer
• A red ray entering fused silica · Separate answer
• Critical angle at a glass–water boundary · Separate answer
• Transit time in an optical fiber · Separate answer
• Photon flux of a violet LED · Separate answer
• Momentum of an emitted photoelectron · Separate answer
• Speed from a spectral redshift · Separate answer
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• Adjacent resonances determine tension · Separate answer
• A free-end laboratory waveguide · Separate answer
• One fixed end and one free end · Separate answer
• Same mode with different phases · Separate answer
• A zero now need not be a node · Separate answer
• Energy stored in a string mode · Separate answer
• Heat Transfer · question 1 · Separate answer
• Heat Transfer · question 2 · Separate answer
• Heat Transfer · question 3 · Separate answer
• Heat Transfer · question 4 · Separate answer
• Heat Transfer · question 5 · Separate answer
• Latent Heat · question 1 · Separate answer
• Latent Heat · question 2 · Separate answer
• Latent Heat · question 3 · Separate answer
• Latent Heat · question 4 · Separate answer
• Latent Heat · question 5 · Separate answer
• Temperature · question 1 · Separate answer
• Temperature · question 2 · Separate answer
• Temperature · question 3 · Separate answer
• Temperature · question 4 · Separate answer
• Temperature · question 5 · Separate answer
• FFR - Thermal Expansion · question 1 · Separate answer
• FFR - Thermal Expansion · question 2 · Separate answer
• FFR - Thermal Expansion · question 3 · Separate answer
• FFR - Thermal Expansion · question 4 · Separate answer
• FFR - Thermal Expansion · question 5 · Separate answer
• Ideal Gas Law · question 1 · Separate answer
• Ideal Gas Law · question 2 · Separate answer
• Ideal Gas Law · question 3 · Separate answer
• Ideal Gas Law · question 4 · Separate answer
• Ideal Gas Law · question 5 · Separate answer
• Ideal Gas Law · question 1 · Separate answer
• Ideal Gas Law · question 2 · Separate answer
• Ideal Gas Law · question 3 · Separate answer
• Ideal Gas Law · question 4 · Separate answer
• Ideal Gas Law · question 5 · Separate answer
• FFR - More on Fluids · question 1 · Separate answer
• FFR - More on Fluids · question 5 · Separate answer
• Light · question 1 · Separate answer
• Light · question 2 · Separate answer
• Light · question 3 · Separate answer
• Light · question 4 · Separate answer
• Light · question 5 · Separate answer
• Mechanical Waves · question 1 · Separate answer
• Mechanical Waves · question 2 · Separate answer
• Mechanical Waves · question 3 · Separate answer
• Mechanical Waves · question 4 · Separate answer
• Mechanical Waves · question 5 · Separate answer
• Sound Waves · question 1 · Separate answer
• Sound Waves · question 2 · Separate answer
• Sound Waves · question 3 · Separate answer
• Sound Waves · question 4 · Separate answer
• Sound Waves · question 5 · Separate answer
• FFR - Wave-Particles · question 1 · Separate answer
• FFR - Wave-Particles · question 2 · Separate answer
• FFR - Wave-Particles · question 3 · Separate answer
• FFR - Wave-Particles · question 4 · Separate answer
• FFR - Wave-Particles · question 5 · Separate answer
• Simple Harmonics · question 1 · Separate answer
• Simple Harmonics · question 2 · Separate answer
• Simple Harmonics · question 3 · Separate answer
• Simple Harmonics · question 4 · Separate answer
• Simple Harmonics · question 5 · Separate answer
• legacy-complex-q1 · Separate answer
• legacy-complex-q2 · Separate answer
• legacy-complex-q3 · Separate answer