AP Physics 2 Experiment Map | OpenLab Science
OpenLab Science experiments mapped to AP Physics 2 units for classroom planning.
- Travelling wave on a string
- Two-source beats
- Standing wave on a string
- Doppler — approaching source
- Sound intensity vs distance
- Decibel scale at the ear
- Rich timbre (harmonics)
- Pipe resonance
- Ideal gas sandbox
- Kinetic theory sandbox
- Isothermal compression
- Isobaric heating
- Isochoric heating
- Adiabatic expansion
- Hot & cold mixing
- Conduction bar
- Carnot cycle
- Otto cycle
- Refrigerator (reversed Carnot)
- Stirling cycle
- Isothermal expansion — entropy change
- Reversible Carnot cycle — entropy
- Single resistor
- Series resistors
- Parallel resistors
- Switched lamp
- Batteries in series
- Metered circuit
- Two bulbs (series)
- Two bulbs (parallel)
- Short a bulb
- Dimmer (rheostat + bulb)
- Meters placed correctly
- Meters swapped (what not to do)
- RC charging
- RL circuit
- Series RLC
- One positive source charge
- Electric dipole
- Line charge field
- Parallel-plate capacitor
- Isolated conducting sphere
- Same C in a circuit
- Charge in B field
- Current-carrying wire
- Solenoid field
- Changing magnetic flux (ΔB)
- Changing loop area (ΔA)
- Faraday–Lenz (ΔB + ΔA)
- RLC at resonance
- RLC off resonance
- Linked steady-state RLC
- Converging lens — real image
- Focal point — parallel rays
- Magnifier (object inside f)
- Diverging lens — virtual image
- Concave mirror — real image
- Convex mirror — virtual image
- Plane mirror
- Apparent depth (flat interface)
- Total internal reflection
- Two-lens relay
- Compound microscope (angular)
- Two-lens enlarger
- White-light prism
- Minimum deviation
- Flint-glass prism (more dispersion)
- Thin (small-apex) prism
- Water prism (rainbow)
- Lensmaker lens (from radii)
- Normal eye
- Myopia (near-sighted)
- Myopia corrected
- Hyperopia (far-sighted)
- Hyperopia corrected
- Young's double slit
- Single-slit diffraction
- Diffraction grating
- Thin-film interference
- Simple magnifier (angular)
- Astronomical telescope
- Compound microscope (angular)
- Crossed polarizers
- Three-polarizer paradox
- Brewster's angle
- Photoelectric threshold
- Retarding potential
- Sodium photocell
- Compton scattering at 90°
- Compton backscatter (180°)
- Compton scattering at 45°
- Balmer α (Hα) line
- Lyman α line
- Paschen β line
- Carbon-14 decay
- Tc-99m medical tracer
- Iron-56 binding energy
- Electron de Broglie wavelength
- Electron double-slit
- Slow electron wave packet
- Heisenberg electron
- Nuclear-scale confinement
- Position–momentum tradeoff
- Light-clock time dilation
- Muon atmospheric survival
- Length contraction at β = 0.9
- Electron KE: classical vs relativistic