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The whole AP Physics 2 course on one page, plus one page per unit, reviewed every year. Made and checked by the Fiveable Content Team.
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What each unit's one-page cheatsheet covers. Open a unit to read the start of its sheet.
Unit 10: Electric Force, Field, and Potential
Charge & Coulomb's Law · Permittivity, Polarization & Conductors · Electric Field & Potential Relationship · Electric vs. Gravitational Forces · Capacitors: Structure & Capacitance · Capacitor Fields, Motion & Energy · Charge Conservation & Electric Fields · Field Representations & Equilibrium · Electric Potential Energy & Potential
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The whole AP Physics 2 course on one page, plus one page per unit, reviewed every year. Made and checked by the Fiveable Content Team.
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10.6 Capacitors
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10.7 Conservation of Electric Energy
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10.4 Electric Potential Energy
Formula sheet
A cheatsheet condenses a whole course into the facts you actually need on exam day. The AP Physics 2 cheatsheets on this page summarize the key formulas, concepts, and definitions from each unit so you can review the entire course at a glance.
They work best as a final review: skim the one-page summary, spot the units you want to strengthen, then go deeper with the AP Physics 2 study guides. The visual cheatsheets in the gallery are organized by unit, and you can generate your own for any topic you want a quick refresher on.