Three AP Physics courses. One coherent place to teach, practice, and review.
Phab Physics brings together daily classroom handouts, randomized online practice, interactive guided lessons, teacher keys, and class progress tools for AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, and AP Physics C. The materials share one sequence and one teaching philosophy, so students can meet the same major idea in class, on paper, and online.
Alex Reinhardt ·
teaches AP Physics at Allendale Columbia School in Rochester, NY. Phab Physics began as a way to give students useful practice with immediate feedback. It grew into the set of materials Alex wanted at hand while planning, teaching, circulating, reteaching, and reviewing.
Course Coverage
The core sequences for all three courses are built and available. Each course combines tiered practice, guided experiences, and printable classroom materials; teacher accounts provide answer keys, guides, and class progress tools.
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AP Physics 1
Algebra-based mechanics
Kinematics through fluids, plus an optional six-day Math Prep unit with Algebra Blocks.
Core units8
Course days71
Daily generator slots1,045
Guided lesson days54
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AP Physics 2
The complete second course
Thermodynamics, E&M, optics, waves, and modern physics, built to the current pacing sequence.
Core units7
Course days101
Daily generator slots1,010
Guided lesson days71
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AP Physics C
Mechanics and E&M
Seven Mechanics units and six Electricity & Magnetism units, with calculus woven into the physics.
Core units13
Course days122
Daily generator slots1,623
Guided lesson days95
What “complete” means here: the course backbone is ready to use, not frozen forever. Corrections, better diagrams, new retake options, and stronger representations will continue to be added as the materials are used with real students.
Teaching Philosophy
The 80/20 Principle
Focus on the 20% of content that produces 80% of understanding. Go deep on five things rather than shallow on fifty. Skills compound; coverage doesn't.
See It Before You Solve It
Students need something concrete to predict, watch, sketch, or manipulate before the mathematics can explain it. Sometimes that is a classroom demonstration; sometimes it is a graph, diagram, or simulation. The representation should make the physics worth discussing, not merely decorate the calculation.
Structure Does the Work
A handout should reduce decision fatigue for teachers and students without scripting every classroom. It should make the lesson's purpose and sequence clear, while leaving room for a real object, a familiar demonstration, or a simulation when equipment differs from room to room.
Give the Idea a Second Route
Online practice and guided problems are not just extra assignments. They revisit the day's major lesson in a different form, so a student who did not quite understand it in class has another honest chance for it to click.
What This Site Is For
A dependable classroom backbone: daily handouts, teacher guides, and aligned practice
A second pass for students: guided explanations and new representations when class did not make sense yet
Low-friction practice: fresh numbers, immediate feedback, and a progression from Easy through Boss
Useful teacher visibility: class progress tools without ads or engagement tricks
See It In Action
Guided problems ask students to predict, inspect, and explain a representation — often an interactive simulation. Here is a live example: the classic rolling race. Same mass, same radius: who wins?
Practice problems ladder from
Easy to Boss — every student gets different numbers with instant feedback. These four are real examples
from the Unit 3 "Work" generator bank:
This site does not replace a teacher, laboratory work, or pencil-and-paper problem solving.
Physics still requires sketches, free-body diagrams, derivations, experimental judgment, algebra, and extended explanations. The online work adds another representation and faster feedback; it supports those practices rather than substituting for them.
Resources
Practice Problems — tiered, randomized practice across all three courses
Features — guided lessons, Algebra Blocks, visual representations, and teacher tools
Teachers: Start Here — class setup, progress tracking, teacher guides, and the answer-key vault
Support This Project
Classroom handouts and student practice are free, and the site has no ads. If Phab Physics saves planning time or helps a student understand something difficult, an optional contribution helps cover hosting, tools, and continued improvements.
Contributions are appreciated, never required for students to practice.
Privacy
Phab Physics collects the minimum needed to make practice work: an email address and your
practice progress. No ads, no analytics trackers, no selling data — and guest mode stores
nothing on our servers at all. The full details are in the
Privacy Policy.
Contact
Questions, feedback, or interested in using Phab Physics with your students? Reach out at ahreinhardt@gmail.com