AP Physics C · Mechanics

Are you ready to walk into MIT, Caltech, or any top engineering program already thinking like you belong there?

AP Physics C: Mechanics — the class that separates students who talk about engineering from students who've already proven they can think like one. Taught by an IIT engineering graduate with 8+ years turning this exam into a launchpad, not a roadblock.

A straight-line path. Follow it and score.
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Learn the unit
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Work the problems in order
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Get the trap called out
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Walk in and score
How every problem is worked
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Answer, stated first
(C) a = 2.4 m/s², down the incline
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Full working, every step
τ = Iα → a = g sinθ / (1 + I/mR²)
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The trap, named
Students drop the rotational inertia term and use a = g sinθ.
No filler, no hand-waving.
Why this class matters

Most students never take it. That's exactly the point.

AP Physics C: Mechanics isn't required at most schools. It's calculus-based, it's harder than Physics 1, and it's the class ambitious students choose — not the one they're assigned.

Admissions officers know that. Engineering programs know that. A 5 here doesn't just say you learned physics. It says you sought out the hardest version of it, on purpose.

The course

Everything you need to master Mechanics — nothing you don't.

Ten units, starting from the calculus itself. Full calculus integration. Real AP-level problem sets, not simplified versions that fall apart the moment the real exam gets creative.

All of AP Physics C →
Unit 0
Intro to Calculus
Derivatives, integrals, and graphs — the math foundation everything else builds on.
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Unit 1
Vectors
Vector algebra, dot and cross products. The language all of AP Physics C depends on.
3 problems
Unit 2
Kinematics
Motion in one and two dimensions, projectiles, and the calculus definitions of velocity and acceleration.
Coming soon
Unit 3
Newton's Laws of Motion
Free-body diagrams, friction, tension, and the resistive-force differential equations AP actually asks for.
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Unit 4
Circular Motion
Centripetal acceleration, banked curves, and non-uniform circular motion.
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Unit 5
Work, Energy & Power
Work as an integral, conservative forces, potential energy functions, and energy-diagram reasoning.
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Unit 6
Center of Mass
Center of mass position and motion, collisions, impulse, and momentum conservation.
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Unit 7
Rotational Motion
Torque, moment of inertia, rotational kinematics, and rolling without slipping.
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Unit 8
Simple Harmonic Motion
SHM from the differential equation up: springs, pendulums, and energy in oscillation.
Coming soon
Unit 9
Gravitation
Newton's law of gravitation, orbital mechanics, and gravitational potential energy.
Coming soon
Standing resources
Resource
Question Bank
Every AP Physics C: Mechanics problem in one place, searchable by unit, topic, and difficulty. Exam-Level, Challenge, and Stretch problems for every subtopic.
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Resource
PYQ Solutions
Fully solved past AP Physics C free-response questions — every step explained, common traps flagged.
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portrait — Dikshant at the board
The instructor

Taught by someone who's done both sides of it.

Dikshant studied engineering at IIT, then spent 8+ years teaching AP Physics C to students aiming for exactly where you're aiming. He's not teaching from a textbook — he's teaching from having actually used this material, then having taught thousands of hours of it since.

IIT
Engineering graduate
8+ yrs
Teaching AP Physics C
Calculus-first
Kept where it belongs
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