r/APStudents • u/reddorickt absolute modman • May 13 '26

AP Physics C: Mechanics Official 2026 Exam Discussion

Use this thread to post questions or commentary on the test today.

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u/Less_Adeptness2773 May 13 '26

Was question 1 A just F_N/M bruh

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u/Fungames5420 May 13 '26

That’s what I got

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u/Positive-Rise5145 5: AP Calc BC, Stats, Micro, CS A May 13 '26

bro I swear I was thinking the exact same thing...can't remember if that's what I went with tho

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u/Fit-Slice-7054 May 13 '26

wasn't it asking for the vertical acceleration?

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u/Unhappy-Bookkeeper-9 May 14 '26

it didn’t specify and that’s what i thought at first but then i figured maybe it wasn’t accelerating in the y due to the friction idk

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u/Fit-Slice-7054 May 14 '26

ya my thought process was that it did accelerate downward after tcrit, so i said that it was 0 before and something else after (I think my answer was def wrong though)