Advanced Placement (AP) Physics B was a physics course administered by the College Board as part of its Advanced Placement program.
It was equivalent to a year-long introductory university course covering Newtonian mechanics, electromagnetism, fluid mechanics, thermal physics, waves, optics, and modern physics.
Overall, the exam was configured to approximately cover a set percentage of each of the five target categories:[2] According to the College Board web site, the Physics B course provided "a foundation in physics for students in the life sciences, a pre medical career path, and some applied sciences, as well as other fields not directly related to science.
Like AP Physics B, both are algebra-based, and both are designed to be taught as year-long courses.
[4] The grade distributions for the Physics B scores from 2010 until its discontinuation in 2014 are as follows: