Chapter III: Answers to the 2004 AP Physics B Exam

Section I: Multiple Choice Section I Answer Key and Percent Answering Correctly Analyzing Your Students Performance on the Multiple-Choice Section Diagnostic Guide for the 2004 AP Physics B Exam Section II: Free Response Comments from the Chief Reader Scoring Guidelines, Sample Student Responses, and Commentary Question 1 Question 2 Question 3

Question 4 Question 5 Question 6

Section I: Multiple Choice

Listed below are the correct answers to the multiple-choice questions, the percent of AP students who answered each question correctly by AP grade, and the total percent answering correctly.

Section I Answer Key and Percent Answering Correctly

Item
No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

Correct
Answer E B E E B A E E C B D C A C A A B E D D E D C B B A C E A C E B B A D

Percent Correct by Grade

5 94 81 58 83 98 97 63 84 96 92 73 67 61 70 58 71 58 64 91 54 85 56 94 94 87 67 80 91 97 46 95 91 72 70 54 4 88 63 45 65 92 88 46 70 90 75 65 48 41 57 43 51 33 32 74 23 70 44 88 83 75 50 59 80 96 24 92 87 62 38 25 3 78 44 37 45 80 73 33 59 83 51 56 37 29 50 31 36 18 16 52 10 58 41 83 71 63 38 37 64 93 16 90 84 58 18 14 2 67 29 31 29 63 56 27 50 73 30 49 28 22 45 21 26 11 8 36 7 51 40 78 56 49 28 22 46 89 11 85 75 49 9 10 1 50 21 27 15 35 32 18 44 51 18 34 23 17 38 11 18 11 6 18 8 40 38 70 38 32 19 13 27 77 11 72 52 34 7 11

Total Percent
Correct 72 43 37 42 69 64 34 58 75 47 52 37 30 49 29 36 22 20 48 16 57 42 81 64 57 37 36 56 89 18 85 75 52 23 19

Item
No. 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70

Correct
Answer C E A E B A B E E D D C D A E A A E E D D A E E C C B D D D D C E C A

Percent Correct by Grade

5 59 71 66 46 87 94 79 72 85 51 43 57 90 91 57 55 75 26 85 31 55 78 57 71 26 87 58 29 66 33 72 74 69 60 33 4 40 56 49 19 75 90 55 47 74 45 21 36 76 82 35 31 53 12 72 22 33 61 35 50 8 78 39 8 58 16 59 48 50 33 16 3 27 45 37 8 63 78 36 26 61 46 15 25 57 70 22 19 33 7 56 14 20 44 22 35 6 72 23 3 49 10 44 28 40 23 10 2 19 37 27 4 48 59 27 15 50 46 13 19 39 59 17 14 20 6 39 9 12 30 14 23 7 66 15 2 41 6 32 16 34 18 7 1 13 28 20 4 28 29 24 10 32 42 14 16 23 37 15 13 10 5 19 9 10 15 10 15 10 53 10 4 31 8 17 13 26 19 9

Total Percent
Correct 28 44 36 12 56 65 39 29 56 45 18 27 52 64 25 23 32 9 49 15 22 41 23 34 10 69 25 7 46 13 40 30 40 27 13

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Analyzing Your Students Performance on the Multiple-Choice Section

If you give your students the 2004 exam for practice, you may want to analyze their results to nd overall strengths and weaknesses in their understanding of AP Physics B. The following diagnostic worksheet will help you do this; feel free to photocopy it and distribute it to your students for completion. 1. In each section, students should insert a check mark for each correct answer. 2. Add together the total number of correct answers for each section. 3. Compare the students number of correct answers for each section with the average number correct for that section. In addition, under each item, the percent of AP students who answered correctly is shown, so students can analyze their performance on individual items. This information will be helpful in deciding how students should plan their study time.

Diagnostic Guide for the 2004 AP Physics B Exam

Mechanics (Average number correct: 13.3 out of 26) Question # Correct/Incorrect Percent of Students Answering Correctly 72 43 37 42 69 64 34 58 75 47 52 89 18 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 29 30

Question # Correct/Incorrect Percent of Students Answering Correctly

31

32

33

40

41

42

43

44

61

62

63

67

68

85

75

52

56

65

39

29

36

69

25

30

40

Electricity and Magnetism (Average number correct: 6.2 out of 18) Question # Correct/Incorrect Percent of Students Answering Correctly 49 29 36 22 20 48 16 57 45 18 27 52 64 46 13 40 27 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 45 46 47 48 49 64 65 66 69 70

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Diagnostic Guide for the 2004 AP Physics B Exam (continued)

Fluids and Thermal Physics (Average number correct: 3.4 out of 9) Question # Correct/Incorrect Percent of Students Answering Correctly 37 30 42 81 44 36 12 22 41 12 13 22 23 37 38 39 56 57

Waves and Optics, Atomic and Nuclear Physics (Average number correct: 5.4 out of 17) Question # Correct/Incorrect Percent of Students Answering Correctly 64 57 37 36 56 23 19 28 25 23 32 9 49 15 23 34 10 24 25 26 27 28 34 35 36 50 51 52 53 54 55 58 59 60

Number Correct
Mechanics Number of Questions Average Number Correct My Number Correct Electricity and Magnetism 18 6.2 (34.4%) Fluids and Thermal Physics 9 3.4 (37.8%) Waves and Optics, Atomic and Nuclear Physics 17 5.4 (31.8%)

26 13.3 (51.2%)

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