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3 suggested ways to get ahead of the busy pace that will come in the first 2 weeks of January:

1. Go to the **AP Central page** and try any free response problems on Mechanics and Fluids, then look up solutions to see how well you are doing. The link is []. Alternative: use the AP Problem book with the new solution packets that I gave out on Dec 23rd.

2. Start making **flashcards** of all the **formulas** we have had so far in Mechanics and Fluids. Drill over several nights.

3. Get ahead of the work to introduce **Thermodynamics** by watching these movies from the Mechanical Universe series (we will not have time to do them in class, but seeing them first will allow you to keep up with the fast pace in which we will cover thermodynamics when we get back). Click on [|http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html#]

Then scroll down to each of these 4 movies. Hot discoveries about the behavior of gases make the connection between temperature and heat. The Carnot engine, part one, beginning with simple steam The Carnot engine, part two, with profound implications for the behavior of matter and the flow of time through the universe. With the quest for low temperatures came the discovery that all elements can exist in each of the basic states of matter.
 * 45. Temperature and Gas Laws**
 * 46. Engine of Nature**
 * 47. Entropy**
 * 48. Low Temperatures**