⚛️ New York Physical Setting/Physics Regents Exam Past Papers (2003-2025)
Access the complete collection of official New York State Physical Setting/Physics Regents examination past papers, answer booklets, scoring keys, rating guides, and conversion charts from June 2003 to June 2025. Essential resources for students studying mechanics, energy, waves, electricity, magnetism, and modern physics.
📋 Exam Format: The Physical Setting/Physics Regents consists of multiple parts completed over 3 hours. Part A includes approximately 35 multiple-choice questions covering all topics. Part B contains short-answer and calculation questions. Part C features extended constructed-response questions requiring detailed explanations and multi-step calculations. Reference Tables for Physical Setting/Physics are provided during the exam.
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🎯 Key Content Areas in Physics
Mechanics - Kinematics
15-20% of contentMotion in one and two dimensions, displacement, velocity, acceleration, free fall, projectile motion, relative velocity, vector analysis, graphing motion, and kinematic equations.
Mechanics - Dynamics
15-20% of contentNewton's laws of motion, force diagrams, friction (static and kinetic), normal force, tension, centripetal force, circular motion, universal gravitation, and gravitational fields.
Energy & Momentum
15-20% of contentWork, power, kinetic energy, potential energy (gravitational and elastic), conservation of energy, impulse, momentum, conservation of momentum, elastic and inelastic collisions.
Electricity & Magnetism
20-25% of contentElectric charges and fields, electric potential and potential energy, current, resistance, Ohm's law, series and parallel circuits, electric power, magnetic fields, electromagnetism, electromagnetic induction.
Waves & Sound
10-15% of contentWave characteristics (wavelength, frequency, period, amplitude), mechanical waves, transverse and longitudinal waves, wave speed, reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference, standing waves, resonance, Doppler effect.
Optics
10-15% of contentLight as electromagnetic wave, reflection, refraction, Snell's law, total internal reflection, mirrors (plane, concave, convex), lenses (converging, diverging), ray diagrams, image formation, optical instruments.
Modern Physics
10-15% of contentDual nature of light (wave-particle duality), photoelectric effect, photon energy, atomic energy levels, emission and absorption spectra, nuclear structure, radioactive decay, mass-energy equivalence, nuclear reactions.
Mathematical Skills & Reference Tables
Critical throughout examUnit conversions, significant figures, scientific notation, algebraic manipulation, trigonometry, graphing and data analysis, vector operations, using Reference Tables for Physical Setting/Physics effectively.
📖 How to Use These Past Papers Effectively
- Master the Reference Tables: Familiarize yourself with the Physical Setting/Physics Reference Tables before taking practice exams. Know where to find formulas, constants, and data quickly.
- Practice under timed conditions: Complete full exams within the 3-hour time limit to develop pacing strategies and build stamina for extended calculation problems.
- Show all work systematically: In constructed-response sections, write equations, substitute values with units, and show all calculation steps. Partial credit is awarded for correct problem-solving approaches.
- Focus on unit analysis: Always include units in calculations and check that final answers have correct units. Unit errors are common and can be avoided with careful attention.
- Review rating guides carefully: Study the scoring rubrics to understand how partial credit is awarded and what constitutes a complete response to calculation and explanation questions.
- Practice drawing diagrams: Many physics problems require free-body diagrams, ray diagrams, circuit diagrams, or wave diagrams. Practice clear, labeled sketches.
- Build a formula sheet: While formulas are provided in Reference Tables, create your own sheet organizing formulas by topic with notes on when to use each one.
- Analyze your mistakes: After checking answers, identify whether errors were conceptual misunderstandings, mathematical mistakes, or misreading the Reference Tables. Address weak areas systematically.
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