Mechanics

Mechanics is one of the oldest branches of physics, with a history stretching back to the ancients' ideas about motion. In this topic we shall really get to grips with the main Newtonian concepts of forces, momentum and acceleration, and banish all vestiges of pre-Newtonian thinking from our world-view.

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Notes

• Scalars and vectors
• VPython vectors
• VPython motion in 1D
• VPython ball in a box
• Hooke's Law

Questions

• Scalars and vectors
• Resolution of vectors
• Resultants I
• Resultants III
• Linear motion I
• Projectiles I
• Moments
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