Vectors

• What is a vector and a scalar quantity?
• Notation
• Position vectors
• Equal and negative vectors
• Addition and subtraction of vectors
  • example 1
  • example 2
• Magnitude of a 2 dimensional vector
• Unit vectors
• Exam questions on velocity vectors

Kinematics

• Displacement

Displacement Time Graphs

• Displacement time graphs

Motion in a Straight Line

• Motion in a straight line with constant acceleration (suvat)
  • Horizontal motion
    • example 1
    • example 2
  • Vertical motion under gravity
    • book falling from a shelf
    • stone thrown upwards at ground level
    • ball thrown upwards from a balcony
• Exam Questions

Velocity Time Graphs

• Velocity-time graphs
  • example 1
  • example 2
• Exam questions

Vector Methods

• Using vectors (still to be completed)
  • Exam Questions : velocity vectors

Statics of a particle

• Mass - weight
• Force diagrams - Newton's 3rd law

Resolving Forces

• Resolving forces
  • Resultant forces
    • two forces at an angle
      • example
    • three or more forces at an angle
      • example

Equilibrium

• Equilibrium of a particle
  • example
• Exam Questions

Friction

• What is friction, limiting equilibrium and the coefficient of friction?
  • friction example 1
  • friction example 2
• Exam Questions

Equlibrium of a rigid body

Moments

• What is the moment of a force?
• Horizontal rods / planks / beams in equilibrium resting on :

• one support
• two supports
• Tilting
  • Tilting example
• Exam Questions

Dynamics

Newton's Law of Motion : F=ma

• Newton's law of motion : F=ma
  • Motion on a horizontal rough plane
    • example 1
    • example 2
    • example 3
• Motion on a smooth inclined plane
  • example 1
  • example 2
  • example 3
• Motion on a rough inclined plane
  • example 1

Connected Particles

• Vertical strings over a smooth pulley
• Horizontal planes

• Smooth horizontal plane with string passing over a pulley
• Inclined planes
  • Particle on a rough inclined plane with string passing over a smooth pulley
• Force on pulleys
  • Force on a pulley
• Exam questions on connected particles
  • Exam Questions

Momentum and impulse

• Two particles colliding and then separating
• Two trucks colliding and moving off as one particle
• A bullet being fired from a gun
  • Exam Questions
• Impulse
  • Exam Questions