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 | Module 1: Describing Motion
Displacement, average and instantaneous velocity, average and instantaneous acceleration.
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| Module 2: Motion in one
Dimension Motion diagrams, motion with constant acceleration.
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| Module 3: Motion in Two or More
Dimensions
Motion in a plane, tangential and radial acceleration, projectile motion, circular motion.
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| Module 4: The
Laws of Motion The concept of force, inertial frames, Newton's 2nd and 3rd law, mass and weight, free-body diagrams.
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| Module 5: Applications of Newton's
Laws
Uniform and non-uniform circular motion, friction, numerical modeling, the fundamental forces.
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| Module 6: Work and Energy
Work done by varying forces, kinetic energy, conservative and non-conservative forces, potential energy, conservation of energy.
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| Module 7: Momentum
Conservation of momentum, impulse, elastic and inelastic collisions, the center of mass, rocket propulsion.
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| Module 8: Rotational
Motion Rotational kinematics, torque, angular momentum, rigid-body motion.
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| Module 9: Oscillatory
Motion Simple harmonic motion, a mass on a spring, a physical pendulum, forced and damped oscillations.
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| Module 10: Waves Sinusoidal traveling waves, superposition and interference, standing waves, reflection, refraction and diffraction, the Doppler effect.
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