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| Links to related material and teachers' resources |
| Weightlessness vs weightlessness |
| "Imperial units" - slugs and pounds |
Young's modulus, Hooke's law and material properties |
| Simple experiments on coefficients of friction Using a spring balance and an inclined plane to determine coefficients of friction, and whether they depend on normal force or area of contact. |
Wheels and rolling |
| Analysing Motion Using frame grabbing software and spreadsheet software to determine velocity and accleration of an object. |
| Car Physics Acceleration examples: braking with constant force and decelerating with air resistance. Some other problems in car physics |
Background material on gravity |
| Why g is not parallel to Fg The earth's surface is not an inertial frame, because of the earth's rotation. Consequently, in that frame, Σ F ≠ ma. The approximation that mg = Fg is good but not exact. |
Frames of reference for Newton's and Maxwell's laws -- Einstein's relativity |
| Revise vectors |
Weight and contact forces |
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