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What are the SI units for the following?

Length

Time

Mass

Length - Meters

Time - Seconds

Mass - Kilograms

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What is the formula for displacement?

Δx=xx0\Delta\overrightarrow{x}=x-x_0

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What is the formula for average velocity?

vavg=ΔxΔt\overrightarrow{v}_{avg}=\frac{\Delta\overrightarrow{x}}{\Delta t}

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What is the formula for average acceleration?

aavg=ΔvΔt\overrightarrow{a}_{avg}=\frac{\Delta\overrightarrow{v}}{\Delta t}

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What does the slope of a graph tell us?

ΔyunitsΔxunits\frac{\Delta yunits}{\Delta xunits}

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What does area under a graph tell us?

Change in x units times y units

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What does the slope of the position time graph tell us?

Velocity

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What does the slope of the velocity time graph tell us?

Acceleration

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What is constant in all inertial reference frames?

Acceleration

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What does g = 9.8 m⁄s represent?

The acceleration of gravity.

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What does the area under the graph of velocity time tell us?

Displacement = Change in position

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What does the area under the graph of acceleration time tell us?

Change in velocity

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Place each of the eighteen measurements correctly under either scalar and vectors:

acceleration, area, density, displacement, distance, energy, force, impulse, mass, momentum, position, power, pressure, speed, time, velocity, volume, and work.

Scalars: Distance, Speed, Time, Mass, Work, Energy, Power, Pressure, Area, Volume, Density

Vectors: Acceleration, Displacement, Position, Velocity, Force, Momentum, Impulse

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What is missing from each kinematic equation that makes it useful?

v=v0+atv=v_0+at

x=x0+v0t+12at2x=x_0+v_0t+\frac12at^2

v2=v02+2a(xx0)v^2=v_0^2+2a\left(x-x_0\right)

v=v0+atv=v_0+at No position

x=x0+v0t+12at2x=x_0+v_0t+\frac12at^2 No final velocity

v2=v02+2a(xx0)v^2=v_0^2+2a\left(x-x_0\right) No time

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What are the six trigonometric functions equal to?

sinθ\sin\theta=

cosθ\cos\theta=

tanθ\tan\theta=

sinθ=opphyp\sin\theta=\frac{opp}{hyp}

cosθ=adjhyp\cos\theta=\frac{adj}{hyp}

tanθ=oppadj\tan\theta=\frac{opp}{adj}

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What does the following equation find?

xcm=ΣmixiΣmi\overrightarrow{x}_{\operatorname{cm}}=\frac{\Sigma m_{i}\overrightarrow{x}_{i}}{\Sigma m_{i}}

Center of mass

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What does Newton’s First Law say?

An objects velocity will not change unless acted on by a

force.

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Newton’s Second Law gives us this formula, what is another way to use this formula?

asys=ΣFmsys=Fnetmsys\overrightarrow{a}_{sys}=\frac{\Sigma\overrightarrow{F}}{m_{sys}}=\frac{\overrightarrow{F}_{net}}{m_{sys}}

F=maF=ma

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What does Newton’s Third Law say?

Forces exist in pairs.

FAonB=FBonA\overrightarrow{F}_{AonB}=-\overrightarrow{F}_{BonA}

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What does mass measure?

The object’s resistance to change in motion

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The SI unit force is the Newton, what is the Newton equal to?

kgms2\operatorname{kg}\frac{m}{s^2}

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What do each of the variables in the equation from Newton represent? G, m1, m2, r

Fg=G(m1m2)r2\left\vert\overrightarrow{F}_{g}\right\vert=\frac{G\left(\operatorname{m_1m}_2\right)}{r^2}

G – Universal gravitational constant

m1 – mass of first object

m2 – mass of second object

r – distance between two objects

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What is the formula for weight?

Weight =mgmg

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What are force that need to be considered in the sum of forces?

Gravity FgF_{g}

Normal Force Fn=nF_{n}=n

Tension FTF_{T}

Kinetic Friction Ff=FkF_{f}=F_{k}

Static Friction Ff=FsF_{f}=F_{s}

Spring Force FsF_{s}

Applied Force Fa=FF_{a}=F

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Which force of friction is represented below and what is the difference between the two formulas for friction?

FμFn\left\vert\overrightarrow{F}\right\vert\le\left\vert\mu\overrightarrow{F}n\right\vert_{}

F=μFn\left\vert\overrightarrow{F}\right\vert=\left\vert\mu\overrightarrow{F}n\right\vert_{}

FμFn\left\vert\overrightarrow{F}\right\vert\le\left\vert\mu\overrightarrow{F}n\right\vert_{}Static Friction

F=μFn\left\vert\overrightarrow{F}\right\vert=\left\vert\mu\overrightarrow{F}n\right\vert_{} Kinetic Friction

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What does Hooke’s Law (the equation below) apply to?

F=kΔx\overrightarrow{F}=-k\Delta\overrightarrow{x}

Spring force based on displacement and spring constant

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In circular motion what does this formula give us?

ac=v2ra_{c}=\frac{v^2}{r}

Centripetal acceleration from velocity and radius

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In circular motion, what does T represent?

The period of the motion, the time it takes to complete

one circle.

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How many circles an object completes in one second in circular motion is known as frequency What is the formula for frequency?

f=1Tf=\frac{1}{T}

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What does mechanical energy care about?

Motion and position

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The SI unit of energy is what? What is it equivalent to?

Joule

J=Nm=kgm2s2J=N\cdot m=\frac{\operatorname{kg}\cdot m^2}{s^2}

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What does the following formula find?

W=Fd=FdcosθW=F_{\Vert}d=Fd\cos\theta

Work from force and displacement

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What does the following formula find?

K=12mv2K=\frac12mv^2

Kinetic energy from mass and velocity

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What is this formula called? What does it connect?

ΔK=ΣWi=ΣFidi\Delta K=\Sigma W_{i}=\Sigma F_{\Vert i}d_{i}

Work Energy Theorem

Connects work with kinetic energy.

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What does the area under the graph of the force vs displacement tell us?

Work = Δ\DeltaKinetic Energy

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What are the main conservative forces?

Gravity and springs

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What does the following formula find?

ΔUg=mgΔy\Delta U_{g}=mg\Delta y

Change in potential energy of gravity from mass, the acceleration of gravity and vertical displacement.

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What does the following formula find?

ΔUs=12k(Δx)2\Delta U_{s}=\frac12k\left(\Delta x\right)^2

Change in potential energy of spring from spring constant and displacement

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What does the following formula find?

UG=GM1m2rU_{G}=-\frac{GM_1m_2}{r}

Universal gravitational potential energy from universal gravitational constant, two masses and the distance between their centers

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What deos the following formula find?

Pavg=WΔt=ΔEΔtP_{avg}=\frac{W}{\Delta t}=\frac{\Delta E}{\Delta t}

Average power from either work and change in time or change in energy and change in time

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What does the following formula find?

Pinst=fiv=FvcosθP_{inst}=f_{||i}v=Fvcos\theta

Instantaneous power from force and velocity

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What are the SI units of power? What is it equivalent to?

Watt

W=Js=Nms=kgm2s3W={\frac{J}{s}}=\frac{N\cdot m}{s}={\frac{kg\cdot m^2}{s^{^3}}}

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What does the following formula find?

p=mv\overrightarrow{p}=m\overrightarrow{v}

Linear momentum form mass and velocity

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What are the units of momentum?

kgms\frac{\operatorname{kg}\cdot m}{s}

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What does the following forcmula find?

Fnet=ΔpΔt=mΔvΔt=maF_{net}=\frac{\Delta\overrightarrow{p}}{\Delta t}=m\frac{\Delta\overrightarrow{v}}{\Delta t}=m\overrightarrow{a}

Net force from momentum and time

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What does the slope of the momentum vs time graph tell us?

Force

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What does the following formula find?

J=FavgΔt=Δp\overrightarrow{J}=\overrightarrow{F}_{avg}\Delta t=\Delta\overrightarrow{p}

Impulse from average force and time, aka change in momentum.

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What does the area under the force vs time graph tell us?

Impulse or change in momentum

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What are the units of impulse?

kgms\frac {kg \cdot m}{s}

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What does the following formula find?

vcm=ΣpiΣmi=ΣmiviΣmi\overrightarrow{v}_{cm}=\frac{\Sigma\overrightarrow{p}_{i}}{\Sigma m_{i}}=\frac{\Sigma m_{i}\overrightarrow{v}_{i}}{\Sigma m_{i}}

Velocity of the center of mass from sum of momentums and sum of masses

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What does the conservation of momentum say?

In the absence of external forces, the total momentum is conserved.

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What is conserved in an inelastic collision?

Momentum only

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What is conserved in a perfectly inelastic collision?

Momentum only

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What makes perfectly inelastic collisions different than inelastic collisions?

Perfectly inelastic collisions stick together after a collision.

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What is conserved in an elastic collision?

Energy and momentum

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What makes inelastic collisions different than elastic collisions?

Elastic collisions do not deform the object in the collision

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What is the formula for angular displacement?

Δθ=θθ0\Delta\overrightarrow{\theta}=\theta-\theta_0

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What is the formula for average angular velocity?

ωavg=ΔθΔt\overrightarrow{\omega}_{avg}=\frac{\Delta\overrightarrow{\theta}}{\Delta t}

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What is the formula for average angular acceleration?

αavg=ΔωΔt\overrightarrow{{\alpha}}_{avg}=\frac{\Delta\overrightarrow{\omega}}{\Delta t}

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What are the SI units of angular displacement?

Radians

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What is missing from each angular kinematics equation that makes it useful?

ω=ω0+αt\omega=\omega_{0}+\alpha t

θ=θ0+ω0t+12αt2\theta=\theta_0+\omega_0t+\frac{1}{2}\alpha t^2

ω2=ω02+2α(θθ0)\omega^2=\omega_0^2+2\alpha(\theta-\theta_{0})

ω=ω0+αt\omega=\omega_{0}+\alpha t No angular position

θ=θ0+ω0t+12αt2\theta=\theta_0+\omega_0t+\frac{1}{2}\alpha t^2 No final angular velocity

ω2=ω02+2α(θθ0)\omega^2=\omega_0^2+2\alpha(\theta-\theta_{0}) No time

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What does the slope of the angular position time graph tell us?

Angular velocity

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What does the slope of the angular velocity time graph tell us?

Angular acceleration

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What does the area under the graph of angular velocity time tell us?

Angular displacement = Change in angular position

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What does the area under the graph of angular acceleration time tell us?

Change in angular velocity

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What is the formula for arc length?

s=rθs=r\theta

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What does the following formula find?

v=rωv=r\omega

Linear velocity from the radius and angular velocity

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What does the following formula find?

aT=rαa_{T}=r\alpha

Tangential acceleration from radius and angular acceleration.

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What does the following formula find?

τ=rF=rFsinθ\tau=rF_{\bot}=rFsin\theta

Torque from radius and the force perpendicular to the radius.

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What does rotational inertia measure?

A rigid systems resistance to change in rotational motion

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What does the following formula find?

I=Σmiri2I=\Sigma m_{i}r^{2}_{i}

The rotational inertia from mass and radius.

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When do we use the parallel axis theorem below?

I=Icm+Md2I’=I_{cm}+Md²

This allows us to find a systems rotational inertia when the axis of rotation does not go through the center of mass.

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When does mechanical equilibrium occur?

When there is both

Rotational equilibrium: Στ=0\Sigma\tau=0

And

Translational equilibrium: ΣF=0\Sigma F=0

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What does the following formula find?

αsys=ΣτIsys=τnetIsys\alpha_{sys}=\frac{\Sigma \tau}{I_{sys}}=\frac{\tau_{net}}{I_{sys}}

Angular acceleration of a system from net torque and the system rotational inertia.

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What does the following formula find?

K=12Iω2K=\frac{1}{2} I \omega^2

Kinetic energy of a rotating system fromt the rotational inertia and angular velocity.

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What makes up the total kinetic energy?

Translational kinetic energy and rotational kinetic energy.

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What is included in the work energy theorem for non-conservative forces?

Work done by non-conservative forces is equal to the change in total kinetic energy and the change in potential energy of gravity and springs.

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What does the following formula find?

W=τΔθW=\tau \Delta \theta

Work done by rotational motion from torque and change in angular position.

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What does the area under the graph of torque as a function of angular position tell us?

Work done by circular motion. OR Change in energy.

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What does the following formula find?

L=IωL=I\omega

Angular momentum from rotational inertia and angular velocity.

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What does the following formula find?

L=rmvsinθL=rmv sin\theta

Angular momentum from linear measurements of radius, mass, velocity, and the angle between radius and velocity.

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What is angular impulse?

Change in angular momentum

ΔL=LL0\Delta L=L-L_{0}

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What does the following formula find?

ΔL=τΔt\Delta L =\tau \Delta t

Angular impulse/change in angular momentum from torque and change in time.

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What does the slope of the graph of angular momentum as a function of time tell us?

Torque

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What does the area under the graph of torque as a function of time tell us?

Angular impulse OR change in angular momentum.

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If net torque is zero what does this tell us about

momentum?

Momentum is constant.

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What does the following formula find?

xcm=rΔθx_{cm} = r\Delta \theta

Position of the center of mass in a rolling object from the

radius and change in angular position.

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What stays constant in circular orbits?

Total mechanical energy, gravitational potential energy, angular momentum, and kinetic energy

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What stays constant in elliptical orbits?

Total mechanical energy and angular momentum.

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What changes in elliptical orbits?

Gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy.

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What is the formula for escape velocity?

vesc=2Gmrv_{esc}=\sqrt{\frac{2Gm}{r}}

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When do we have simple harmonic motion?

When max=kΔxma_{x}=-k\Delta x

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What does the following formula find?

T=1fT=\frac{1}f

Period based on frequency

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What are the units of frequency?

Hertz Hz=s1=1sHz=s^{-1}=\frac1{s}

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What does the following formula find?

Ts=2πmkT_{s}=2\pi \sqrt {{\frac{m}{k}}}

Period of a spring oscillator from mass and spring constant.

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What does the following formula find?

Tp=2πlgT_{p}=2\pi\sqrt{\frac{l}{g}}

Period of a pendulum from length of pendulum and

gravity.

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What does the following formulas find?

x=Acos(2πft)x=Acos(2\pi ft)

x=Asin(2πft)x=Asin(2\pi ft)

Displacement in simple harmonic motion from amplitude,

frequency, and time.

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What do we know about energy in simple harmonic

motion?

Energy is conserved between kinetic energy and potential energy.

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What are the properties of a fluid?

Fluids have no fixed shape but do have a fixed volume.

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What does the following formula find?

ρ=mV\rho=\frac{m}{V}

Density from mass and volume.