Advanced Level Physics - Mechanics (Part II) Public Class

About the Class

This class would discuss:

• (a) Define displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration.
• (b) Use graphical methods to represent displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration.
• (c) Find displacement from the area under a velocity-time graph.
• (d) Use the slope of a displacement - time graph to find the velocity.
• (e) Use the slope of a velocity-time graph to find the acceleration.
• (f) Derive, from the definitions of velocity and acceleration, equations which represent uniformly accelerated motion in a straight line.
• (g) Solve problems using equations which represent uniformly accelerated motion in a straight line, including the motion of bodies falling in a uniform gravitational field without air resistance.
• (h) Recall that the weight of a body is equal to the product of its mass and the acceleration of free fall.
• (i) Describe an experiment to determine the acceleration of free fall using a falling body.
• (j) Describe qualitatively the motion of bodies falling in a uniform gravitational field with air resistance.
• (k) Describe and explain motion due to a uniform velocity in one direction and a uniform acceleration in a perpendicular direction.

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Keywords: physics, mechanics, motion, velocity, displacement, speed, acceleration