PHYSICS 1020 - Spring 1997
THINGS TO KNOW FOR 2nd EXAM

(3 March 1997)

• material covered in chapters 3, 4, 5 of the textbook
• material covered in lectures 4, 5, 6
• material covered in homework sets 3, 4, 5

Specific items to know:

• Aristotelian vs Newtonian physics
• law of inertia
• Galilei's law of falling
• position and coordinates
  -- how to specify position
• vectors vs scalars, which physics quantities are vectors, which are scalars
• velocity, average vs instantaneous
• velocity vs speed
• acceleration
• uniform motion
• distance vs time for uniform motion
• motion with constant acceleration
• velocity vs time, distance vs time for motion with constant acceleration
• mass and weight
• units of basic quantities (length, velocity, acceleration, mass, force)
• force
• inertia, inertial mass
• Newton's laws of motion
• force vs mass, vs acceleration
• action/reaction force pairs
• gravitation
• gravitational force vs masses, vs distance
• acceleration due to gravity, free fall
• weight vs gravitational force
• inertial vs gravitational mass
• weight on surface of different planets
• momentum, angular momentum, their conservation