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Tools and Concepts You'll Need for Physics 213
Mathematical Tools
- vectors: magnitude and direction
- "hat" notation
- dot product of two vectors
- cross or vector product of two vectors
- sine, cosine, tangent
- area of simple shapes: rectangle, circle, triangle
- surface area of simple solids: sphere, box, cylinder
- volume of simple solids: sphere, box, cylinder
Physical concepts (remember Physics 211!)
- 1-D motion: displacement, velocity, acceleration
- kinematics under uniform acceleration
- 2-D projectile motion
- force and accleration
- kinetic energy, potential energy
- conservation of energy
- conservative vs. non-conservative forces
- work, force and energy
- torque
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