Projectile motion: Evel Knievel attempting to jump 13 buses in Wembley Stadium on May 13, 1975 in front of a record crowd of 90,000 people. ...unfortunately he was unsuccessful. mass v.s weight: The great Russian weightlifter Vasily Alexeev lifting 541 lbs in the clean and jerk. That is a MASS 246 kg, that would be a WEIGHT of 2,409 Newtons. The psyche... the clean... the jerk... ...the gold medal COURSE OUTLINE: MECHANICS: Unit 1 Graphing Motion Part 1 Position Charts Part 2 Velocity Charts Unit 2 Equations of Motion Unit 3 Vectors Unit 4 Projectile Motion Unit 5 Newtons Laws Part 1: Universal Law Part 2: Forces (friction, Hooke's Law) Unit 6. Newtons Laws of Motion Unit 7 Work, Power, Energy, Work/Energy, Conservation of Energy Unit 8 Momentum, Impulse/Momentum, Conservation of Momentum Unit 9 Horizontal Circular Motion ELECTRICITY: Unit 1 Electrostatics/Static Electricity Unit 2 Current Electricity, Circuits Unit 3 Electromagnetism, Electromagnetic Induction (Motors, Generators, Transformers) OPTICS: Unit 1 Mirrors Unit 2 Refraction, Lenses |