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Kinematics

Five topics on motion in one and two dimensions. Scalars and vectors, the language of position, velocity, and acceleration, how to read motion off a graph, why the answer depends on who is watching, and how all of this generalizes when objects move in two directions at once.

Topics
Equations For every problem in this unit
Velocity from time
$v_x = v_{x0} + a_x t$
Position from time
$x = x_0 + v_{x0}\, t + \tfrac{1}{2} a_x t^2$
Velocity from displacement
$v_x^2 = v_{x0}^2 + 2 a_x (x - x_0)$
Pythagorean
$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$
Sine, opp / hyp
$\sin\theta = \dfrac{a}{c}$
Cosine, adj / hyp
$\cos\theta = \dfrac{b}{c}$
Tangent, opp / adj
$\tan\theta = \dfrac{a}{b}$
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60 open-ended problems.

Read the question, work it out, then flip the card to compare your reasoning to the worked solution. Mark each card so you can return to the ones that still bite.

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Cumulative assessment

Test the unit.

Twenty mixed items pulled from across all 5 topics. Identifies which misconceptions still bite when you cannot see which topic the question came from.

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5topics
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