PHYS 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Drag Racing
12 Dec 2017
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1 - 4) week 3 & 4: dynamics (ch. 19 - 21) week 9 & 10: waves & acoustics (ch. Lab - mcn 301 tutorial - mcn 401. Quiz 1 - october 2nd 2015 (study guide 1) textbook pg. Scalar: a quantity that has magnitude but no direction, ex. height, temperature, speed. Vector: a quantity that has both magnitude and direction, ex. acceleration, displacement, velocity. Displacement: change in position from the starting point to the final point, ex. displacement is 0 if start and end at the same place. Kinematics: from the greek word for motion (kinema) is the study of motion. 1d motion (simplest case to start): motion moving in only one direction, ex. throw up a ball and it falls back down, drag racing. Average speed: on average, the number of meters travelled per second over a certain period of time, Note: an object"s speed at any given moment can be different than the average speed.
