exam 1 topics

General topics for exam 1.  Be sure to review all assigned homework, blog posts and your notes.

You are permitted to have a sheet of notes for this test.  I will NOT give equations.

SI units (m, kg, s) - meanings, definitions
velocity
average vs. instantaneous velocity
acceleration
related motion problems using the formulas
speed of light (c)
gravitational acceleration (g)
freefall problems
Newton's 3 laws - applications and problems
Kepler's 3 laws - applications and problems
epicycles
Newton's law of universal gravitation (inverse square law)
weight vs. mass
center of mass/gravity