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What is force?

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Vector quantity (have a magnitude and a direction)

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Examples of physical quantities that are vector quantities

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-Force, velocity, displacement, acceleration, momentum

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Examples of physical quantities that only have magnitude and no direction

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Scalar quantities: Speed, distance, mass, temperature, time

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What usually represents a vector?

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  • An arrow
  • The length shows the magnitude
  • The direction shows the direction of the quantity
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Contact force

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Forces that make contact (e.g. pushing something)

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Non contact force

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Forces that don’t make contact (magnetic force, gravitational force)

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What is gravitational force?

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The force of attraction between masses

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Mass

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The amount of ‘stuff’ in an object

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Weight

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The force acting on an object due to gravity

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What affects weight?

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The strength of the gravitational field at the location of the object

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Centre of mass

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A point at which you assume the whole mass is concentrated

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How is weight measured?

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A calibrated spring balance

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Are mass and weight directly proportional?

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Yes

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Weight (N) = ?

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Mass (kg) * GFS (N/kg)

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What is resultant force?

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The overall force on a point or object

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What are parallel forces?

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The forces are all along the same line (you can add and subtract the forces to find the resultant force)

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What is work done in terms of distance and force?

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When a force moves an object through a distance, energy is transferred and work is done on the obejct

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Work done eq (force and distance)

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Force * Distance

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What happens when the resultant force is 0?

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The object is equilibrium (the 3 forces will make a triangle)

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Why should we split forces into simpler components?

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Because some forces are at difficult angles to work with

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Distance

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How far an object has moved (scalar quantity)

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Displacement

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A vector quantity which measures the distance in a straight line from an object’s starting point to finishing point

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Speed

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How fast you are going

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Velocity

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The speed in a given direction

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distance travelled eq (speed and time)
Distance = speed / time
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Walking speed
1.5 m/s
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Running speed
3 m/s
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Cycling speed
6 m/s
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Car speed
25 m/s
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Train speed
30 m/s
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Plane speed
250 m/s
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Acceleration
The change in speed in a certain amount of time
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Deceleration
Negative acceleration
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Uniform acceleration
The constant accelertaion
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uniform acceleration equation
v^2 - u^2 = 2as
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How to work out speed in distance time graphs
Gradient
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Flat parts on distance time graphs
Stationary
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Straight parts on distance time graphs
Steady speed
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Curves on distance time graphs
Represent acceleration and deceleration
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Steepening on distance time graphs
Speeding up
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Levelling off on distance time graphs
Slowing down
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Velocity time graph
Shows how an object's velocity changes as it travels
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Gradient on velocity time graph
Acceleration
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Flat sections on velocity time graph
Travelling at a steady speed
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Steeper the gradient on velocity time graphs
The greater the acceleration or deceleration
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Uphill sections on velocity time graphs
Acceleration
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Downhill sections on velocity time graphs
Deceleration
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How to work out distance travelled in a time interval in a velocity time graph
The area
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Friction
The opposite force in direction to movement
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How to reduce friction
Use a lubricant
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Drag
The resistance you get in a fluid (gas or liquid)
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Example of drag
Air resistance
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What can be done to reduce drag
Keeping the shape of the object streamline
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Examples of objects that increase drag
Parachutes
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Terminal velocity
When an object has reached its maximum speed and will fall at a steady speed
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Why is there terminal velocity?
- Force of gravity is much more than frictional force, therefore the object accelerates - As the speed increases, friction builds up - This gradually reduces the acceleration until eventually the friction force is zero
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What usually affects terminal velocity
- The shape and area of the object | - Objects with large surface areas have lower terminal velocities
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Newton's first law
- If the resultant force on a stationary object is zero, the objects will remain stationary. - If the resultant force on a moving object is zero, it'll just carry on moving at the same velocity
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Newtons second law
Newton’s second law states that the acceleration of an object depends upon two variables – the net force acting on the object and the mass of the object.
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Resultant force eq (acceleration and mass)
f = m*a
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Inertia mass
Measures how difficult it is to change the velocity of an object
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Inertia mass on newton's second law
The mass (m = f/a)
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Newton's third law
When 2 objects interact, the forces they exert on each other are equal and opposite
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Momentum
A vector quantity resultant from mass and velocity
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Momentum equation
mass (kg) * velocity (m/s)
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Conservation of momentum
The total momentum before the event is the same as after the event in a closed system

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