PHYS1081 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Vector Calculus, Kinematics, Communication Problems
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Preparing for your rst physics 1081 term test: material covered, textbook, supplementary material. The test will cover material from chapters 1-4 of your textbook. The end-of-chapter summaries are excellent overviews of the material covered in the chapters. So far, i"ve only written supplementary material on vectors. The ideas discussed in that document will be covered on the test. The posted pdf les of the slideshows i"ve been using in class cover the same material as does the text, but often with different emphases and examples. For this test, the kinematics slide show is relevant. Bear in mind the conceptual and technical goals that i presented in class: slideshows, goals for the exam, conceptual goals, technical goals, appreciating the role of graphs in kinematics: Slopes of tangent to x vs t, v vs t graphs give instantaneous values of v, a. Writing vectors in cartesian and polar representations.
