Non-formulae:
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Formulae:
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W is weight or, the pull of the Earth on you and g is the accelaration due to Earth's gravity
Procedures for solving:
Forces:
- Draw the scenario
- Make separate FBDs of the relevant objects
- Split the forces into components and solve
- Check extremes to verify
Tips:
- Use dot product to find angle between vectors
- Verify if graph given is trajectory or distance-time graph
- For finding shortest distance, consider relative motion
- For collisions, the trajectories should intersect and at the point of intersection the times must be the same
- Drawing FBD is vital to not making mistakes