Dynamics

  • This is an introduction to forces and effects of forces.


(a) apply Newton's Laws to:

(i) describe the effect of balanced and unbalanced forces on a body


(a) apply Newton's Laws to:

(ii) describe the ways in which a force may change the motion of a body


(a) apply Newton's Laws to:

(iii) identify action-reaction pairs acting on two interacting bodies (stating of Newton's Laws is not required)


(b) identify forces acting on an object and draw free-body diagram(s) representing the forces acting on the object (for cases involving forces acting in at most 2 dimensions)


(c) solve problems for a static point mass under the action of 3 forces for 2-dimensional cases (a graphical method would suffice)


(d) recall and apply the relationship resultant force = mass × acceleration to new situations or to solve related problems


(e) explain the effects of friction on the motion of a body