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| Week | Key Concepts | Readings | Lab/Seminar Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinematics - the Mathematics of Motion
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Chapter 2,3 | Designing Safe Intersections |
| 2 | Kinematics in 2 and 3 Dimensions | ||
| 3 | Vectors | Using Computers to Model Motion - Introduction to VPython | |
| 4 | Dynamics | Chapter 4,5 | |
| 5 | Dynamics | Physics on an Incline | |
| 6 | Circular Motion and Gravitation | Chapter 6 | |
| 7 | Conservation Laws | Chapter 7,8 | Video Analysis of Collisions |
| 8 | Momentum | ||
| 9 | Energy | Physics of the Trebuchet | |
| 10 | Statics and Torque | Chapter 9 | |
| 11 | Rotational Dynamics | Chapter 10 | Boomerangs and Other Things that Spin! |
| 12 | |||
| 13 |
