the description of motion

• What does x(t) mean?
  
• Which graph shows a body at rest?
  
• Which graph shows a body moving with constant velocity?
  
• When is this body at rest?
  
• Match the motion to the graph of x vs. t.
  
• The meaning of velocity.
  
• Speed versus velocity.
  
• Velocity from acceleration?
  

fundamentals of Newtonian mechanics

• Statement of Newton's second law?
• A question involving initial conditions.
• Find force, given x(t)?
• Definition of inertial frame.

body acted on by constant force

• Motion of a ballerina.
  
• Spring force = constant?
  

the harmonic oscillator

• What is a "simple harmonic oscillator"?
  

energy

• What is meant by "conservation of energy?
  
• Is energy always defined?
  
• When is energy conserved?
  
  

gravitation

• Which falls faster, a feather or a rock?
  
• Feather and rock revisited.
  

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