The Laws of Motion

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Chapter 3 The Laws of Motion

You will now begin to study the laws that govern how forces impact motion.

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of this chapter, you will be able to:

Differentiate between contact forces and non-contact forces
State and apply Newton’s laws
Draw a free-body diagram of an object or multiple objects in a system
Define the normal force acting on an object in various situations
Break a vector into appropriate components
Construct net force equations in multiple dimensions for an object based on its acceleration and its free-body diagram
Solve net force equations symbolically in terms of given variables
Use special-case analysis to make sense of a symbolic equation

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