Lecture 2 - Thursday, 10 January 2013

Chapter 3 - Sections 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

• Galileo's Law of Falling
• Galileo's thought experiment: the inclined plane
• The Law of Inertia
• Describing motion: speed, velocity, acceleration

Powerpoint Slides

Note: These slides do not include all material presented in class - additional material was presented on the blackboard and in demonstrations.

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Supplementary Material

• Today's demonstrations: (i) Thrown and sliding balls. (ii) Inclined plane experiment.

• Apollo 15 Hammer and Feather Experiment http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/video15.html#closeout3
  I showed the MPEG Video Clip (49 seconds; 6.4MB) by Kipp Teague, but the other formats also work.

• Flash animation of motion - try it out: http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/Flash/ClassMechanics/MotionDiagram/MotionDiagram.html

• A NASA test pilot explains the Law of Inertia http://www.nasa.gov/mov/192447main_017_law_of_inertia.mov

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