IB PHYSICS TOPIC 2 UNIT OUTLINE: MECHANICS

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Topic Covered
2.1 Motion
Distance and Displacement
Speed and Velocity and Uniform Motion
2.1 Motion
Acceleration
Graphs describing motion (d-t, v-t and a-t)
2.1 Motion
Kinematics: Equations of motion for uniform
acceleration
Free fall motion
2.1 Motion
Relative velocities
Frames of Reference

Recommended Questions Pearson

1-2/36-37

Recommended Questions Giancoli

5,11,12,14/39-40

11-14/47
15-16/48-49

18/40
56/42

5-7/43
8-10/44

21,24,28/40
36,42,44/40

3,4/41

37,39,41,46/68

2.1 Motion
Projectile Motion
Fluid resistance and terminal speed

17-20/52

18/65
20,23,27/66

2.2 Forces
Common Forces and Free Body Diagrams
Resultant (Net) Force (F)
Translational equilibrium

21/54
22-25/55-56

Handout on FBDs

2.2 Forces
Newtons 1st Law of Motion
Mass

26-28/61

1,18/97-98

2.4 Momentum and Impulse

Linear Momentum
Newtons 2nd Law expressed in terms of change in
momentum

29-30/62

5,15,17/188

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2.2 Forces
Newtons 2nd Law
Solid Friction (Static and Dynamic)
2.2 Forces
Newtons 3rd Law of Motion
Law of Conservation of momentum
Impulse and force-time graphs
2.3 Work, Energy and Power
Work
Force vs. Distance graphs
2.3 Work, Energy and Power
Kinetic Energy and work-energy theorem
Gravitational potential energy near earths surface
2.3 Work, Energy and Power
Elastic Potential Energy and Hookes Law
2.3 Work, Energy and Power
Mechanical energy and the law of conservation of
energy
Conservation of Mechanical energy problems
Forms of energy transformations
2.3 Work, Energy and Power
Power as a rate of energy transfer
Efficiency
2.4 Momentum and Impulse
Elastic and inelastic collisions and explosions
Topic Review

31-36/65

1-18 (odd)/98 and 19-35

(odd)/99-101
and 6,7,12,13,15,16/97-98

37/68
38-40/71-72

41-43/76

1,3,4/160
1-6,8,10/162

46-49/79-80

11-25(odd),27,28,30,31/162-163

44-45/77
Worksheet

35,37,39,41,43,50a/163

55-57/85
50-51/81
58-60/85
52-54/84

58,61,63,65,67/164

1-7/86-91

7,8,12/188-189
23,25,29,31,33/189-190