Newtonian Dynamics 1

This course unit introduces the basic concepts of Newtonian dynamics by building on the concepts of point-particle dynamics covered in the General Physics course unit and extending them to non-inertial reference frames, collision theory, and systems with variable mass. The basic concepts of hydrostatics and the dynamics of ideal fluids will also be covered.

Provide a solid foundation for studying the dynamics of a material point by using different reference frames to describe it. Understand the dynamics of systems as well as two-body collisions. 

Terminal Control

1) Fluid Mechanics:

Concept of pressure, hydrostatic pressure, Archimedes' principle, Bernoulli's theorem.

2) Dynamics of the material point:

Definition of momentum; Conservation of momentum.

Definition of force moment and angular momentum; angular momentum theorem.

Power and nonconservative forces (viscous).

Motion around an equilibrium point; harmonic oscillator; damped oscillator; forced oscillator.

Potential energy of a harmonic oscillator, the mechanical energy theorem.

3) Points of Reference and Shifts in Frameworks

Galilean and non-inertial reference frames that are not rotating.

Non-inertial rotating reference frames.

Change in reference frameworks.

Centripetal acceleration, centrifugal acceleration, and Coriolis acceleration.

4) Collision and Variable-Mass Systems

One-Dimensional and Multidimensional Collisions

Explosions and jumps.

Oblique collisions.

Dynamics of a system with variable mass.

5) System Dynamics

Motion of the center of mass.

Reduced mass.