Motion and Newton's Laws of Motion

Contents / notes

• Newton's laws of motion.
• Inertia, mass and force.
• Relationship between mass and acceleration.
• Impulse and momentum.
• Force-time graphs.
• Conservation of linear momentum; coefficient of restitution is not required.
• Types of motion: translational, oscillatory, rotational, spin and random.
• Relative motion.
• Causes of motion.
• Types of force: contact forces and force fields.

Candidate objectives

• Identify different types of motion.
• Solve numerical problems on collinear motion.
• Identify force as a cause of motion.
• Identify push and pull as forms of force.
• Identify electric and magnetic attractions and gravitational pull as forms of field forces.
• Interpret Newton's laws of motion.
• Compare inertia, mass and force.
• Deduce the relationship between mass and acceleration.
• Interpret the law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications.
• Interpret the area under a force-time graph.
• Solve numerical problems involving impulse and momentum.