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Learning Outcomes
Candidates should be able to:
- apply Newton's Laws to:
- describe the effect of balanced and unbalanced forces on a body
- describe the ways in which a force may change the motion of a body
- identify action-reaction pairs acting on two interacting bodies (stating of Newton's Laws is not required)
- identify forces acting on an object and draw free body diagram(s) representing the forces acting on the object (for cases involving forces acting in at most 2 dimensions)
- solve problems for a static point mass under the action of 3 forces for 2-dimensional cases (a graphical method would suffice)
- recall and apply the relationship resultant force = mass × acceleration to new situations or to solve related problems
- explain the effects of friction on the motion of a body