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Vectors

How to find thefinal magnitudewhen youve gotthe horizontal and

verticalcomponents

How to find thefinal direction(angle) whenyouve got thehorizontal andvertical

components

How to find thehorizontal andverticalcomponents of something

Scalar product of two vectors

Vector product of two vectors

Kinematics

Definition of displacement

Definition of average speed

Definition of average velocity

Definition of instantaneousvelocity

Definition of

averageacceleration

Definition of instantaneousacceleration

Kinematicsequations

Kinematicsequations for free-fall motion

Kinematicsequations for

projectile motion

Dynamics

Relationship betweenacceleration andnet force

Relationship between mass andweight, or forceof gravity

Relationship between normalforce and kineticfriction force

Relationship between normalforce and kineticfriction force

Definition of pressure

Circular Motion

Relationship between speedand centripetalacceleration

Speed of anobject in uniformcircular motion

Centripetal force

Gravitationalforce

Gravitationalacceleration

Relationship between orbitalvelocity anddistance

Energy andMachines

Definition of mechanical work

Definition of kinetic energyand change inkinetic energy

Relationship between kineticenergy and totalamount of work

Definition of gravitational

potential energyand change ingravitational

potential energy

Hookes law

Definition of

elastic potentialenergy andchange in elastic

potential energy

Conservation of mechanicalenergy when nowork comes outof or goes into thesystem

Conservation of mechanicalenergy whenwork comes outof or goes into thesystem

or

Definition of power

Relationship of power to speed

Impulse andMomentum

Definition of momentum

or

Change inmomentum

Newtons SecondLaw of Motion(momentum form)

Definition of impulse

Impulse-momentumtheorem

Conservation of momentum for

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two objectscolliding and

bouncing off (elastic collision)

Conservation of momentum for two objects

colliding andsticking together (inelasticcollision)

Relative speedsof objects beforeand after completely elasticcollision

Location of thecoordinate of thecenter of mass of multiple elements

RotationalMotion

Relationship between angular displacement andlinear displacement

Definition of average angular speed

Definition of

average angular acceleration

Relation betweenlinear

displacement,speed, andacceleration andangular displacement,speed, andacceleration

Relationship betweencentripetalacceleration andlinear speed and

betweencentripetalacceleration andangular speed

Equations for rotationalkinematics

Torque exertedon an object

Moment of inertiaof a rotatingobject

Newtons SecondLaw for rotatingobjects

Angular momentum of arotating object

Angular momentum of arotating object

Fluid Mechanics

Relationship between density,mass and volume

Definition of pressure

Variation of pressure due todepth in a fluid

Relationship between absolute pressure andgauge pressure

Pascals principle

Variation of pressure in a fluidincorporatingenvironmental

pressure

Buoyant force onan object in afluid

Equation of continuity

BernoullisEquation

Vibrations andWaves

Hookes law

Relation of speedand position in anoscillator

Relationship betweenfrequency and

period

Period of vibration of amass and springsystem

Relationship between angular frequency andfrequency

Relationship between positionof an oscillator and time

Relationship between speed of an oscillator andtime

Relationship betweenacceleration of anoscillator andtime

Period of vibration of asimple pendulum

Relationship between speedand distance for a

wave

Relationship betweenwavelength,frequency, andspeed

Harmonicfrequencies for medium closed at

both ends / openat both ends

Harmonicfrequencies for medium open atone end andclosed at the other

Frequency of beats

Doppler shift of frequency

Temperature andHeat

Linear expansion,area expansion,and volumeexpansion of anobject beingheated

Boyles Law

Charless Law

Gay- LussacsLaw

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Ideal gas law

Average and total

kinetic energy of gas moleculesrelating totemperature

Heat transferredinto or out of asystem during atemperaturechange

Two or morethings sharingheat as theychangetemperature

Final equilibriumtemperature of two or morethings sharingheat as theychangetemperature

Heat transferredinto or out of a

system during a phase change

Heat transfer through

conduction

Thermodynamics

Work doneduring an isobaric

process

Work doneduring anythermodynamic

process

First Law of Thermodynamics

Work done by aheat engineduring a cycle

Efficiency of areal heat engine

Efficiency of anideal Carnotengine

Entropy change

during anisothermal process

Electrostatics

Coulombs Lawrelating electricforce to distance

and charges

Charge reactingto an electric fieldalreadyestablished

Chargeestablishing anelectric fieldaround it

Work done by theelectric fieldmoving a charge

Change inelectrical

potential energyof a chargemoving throughan electric field

Relation of potentialdifference toenergy andcharge

Relationship of potentialdifference toelectric field

Charge setting up potential in thespace around it

Potential energycreated by a pair of charges

Charge that can

be held on acapacitor per potentialdifference

Capacitance of acapacitor relatedto physicalcharacteristics

Energy stored in acapacitor

Electric Circuits

Definition of current

Ohms Law

Relating the

resistance of aresistor to its

physicalcharacteristics

Temperaturechangingresistivity

Relationship between power and current and

potentialdifference

Terminal

potentialdifference andEMF of a battery

Alternating potential in termsof maximum

potential

Alternatingcurrent in termsof maximumcurrent

Power used in anelement withalternatingcurrent

Maximum potentialdifference and

current related toroot-mean-square potentialdifference andcurrent

Equivalentresistance for resistorsconnected inseries

Equivalentresistance for resistorsconnected in

parallel