Study Hint: Some Things To Have Learned (by name)

There are a few things that you must enter the exam having learned. You know what they are (or should) but here is a list anyway:

• SI units and dimensional analysis
• Vector algebra - adding, subtracting, dot product, cross product.
• Kinematic relations: constant acceleration results and circular motion
• Dynamic relations: Newton's Laws
• Forces in Nature (and forces used in the course): Gravity (near earth's surface and planetary), weak nuclear, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, friction, drag forces, springs, bouyant forces, the various moduli (Young's, shear, bulk).
• ``Effective'' forces in accelerating frames.
• Work-Energy Theorem and Friends
• Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy (one of the Friends)
• Systems of particles and momentum. Conservation of Momentum.
• Angular variables and relations.
• Angular Physics: Torque, angular momentum, angular acceleration, angular energy.
• Conditions for static equilibrium.
• Kepler's Laws
• Archimedes' Principle, Bernoulli Equation, Pascal Principle, Toricelli's Law
• Oscillation, Resonance and Damping
• Waves: on a string, sound waves, doppler shift, standing waves, interference
• Laws of thermodynamics (0-3, but especially 1 and 2)
• Equipartition (degrees of freedom), specific heat(s), heat capacity(s)
• Engines and refrigerators
• Thermal expansion and contraction
• Latent heats

``Learned'' in this context means ``able to solve problems in or with''. It also means ``understands well enough to be able to conceptually reason out puzzles with''. Some of these items (e.g. Laws) are just equations or 1-2 sentence phrases. They can be memorized (and certainly shouldn't be forgotten) but they really should be learned, which involves a bit more. Other items are topics where these laws are applied.