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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
January 9, 2020
Administrative Questions
Is it okay if I haven't taken differential equations?
Content Questions
What's the advantage that polar coordinates have over Cartesian coordinates?
What if the ball's orbit isn't circular?
What are
and
physically for a non-rotating object?
Why do we define the position of the ball as
and not
? Why is the position only defined by the radial direction?
What kinds of coordinate systems are there other than cylindrical and spherical, and what are their applications?
How did you get the different components of acceleration from the change of coordinates?
For
, how is it perpendicular when you take the limit
?
How do we know
is in the direction of
?
Where does
come from when deriving
?
How do you get the magnitude of the derivative of the unit vector in the limiting process?
Are there more rigorous derivations of
and
?
How do the units work for the derivation of
and
? Isn't
in radians and
in meters, so units are inconsistent?
Why
?
How did we get
for the skateboard example?
What do we make of the second equation of motion,
in the final example with the skateboard?
Can you find equations of motion using conservation of energy?
At what point will we get to tensors?
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Kate Scholberg 2020-01-15