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Mechanica
Axes & sign conventions
Choose axes along the motion — on an incline, along and perpendicular to the slope. Components stay clean.
FBD recipe: isolate the body → draw every force on it → resolve on your axes. Nothing else touches the page.
Signs: pick a positive direction once and keep it for the whole problem. g is a magnitude; its sign comes from your axes.
Pseudo-force: only in an accelerating frame — magnitude ma, direction opposite the frame's acceleration.
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Part I · Mechanics · ▤ The Full Book

The Full Book

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The complete written course, chapter by chapter. Each live chapter below is the entire text — full theory prose, every worked example and solution, the whole problem bank with pattern filters and a self-marked chapter test — with the Lab’s benches surfaced inline exactly where the text needs them. Prefer the instruments? ◈ Enter the Lab →

The chapters

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01 The Language of Physics: Calculus
The mathematical toolkit — limits, derivatives and integrals built from physics, not abstraction.
27 worked examples · 69-question bank · 4 benches inline
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02 Kinematics in One Dimension
Position, velocity and acceleration along a line — motion graphs read like sentences, the four equations derived three ways, motion under gravity, relative velocity and the inclined plane.
61 worked examples · 55-question bank · 3 benches · 23 diagrams
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03 Vectors & Motion in a Plane
The grammar of the subject — vectors, resolution, dot & cross products, then position, velocity and acceleration as vectors, projectile motion and relative motion in a plane.
30 worked examples · 50-question bank · 3 benches inline
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04 Newton’s Laws of Motion
Why things move — the three laws, free-body diagrams, pulleys, constraints and friction.
32 worked examples · 25 checkpoints · 50-question bank · 7 benches inline
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05 Work, Energy & Power
The scalar shortcut — work and the cosine rule, the work–energy theorem, conservative forces and potential energy, conservation, power, energy landscapes and system energy.
42 worked examples · 44 checkpoints · 50-question bank · 5 benches inline · 8 diagrams
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06 Circular Motion
Turning means accelerating — angular kinematics, centripetal force, banking, the vertical circle, conical pendulum and the centrifugal pseudo-force.
20 tier examples · 56 checkpoints · 50-question bank · 4 benches inline · 10 diagrams
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07 Centre of Mass, Momentum & Collisions
Track a whole system by one point — centre of mass by summation and integration, bodies with holes, momentum conservation, impulse, the collision lab from elastic to perfectly plastic, the COM frame and variable-mass rockets.
50 worked examples · 56 checkpoints · 50-question bank · 6 benches inline · 7 diagrams
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08 Rotational Mechanics
When particles are not enough — angular kinematics, torque and the cross product, angular momentum, moment of inertia and the parallel-axis theorem, rolling without slipping, conservation of L, and gyroscopic precession, closing with a decision algorithm for choosing your tool.
40 worked examples · 50-question bank · 4 benches inline · 13 diagrams
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09 Gravitation
The inverse-square law at work — the universal law and superposition, field and potential, the shell theorem, gravitational energy and escape speed, Kepler's three laws and orbital energy, satellites and the geostationary ring, tides and the equivalence principle that opens the door to relativity.
30 worked examples · 50-question bank · 6 benches inline · 13 diagrams
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10 Fluid Mechanics
Everything that flows and floats — the hydrostatic equation, Archimedes and floating, continuity and Bernoulli, the Venturi and Torricelli, viscosity and Poiseuille flow, surface tension and capillarity, closing with the Reynolds number that decides when the clean formulas break.
27 worked examples · 50-question bank · 5 benches inline · 13 diagrams
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11 Mechanical Properties of Matter
When solids push back — stress and strain, Young's modulus and the full stress–strain curve, shear and bulk moduli, elastic energy, Poisson's ratio and the inter-modulus relations, then thermal and hoop stress, closing beyond Hooke with rubber, bone and nonlinear elasticity.
27 worked examples · 50-question bank · 3 benches inline · 10 diagrams
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Simple Harmonic Motion and Sound are bound into the Waves chapter’s book; the thermal chapters into Thermodynamics.

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