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22 equations that you need to be able to recall and apply

(1) 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 = 𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 × (17) 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 = 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 ÷


𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 (9) 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 = 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 × 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛
𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝐸
𝑃=
(2) 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 = 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 ÷ 𝑣 =𝑓× 𝑡
𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒
(10) 𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 = 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 ÷ 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 (18) 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 = 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 ×
(𝑣 − 𝑢) 𝑥 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒
𝑎= 𝑣=
𝑡 𝑡 𝑃 =𝐼×𝑉
(3) 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 = 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 × 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 (11) 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 = 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 ×
𝐹 =𝑚×𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 (19) 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 = 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 ×
𝐸 =𝐹×𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒
𝑃 = 𝐼2 × 𝑅
(4) 𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 = 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 ×
(12) 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 = 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 ÷ 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛
𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝐸
𝑊 =𝑚×𝑔 𝑃= (20) 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 = 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 ÷ 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒
𝑡 𝑚
𝜌=
𝑉
(5) 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒎 = 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒔 × 𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 (13) 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 = 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 ×
𝒑 =𝒎×𝒗 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 (21) 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 =
𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 × 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛
(6) change in gravitational potential (14) 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 = 𝐹 =𝑘×𝑥
energy=mass×gravitational field 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 ×
strength×change in vertical height 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 (22) 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 =
∆𝐺𝑃𝐸 = 𝑚 × 𝑔 × ∆ℎ 𝐸 =𝑄×𝑉
𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 ÷
𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒
1
(7) 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 = 2 × 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑠 × (𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑)2 (15) 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒 = 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 × 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒
𝑄 =𝐼×𝑡 𝐹
1 𝑃=
𝐾𝐸 = × 𝑚 × 𝑣 2 𝐴
2
(16) 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 = 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 ×
(8) 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 = 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒
(𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒) 𝑉 =𝐼×𝑅
(𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒)

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