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READ THIS BEFORE USING THIS DOCUMENT

This should be used as a additional resource to understand material on your schedule and for the MCAT.

KEEP YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE!!

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Vectors & Scalars:

 

Vector Components & Addition:

 

Force:

 

Newton’s 1st Law: The Law of Inertia

 

Centers of Mass, Gravity & Buoyancy:

 

Newton’s 2nd Law: F = ma

 

Newton’s 3rd Law: Action-Reaction

Linear Motion:

 

Linear Motion Graphs:

 

Air Resistance:

 

Gravity:

 

Friction:

 

Inclined Planes:

 

Tension:

 

Springs/Hooke’s Law/Elastic Potential Energy

Pendulums:

 

Simple Harmonic Motion:

 

Density & Specific Gravity:

 

Archimedes’ Principle & The Buoyant Force:

 

Fluid Pressure:

 

Fluid Flow:

 

Bernoulli’s Equation:

 

Equilibrium:

 

Torque:

 

Energy and Work

 

Hydraulic lift & Pascal's Principle

 

Power:

Charge:

 

Conductance:

 

Electric Fields: Field Lines & Equipotential Lines, Dipoles

 

Magnetism:

 

Current, Resistance & Voltage:

 

Ohm’s Law:

 

Circuits:

 

Capacitors and Capacitance

 

Resistors:

 

Wave Characteristics/Variables:

 

Types of Waves: Transverse vs. Longitudinal,

 

Mechanical vs. Electromagnetic

 

Superposition of Waves:

 

Constructive/Destructive

 

Standing Waves VS TRAVELING WAVES

 

Beat waves

 

The Doppler Effect:

 

Sound:

 

Harmonics:

 

Energy of a Photon

 

Calculating energy of photon

 

Young’s Double-Slit Experiment:

 

Electromagnetic Spectrum:

 

Snell’s Law: Index of Refraction, Formula, Total Internal Reflection

 

Virtual vs. Real Images:

 

Lenses: Converging vs. Diverging, Assume Parallel Rays, etc.

 

Mirrors:

 

Lens/Mirror Calculations:

 

Near-Sighted vs. Far-Sighted:

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