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University Physics I - Classical Mechanics, 2019

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CONTENTS<br />

5.1 Conservative interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />

5.1.1 Potential energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90<br />

5.1.2 Potential energy functions and “energy landscapes” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />

5.2 Dissipation of energy and thermal energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96<br />

5.3 Fundamental interactions, and other forms of energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98<br />

5.4 Conservation of energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99<br />

5.5 In summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

5.6 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103<br />

5.6.1 Inelastic collision in the middle of a swing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103<br />

5.6.2 Kinetic energy to spring potential energy: block collides with spring . . . . . 104<br />

5.7 Advanced Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

5.7.1 Two carts colliding and compressing a spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

5.7.2 Getting the potential energy function from collision data . . . . . . . . . . . . 107<br />

5.8 Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br />

6 Interactions, part 2: Forces 113<br />

6.1 Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113<br />

6.1.1 Forces and systems of particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

6.2 Forces and potential energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116<br />

6.3 Forces not derived from a potential energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

6.3.1 Tensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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