Part I. Fundamentals

Part I focuses on fundamental topics in Newtonian mechanics such as kinematics and kinetics. Kinematics deals with the motion of objects; we’ll cover both linear and angular velocity and acceleration. Kinetics deals with forces and resulting motion. Part I serves as a primer for Part II, which covers rigid-body dynamics. Readers already versed in classical mechanics can skip Part I without loss of continuity.

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