Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
PHY231 Fall 1997

Lecture 3: August 29

Homework Set 1 due before class

No Class on Monday: Labor Day

Reading before class: C/J 1.7, 1.8

Topics and Concepts

• Components of a vector
• Magnitude of a vector
• Adding components of a vector
• Force Concept Inventory (30 minutes)

Equations

Demonstrations

• Vectors

Examples

• Finding the components of a vector (C/J example 7, page 17)

Handouts

• Homework set 2
• Force Concept Inventory

PHY 231

This document http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/1997fall/PHY231/lect03.html was last updated on 20 August 1997 by Thomas Glasmacher