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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mechanics: Motion, Forces, Energy and Gravity, from Particles to Planets by UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)

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About the Course

Most of the phenomena in the world around you are, at the fundamental level, based on physics, and much of physics is based on mechanics. Mechanics begins by quantifying motion, and then explaining it in terms of forces, energy and momentum. This allows us to analyse the operation of many familiar phenomena around us, but also the mechanics of planets, stars and galaxies. This on-demand course is recommended for senior high school and beginning university students and anyone with a curiosity about basic physics. (The survey tells us that it's often used by science teachers, too.) The course uses rich multimedia tutorials to present the material: film clips of key experiments, animations and worked example problems, all with a friendly narrator. You'll do a range of interesting practice problems, and in an optional component, you will use your ingenuity to complete at-home experiments using simple, everyday materials. You will need some high-school mathematics: arithmetic, a little algebra, quadratic equations, and the sine, cosine and tangent functions from trigonometry. The course does not use calculus. However, we do provide a study aid introducing the calculus that would accompany this course if it were taught in a university. By studying mechanics in this course, you will understand with greater depth many of the wonders around you in everyday life, in technology and in the universe at large. Meanwhile, we think you'll have some fun, too....

Top reviews

RV

Jul 20, 2016

Great course. Good explanations and examples. The quizes and tests are not very easy sometimes, but they do you let think again. Very enjoyable! Just the course I was looking for a long time!

AS

Sep 13, 2023

Outstanding and Amazing Course ! Sometimes challenging also. Beautifully created and presented by Prof. Joe Wolfe ... !!

I am in love with you Professor.. You are simply a great teacher.

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By Aadi J

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Aug 20, 2016

SIMPLY AWESOME !!

By Taneesha D

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Dec 29, 2020

Hard

By jose

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Dec 2, 2017

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By Noorali H

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Aug 19, 2020

Very good. But I am not able to skip past problems. There are lessons I have done before. So that is a huge problem.

By barry v

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Aug 30, 2017

Too little about stars & planets.

By RAZON, I C (

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May 8, 2021

it's a trap

By Savdar I

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Dec 21, 2015

Very good course for basic physics. If you're looking for a physic course to build the base for Mechanical Engineering, highly recommend this one.

By ganesh r

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Sep 18, 2016

not too good ,,because in assignments session they doesnt know what the right ans is, as in first assignment ,the ques is about circumference of circle as in google the exact ans is what they wronged it

By David B

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Jan 7, 2022

no use to me

By Michael I S G

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May 10, 2021

rth srhsrh s