"Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction."
- Doorknob in "Alice in Wonderland"
"... so far as I know, no one has yet pointed out that the distances traversed, during equal intervals of time, by a body falling from rest, stand to one another in the same ratio as the odd numbers beginning with unity."
- "Dialog Concerning Two New Sciences" by Galileo Galilei
Galileo's inclined planes experiments. Acceleration. Units of acceleration. Vector nature of acceleration.
Scalars and Vectors. Velocity. Average and Instantaneous velocity.
Uniform and Non-uniform motion. Distance traveled for motion with constant acceleration. Kinematic formulas.
Graphical representation of motion.
Approach to solving problems. Acceleration due to gravity.
Do police officers have to know physics?