Wednesday 9 November 2011

Sunday 16 October 2011

M1 Types of forces 12/10/11

  • Types of forces acting in different situations
  • Weight, normal reactions, tension, thrust, friction
  • Friction - maximum friction, coefficient of friction
  • Solving forces problems (in equilibrium) involving friction

Wednesday 21 September 2011

M1 Applications of vectors 21/09/11

  • Finding magnitude and direction from i-j form vector
  • i and j components of a vector
  • Unit vector
  • Displacement vectors
  • Position vectors
  • Velocity vectors
  • Acceleration vectors
  • Problems involving position, displacement, velocity and acceleration vectors

Wednesday 14 September 2011

M1 Introduction to vectors 14/09/11

  • Problems involving bearings - using cosine rule and sine rule
  • Taking care with sine rule - ambiguity of angle solutions
  • Basic revision of vectors (GCSE level)
  • Scalar quantities / Vector quantities
  • Resultant of two vectors

Wednesday 23 March 2011

D1 Route inspection 23/03/11

  • Graphs, Semi-Eulerian, Eulerian, Valency of nodes etc.
  • Route inpection algorithm
  • Identifying odd vertices, possible pairings, identifying shortest route
  • Starting / finishing at same point
  • Starting / finishing at different points
  • Example of exam question using route inspection

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B2J1T-insOmpOTY1MTQ1NjAtNWU2NS00NmYwLTlhZGEtMDkwN2FlNWZmOGVi&hl=en

Wednesday 9 March 2011

D1 Critical path analysis 09/03/11

  • Precedence/dependence tables
  • Drawing an activity network
  • Dummy activities
  • Earliest and latest event times
  • Critical events and slack
  • Critical activities and float
  • Critical paths

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B2J1T-insOmpMzlhYjg0NzQtMjFkZC00ZmE3LTkzZDEtNmVmZDczOTZjZjlm&hl=en