Mechanics IA Examples Paper URLs

A Christmas Holiday question!
Past Tripos Paper questions:
EP1EP2EP3EP4
2013Q10 . Q7 Q8,Q9
2012Q8 Q9(a)(b),Q12(a)(b)Q9(c),Q12(c)Q7
2011 . Q8 Q9 Q7,Q11
2010 . Q11(a) Q11(b),Q8 Q7,Q9
2009Q7 Q11(a) Q8,Q11 Q9
2008Q7 Q8(a) Q8 Q9,Q11
2007Q11 Q9(a) Q9 Q7,Q8
2006Q9 Q8(a) Q8 Q7
2005Q8 . Q12 Q9,Q10 from 2005 onwards the "short" and "long" style of questions began
2004 . Q8(a) Q8 Q6,Q7
2003 . . Q6,Q7 Q8
2002 . . Q7 Q6,Q8
2001 . . Q6 Q7,Q8 from 2001 onwards there were only three questions in Mechanics (Q6,7,8)
2000Q6,Q8 . Q5 Q7 prior to 2001 there were four questions in Mechanics (Q5,6,7,8)
1999Q7(a)(b)Q5(a) Q5,Q7(c) Q8
1998Q5 . Q6,Q7 Q8
1997Q5 . Q5,Q6 Q8
1996Q7(a)(b) . Q6,Q7 Q5
1995Q7 Q5(a)(b)(c) Q5 Q6,Q8
1994Q5 Q7(a) Q7 Q8
1993Q5 . Q8 Q6
If links don’t work, or if anyone has interesting and relevant URLs to add to this list then please email me at
hemh@eng.cam.ac.uk

Star rating: the more stars *****, the more fun the web site is.

EP1 Q1 Q2 Q3

Free fall & gravity
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/newtlaws/efff.html ***
http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal109/LESSONS/TEXT/FREEFALL.HTM ***
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/msl1/ground_lab/msl1freefall.htm **
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/parkphysics/freefall2.html**
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/u2l2a.html*

EP1 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q8 Q9 Q11

Roller coasters
http://www.funderstanding.com/k12/coaster/*****
http://www.realisticdiplomas.com/The-Science-Of-Roller-Coasters.aspx***

railway track in intrinsic coordinates
http://www.inrets.fr/ur/ltn/pdf/IAVSD99.pdf
http://www.geopp.com/gnbahn/page1.html

EP1 Q7

Hydraulic cylinder
http://www.howstuffworks.com/animation13.htm**

EP1 Q10

How gears work and involute profiles
http://www.howstuffworks.com/gear.htm *
http://www.howstuffworks.com/gear1.htm **
http://www.howstuffworks.com/gear7.htm ***
http://www.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=gear.htm&url=http://www.efunda.com/designstandards/gears/gears_introduction.cfm **

EP1 Q12

Tracking radar
http://www.wagner.com/technologies/datafusion/stickfigure.html *
http://www.tpub.com/neets/book18/79j.htm *
http://scrl.usda.gov/SCRL/apmru/imms/radar/rdr_img/trackrd.htm
http://www.howstuffworks.com/radar.htm *
http://www.howstuffworks.com/radar2.htm **

and just for fun…

Can you believe that just a few dots is all that is needed to be sure that you’re looking at a human being?
http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/ ****

EP2 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5

Angular velocity as a vector, spinning objects
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/rotv.html **
http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses/EN4/notes/angular/Angular.html **
http://em-ntserver.unl.edu/NEGAHBAN/EM373/note15/note.htm *

http://landau1.phys.virginia.edu/classes/311/notes/aero/node2.html ***

 

EP2 Q6 Q7 Q8

Instantaneous centres
http://em-ntserver.unl.edu/NEGAHBAN/EM373/note16/note.htm **
http://www.me.caltech.edu/courses/me70/Archive/2000-winter/examples/4Bar/IC6.html **
http://www.performancetrends.com/4link.htm**

EP2 Q9 Q10

Cams
http://www.ul.ie/~nolk/cams.htm

and just for fun…

These are movies of micromachines
http://mems.colorado.edu/c1.res.vid/ ****
Can you explain why the moon changes sizeand why it wobbles?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap991108.html *****
Tasmanians have two heads
http://www.tased.edu.au/tasfaq/people/heads.html *****