Tag Archive for: common misconceptions

heat errors

Frequently Made Errors in Heat: Elementary Level

/
3 Comments
1. Heat, Work, Internal Energy, and Kinetic Energy "If heat is the motion of molecules, why isn't it Kinetic Energy?"In everyday use, we may think…
hydrostatics

Frequently Made Errors in Mechanics: Hydrostatics

/
3 Comments
  1. Archimedes' Principle X "When a body is placed in a liquid, the weight of the body equals the weight of the liquid displaced"That will…
error handling

Frequently Made Errors: Equation Handling in Physics

/
15 Comments
1. Algebra versus Arithmetic When numerical values are provided as inputs in a question, it is tempting to plug these into the equations straight away.…
kinematic errors

Frequently Made Errors: Kinematics Mistakes Explained

/
10 Comments
Kinematics is the subset of dynamics that only concerns itself with time, displacement, velocity, and acceleration. A problem is a kinematics problem…