Concept · from MIT 8.01SC Classical Mechanics

Kinetic Energy and Work in 2D and 3D

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MIT's own material for this topic, in MIT's order: Lesson 21: Kinetic Energy and Work in 2D and 3D [21.1-21.6].

Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Order: the items appear in the order MIT's own session page lists them; the sessions follow MIT's sequence. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

21.1 Scalar Product Properties

MIT 8.01SC · Week 7: Kinetic Energy and Work · This session on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

21.2 Scalar Product in Cartesian Coordinates

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21.3 Kinetic Energy as a Scalar Product

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21.4 Work in 2D and 3D

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21.5 Work-Kinetic Energy Theorem in 2D and 3D

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21.6 Worked Example - Block Going Down a Ramp

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MIT's problem set

Problem Set 7

MIT places Problem Set 7 at the end of Week 7: Kinetic Energy and Work; it covers the whole part, not only this topic. Problem Set 7 on MIT OpenCourseWare ↗

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Where this sits in MIT 8.01SC

MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty, Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Dr. Michelle Tomasik, Prof. Anna Frebel, Prof. Vladan Vuletic, 8.01SC Classical Mechanics, Fall 2016.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2016 · Open the original course on OCW ↗

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