UNIT 02 : FORCE AND MOTION
Force and Motion is a core chapter in MDCAT Physics, sitting within the 20% Physics allocation of your 36-question paper.
What this chapter covers:
- Displacement
- Average velocity of objects
- Displacement-time graph interpretation
- Acceleration
- Uniform and variable acceleration
- Projectile motion as two-dimensional motion in a vertical plane
- Ideal projectile motion in the absence of air resistance
- Horizontal component of velocity remaining constant
- Vertical acceleration matching free-fall motion
- Differences between horizontal and vertical motion characteristics
- Maximum height, range, time of flight, and maximum angle of a projectile
- Newton’s laws of motion applied across varied contexts
- Newton’s second law as rate of change of momentum
- Newton’s third law correlated with conservation of momentum
- Elastic and inelastic collisions between two bodies in one dimension
- Momentum conservation in explosive situations
- Relative speed of approach equal to relative speed of separation in perfectly elastic collisions
This chapter blends vector algebra, graphical interpretation, and multi-step numerical problem-solving, making it a genuine mix of conceptual and calculation-heavy content. Projectile motion and collision problems in particular tend to fall into the moderate-to-difficult range within the PMDC’s stated 15% easy, 70% moderate, 15% difficult split, since they require combining formulas correctly under angle- and direction-dependent conditions.
Why this practice set helps:
- Covers every subtopic the PMDC curriculum identifies, plus the supporting concepts textbooks present alongside them
- Every question includes a full explanation of why the correct answer is right and why each other option is wrong
- Built to help you learn faster than passive reading, with nothing the exam may draw from left untouched
Work through this set attentively, and you build both the formula fluency and problem-solving speed this chapter demands, especially for projectile motion and collision numericals where a single sign or component error changes the entire answer.