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- M. Choose a model from the hierarchy that will help you to solve the problem.
Models summarize the important physical content of the course, and each has certain allowed interactions and contains an associated equation law of change. For example, if you know that your system experiences a constant acceleration, the equations of change describe the system’s position and velocity as functions of time. To help you get a big picture overview of the course, we have organized the most important models that you will learn into a hierarchy of models.
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