You should know the following: If not, review! We assume you are familiar with...

• with the metric system and the MKS (meter-kilogram-second) system of units.
  
• doing unit conversions (e.g., miles per hour to m/s)
  
• basic geometry associated with right-angled triangles, such as:

  sin(θ)

  =

  opposite hypotenuse

• basic algebra, and can solve the general quadratic equation ax² + bx + c = 0 whose two solutions are:
  
• calculus, including do basic integration and differentiation

  Some important concepts from calculus:

  • the integral is the area under the curve
  • the derivative is the slope
  • maximize or minimize a function by setting its derivative to zero