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Relative motion
How is the clown moving according to a cardiologist standing at the
platform while the train passes?
Answer: 2
1. East, at the same speed
as the train Motion depends on the observer.
2. East, slightly slower than In this case, if you use the telescope test
the train you can tell the clown is moving east from
3. West the perspective of the cardiologist.
4. The clown is not moving
according to the
cardiologist
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A hockey puck glides across the ice at a constant speed. In which Motion with constant velocity
direction(s) are forces being exerted on the hockey puck?
Answer: 5
An object moving at constant velocity has a
1. Up net force of zero. There is no unbalanced
2. Down force in the direction of motion
3. In the direction of its
motion Fice on puck
4. Opposite the direction of
its motion puck
5. Both 1 & 2
6. 1, 2, and 3 Fearth on puck
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A baseball has just left the hand that threw it straight upward. What Motion with constant velocity
is the direction of the net force on the ball?
Answer: 2
The ball has left the hand. The hand is not
1. Up touching. There is no force exerted by the
2. Down hand.
3. There is no net force
exerted on the ball ball
4. There is not enough
information to tell Fearth on ball
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A brick rests on a table which sits on the floor. Which of Force
these would NOT appear on a free body diagram for the Answer: 3
table? A free body diagram for the table shows
1. Force of brick on table 0 0 0 0 0 forces exerted on the table.
2. Force of earth on table
3. Force of table on earth Ffloor on table
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Chris and Charles both start moving from rest when the
light turns green. Ten seconds later, Chris is going 60 mph − Answer: 4 0 +
and Charles is going 55 mph. Which is true?
1. Chris and Charles were Position x is where the object is located on
never at the same the coordinate axis
position We choose the coordinate axis or use the
2. Chris and Charles were axis specified
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never going the same An axis has an origin and a scale in the
speed at the same time positive and negative direction
3. Chris has a greater
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average acceleration negative, and zero
than Charles
4. All of these statements
are true
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Which statement about the quantity "net force" is NOT Net force
correct? Answer: 1
1. An object always moves in the Definition: the total of all forces exerted on an object
direction of the net force Zero net force = no forces at all OR all forces balanced by
exerted on it other forces
2. The net force is the total of all
the forces exerted on an No net force = no CHANGE IN motion = not moving OR
object of interest moving at constant velocity
3. If all forces exerted on an
object are balanced by other
forces, the net force on the
object is zero
4. An object can be in motion
with a net force of zero
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5. More than one of these is
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Which of these pairs of forces is an example of Newton's Newton's third law
Answer: 2
third law FA on B = –FB on A?
FA on B = − FB on A
1. You are seated on a bench. The
earth exerts a force on you, and If object A exerts a force on object B, object B exerts an equal
the bench exerts a force on you. force on object A in the opposite direction
2. A pen sits on a desk. The desk
exerts a force on the pen, and
the pen exerts a force on the
desk.
3. You pull on a rope. The rope pulls
on a wagon.
4. A book slides across a tabletop.
The book exerts a downward
force on the table, and the table man wagon
exerts a frictional force to slow
the book. Fwagon on man Fman on wagon
5. Both 2 and 4
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A battery-powered hover cart glides toward you across the floor. You Circular motion
have a stick. How do you need to tap the cart to make it move in a
circle around your feet? Answer: 3
1. In line with the circumference An object moving in a circular path (or part of a circular path)
of the circle has a net force toward the center of the circle
2. Outward from the circle Net force to center? It will move in a circle
3. Inward toward your feet
Moving in a circle? There is a net force to the center
4. At a tangent to the circle
5. Backwards and outwards
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It is possible for two cars to have the same speed but Speed and velocity
different velocities? Answer: 4
Speed means how fast you are going
1. Yes, if the cars have
different masses Velocity means how fast you are going and in what direction
2. Yes, if the cars start from 50mph east and 50mph northeast:
different points same speed different velocity
3. Yes, if the cars have
different engines
4. Yes, if the cars are going
in different directions
5. No, it is not possible
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What force(s) cause the earth to rotate around the sun Circular motion
once every year? Answer: 2
Moving in a circle? There is a net force to the center
1. The force of the earth's
movement In this case, the force is the gravitational attraction between
2. The force of the sun's the earth and the sun
gravitational attraction No force is required to keep the earth moving
3. The force of the sun's
solar wind
4. The force of swirling
etheric vortices
5. Both 1 and 2
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A stationary soccer ball is kicked and rolls away over the Momentum
grass. What quantity does it have after the kick that it did Answer: 5
not have before?
1. Mass
The momentum of an object is a equal to
2. Force
its mass times its velocity
3. Inertia
4. Impulse
p = mv
5. Momentum
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A Radio Flyer wagon carrying one school book rolls along a Momentum
level sidewalk. Which other Radio Flyer would have MORE Answer: 3
momentum?
1. A wagon loaded with
school books, not
p = mv
moving
2. An empty wagon rolling Momentum increases when velocity
at the same speed increases or when mass increases
3. An identical wagon
rolling faster
4. None of these
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Cart A and cart B roll toward each other on a smooth track Momentum
and collide. What quantity will always be the same before Answer: 4
and after the collision?
1. The force of A plus the
pbefore = pafter
force of B mA vA1 + mB vB1 = mA vA 2 + mB vB2
2. The speed of A plus the
speed of B Although velocities can change during a
3. The velocity of A plus collision or explosion, the total amount
the velocity of B of momentum remains the same
4. The total momentum of
both carts
5. All these quantities stay
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What is the term we use when the total amount of some Conservation
quantity remains the same before and after an event? Answer: 5
If the total amount of some quantity remains
1. Coincidence the same, even though it can change form or
be transferred, we say that it is conserved.
2. Convergence
3. Congruence In your personal finances, your net worth is
conserved even though you may take money
4. Conditioning
out of your bank account and put it in your
5. Conservation pocket.
6. Constantiation This is always true after a visit to the ATM
7. Cromulence right?
$ wallet before + $ ATM before = $ wallet after + $ ATM after
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Chris throws a ball up in the air. If we say that the ball and System
the earth are the system, what does that mean? Answer: 3
system environment
1. The motion of the ball is
determined by the earth
2. The ball and earth obey rules
of physics
3. We are considering the ball The system is the part of the world we are
and earth separately from interested in at the moment. It's a choice.
Chris and other objects
The environment is everything outside the
4. Nothing else interacts with
system.
the ball and the earth
We draw the system with a circle around it.
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What do we call a force exerted by an object outside the System
system on an object inside the system? Answer: 4
1. Work
2. Energy
3. Interference
4. External interaction ball and ramp:
internal interaction
ramp and table:
external interaction
5. Extrinsic force
An internal interaction is between objects in
the system.
An external interaction involves an object
outside the system.
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In any system of objects that does not interact with the Principles of conservation
environment, which of the following quantities is NOT Answer: 4
always conserved? In any isolated system, mass never appears or
1. Mass disappears although it may change form.
2. Energy The same is true for energy and momentum.
3. Momentum
4. Velocity initial final
state state
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What is the real name of "Chalk smashing potential"? Energy
Answer: 3
brick
1. Momentum
2. Work
3. Energy
earth
4. Temperature
5. Inertia
6. Height We used the idea of "chalk smashing
potential" as a way to visualize the concept of
energy.
A system can contain energy in many
different forms.
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An object is raised above the surface of the earth. What Gravitational Potential Energy
kind of energy has been increased in the system of object
and earth? Answer: 4 brick
1. Kinetic energy
2. Vertical energy
3. Potential energy
earth
4. Gravitational potential
energy
5. Internal energy When an object and the earth are separated
against their mutual attraction they gain
more ability to do stuff if released.
For a system to contain gravitational
potential energy, the earth must be included
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in the system.
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A fast- moving racecar slows down on a level track. Which Kinetic Energy
statement is correct about the system that includes Answer: 3
racecar, track, and earth?
1. Gravitational potential
energy has decreased The energy of a moving object is called kinetic
2. Kinetic energy has energy.
decreased If the object moves faster its kinetic energy
3. Kinetic energy has increases
increased
4. Kinetic energy has not
changed
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What is the term for an external interaction that changes Work
Answer: 4
the total amount of energy in a system?
brick
2. Impulse brick
3. External influence
earth earth
4. Work
5. Environmental factor When something from outside the system
causes the total energy in the system to
change, this is work
If the total energy in the system increases we
say positive work has been done
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Which is a possible explanation for why people can walk Explanations
on burning coals without injury? Answer: 5
1. Some people have a An explanation is an idea that could possibly
power of mind over account for what you have observed.
matter Think of how you could explain the phenomenon
2. Evaporating perspiration using what you know.
protects the feet You may need to propose a new idea to explain
3. A layer of ash insulates what you see -- maybe even magic.
the feet
4. The coals are not really
hot
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How could you test the idea that mental concentration Testing
protects the feet during a firewalk? Answer: 4
1. Ask many experimental The only definite conclusion is disproof. If you can firewalk
subjects to attempt a firewalk without mental concentration, mental concentration is not
using mental concentration necessary to walk over hot coals
2. Ask many experimental
subjects to attempt other Idea: "This is a good used car for me to buy"
feats using mental Car starts: idea may be correct
concentration
3. Ask subjects to describe how Tires are good: idea may be correct
mental concentration works Brakes work: idea may be correct
4. Ask many experimental
subjects to attempt a firewalk Hole in the floor: idea is NOT CORRECT
without using mental
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concentration
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Which observation is NOT explained by the idea that Kinetic Molecular Theory of Matter
liquids and gases are composed of a large number of tiny Answer: 5
particles in continuous random motion?
1. Alcohol gradually Tiny molecules are in constant random motion.
disappears from paper
Alcohol molecules jump off the paper sooner or later
2. A balloon full of air has a
round shape Air molecules collide continuously with the walls of a
3. Open a bottle of perfume balloon
and soon you will smell it Perfume molecules move among air molecules, across the
4. Milk eventually mixes into room to your nose
coffee even without Milk and coffee molecules jostle and intermingle like
stirring dancers in a crowded club
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Which statement is NOT true about an inflated balloon? Kinetic Molecular Theory of Matter
Answer: 1
1. Air molecules are packed Air and other gases at room temperature are mostly empty
together tightly inside space.
2. Air molecules are Molecules move at high speeds through empty space,
continually colliding with colliding with all surfaces and sometimes with each other
the inside walls of the
balloon These collisions cause gases to exert pressure on all
3. Air molecules are surfaces
continually colliding with A large number of tiny collisions feels like a continuous
the outside walls of the force
balloon
4. The area inside the balloon
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Which will NOT occur when the temperature of a box of Fluids at rest
gas is increased, according to our model? Answer: 4
1. Gas molecules will move An increase in temperature means an increase in the speed
more quickly of the rapidly moving microscopic particles
2. Gas molecules will collide
In gas, this means more and harder collisions with surfaces
with the walls of the box
including the walls of the container
more often
3. Gas molecules will collide In liquid, this means its more likely that liquid molecules
harder with the walls of the will escape each other and become gas
box
4. The amount of empty space
inside the box will decrease
5. The pressure inside the box
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Consider four similar containers of liquid. In which will you Fluids at rest
measure the greatest pressure at the bottom of the ruler? Answer: 5
1. 2. Pressure in a liquid or gas is exerted because of the force
required to support the fluid above.
The depth below the surface of the fluid is the only factor
that influences the pressure at any point
bucket flask
3. 4. 5.
All pressures are the same
cylinder funnel
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If block X is sinking in the fluid, what is the direction of the Fluids at rest
force exerted on the block by the liquid? Answer: 1
1. up There is always an upward force exerted by the fluid on a
2. down submerged or a partially submerged object
3. none But that does not mean the object will always float! Why
not?
4. There is not enough Fliquid on block
information to tell
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