PHYSICS Mid-Term Study Guide
  • List the Steps of the Scientific Method: 

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    7. The prefix _________ means one hundredth.
    8. The prefix _________ means one thousandth.
    9. The prefix _________ means one million.
    10. The basic metric unit for time is the __________.
    11. ________________ is when a measurement can differ depending on the viewing angle.
    12. ________________ is the ability to reproduce the same measurement repeatedly.
    13. ________________ is how a measurement compares to a standard quantity.
    14. The basic metric unit for volume is the ___________.

    Solve the following equations for X, if A = 2, B = 4, and C = 8.

    ____ 15. C = (A*X)/(3*C) 
    ____ 16. X = (A*3)/(B+C)

    Ch 2 – Velocity/Acceleration
    ____ 17 When does an object move with constant velocity?
    ____ 18. How far does a car travel if it moves at 16000 m/s for 40 seconds?
    ____ 19. A sports car moving at 40 m/s accelerates at 3 m/s/s for 20 seconds.  What is its final speed?
    ____ 20. A hammer is dropped from a bridge and it hits the ocean 7 seconds later.  About how high is the bridge?
    ____ 21. A jogger runs 2000 m in 20 seconds.  What is his average velocity?
    ____ 22. A toy rocket is launched straight up.  When the rocket reaches its maximum height, its velocity is
    ____ 23 A cyclist finishes a 2000 km race in 40 hours.  The average velocity 
    ____ 24 A runner traveled 450 km north then backtracked 140 km before stopping.  The displacement is 
    ____ 25. An object in freefall has an acceleration of _________?
    ____ 26. Constant acceleration on a velocity-time graph produces a curve that is
    ____ 27. A child lets go of a ball at the top of a hill.  The instantaneous velocity of the ball as the child let’s go is
    ____ 28. The slope of the tangent on a position-time graph equals 
    ____ 29. On a position-time graph, the velocity equals 
    ____ 30. The slope of a velocity-time graph is equal to the ____________ of an object.
    ____ 31. A toy rocket is shot straight up into the air with an initial speed of 60 m/s?  How high does it go?

    Ch 3 – Vectors & Projectile Motion
    ____ 32. Someone walks 20 km due east and then 14 km due north.  The resultant distance is in which quadrant?
    ____ 33. A ball thrown off a cliff at 490 m/s takes 4.5 seconds to hit the ground.   How high is the cliff?
    ____ 34. A brick is thrown with a horizontal velocity of 24 m/s and a vertical velocity of 12 m/s. 
    ____ 35. A plane travels at 200 m/s due north, as a 90 m/s wind blows from the east.  What is the resultant speed?
    ____ 36. The horizontal acceleration of a projectile is ________.
    ____ 37. The horizontal component of an 250 N force applied 30 degrees off the ground is _________.
     If it takes 10 seconds to hit the ground, how far does the brick travel horizontally?
    ____ 38. A ball is thrown at 60 m/s at a 45 degree angle.  How long does it take to get to its maximum height?

    Ch 4 - Forces

    ____ 39. How much force is needed to keep a 23 kg box moving at a constant velocity across a warehouse floor
     if the coefficient of friction between the box and the floor is 0.88?
    ____ 40. When the drag force on an object equals the force of gravity, ____________ occurs.
    ____ 41. According to Newton’s ____________ law, an object with no net force acting on it remains at rest 
     or in motion with a constant velocity.
    ____ 42. The equation F=ma comes from Newton’s ____________ law.
    ____ 43. What force is required to accelerate a 9 kg bowling ball at +12.0 m/s/s?
    ____ 44. Mass and weight are related by 
    ____ 45. The strongest force is ____________ force.
    ____ 46. What is the mass of a girl that weighs 720 N?
    ____ 47. A rocket weighs 22 million newtons.  Its engines exert +41 million newtons of force at lift-off.
     What is the net force on the rocket when it lifts off?

    Ch 7 – Circular Motion & Universal Gravitation

    ____ 48. What’s the speed of the earth around the sun?
    ____ 49. Centripetal acceleration is directed __________________________.
    ____ 50. How much torque is generated by a 600 N force applied 2.4 m from the center of rotation?
    ____ 51. What is the period of a pendulum that is 28 m long?
    ____ 52. What’s the centripetal acceleration of a car traveling at 30 m/s around a track with a 110 m radius?
    ____ 53. What is the torque produced by a 74 N force acting 0.42 m from the center of rotation?
    ____ 54. What is the gravitational force between two 2000 kg masses that are 2.1 m apart? 
    ____ 55. What is the distance between a 15 kg mass & a 48,000,000 kg mass if the force between them is 10 N?
    ____ 56. As two masses move further apart, the gravitation attraction between them ____.
    ____ 57. ____________ can be described as a twisting force around a center of rotation.
    ____ 58. How does the length of the pendulum affect the time period?
    ____ 59. The numerical value for the gravitational constant, G, is ________________.

    Ch 12 – Harmonic Motion

    ____ 60. What is the value for k if a spring stretches 0.4 m when submitted to a 1800 N force?
    ____ 61. What is the time period of a spring (k=0.5 N/m) with a 10 kg mass attached to it?
    ____ 62. How does the value of g affect the time period of a pendulum?
    ____ 63. What is the time period of a pendulum that is 5.2 m long?

    Ch 6 - Momentum

    ____ 64. What is the change in momentum if a 160N force is applied for 8 seconds?
    ____ 65. A 40 kg block moving right at 20 m/s hits an 80 kg block moving left at 10 m/s.  What happens?
    ____ 66. What is the momentum when a 0.01 kg shell travels at 2000 m/s?
    ____ 67. In a closed system, the total momentum before ___________ the total momentum after.
    ____ 68. What force is required to stop a 70 kg block moving at 10 m/s in only 1.6 seconds?

    Ch 9 – Fluid Mechanics

    ____ 69. How deep do you have to dive in salt water to experience three times normal atmospheric pressure?
    ____ 70. A can with 90 m3 of surface area is experiencing 88,000 of pressure.  What force is acting on the can?
    ____ 71. Normal atmosphere pressure is ___________.
    ____ 72. What is the density of a 6x8x2 m block of lead that is 4000 kg?

    Be able to use the pendulum equation to solve for g.
     

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