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List the Steps of the Scientific Method:
1. ________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________
6. ________________________________________________
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.