Harmonic Motion
Kinematics and Forces
Circular Motion and Rotational Motion
Work, Energy, and Momentum
Advanced Physics
100

The spring force is F = -kx because spring force is a ______ force.

What is a restoring force?
100

______ is a vector, and speed is a scalar.

What is velocity?

100

These two components act inwards (towards the center) of the circle created by the circular motion of an object.

What is centripetal force and centripetal acceleration?

100

This type of collision conserves momentum of the system, but does not conserve the kinetic energy of the system. 

What is an inelastic collision?
100

Torque is defined by this type of vector multiplication operation.

What is a cross product?

200

An object in simple harmonic motion has the highest velocity at the instant it passes through its ___________ position.

What is equilibrium

200

This law states that F=ma.

What is Newton's Second Law?

200

This Newtonian equation follows the Inverse Square Law.

What is Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation?

200

True or False: In a closed system, a change in potential energy must mean an equal and opposite change in kinetic energy. 

True

200

The change in potential energy of a system with respect to distance

What is Force?

300

True or False: Spring force is proportional to the square of the displacement of the spring.

False

300

True or False: an object instantaneously at rest must mean that its acceleration is zero.

False

300

When spinning a ball attached to a string in a horizontal circle, the tension force of the string provides this type of force.

What is centripetal force?

300

True or False: Applying a force F on an object for a distance parallel to the surface that the object is traveling on will result in the same amount of work done, regardless of whether or not the surface is inclined.

True

300

A certain one-dimensional conservative force is given as a function of x by the expression F = -kx3, where F is in Newtons and x is in meters. Solving for this particular measurement results in the equation -¼kx4.

What is Potential Energy?

400

This is the equation for the position of an object in harmonic motion as a function of time.

cos(ωt + φ)

400

This is the value given when finding the slope of a velocity-time graph. 

What is acceleration?

400

This is the component that always equals zero when applying a force parallel to a rotating object's radius, no matter how much force is applied

What is torque?

400

This measurement is provided by the area bounded by the curve and the x-axis of a force-time graph

What is Momentum?

400

This object's rotational inertia around its central diameter axis of rotation is ¼MR2 + ¹⁄₁₂ML2.

What is a solid cylinder?

500

A pendulum system has a kinetic energy K and potential energy U = 0 when it is at its lowest point in its oscillatory motion. This is the angle that the pendulum makes with the horizontal at the instant the system's kinetic energy and potential energy are equal.

What is 30 degrees?

500

Block 1 and block 2, both of identical masses are resting on top of each other, with block 2 on top of block 1. This block has a greater normal force than the other. 

What is block 1?
500

The normal force exerted on a person varies at every instant in this type of circular motion.

What is vertical circular motion?

500

This theorem states that work is defined as the change in kinetic energy.

What is the Work-Energy Theorem?

500

The net work done when an object travels through this type of conservative field is zero when the object is thrown upwards and lands at the same position it was thrown from.

What is the Force of Gravity?

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