Kinematics and Dynamics
Circular Motion and Rotation
Work, Energy and Power
Impulse and Momentum
Waves and Electricity
100
This force causes a pencil and your AP Physics binder to reach the ground at the same time when air resistance is negligible.
What is gravitational force?
100
The force that keeps a yoyo moving up and down.
What is tension?
100
A stretched rubber band that was just released.
What is kinetic energy?
100
You push a door open with your side. This is a(n) ____ collision.
What is inelastic?
100
Any switch in your house that controls a single light bulb is a _____ circuit.
What is series?
200
When you dive off of a diving board, you push down on the springboard. The board springs back and forces you into the air.
What is Newton's third law of motion?
200
A race-car is making a very sharp turn and leaves skid marks on the road. This is because the force of _____ between the tires and the road created heat.
What is friction?
200
A person standing on the top of a diving board at the swimming pool.
What is potential energy?
200
You and your friends are jumping on a trampoline! Every time you jump, you get higher and the trampoline makes more of an indent.
What is an elastic collision?
200
In a light fixture, if the resistance is 10 Ohms and the voltage is 50 V, the current will be 5 amps because of ______.
What is Ohm's law?
300
If you are driving in your car at a very high speed and hit something, like a tree, the car will come to an instant stop, but you will keep moving forward. Cars have airbags and seat belts to protect you from smashing into the windshield.
What is Newton's first law of motion?
300
DAILY DOUBLE The degree that Ms. Dunsmore got in college
What is astrophysics?
300
As you bike down a hill in San Francisco, you begin to accelerate and your speed increases, but your total energy remains constant.
What is mechanical energy?
300
When a child sits on one end of a seesaw, they apply ____ to the seat.
What is torque?
300
You use the microwave at the same time as you are trying to watch netflix, and your wifi is incredibly slow.
What is a parallel circuit?
400
It is easier to push an empty shopping cart than a full one because the full shopping cart has more mass than the empty one. This means that more force is required to push the full shopping cart.
What is Newton's second law of motion?
400
As a rider starts the descent down a roller coaster on the first drop, she begins a one-minute adventure filled with various sensations of weightlessness, heaviness, and jerkiness. The parts of the ride which are most responsible for these sensations of weightlessness and heaviness are the clothoid loops.
What is centripetal force?
400
When a man pushes a wall and the wall doesn't move, no ------ is done
What is work?
400
If you hit a baseball or a golf ball correctly, the bat or the club gets in contact with the ball for more time. This concept causes the system to consequently have a higher momentum change and therefore a higher final velocity.
What is impulse?
400
Waves travel in straight lines except when they encounter obstacles- then the waves spread out, and can bend around corners. This allows you to hear loud music from another room even when the door is closed.
What are sound waves?
500
The tube on a lotion bottle and the opening to the lotion when it is pushed down to let out lotion.
What is kinetic friction?
500
When a car turns to the left, it is undergoing a form of rotation, describing a 90°-angle or one-quarter of a circle. Your body experiences inertia, since it was in motion along with the car at the beginning of the turn, and thus you tend to move forward. Thus the car door itself is moving to the left. As the door meets the right side of your body, you have the sensation of being pushed outward against the door, but in fact what has happened is that the door has moved inward.
What is centrifugal force?
500
The measurement of the moving ability of a building crane.
What is horsepower?
500
A skater starts spinning with her hands out and then brings them in with no external torque acting on her. She begins to move faster.
What is angular momentum?
500
The rubbing together of certain materials against one another can transfer negative charges. After rubbing a balloon on your head, electrons are being transferred from the balloon to your hair. Therefore, each strand of hair has a negative charge and they repel each other.
What is static friction?
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