Work and Energy
Motion
Forces and Newton's Law
Thermal Energy
Past Questions from the first semester
100

On a bicycle, the wheels consist of wheel and axles, the handbrakes and gearshift are levers, and the chains are pulleys. This combination of two or more simple machines is called a ?

compound machines

100

The path of a projectile is ?

curved

100

Whenever a body is in motion inside the earths atmosphere, there is always what to oppose the motion?

friction

100

A device that converts thermal energy into mechanical energy is

heat engine

100

Dot diagrams are used to represent

outer level electrons

200

Radiant energy from the sun is transformed to what kind of energy in plants during photosynthesis?

Chemical

200

What type of acceleration does an object moving with constant speed in a circular path experience?

centripetal acceleration

200

ccording to Newton's first law of motion, a moving object...

continues moving at a same velocity unless a force acts on it.

200
The process by which engine fuels burn is called

combustion

200

Partciles that make up protons and neutrons are

quarks

300

Power is measured in ?

watts
300

What is the average speed of a bicyclist that travels 500 meters over 50 seconds?

10 m/s

300

The relationship among force, mass, and acceleration is stated in

Newton's second law of motion

300

Heat is thermal energy transferred from one objet to another because of a difference in

temperature

300

Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons are called

isotopes

400

At what point on a roller coaster is the gravitational potential energy the highest?

At the top of the highest drop

400

3 meters per second is an example of a

speed

400

The size of the gravitational force between two objects depends on their

masses and the distance between them

400

Temperature is a measure of what

the average kinetic energy

400

A colloids particles do what

never settle

500

How does a ramp make it easier to move a heavy object a certain distance?

By decreasing the amount of force required to move the object.
500
To describe velocity you need to know?

speed and direction

500

In the absence of air, a penny and a feather that are dropped from the same height at the same time will

fall at the same time

500

Convection most likely occurs in what during convection

liquids and gases

500

What scientist created the Electron Cloud Model

Schrodinger

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