Kinematics
Dynamics
Circular Motion
Graphs
Potpourri
100

This is the acceleration at the very top point on the path of a projectile.

What is 9.8 m/s/s?

100

This is the Newton's 3rd law pair for the weight of an object on Earth.

What is the normal force?

100

This is the direction of the tension in a string when you twirl a ball in a circle above your head.

What is toward the center?

100

A position time graph that shows accelerated motion.

What is a curve?

100

They come at night without being called and are lost in the day without being stolen.

Who are stars?

200

This is the distance that a ball released from rest will fall over 2 seconds.

What is -20 meters?

200

This is the type of picture that can (should) be drawn for any dynamics problem.

What is a force diagram (free-body diagram)?

200

The force that provides the centripetal force needed for a car to round a flat curve and its direction.

What is friction and towards the center?

200

A velocity time graph that shows zero acceleration.

What is a line with zero slope?

200

In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink! The color of the stairs is... 

What is not pink?

300

This is the value that can be found from the area under a velocity-time graph.

What is displacement?

300

This is what you do when you have a force at an angle.

What is draw a right triangle (do trig)?

300

The location when a rock on a string (spun in a vertical circle) has the highest amount of tension.

What is the bottom?

300

Finding displacement on a d/t graph.

What is read the y-axis?

300

If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, you end up with this many apples.

What is 2?

400

This is the type of acceleration that an object must have in order to be able to use the top three equations on your equation sheet.

What is constant acceleration?

400

If the mass of an object stays the same, but the acceleration of the object increases, Newton’s second law states that the force acting on the object should do this.

What is increase?

400

The centripetal force for a planet orbiting a star.

What is GMm/r2?

400

Finding the displacement on a v/t graph.

What is area under the curve?

400

You can start a fire if you have alcohol, petrol, kerosene, paper, candle, coke, a full matchbox and a piece of cotton wool. This is what you light first.

What is the match?

500

This is how long it will take a 5.0 kg object to reach a speed of 12 m/s when pushed with an applied force of 35 N. Assume there is no friction.

What is 1.7 seconds?

500

This is the normal force on a 10 kg object that is pushed with a downward force of 150 N at an angle of 25 degree angle.

What is 160 N?

500

The direction an object in circular motion goes when the force suddenly disappears.

What is tangent to that point?

500

Two velocity time graphs with a negative acceleration/

What are two lines with negative slope?

500

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. You must be eating this food.

What is corn on the cob?