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Ch 5
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100
The Greek letter which stands for coefficient of friction
What is Mu?
100
Law which deals with action/reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
100
Snow tires are specially designed to increase this.
What is friction (traction)?
100
The fourth stage of the engineering cycle, besides design, prototype, and test.
What is evaluate?
100
The weight of a 10 kg object which is dropped from a 25 m tall building.
What is 100 N (98 N)?
200
What quantitative diagrams contain that qualitative ones do not.
What is numbers?
200
Law which deals with inertia.
What is Newton's First Law?
200
The letters that are usually used to indicate the three dimensions of physical space.
What are x, y, and z?
200
The type of train that has almost zero friction between the train and the rails.
What is maglev?
200
The acceleration of a 4.7 kg object which has a net force of 22 N on it.
What is 4.7 m/s/s?
300
Name for the law which relates spring force to deformation and spring constant.
What is Hooke's Law?
300
Law which deals with unbalanced forces.
What is Newton's Second Law?
300
The special name for the type of force a spring has.
What is restoring?
300
A giant squid's method of locomotion
What is jet propulsion?
300
The spring constant of a spring which stretches 15 cm from equilibrium when a 5 kg mass is hung from it.
What is 3.3 N/cm (333N/m)?
400
Name for the condition where the net force is zero.
What is equilibrium?
400
The amount of inertia an object has depends on this physical property.
What is mass?
400
The correct units for spring constant in the metric system.
What is N/m (N/cm)?
400
1 kg times 1 m/s/s = one of these
What is a Newton?
400
The mass of an object which accelerates at 2.2 m/s/s when a 16 N force is applied and a 3.0 N force of kinetic friction is present
What is 5.9 kg?
500
Name for the type of friction when an object is moving through a fluid like water
What is viscous friction?
500
Special name for the air friction that pulls back on an airplane in flight.
What is drag?
500
Name for a fluid which reduces friction.
What is a lubricant?
500
The number of strain gauges in a force platform.
What is 12?
500
The final velocity of an 7 kg object which starts from rest and falls a distance of 20 m.
What is 20 m/s?