Reading Quizzes
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Date of Reading Quiz |
Reading Assignment |
Key Questions: |
| July 28th | No reading quiz | |
| July 27th | Sections 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 |
1) What is torque? 2) What is a moment arm? 3) What are the conditions for translational and rotational equilibrium? 4) What is the version of Newton's second law for rotational motion? 5) What is angular momentum? |
| July 26th | Sections 10.1, 10.3, and 10.4 |
1) What are the units of angular velocity? 2) Is angular velocity positive or negative when rotation is counterclockwise? 3) How do you convert from tangential velocity to angular velocity? 4) What is rotational kinetic energy? 5) What measurements of an object determine its moment of inertia? |
| July 25th | Sections 8.3 and 8.4 (with examples) |
1) What is the difference between elastic and inelastic collisions? 2) What type of collisions conserve momentum? 3) What type of collisons conserve energy? |
| July 20th | Sections 7.6, 8.1, 8.2 |
1) What is the relationship between potential energy and force? 2) What is the relationship between force and momentum? 3) What is conservation of momentum? 4) What is the formula for linear momentum? 5) What is impulse? |
| July 19th | Sections 6.8, 7.2, 7.3 |
1) What are the units for Power? 2) What is an isolated system? 3) What is the difference between a conservative and a non-conservative force? |
| July 18th | Sections 6.4, 6.5, and 7.1 |
1) What is Hooke's Law? 2) What are the units of Kinetic and Potential energy? 3) How does Kinetic energy depend on velocity? 4) What is gravitational Potential Energy? 5) How can you calculate Work when Force depends on displacement? |
| July 13th | Section 6.2 |
1) Is work a vector or a scalar? 2) Ignoring friction, which requires more work, climbing up a ladder or walking up a ramp to the same height? 3) What is the difference between positive and negative work? |
| July 12th | Sections 5.1 and 5.2 | 1) How is friction related to the normal force? 2) What are the units for the coefficient of static friction? 3) What is a banked curve? 4) What might happen if you go too slowly around a banked curve? What about if you go too fast? |
| July 11th | Sections 4.6 and 4.7 (look over examples) |
1) What is a normal force? 2) What is the third law pair of the normal force? 3) How do you know when something is at equilibrium? 4) What happens to an Atwood machine with equal masses? 5) What is a contact force? 6) Do you weigh more going up or going down in an accelerating elevator? |
| July 6th | Sections 4.1-4.5 | 1) What is Newton's First Law? 2) What is inertia? 3) What is the difference between mass and weight? 4) What is the SI unit of Force? |
| July 5th | Section 3.3 and 3.4 | 1) During projectile motion, when are the velocity and acceleration vectors parallel? perpendicular? 2)What variables are held constant during projectile motion? 3) What is the direction of centripedal acceleration in uniform circular motion? |
| June 30th | Section 2.7 | 1) What is the SI unit of acceleration 2) What is the numerical value of g? 3) How does acceleration change during free fall? |
| June 29th | Sections 2.4-2.7 | 1) What is a motion diagram? 2) What is acceleration? 3) What is the acceleration due to gravity? |
| June 28th | Sections 1.1-1.9 and 2.1-2.3 especially 1.7, 1.9, 2.1, and 2.3 |
1) What is a vector? What is a scalar? 2) What does it mean to break up a vector into components? 3) What is the difference between average and instantaneous velocity? |