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What is the rate at which you travel a certain distance

A

Speed

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What is a quantity that has both magnitude and speed

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Vector

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What is the change in displacement divided by the change in time

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Velocity

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What is the difference between speed and velocity

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Speed only has magnitude velocity has magnitude and direction

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What is acceleration

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The rate of change in velocity

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What happens after two seconds of you drop your pumpkin off the roof?

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Accelerates -20m/s

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If you throw something straight up at 20 m/s after 1 second it is traveling at_______?

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10 m/s

20-10=10

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If you throw an object up at 1m/s and Sally throws one up at 3 m/s how do the distances compare

A

Maximum hieght is 9x higher

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What is the force of gravity always equal to

A

Mg

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When you fire a bullet sideways and drop one which hits the ground first

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Same time

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What happens if you drop a bottle outside you car window with no air resostance

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Lands next to car

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With oar resostance where will the bottle land

A

Behind the car

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An objects resistance to the change in motion is called _____

A

Inertia

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What is the measure of an objects inertia

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Mass

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What happens when there is no net force on an object

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Equilibrium

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What happens if you increase the angle at which you are pulling an object

A

Fpx decrease and fn decreases

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If you increase the angle on a frictionless ramp the normal force will_______

A

Go down

17
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What does friction depend on

A

Force and type of surface

18
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Friction doesn’t depend d on_______

A

Surface area or velocity

19
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Is static friction = to less than or greater than your push

A

Greater or equal to

20
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Is kinetic friction less than or greater then your push

A

Less than

21
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What happens to friction if you pull with a greater angle

A

It goes down

22
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What is momentum

A

Inertia in motion

23
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What does impulse equal

A

Force x time

24
Q

What

Is an in elastic collision

A

Stick together

25
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What is an elastic collision

A

Start apart go apart

26
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Explosion

A

Start together go apart

27
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What is work equal to

A

Force times distance

28
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Power = _______

A

W/t

29
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In ramp qu agitations what does fgx equal and what does fgy equal

A 
Fgx= sin
Fgy= cos
30
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In pulling problems what does fpx= and fpy=

A

Fpx= cos

Fpy=sin

31
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What equation do you use to find fgx on a ramp problem?

A

Fgx= fg sin(angle)

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