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Review Sheet for Motion and Forces Quiz
1. What is the difference between velocity and speed?
2. If a car traveling down a long road continued in a northwest direction but accelerated to a speed of 25 miles
per hour, is the speed or the velocity changing?
3. How are action and reaction forces different from balanced forces?
4. Which is an example of velocity?
a. 10m West
b. 12km/sec Northeast
c. 25mph​2​ South
5. On a position time graph, which axis is time on?
a. X-axis
b. Y-axis
6. What is rise over run equal to on a position time graph?
a. Position over motion
b. Speed over direction
c. There is no time in a position time
graph
c. Distance over time
d. Newton’s third law over Newton’s
Second Law
7. Which of the following answers is not an example of acceleration?
a. A car that is in motion and then
c. A car that has a constant speed and
speeds up.
b. A car that that is resting and is not in
then turns onto another street.
d. All of the above
motion.
8. You throw a tennis ball and a basketball across the garden, with the same force being applied to each.
However, the tennis ball goes further than the basketball. Why does this happen?
9. What is the formula for calculating speed?
10. You are driving a car. A truck driver drives past you at a similar speed. What is the truck driver’s motion?
What is your frame of reference?
11. If an object has more mass will it
a. Have more Inertia
b. Have less inertia
12. If a basketball is standing still on a court is it moving
a. No
c. have more acceleration
d. fly into space
b. Yes
c. Both
13. Does Newton’s Third Law fully explain the motion of objects or do they all work together?
14. Identify which person is correct:
a. Person A: a person in a plane sees a court move beneath them
b. Person B: a person on a court sees a plane move above them
c. Both
15. An object having more friction can be caused by:
a. Greater mass
b. Lesser mass
c. More acceleration
16. What is friction and how does it affect an object in motion?
17. What is inertia?
18. If Isaac Newton dragged a 50 kilogram desk across the floor with 50N of force, and he also dragged a 20
kilogram refrigerator across the floor at the same level, which object would move faster? Why?
19. Zach is sitting on a skateboard applying a force of 5N going down a hill and he falls off the skateboard. He
then starts to roll down the hill. What force is going to slow Zach down?
a. Friction
c. Inertia
b. Nothing
d. Net force
20. Emily is walking in her kitchen and stubbed her toe against a table. What law of motion is this expressing?
21. The car is currently at rest. What kind of force will be required to make it move?
22. Sally is riding her bike down the street. She notices that the harder she pushes on the pedals, the quicker
the bike will start to go. Why is that?
a. motion
b. A=F/M
c. The bike feels like it
23. How can you increase friction?
24. If two teams of kids were playing tug of war, and team one was exerting a total force of 30 N, and team two
was exerting a total force of 55 N, what is the net force, and who will win tug of war?
25. How does the mass of the rocket affect the
flight?
26. What’s an example of Newton’s 3rd law of
motion?
27. What is the subject’s speed at 60 seconds?