Download Honors or AP Physics 1 Summer Assignment (part 1)

Honors or AP Physics 1 Summer Assignment (part 1) Name _____________________
Note to Parent: your child is asked to complete the following without the help of the
internet or other reference material. They may discuss the statements with you or other
family members, but I am trying to get an understanding of the students’ current thinking
about physics.
Student: have your parent read the above and then sign here below:
Parent signature: ________________________________
Mark either as True or False. Some may require certain conditions to be true or false. If
so, state the conditions.
1. History has no place in science.
2. Two objects side by side must have the
same speed.
3. Acceleration and velocity are always in the
same direction.
4. Velocity is a force.
5. If velocity is zero, then acceleration must be zero too.
6. Heavier objects fall faster
than lighter ones.
7. Acceleration is the same as
velocity.
8. The acceleration of a falling object depends
upon its mass.
9. Freely falling bodies can only move
downward.
10. There is no gravity in a vacuum.
11. Gravity only acts on things when they are falling.
12. Forces are required for motion with constant
velocity.
13. Inertia deals with the state of motion (at rest
or in motion).
14. All objects can be moved with equal ease in the
absence of gravity.
15. All objects eventually stop moving when the force is
removed.
16. Inertia is the force that keeps objects in motion.
17. If two objects are both at rest, they have the same
amount of inertia.
18. Velocity is absolute and not dependent on the frame
of reference.
19. Action-reaction forces act on the same body.
20. There is no connection between Newton's Laws
and kinematics.
21. The product of mass and acceleration, ma, is a
force.
22. Friction can't act in the direction of motion.
23. The normal force on an object is equal to the weight of the
object by the 3rd law.
24. The normal force on an object always equals the weight of the
object.
25. Equilibrium means that all the forces on an object are equal.
26. Equilibrium is a consequence of the 3rd law.
27. Only animate things (people, animals) exert forces; passive ones
(tables, floors) do not exert forces.
28. Once an object is moving, heavier objects push more than
lighter ones.
29. Newton's 3rd law can be overcome by motion (such as by a
jerking motion).
30. A force applied by, say a hand, still acts on an object after the object leaves
the hand.
31. The Moon is not falling.
32. The Moon is not in free fall.
33. The force that acts on apple is not the same as the force that
acts on the Moon.
34. The gravitational force is the same on all falling bodies.
35. There are no gravitational forces in space.
36. The gravitational force acting on the Space Shuttle
is nearly zero.
37. The gravitational force acts on one mass at a time.
38. Moon stays in orbit because the gravitational force on it is balanced by the
centrifugal force acting on it.
39. Weightlessness means there is
no gravity.
40. The Earth's spinning motion
causes gravity.
41. Energy gets used up
or runs out.
42. Something not moving can't have any energy.
43. A force acting on an object does work even if the objects
does not move.
44. Energy is destroyed in transformations from one type to
another.
45. Energy can be recycled.
46. Gravitational potential energy is the only type of potential energy.
47. When an object is released to fall, the gravitational potential energy
immediately becomes all kinetic energy.
48. Energy is not related to
Newton's laws.
49. Energy is a force.
50. Momentum is not a
vector.
51. Conservation of momentum applies only
to collisions.
52. Momentum is the same as force.
53. Moving masses in the absence of gravity do not
have momentum.
54. The center of mass of an object must be inside the
object.
55. Center of mass is always the same as the center of
gravity.
56. Momentum is not conserved in collisions with
"immovable" objects.
57. Momentum and kinetic energy are the same.
58. Circular motion does not
require a force.
59. Centrifugal forces are real.
60. An object moving in circle with constant speed has no acceleration.
61. An object moving in a circle will continue in circular motion
when released.
62. An object is circular motion will fly out radially when
released.
63. Any force acting on an object will
produce a torque.
64. Objects moving in a straight line cannot have
angular momentum.
65. Torque is the same as force and is in same
direction.
66. Angular momentum is
not a vector.
67. The direction of angular momentum is in direction of
linear momentum.
68. Planetary orbits
are circles.
69. The speed of a planet in orbit
never changes.
70. An object must be at both foci of an
elliptical orbit.
71. All the planets move in their orbits with the
same speed.
72. No work is done on orbiting planets by the
sun.
73. The orbits of the planets lie precisely in
the same plane.
74. All the planets revolve about sun with the
same period.
75. Revolution is the same as rotation.
76. Spacecraft travel in straight lines from one
planet to another.
77. Spacecraft can be launched anytime to travel from one
planet to another.
78. Spacecraft are not affected by the sun.
79. Motion relative to Earth is same as motion
relative to the sun.
80. Jets can fly in space.
81. Spacecraft in orbit about Earth don't follow a sinusoidal path
relative to the sun.
82. Rockets need something (air) to push against.
83. Space is not
something.
84. Black
holes are
big.
85. Light always travels in
straight lines.
86. Black holes exert a greater gravitational force on distant objects than the
star from which it was formed.
87. Observations made in a gravitational field are different than those
made in a system undergoing constant acceleration.
88. Things in space
make sounds.
89. If the Sun were to become a black hole, the Earth would
get sucked into it.
90. For a pendulum, the period of oscillation
depends on the amplitude.
91. For a pendulum, the restoring force is constant at
all points in the oscillation.
92. The heavier a pendulum bob, the shorter its
period.
93. All pendulum motion is perfect simple harmonic motion, for any
initial angle.
94. Harmonic oscillators go forever.
95. A pendulum accelerates through the lowest
point of its swing.
96. Amplitude of oscillations is measured peak-topeak.
97. The acceleration is zero at the end points of the motion of a
pendulum.