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Chapter 6: Momentum
1. What is momentum? (Page 198)
2. How do you calculate momentum? (Page 199: 1 – 4)
3. What is impulse? (Page 200)
4. How do you calculate impulse? (Page 201: 1 – 4)
5. How are impulse and momentum related? (Page 201: 1 – 4)
6. How does changing the time of an impact affect the force? (Page 228: 6)
7. Compare and contrast the three types of collisions. (Page 220: 1, 2, 4)
8. Use conservation of momentum to find velocity and mass before and after a collision. (Page 228: 4 and 5)
Chapter 7: Circular Motion
1. Define tangential velocity, tangential acceleration, centripetal acceleration and centripetal force. (Page 234 – 236)
2. How can you calculate centripetal force and acceleration? (Page 236: 1 – 4, Page 238: 1 – 4)
3. How do you calculate gravitational force? (Page 242: 1 – 3)
4. Explain Newton’s thought experiment concerning gravity. (Page 240)
5. Compare and contrast Kepler’s Three Laws of Motion. (Page 248 – 249)
6. How do you determine the period, velocity and radius of an object in orbit? (Page 251: 1, 2)
7. What is a force that can cause rotation? (Page 255)
8. What variables affect the force in problem #7? (Page 258: 1 – 3)
Chapter 8: Fluids
1. How do you determine the density of a fluid? (Page 275)
2. How do you determine the pressure created by a fluid? (Page 283: All)
3. Discuss what is necessary for an object to float in a fluid. (Page 279: All)
4. Describe buoyant force and how to calculate it. (Page 279: All)
5. Describe how a hydraulic lift is able to lift a car. How is this related to Pascal’s Principle? (Page 280 – 281)
Chapter 11: Vibrations and Waves
1. What is harmonic motion? Give three examples of objects that undergo harmonic motion. (Page 368 – 272)
2. How do the force, velocity, displacement and acceleration of a mass in harmonic motion change with position? (Page
375: Chart and Question 3)
3. Compare and contrast frequency and period. (Page 376, Page 381: 1)
4. What are the characteristics, properties and types of waves? (Page 382 – 386)
5. What is the relationship between frequency and wavelength? (Page 386, Page 387: 1 – 4)
6. How do you calculate the period of a pendulum or spring-mass system? (Page 377, Page 380, Page 379: All, Page 381:
Practice C)
Chapter 13/14: Light
1. What type of wave is light? What are other types of waves that are similar to light? (Page 446 – 448)
2. How are frequency and wavelength related for light waves? (Page 449: All)
3. Explain reflection. (Page 451 – 454)
4. Draw a ray diagram for a concave mirror to determine where an image will appear. (Page 455 – 460: Diagram, Page
462: All)
5. Using the mirror equation to determine focal length, image distance and object distance. (Page 462: All, Page 457 –
458)
6. How can you determine whether an image is real or virtual? (Page 453, 456)
Chapter 16: Electric Forces and Fields
1. Discuss the types of charges, their characteristics and transfer. (Page 558 – 563, Page 563: All)
2. What is electric force and how is it calculated? (Page 564, Page 566: All)
3. Draw and interpret electric field lines. (Page 576)
Chapter 17: Electrical Energy and Current
1. What is electric potential? What are the units for it?
2. Describe current and how it is measured. What is the formula for deriving current?
3. What is drift velocity?
4. Explain resistance, how the shape of the resistor affects resistance and how to use the color code system.
5. Explain Ohm’s Law.
6. What are the different types of electrical power and how is it measured?
Chapter 18: Circuits and Circuit Elements
1. What are the two types of circuits?
2. Explain how to solve for voltage, current and equivalent resistance in each type of circuit.
Chapter 22: Subatomic Physics
1. What are the atomic number and atomic mass number for an element? (Page 790 – 791)
2. What is the currently accepted model of the atom? (Page 776)
3. What are the types of radioactive decay? (Page 797 – 800)
4. What is half-life and how is it used? (Page 824: 6)
5. Write a balanced nuclear process equation and determine the products and type of radioactive decay. (Page 802: All)