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Physics a study guide
1. Best to study from you Chapter Review
Worksheets but here are some tips……
2. This Study Guide has some hints to study for
your final exam. It does not have everything to
study. You should use your notes and Chapter
Review Worksheets to also study from. It would
also be helpful to review notes and PowerPoints
posted in the Netvibes Start Page.
Link:
http://www.netvibes.com/cophysics#Today
3. Key Terms: Scientific
method, Fact, Law, hypothesis, principles, the
ory.
Steps to the Scientific Method
Scientific Attitudes
What does it mean to say that if a hypothesis
is scientific, then there must be an means of
proving it wrong?
How does science an technology differ?
4. Key Terms: Force, net force, vector, vector
quantity, scalar quantity, mechanical
equilibrium, equilibrium rule, support
force, resultant
Difference between force and net force
Net force on an object of rest
How does vector quantity differ for scalar
quantity?
5. What is needed to describe vector quantity?
Vector is a quantity that has?
What is the net force of an object?
What is the tension of a strand?
The speed of an object
6. Key Terms: friction, inertia, Newton’s first
Law, Law of inertia, kilograms, mass, weight,
Newton
Friction is a force that……
What does the law of inertia state?
Gravity on an object….
Compare the weight on earth and figure out
the mass of an object.
7. Key Terms: Relative, Speed, Velocity, Instantaneous
speed, average speed, velocity, acceleration, free
fall, elapsed time
Units of speed
Average acceleration
Objects falls at….
Terminal velocity
Acceleration is produced by..
Acceleration is defined as
Average speed is defined as
Velocity and speed are the different? If so how?
8. Key Terms:
Components, projectile, resolution
Vector Quantity is…..
What is free fall?
Unit of speed
Define acceleration
Horizontal component of a projectiles velocity
Acceleration are produced by
9. Key Terms inversely, Newton’s second law, air
resistance, free body
diagram, pressure, pascal, terminal
speed, terminal velocity
When an object reaches terminal velocity its
acceleration is?
Define Pressure
10. Key Terms: interaction, Newton’s third law,
Action force, reaction force
Exerting a force on another object~ What
happens
Reaction to forces
Newton’s Third law
Forces always occur…..
11. Key Terms : Momentum, impulse, Law of
conservation of momentum, elastic collision,
inelastic collision
How does conservation of momentum apply
to collisions?
Momentum Vectors
12. Study formula and math problems from
worksheets.
You will be able to use a formula sheet
Know SI units