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Physics Final
Yell's Physics Final
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Physics
11th Grade
12/15/2010

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Aristotle
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Galileo
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Ptolemy
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Copernicus
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When there is no air resistance, objects of different masses dropped from rest...
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fall with equal accelerations and with equal displacements
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Suppose you are given a position versus time graph. The slope of a line drawn tangent to a point on the curve of this graph describes what quantity?
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Instantaneous Velocity
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Three values were obtained are all around the same area, but the true value isnt near them. what are they?
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Precise
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What is the tendency of an object to maintain its state of motion?
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Intertia
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A free-body diagram represents...
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force exerted on an object

forces as vectors

the object

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A hammer drives a nail into wood, identify the action-reaction pain in this situation.
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The hammer exerts a force on the nail; the nail exerts force on the hammer.
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What is Newtons second law?
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When the same force is applied to two objects with different masses, the heavier object will have a smaller acceleration.
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