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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 1
Students must determine the unknown mass in a problem involving momentum conservation. Both objects begin at rest and are propelled apart by a tap activated spring.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 2
Students must determine the unknown mass in a problem involving momentum conservation. One object begins at rest and the two objects stick together during the collision.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 3
Students must predict the speed in a problem involving momentum conservation. One object overtakes the other and the two objects stick together during the collision.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Momentum Conservation Level 4
Students must predict the speed in a problem involving momentum conservation. The two objects have a head-on collision and stick together during the collision.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Curling Stone Momentum Problem
Students must predict the new velocity of a curling stone after it collides with a curling stone that was previously at rest.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: 2 D Momentum Conservation
Students must predict the original speed of a Kuiper Belt Object by hitting it with an explosive charge and looking at the momentum of each piece after the explosion.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Jolly Gas Giant Problem
Students must calculate the mass of a planet based on the orbital motion of the moon going around the planet.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Spring Constant From Oscillation
Students must calculate the spring constant of a spring based on the oscillation graph that is created by an oscillating mass.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Determining G From Pendulum
Students must calculate the strength of the gravitational field based on the swinging motion of a pendulum.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Speed From Impulse Graph Level 1
Students must calculate the speed of a hockey puck based on the graph of force vs. time for the impact between the stick and the puck.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Speed From Impulse Graph Level 2
Students must calculate the speed of a hockey puck based on the graph of force vs. time for the impact between the stick and the puck.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Force Normal on Spinning Space Station
Students must calculate the number of rotations per hour required to create a certain force normal on a spinning space station.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Ice Bucket Challenge Level 1
Students must calculate the maximum and minimum speeds for a bucket whirled in a vertical circle.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Oh Snap
Students must determine speed and rpm of a object on a string at the moment when the string snaps that is holding the ball in a circular path.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Orbital Motion of a Synchronous Satellite
Students must calculate the altitude of a satellite that is in a geosynchronous satellite going around the planet.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Speed of a Satellite
Students must determine speed of a satellite by timing the satellite for part of its orbit. Students must also determine the period of the orbit based on their timing.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Orbital Motion of a Satellite
Students must calculate the period of a satellite moving around one of the bodies in our solar system.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Finding Mass of a Planet
Students must determine mass of a planet based on the orbital motion of a satellite around the planet.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Time to Traverse the Table
Students must find the time that it takes for the block to move across the table. This will involve an acceleration and a period of travel at a constant speed.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Newton's Law System With 3 Masses
Students must find out different things for a series of 3 objects moving as a system.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Newton's Law System With Friction Problem
Students must find out different things for a series of object's moving as a system with Friction.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Newton's Law System Both Frictions Problem
Students must find out different things for a series of object's moving as a system with Friction. In this problem students will be given both a static friction coefficient and a kinetic friction coefficient.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Atwood Machine Problem
Students must find out the time it takes a mass on an Atwood Machine to fall a certain distance.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Forces on Elevator
Students must find out different things for an object in a elevator simply based on the force-time graph that is produced as the object rides in the elevator.