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    This document contains a worksheet assessing understanding of Newton's three laws of motion. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions about concepts such as inertia, balanced forces, action-reaction pairs, and how forces relate to acceleration according to Newton's second law. The questions cover topics like what forces must be present to keep an object at rest or in motion with constant velocity, how forces and accelerations are affected by mass, and examples of action-reaction force pairs like the force a jet exerts on a bird during takeoff.

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    This document contains a worksheet assessing understanding of Newton's three laws of motion. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions about concepts such as inertia, balanced forces, action-reaction pairs, and how forces relate to acceleration according to Newton's second law. The questions cover topics like what forces must be present to keep an object at rest or in motion with constant velocity, how forces and accelerations are affected by mass, and examples of action-reaction force pairs like the force a jet exerts on a bird during takeoff.

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    Name: ______________________________

    Period: ___

    Newtons first law


    1. State Newton's first law in your own words.

    2. If an object remains at rest what must be true?


    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.

    The weight of the object must be zero.


    A friction force must act on the object.
    At least one normal or support force must act on the object.
    The sum of all forces acting on the object must be zero.

    3. A skater glides across the ice in a straight line. To maintain her speed she must push
    against the ice every so often. The pushes are necessary because
    A. the ice is perfectly frictionless.
    B. she needs to maintain her state of zero acceleration.
    C. a small force is needed to overcome friction cause by sliding on the ice.
    4. A passenger plane with a mass of 140,000 kg flies at a constant velocity of 220 m/s at an
    altitude of 11,000 meters. What net force acts on the plane?

    5. Which statements below about inertia are correct? If a statement is incorrect, show how it
    can be edited to turn it into a true statement.
    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.

    Objects with more mass have less inertia.


    Inertia is the tendency of an object at rest to stay at rest.
    The more velocity an object has, the greater its inertia.
    Inertia is the tendency of an object in motion to stay in motion.

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    T
    T
    T

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    F
    F
    F

    Newton's second law


    1. If you double both the force and mass, then how are the resulting position and velocity
    graphs affected? Why?

    2. Translate the equation a = F/m into an English sentence with the same meaning.

    3. A net force of 500 N acts on a 100 kg cart.


    A. What is the acceleration?
    B. What is the acceleration of the cart if the mass is doubled?
    C. What is the acceleration of the cart if instead the force is doubled?

    Name: ______________________________

    Period: ___

    4. A car has a mass of 2,000 kg. How much force is required to stop the car in 4.0 seconds
    from a speed of 20 m/s?
    5. The position vs. time graph below corresponds to motion with which of the following
    characteristics?

    A.
    B.
    C.
    D.

    Positive initial velocity and positive force.


    Positive initial velocity and negative force.
    Negative initial velocity and positive force.
    Negative initial velocity and negative force.

    Newtons third law


    1 . Explain what is meant by the statement A single force cannot exist.

    2 . A jet liner strikes a hummingbird during takeoff. Which is bigger: the force the jet liner
    exerts on the hummingbird, or the force the humming bird exerts on the jet liner?
    3 . Identify the reaction force:
    A. A satellite is pulled towards the earth
    B. A man pushes a sofa across the floor.
    C. A magnet attracts a compass needle.
    D. A fan pushes air into the room.
    E. Friction slows down a skidding car.
    4 . A 500-gram puck and a 250-gram puck collide on a frictionless air table. During the
    collision, the 250-gram puck undergoes an acceleration of 4.0 m/s.
    A. What force acts on the 250-gram puck?
    B. What is the acceleration of the 500-gram puck?
    5 . A student stands in the cafeteria line. His weight force down and the normal force acting
    upward on him are equal and opposite forces, but they are not an action and reaction pair.
    Why not? Give two reasons.

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