PHYS 1210 Exam 2 Study Guide

This quiz assesses course standards 16–28.  If you can do the tasks described below, you will satisfy the standards on the quiz.

Standard 16

For any force acting on a body:

Standard 17

Given a force and the displacement over which it acts, calculate the work it does.

Given a body's mass and change in elevation, calculate the work done on it by gravity.

Given two, find the third: force, instantaneous velocity, instantaneous power.

Identify the name of the SI unit of work, and decompose it into m, kg, and s.

Identify the name of the SI unit of power, and decompose it into m, kg, and s.

Given the forces acting on a body and the body's displacement during a process, determine the net work done on it during the process.

Classify work as a vector or a scalar.

Identify the formula for work given force and displacement.

Standard 18

Given two, find the third: a body's speed, its mass, and its kinetic energy.

Standard 19

Given one, find the other: the work done on a body during a process, the body's change in kinetic energy during the process.

Standard 20

Given two, find the third: a body's mass, its elevation, and its gravitational potential energy.

Calculate the energy stored in a stretched or compressed spring.

Given two, find the third: the spring constant k of a spring, its extension or compression, and its elastic potential energy.

Given two, find the third: the spring constant k of a spring, its extension or compression, and its tension.

Standard 21

Classify forces as conservative or non-conservative.

Standard 22

Identify the change in mechanical energy during a process involving only conservative forces.

Identify the change in mechanical energy during a process involving non-conservative forces.

Recognize special cases of kinetic or potential energy in multi-step processes. (Zero kinetic energy, zero or maximum potential energy, etc.)

Use conservation of energy to determine unknown quantities in processes in which a body's speed, elevation, spring compression, etc. change.

Standard 23

Given a potential energy diagram and the total mechanical energy of a body subject to the potential, identify:

Standard 24

Given an object's mass and velocity, calculate its momentum.

Identify the SI unit of momentum, and decompose it into m, kg, and s.

Calculate the total momentum of an isolated set of objects given their initial masses and velocities.

Categorize momentum as a vector or scalar.

Standard 25

Given two, find the third: impulse, duration, force.

Identify the SI unit of impulse, and decompose it into m, kg, and s.

Categorize impulse as a vector or scalar.

Given the impulse applied to a body in a process, find the change in its momentum.

Standard 26

Given the masses of two bodies and their initial velocities, find their shared velocity after a totally inelastic collision in one or two dimensions.

Given the masses of two bodies and the initial velocities along a line, find their final velocities along the same line after an elastic collision.

Given the masses of two bodies, their initial velocities, and the final velocity of one, find the final velocity of the other in one or two dimensions.

Identify three quantities conserved in an elastic collision.

Identify the types of collision that conserve total momentum.

Identify the types of collisions that conserve total kinetic energy.

Identify the types of collision in which both bodies have the same final velocity.

Standard 27

Given the masses and locations of a set of points, find the location of their center of mass.

Given the masses and velocities of a set of points, find the velocity of their center of mass.

Describe how the position and velocity of the center of mass of an isolated system changes with time.

Standard 28

Given three, find a fourth: angular displacement, initial angular velocity, final angular velocity, angular acceleration, and duration.

Identify the directions of angular velocity and angular acceleration vectors.

For a body rolling without slipping, given two, find the third:


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