This quiz asesses course standards 1–7. If you can do the tasks described below, you will satisfy the standards on the quiz.
Given a quantity in one unit, express the same quantity in different units.
Given a formula involving physical quantities, determine the units of the result.
Multiply and divide physical quantities, expressing the results in the correct units.
Identify when physical quantities can and cannot be added and subtracted.
Identify the correct SI units for different physical quantities.
Given a position-time graph, construct a velocity-time graph and an acceleration-time graph for the same motion.
On a position-time graph, identify the time intervals during which velocity and acceleration are positive, negative, or zero.
Given a velocity-time graph, construct an acceleration-time graph for the same motion.
Given a velocity-time graph, construct a consistent position-time graph. Identify how position-time graphs consistent with the velocity-time graph can differ from each other.
Given an acceleration-time graph, construct a consistent velocity-time graph. Identify how velocity-time graphs consistent with the acceleration-time graph can differ from each other.
Given a position-time graph, a velocity-time graph, or an acceleration-time graph, create a verbal description of motion consistent with the graph.
Define average velocity, instantaneous velocity, average acceleration, and instantaneous acceleration.
Given a mathematical formula for a body’s position as a function of time, find the formulas for its velocity and acceleration as a function of time.
Given a mathematical formula for a body’s velocity as a function of time, find the formula for its acceleration as a function of time.
Given a mathematical formula for a body’s velocity as a function of time, find the formula for the distance it travels as a function of time.
Given a mathematical formula for a body’s acceleration as a function of time, find the formula for the change in its velocity as a function of time.
Given a formula for a body’s velocity as a function of time and its position at some specified time, find the formula for its position at any time.
Given a formula for a body’s acceleration as a function of time and its velocity at some specified time, find the formula for its velocity at any time.
Identify the relationship between and difference between instantaneous speed and instantaneous velocity.
Identify the relationship between and difference between path length and displacement.
Identify the relationship between and difference between average speed and average velocity along a path.
Construct a meaningful diagram describing constant-velocity motion from a verbal description of the motion.
Construct the formula for position as a function of time from a verbal description of constant-velocity motion.
Construct a meaningful diagram describing constant-acceleration motion from a verbal description of the motion.
Construct the formula for position as a function of time from a verbal description of constant-acceleration motion.
In a constant-velocity situation, given any two of the quantities, find the third: velocity, duration, distance traveled.
in a constant-acceleration situation, given any three of the quantities, find a fourth: distance traveled, duration, initial velocity, final velocity, acceleration.
Given the formulas for the positions of two different bodies both undergoing constant-acceleration motion, find when and where they meet, or when and where they have a particular separation distance, or when and where their velocities have a specified relationship.
Given a vector expressed as Cartesian components, express the same vector as magnitude and direction counterclockwise of the +x axis.
Given a vector expressed as magnitude and direction, express the same vector as Cartesian components.
Convert between specifying a vector as (x, y, z) and as linear combinations of the unit basis vectors i, j, and k.
Given the angle from a vector in the xy plane to a line in the xy plane at a known angle from the +x axis, find the vector’s angle from the +x axis.
Add and subtract vectors graphically.
Add and subtract vectors using their Cartesian components.
Multiply a vector by a scalar, either using magnitude and direction or Cartesian components.
h2>Standard 6Given two vectors’ magnitudes and the angle between them, find their dot product.
Classify dot products as vectors or scalars.
Given two vectors as Cartesian components, find their dot product.
Identify the properties of dot products of vectors that are in the same direction, in opposite directions, or perpendicular.
Identify how the angle between two vectors influences the absolute value of their dot product.
Identify how the angle between two vectors influences the sign of their dot product.
Given two vectors’ magnitudes and the angle between them, find their cross product.
Classify cross products as vectors or scalars.
Given two vectors as Cartesian components, find their cross product.
Identify how the angle between two vectors influences the magnitude of their cross product.
Identify how the orientation of two vectors influences the direction of their cross product.
Identify the properties of cross products of vectors that are in the same direction, in opposite directions, or perpendicular.
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