| Title | Author | Created | Published | Tags |
| ------------- | ---------------------------- | ---------------- | ---------------- | ---------------------- |
| Test 1 Review | <ul><li>Jon Marien</li></ul> | January 21, 2025 | January 21, 2025 | [[#classes\|#classes]] |
# **Creativity in Physics Test 1 Review**
## **Physics the fundamental science**
1. Which of these is not part of the scientific method?
- Experimentation
- Obtain funding
- Formulating a hypothesis
2. An automotive crash-test engineer would fall under what subfield of physics?
- Mechanics
- Optics
- Electricity and magnetism
3. What is the distinction between explanations provided by science and religion?
- Truth
- Testability
- Simplicity
## **Describing motion**
1. The slope of a distance versus time graph is the
- Acceleration
- Velocity
- Distance
2. Police officers patrolling a highway are enforcing which measure?
- Instantaneous velocity
- Average speed
- Instantaneous speed
3. Which of these would not be an example of a vector?
- Distance
- Speed
- Acceleration
## **Falling objects and projectile motion**
1. The horizontal speed of a projectile:
- Remains constant
- Is zero
- Sometimes increases and sometimes decreases
2. The vertical speed of a projectile:
- Remains constant
- Is zero
- Sometimes increases and sometimes decreases
3. If a heavy object and a light object are dropped from a height of 5 meters at the same time, and assuming no air resistance or friction, which object hits the ground first?
- Heavy object
- Light object
- Hit the ground at the same time
## **Newton’s laws**
1. What is the definition of terminal velocity?
- The maximum velocity created by the force of gravity
- The maximum velocity possible on earth
- The velocity of a falling object once air resistance equals the force of gravity
2. Which of these statements is correct regarding weight?
- It is equivalent to mass
- It is the mass of an object multiplied by the acceleration due to gravity
- It is zero for an object not in motion
3. Newton’s contributions to physics includes which of the following?
- Field of optics
- Field of electromagnetism
- Field of quantum mechanics
## **Circular motion and gravity**
1. Who is responsible for the heliocentric model of the planets?
- Galileo
- Copernicus
- Newton
2. Centripetal acceleration is the rate of change in the velocity of the object created by a change in
- Direction
- Speed
- Motion
3. Newton’s law of universal gravitation is based on this early astronomer’s work
- Copernicus
- Kepler
- Galileo