Energy Study Guide

What is mechanical energy? What are the two primary types of mechanical energy you may have?   What is kinetic energy?What are the two main types of kinetic energy and how are they different?   What is potential energy?What are the three main types of potential energy and how are they different?   What are …

Momentum Study Guide

  What is momentum? How do you calculate momentum? What is impulse? How do you calculate impulse? Which has more momentum: a car moving at 50 mph or a truck moving at 50 mph? Why? Which has more momentum: a car moving at 40 mph or the same car moving at 60 mph? Why? Why …

Test Reflection – Ticket to Retake

1. Did you complete and understand every question on the study guide? 2. When taking notes, what can you do to show active engagement? 3. Where did you go, when you got stuck on a question? 4. What could you do to better prepare next time?

Forces Study Guide

Which way does friction pull? Which direction does the normal force point? What does Newton’s First Law (the law of the inertia) state? Does the law of inertia apply to objects at rest or objects in motion? How much force do you need to keep an object moving in space if it’s already moving? What …

Motion Study Guide Problems

How is speed calculated? Name three possible ways speed can be measured. What is acceleration? What is acceleration measured? A train travels 5 meters in one second of travel, another 5 meters in the next second of travel, and another 5 meters in the last second of travel. What is the speed of this train? …

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