Energy Homework Quiz

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  1. A type of mechanical energy is...
  2. Your answer:
    Sound
    Nuclear
    Light
    Heat


  3. A type of non-mechanical energy is...
  4. Your answer:
    kinetic
    none of these answers
    gravitational
    sound


  5. Potential energy is the energy an object has because of its....
  6. Your answer:
    location
    size
    temperature
    speed


  7. The amount of potential energy possessed by an elevated object is equal to
  8. Your answer:
    the force needed to lift it
    the power used to lift it
    the work done in lifting it
    the distance it is lifted


  9. The unit of work is the....
  10. Your answer:
    joule
    newton per meter
    newton
    watt


  11. A collision is considered elastic if...
  12. Your answer:
    there is no sound generated during the collision
    all of these answers are correct
    the object's that collide don't get hot
    there is no lasting deformation


  13. A skateboarder can get higher and higher on a half pipe by..
  14. Your answer:
    doing work raising their center of mass on the way down and lowering it on the way up
    leaning forward on the way down andleaning back on the way up
    doing work lowering their center of mass on the way down and raising it on the way up
    wearing less baggy clothing


  15. Assuming the same even braking, a car traveling twice as fast as another and having the same mass will
  16. Your answer:
    stop in four times the distance
    stop in eight times the distance
    stop in the same distance
    stop in twice the distance


  17. A bow string is stretched twice as much. The elastic potential energy stored in the stretched string will be..
  18. Your answer:
    four times as much
    eight times as much
    twice as much
    the same


  19. How much faster would an arrow leave this bow?
  20. Your answer:
    eight times as fast
    twice as fast
    the same speed
    four times as fast


  21. If a certain amount of work is done in half the time the power output of the machine will be...
  22. Your answer:
    four times as much
    one half as much
    twice as much
    the same


  23. If the velocity of a moving object doubles, then what else doubles?
  24. Your answer:
    none of these answers are correct
    kinetic energy
    momentum
    acceleration


  25. An object is dropped from the fourth floor window of a building. Compared to an object dropped from the second floor window it will hit the ground with...
  26. Your answer:
    eight times as much speed
    none of these answers are correct
    twice as much speed
    four times as much speed


  27. The output power of an engine is 150 hp. If the machine is 60% efficient its power rating is....
  28. Your answer:
    250 hp
    none of these answers is correct
    90 hp
    150 hp


  29. The area under a F-d graph represents...
  30. Your answer:
    change in momentum
    impulse
    power
    work


  31. A half pipe and a roller coaster track both...
  32. Your answer:
    all of these answers are true
    can allow the riders to feel temporary weightless
    involve non-conservative forces
    act as energy conversion devices


  33. The 2.0 kg head of an axe is moving at 5.0 m/swhen it strikes a log and penetrates 0.02 m into the log. What is the average force the blade exerts on the log?
  34. Your answer:
    500 N
    250 N
    25 N
    1250 N


  35. A 2000 kg rollercaoster car is winched up a 60 m first hill. The braking distance required to stop the car at the station if a constant braking force of 15000 N is applied is....
  36. Your answer:
    800 m
    400 m
    80 m
    40 m


  37. A small economy car (low mass) and a limousine (high mass) are pushed from rest across a parking lot, equal distances with equal forces. The car that receives more change in kinetic energy is the.....
  38. Your answer:
    small economy car
    limousine
    same for each
    no answer


  39. A planet orbits a star with a circular orbit. The planet's speed is constant because......
  40. Your answer:
    no work is done on the planet by gravity
    no unbalanced forces act on the planet
    all these answers are correct
    the planet is not accelerating



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