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OHMS LAW I=V/R
1. An electric space heater requires 29 A of 120 V current to adequately warm a room. What is the
resistance of the heater? _____
2. A color television has a power rating of 320 . How much current is in the television when it is
connected across 120 V? _____
3. A coffee cup immersion heater utilizes a heating coil with a resistance of 8.5 . Determine the
current through the coil when operated at 110 V. _____
WORK=F x D
1. Calculate the amount of work done when moving a 567N crate a distance of 20 meters. _____
2. If it took a bulldozer 567.6 joules of work to push a mound of dirt 30.5 meters, how much force
did the bulldozer have to apply? ____
3. A frontend loader needed to apply 137N of force to lift a rock. A total of 223 joules of work was
done. How far was the rock lifted? ______
POWER= W/T
1. A set of pulleys lifts a piano and does 3,356 joules of work. If the piano is lifted in 75 seconds,
how much power is used? ______
2. A dock worker lifts a 375N crate a distance of 0.5m over his head in 2.3 seconds. What is his
power output? Hint: You must calculate work before you can begin to solve for power. ______
3. An athlete is using the row machine in the gym. She does 3245 joules of work on the oars in 72
seconds. What is her power output?______
MOMENTUM= M x V
1. Calculate the momentum of a 0.15 kg ball that is moving toward home plate at a velocity of
40m/s. ______
2. A track athlete throws a 2kg discus into a field with a velocity of 21m/s. What is the momentum
of the discus? ______
3. Calculate the momentum of a 700g ball that is rolling down a ramp at 4.6m/s._____
SPEED = D/T
1. Calculate the speed of a dog running through a field if he is covering 23.7 meters in 54
seconds.__
2. If a cross country runner covers a distance of 347 meters in 134 seconds what is her speed?____
3. What is the speed of a baseball that travels 49 meters in 2.4 seconds?____

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ACCELERATION= Final Velocity Initial Velocity / Time
1. A roller coaster car rapidly picks up speed as it rolls down a slope. As it starts down the slope, its
speed is 4 m/s. But 3 seconds later, at the bottom of the slope, its speed is 22 m/s. What is its
average acceleration?________
2. A cyclist accelerates from 0 m/s to 8 m/s in 3 seconds. What is his acceleration? Is this
acceleration higher than that of a car which accelerates from 0 to 30 m/s in 8 seconds?_______
3. A lizard accelerates from 2 m/s to 10 m/s in 4 seconds. What is the lizards average
acceleration? ______
WAVE SPEED = F x
1. A wave with a frequency of 60.0 Hz travels through vulcanized rubber with a wavelength of 0.90
m. What is the speed of this wave? _______
2. A wave with a frequency of 60.0 Hz travels through steel with a wavelength of 85.5 m. What is
the speed of this wave?_______
3. If a wave is traveling at 60 cm/second and has a wavelength of 15 cm, what is the frequency?
4. What is the wavelength of a sound wave with a frequency of 50 Hz? (Speed of sound is 342
m/s)________
FORCE = M x A
1. If a 4500 kg car is traveling westward with an acceleration of 35.2 m/s2, what is the force acting
on it? ______
2. A man hits a golf ball (0.2 kg) which accelerates at a rate of 20 m/s2. What amount of force
acted on the ball? ______
3. You push a friend sitting on a swing. She has a mass of 50 kg and accelerates at a rate of 4 m/s2.
Find the force you exerted. ______
POTENTIAL ENERGY = M x G x H (g= 9.8 m/s2)
1. Find the gravitational potential energy of a light that has a mass of 13.0 kg and is 4.8 m above
the ground.______
2. An apple in a tree has a gravitational potential energy of 175 J and a mass of 0.36 g. How high
from the ground is the apple?_______
3. A marble is on a table 2.4 m above the ground. What is the mass of the marble if it has a
gravitational potential energy of 568 J? ______
KINETIC ENERGY = x M x V2
1. What is the kinetic energy of a jogger with a mass of 65.0 kg traveling at a speed of 2.5 m/s?___
2. What is the mass of a baseball that has a kinetic energy of 105 J and is traveling at 10 m/s?_____
3. What is the kinetic energy of a 0.50 kg ball travelling at a speed of 120 m/s?___________

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1. Which point on the graph shows the greatest kinetic energy? ____
2. Which point on the graph shows the least kinetic energy? ____

1. Which item could be used to connect points A and B to allow the bulb to light up, Metal coin,
paper cup or plastic comb? ___________________________

Fill in the blank using the following terms: Increasing, decreasing or constant
Points A-B show: _____________________ velocity
Points B-C show: _____________________ velocity
Points E-F show: _____________ ________velocity

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Determine if the examples are conduction, convection or radiation.
1.
2.
3.
4.

The pot handle was hot because it was on a lit burner ____________________
Water boiling ___________________
A snowman melts when the sun comes out _____________________
The air above the pot was hot because the food inside was cooking ____________________

What is the amplitude of the resulting wave? _________________


What type of interference will occur when the two waves meet? _____________________

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