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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Force Electric Between Two Particles
Students must find the force on one charge caused by a second charge.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Force Electric in a Line
Students must find the net force on one of the charges in a line of charges.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Car Stopping Distance
Students must calculate the time it takes for a car to come to a rapid stop and the distance the car covers when stopping.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Stopping Distant Planet
Students must calculate the stopping distance for a car traveling on a distant planet.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Stopping Distance Problem
Students must calculate coefficient of friction based on the distance required to stop a car moving along a roadway.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Newton's Law System (No Friction)
Students must find out different things for a series of objects moving as a system.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Simple Newton's Law Problem
Students must calculate one of the parameters of a situation where Newton's Law applies to one object.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Universal Gravity Problem
Students must find out the strength of the gravitational force between two spherical objects based on the size, density and distance between centers.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Gravitational Force on a Kuiper Belt Object
Students must find out the strength of the gravitational force on a ship that is at rest on a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO).
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Gravitational Force on Satellite
Students must find out the strength of the gravitational force that acting on a satellite at a certain distance from a body's surface.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Gravitational Field Strength
Students must find out the strength of the gravitational field at a location of an orbiting satellite.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Dump Tower Level 1
Students must find the acceleration due to gravity on a planet and the impact speed of an object that has been falling from the top of a garish tower.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Dump Tower Level 2
Students must find the time it has been falling and the average speed it has been falling between to stories of a garish tower.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Vertical Motion of Firework Level 4
Students will set the launch speed and fuse time for a firework so that the firework will explode at the desired height and speed. This problem does not take place on Earth.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: High School Toss Level 1
Students will determine maximum height obtained by an object tossed upward off the roof of a high school. They will also find the total time aloft and the speed with which the object will impact the ground. The acceleration due to...
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Dump Tower Level 3
Students will be given information about a planet and they must calculate how long it takes an object to fall from the top of a garish tower.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Dump Tower Level 4
Students will try to determine the mass of a planet based on the falling of an object from the top of a garish tower.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Displaced Angle for Accelerating Car
Students must solve for the tension in the rope and the acceleration of the car based on the angle of displacement for a hanging mass.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: River Crossing Problem Level 1
Students must find out the downstream distance that a boat travels when its heading relative to the water is perpendicular to the way the water is moving.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: River Crossing Problem Level 2
Students must find out the downstream distance that a boat travels when its heading relative to the water is not perpendicular to the way the water is moving.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: River Crossing Problem Level 3
Students must find out the angle they need to point the boat so that the boat moves directly across the water.
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Speed of Horizontal Projectile
Students must determine the horizontal speed of a projectile based on the distance that it travels and other given information. Students must find the time of flight and put it in milliseconds. Finally, students must find the final...
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Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Car on a Turn Problem
Students must determine the force of friction on a car on a turn and the maximum speed the car could navigate a turn.
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Physics Aviary: Graphing Motion Problem Level 2
Find the distance traveled by an object just by looking at the velocity vs. time graph.