Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Determining G From Pendulum

Students must predict the pre-collision speed of a ball that has been captured by a ballistic pendulum.

Students must predict the speed a pendulum bob will have after it has reached the lowest point of its swing.

Students must determine the speed of a hockey puck based on a graph of force vs. displacement.

Students determine the flow rate and speed of the water leaving a faucet based on the properties of the beverage dispenser that it is coming from.

Determine the wavelength and amplitude of a wave based on the vertical position vs. horizontal position graph.

Determine the period, frequency and amplitude of the wave that produced the position vs. time graph shown below.

Determine the speed of a wave based on reading the vertical position vs. time graph simultaneously with the vertical position vs. horizontal position graph.

Determine the net voltage from two charges.

Students must determine the density of a fluid based on the fluid levels in a u-tube.

Students will need to determine the spring constant of a spring that gave two dynamics cars their momenta.