Physics Unit 3
A bullet is dropped into a river from a very high bridge at the same time as another bullet is fired straight downward from a rifle. Neglecting air resistance, the acceleration just before striking the water is
the same for each bullet
The time it takes a projectile fired straight up at 10 m/s to reach the top of its path is about
1 s
Neglecting air resistance, how fast must you toss a ball straight up in order for it to take 6 seconds to return to its initial level?
30 m/s
If you throw a ball straight downward (in the absence of air resistance., after leaving your hand its acceleration is
10 m/s2
When a ball thrown straight upwards reaches the very top of its path, its acceleration is
10 m/s2
An object falls freely from rest on a planet where the acceleration due to gravity is 20 m/s2. After 5 seconds, the object will have a speed of
100 m/s
An apple falls from a tree and hits the ground 5 meters below with a speed of about
10m/s
If a stone falls to the bottom of a mineshaft in 6 seconds, then the depth of the shaft is about
180m
If a freely falling object were equipped with a speedometer on a planet where the acceleration due to gravity is 20 m/s2, then its speed reading would increase each second by
20 m/s
An object at rest near the surface of a distant planet starts to fall freely. If the acceleration there is twice that of the Earth, its speed one second later would be
20m/s
At one instant a heavy object in air is moving upward at 50 m/s. One second later its speed is approximately
40 m/s
One half second after starting from rest, a freely falling object will have a speed of about
5 m/s
Compared with hang time on Earth, hang time on the Moon would be
greater
The distance a freely falling bowling ball falls each second
increases
Twelve seconds after starting from rest, a freely-falling cantelope has a speed of
more than 100 m/s
The accelerations possible for a ball on an inclined plane
range from zero to g.
While an iron block near the Earth's surface is in free fall, it undergoes an increase in
speed