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Newton's Second Law. Practice Questions

1. Newton's Second Law states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass. 2. The document provides 14 practice questions related to Newton's Second Law involving the concepts of force, mass, and acceleration. Example questions include calculating force given mass and acceleration or vice versa. 3. The questions require identifying known and unknown quantities, selecting the appropriate equation, performing unit analysis and calculations, and reporting the answer with the correct number of significant figures.

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Newton's Second Law. Practice Questions

1. Newton's Second Law states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass. 2. The document provides 14 practice questions related to Newton's Second Law involving the concepts of force, mass, and acceleration. Example questions include calculating force given mass and acceleration or vice versa. 3. The questions require identifying known and unknown quantities, selecting the appropriate equation, performing unit analysis and calculations, and reporting the answer with the correct number of significant figures.

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  • Newton's Second Law Questions

Newton’s Second Law. Practice questions.

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Make sure to write answers in full sentences and solve problems by providing: what is given and what you need to
find, the equation in terms of the unknown, substitute values with units and show unit analysis, and write the
answer in correct significant figures.

1. What is a force?
2. Describe the difference between a qualitative and a quantitative observation.
3. State Newton’s Second law of motion in words.
4. Write the formula version of State Newton’s Second law of motion in terms of acceleration, force, and
mass.
5. What are the units of acceleration, force? and mass?
6. A soccer ball with a mass of 2.10kg accelerates at 235m/s2 at the instant it is kicked. Determine the force
applied by the player.
7. The same player from question 6 applies the same force to a beach ball. The beach ball has a mass of
1.051kg. Determine the acceleration of the beach ball.
8. A golf club is swung and strikes a golf ball with a force of 12.2N. The golf ball accelerates at 265.2 m/s2
(wow!). Determine the mass the golf ball.
9. Describe the motion of the ball assuming there were no force acting on the ball (this means no gravity or
air friction) after it was struck.
10. What is the mass of a bocce ball that accelerated at 5.430 m/s2 when a 5.00 N force is applied.
11. What is weight? (The terms, force, gravity and the Earth should all appear in your answer).
12. a) A 3.0kg mass is placed on a table. The mass is at rest. Calculate the force exerted by the mass on the
table. Assume acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s2.
b) Determine the normal force of the table upon the mass.
d) Draw a free-body diagram labelling the forces acting upon the mass and the table for the situation in
question 11.
13. Two people push on a table. The first person exerts a force of 50.0N down on the table. The second
person exerts a 20.0N force up wards on the table. What is the net force acting on the table? What is the
direction of this force?
14. Three people exert a force of 150.0N in the same direction upon a large boulder. Calculate the net force
on the boulder.

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