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PH C5.6.7 Final Review Pages 13-17 Short Answer



Short Answer
 

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A tether ball is tied to a string and whirled in a horizontal circular path at a constant speed. What causes the ball and string to move away from the post?
 

 2. 

What provides the centripetal force for the moon’s orbit around Earth?
 

 3. 

Describe briefly how the moon causes tides on Earth.
 

 4. 

Discuss the following statement: “A satellite is continually in free fall.”
 

 5. 

What is the significance of the word universal in Newton’s law of universal gravitation?
 

 6. 

Compare the gravitational force the sun exerts on Earth to the gravitational force Earth exerts on the sun.
 
 
Earth exerts a 1.0 N gravitational force on an apple.
 

 7. 

Does the apple accelerate toward Earth, or does Earth accelerate toward the apple? Explain your answer.
 

 8. 

What is the magnitude of the gravitational force the apple exerts on Earth?
 

 9. 

What is Earth’s weight in the apple’s gravitational field?
 

 10. 

Briefly, how did Ptolemy describe the motion of the planets?
 

 11. 

Briefly, how did Copernicus describe the motion of the planets?
 

 12. 

What is Kepler’s first law of planetary motion?
 

 13. 

What is Kepler’s second law of planetary motion?
 

 14. 

State Kepler’s third law of planetary motion, both in words and symbolically.
 
 

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 15. 

What law does the diagram shown above illustrate?
 

 16. 

How did Newton use Kepler’s laws?
 

 17. 

On what variable factors do the period and speed of an object in circular orbit depend?
 

 18. 

Are astronauts in orbit weightless? Explain your answer.
 

 19. 

How will an object move if it is acted on by a nonzero net torque and a net force of zero?
 

 20. 

According to the sign conventions used in the text, in what direction will an object rotate if the sign of the net torque on the object is negative?
 
 

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 21. 

Identify the simple machine in the figure shown above.
 
 

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 22. 

Identify the simple machine in the figure shown above.
 
 

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 23. 

Identify the simple machine in the figure shown above.
 
 

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 24. 

Identify the simple machine in the figure shown above.
 
 

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 25. 

Identify the simple machine in the figure shown above.
 

 26. 

Explain how the operation of a simple machine alters the applied force and the distance moved.
 

 27. 

How does the use of a machine alter the work done on the object?
 

 28. 

When a machine increases the force acting on an object, what happens to the distance the object moves?
 

 29. 

When a machine decreases the force acting on an object, what happens to the distance the object moves?
 



 
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