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Final Exam Review Packet
Answer on a separate sheet of paper. Do NOT try to squeeze your work into the
margins!
Unit 1: Science, Math, & Measurement
1. Write the SI unit for each measurement
a. Length (distance)
b. Time
c. mass
2. Convert 0.789 kg to cg.
3. Convert 4.69 dm to dam.
4. Convert 500 cm to m.
5. Write the following numbers in scientific notation:
a. 9,000,000,000,000
b. 0.0000000005479
c. 0.214
d. 123,000,000,100
6. Write the following numbers in normal decimal notation:
a. 2.1 x 10-3
b. 5.9 x 107
c. 1.7 x 104
d. 9.852 x 10-9
Unit 2: Motion
7. What is the difference between distance and displacement?
8. What is the difference between a vector and a scalar?
9. You are driving at 50 mi/h. How far do you get in 1.5 hours?
10. You are driving at 100 mi/h. How much time will it take to cover a distance of 325
mi?
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11. A soccer player runs on a field. First, she runs 45 yards forward, and then 27
yards to her left. How far is she from her starting point?
12. What is the most common unit for velocity (in physics class, not for cars!)
13. Can the velocity of an object be negative while the acceleration is negative?
14. An object is dropped from a height of 25 m. How long will it take to hit the
ground?
15. Two clowns are pushing an elephant at a circus. One is pushing with a force of
208 N to the left and the other is pushing with a force of 115 N to the right. What
is the net force?
16. The unit of force is ___?
17. What are the 7 types of forces that we could have?
18. Give an example of the law of inertia.
19. If I throw an egg off the roof the school at a starting velocity of 17 m/s, how fast
will it be going right before it splats on the ground 4 seconds later?
20. Find the velocity of a car that has traveled 527 miles in 12.3 hours.
21. Find the acceleration of a sprinter who started at rest and ended going 13 m/s in
8 seconds.
22. You shoot an arrow straight up at 50 m/s. At what time will it run out of speed?
23. For the last problem, how high did the arrow get?
24. What is a normal force?
25. Draw a free body diagram for a car is driving on a road at a constant velocity.
26. Draw a free body diagram for an X-games contestant jumping out of a plane.
Unit 3: Forces & Newton’s Laws
27. If we increase the mass of an object, does the acceleration increase, decrease,
or stay the same?
28. The net force on a grocery bag is 25 N. If the acceleration is 0.5 m/s2, find its
mass.
29. Felicia has a mass of 45 kg. What is her weight on Earth?
30. Felicia (from the problem above) goes to Jupiter, where the acceleration because
of gravity is 25 m/s2. What is her mass on Jupiter?
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31. A 500 kg crate is pushed by an applied force of 35 N. If the force of friction is 8
N, what will the crate’s acceleration be?
32. A giraffe with a mass of 765 kg is standing on the ground at a zoo. Calculate the
force of gravity on the elephant.
33. Determine the acceleration which result when a 10-N net force is applied to a 3kg object.
34. Josefina finds that her weight is 1000 N. Calculate her mass.
35. Which of Newton’s laws explains each of these situations?
a. When you are in a car and you slam on your brakes, your body keeps
moving forward.
b. Jen goes shopping at the grocery store. She notices that as she adds
items to the cart it gets harder to push.
c. A rocket flies upward because of the fuel burning beneath it.
36. Two people are playing tug-of-war. One person exerts a force of 27 N to the left.
The other person exerts a force of 43 N to the right. Calculate the net force on
the crate.
37. Does the mass of an astronaut change when she is on the space station? Why
or why not?
38. Write each of Newton’s 3 laws in your own words.
Unit 4: Energy
39. Fill in the chart below.
Term
Unit
Equation()
Work
Power
Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy
40. Give an example of an object with potential energy.
41. In what direction does heat flow?
42. Give an example of an endothermic object.
43. Give an example of an exothermic object.
44. Calculate the work done in 35 N of force is used to push a grocery cart 5 meters.
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45. Calculate the power done in the problem above if it takes 19 seconds to push the
cart.
46. What is the potential energy of a 315 kg boulder sitting at the top of a hill 45
meters above ground?
47. What does “conservation of energy” mean?
48. Decide if work is being done in each of the situations below.
a. Two teams are tied in a tug-of-war contest.
b. A car takes off from a stop light and travels 3 blocks.
c. A woman holds a child on her shoulders to watch a parade.
d. A woman lifts a child to her shoulders.
49. Fill in the potential and kinetic energy values in the picture below.
PE=250 J
KE=
PE=200 J
KE=
PE=125 J
KE=
PE=75 J
KE=
PE= 0 J
KE=
50. Give the physics definition of energy.
51. What is the difference between heat and temperature?
Unit 5: Electricity
52. Calculate the current through the resistor with 15 Ω of resistance connected to a
12 V battery.
53. What are the units for…?
e. Current
f. Charge
g. Resistance
54. What are the two types of electric charge?
55. Like charges ____ and opposite charges _____.
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Final Exam Equation Sheet
Unit 1: Science, Math, and Measurement
k
h
D
d
c
m
Unit 2: Motion
𝑣=
𝑑
𝑡
𝑎=
(𝑣𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 −𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 )
𝑡
1
𝑑 = 2 𝑔𝑡 2
𝑔 = 10 m/s/s
Unit 3: Forces & Newton’s Laws
𝐹𝑁𝐸𝑇 = 𝑚𝑎
𝐹𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑣 = 𝑚𝑔
Unit 4: Energy
𝑊 = 𝐹𝑑
𝑃=
𝑊
𝑡
𝑃𝐸 = 𝑚𝑔ℎ
1
𝐾𝐸 = 2 𝑚𝑣 2
Unit 5: Electricity
𝑄
𝐼=𝑡
𝑉 = 𝐼𝑅
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