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Physics Review Sheet
1.) What is matter? What is the law of conservation of matter?
2.) What is the difference between contact and noncontact forces?
3.) List and explain 3 examples of contact forces.
4.) List and explain 3 examples of non-contact forces.
5.) Explain how a non-contact force acts on an object.
6.) Explain the difference between mass and weight.
7.) What is motion and how do we prove an object is in motion?
8.) What is the net force of an object? How can we find the net force?
9.) Explain the difference between balanced forces acting on an object and unbalanced forces
acting on an object.
10.) What is speed? What is the difference between speed and velocity?
11.) How do you solve for speed? If Mr. Parke runs 35 meters in 7 seconds, what is his speed?
12.) How do you solve for distance? If Mr. Cleland can throw a baseball at a speed of 10 m/s and the
baseball travels in the air for 7 seconds, how far has it traveled?
13.) How do you solve for time? If Mr. Whiting runs 100 meters at a speed of 5 meters per second,
how long did it take him?
14.) How do you solve for acceleration? If a car accelerates to 60 miles an hour to pass another car
which is traveling 40 miles per hour, and it takes 4 seconds, what is the acceleration of the
passing car? (assume that they are traveling the same speed initially)
15.) Draw a time distance graph for an object in motion. Label both X and Y axis.
16.) Draw a time distance graph for an object not in motion. Label both X and Y axis.
17.) State Newton’s 1st Law and provide an original example!
18.) State Newton’s 2nd Law and provide an original example!
19.) State Newton’s 3rd Law and provide an original example!
20.) What is energy? What is work?
21.) What is the difference between potential and kinetic energy?
22.) What are the three types of potential energy?
23.) List the seven forms of energy and briefly describe each.
24.) What is the law of conservation of energy? Provide an example which demonstrates this law.
25.) What is the difference between a renewable and a nonrenewable energy resource.
26.) What are waves?
27.) Give an example of how waves carry energy away from the source in all directions.
28.) Explain the difference between transverse waves and longitudinal waves.
29.) What is the difference between reflection and refraction?
30.) List and describe the properties of waves we covered.
31.) Design a simple experiment. Include a hypothesis, procedure, independent, dependant, and
control variable.