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AQA A-Level Physics 3.4 Mechanics and materials overview quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. Which of the following is a vector quantity?

  2. A force of 10 N acts at 30 degrees above the horizontal. What is its horizontal component?

  3. According to Newton's second law, what does the resultant force on an object of constant mass equal?

  4. A 2.0 kg trolley moving at 3.0 m/s collides with a stationary 1.0 kg trolley and they stick together. What is their common velocity?

  5. Which quantity is conserved in an inelastic collision?

  6. A 3.0 kg object is raised 4.0 m. Taking g as 9.8 m/s squared, what is the gain in gravitational potential energy?

  7. How is the elastic strain energy stored in a stretched spring found from a force-extension graph?

  8. What does a large value of the Young modulus indicate about a material?

  9. A ball is thrown horizontally from a cliff. Ignoring air resistance, what is true of its horizontal velocity during the flight?

  10. What is the moment of a 20 N force acting at a perpendicular distance of 0.50 m from a pivot?

  11. Why does an airbag reduce the force experienced by a passenger in a collision?

  12. A wire under tension has stress 4.0×1074.0 \times 10^7 Pa and strain 2.0×1042.0 \times 10^{-4}. What is its Young modulus?