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OCR A-Level PE biomechanics overview quiz quiz

14questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What is the difference between mass and weight?

  2. A second-class lever has which component in the middle?

  3. How is mechanical advantage calculated in OCR PE?

  4. Which of Newton's laws is expressed as F = ma?

  5. A 70 kg sprinter accelerates at 4 m/s squared. What force do they produce?

  6. What does impulse equal?

  7. On a force-time graph for a sprinter's foot contact, what does a net positive area indicate?

  8. When is the optimum release angle for maximum horizontal distance exactly 45 degrees?

  9. Why does a shot put follow a near-parabolic flight path?

  10. Angular momentum is the product of which two quantities?

  11. A gymnast tucks during a somersault. With angular momentum conserved, what happens to their spin?

  12. According to the Bernoulli principle, where air moves faster the pressure is:

  13. Which factor does NOT increase the drag on a cyclist?

  14. A football struck with topspin dips steeply because the Magnus effect produces: