Advanced Higher Physics- Rotational Motion and Astrophysics

What is the rate of change of displacement?

• Acceleration

• Velocity

• Speed

• Time

What is the rate of change of velocity?

• Displacement

• Speed

• Acceleration

• Time

The tendency of an object to resist angular acceleration is known as...

• Torque

• Moment of intertia

• Tangential velocity

• Moment of a force

What does an unbalanced torque produce?

• Acceleration

• Angular acceleration

• Constant velocity

• Rotational velocity

What is centripetal force?

• The outward force on a body moving in a straight line

• The inward force on a body moving in a straight line

• The outward force on a body moving in a curved path

• The inward force on a body moving in a curved path

What is gravitational potential?

• The force per unit mass placed at that point

• The force needed to move unit mass from infinity to that point

• The work done by external forces to move a unit mass from infinity to that point

• The work done to place a unit mass at a point

What name is given the minimum velocity needed to escape a gravitational field?

• Tangential velocity

• Rotational velocity

• Angular velocity

• Escape velocity

What is the gravitational force per unit mass?

• Gravitational field strength

• Gravitational potential

• Gravitational potential energy

• Gravity

What is the name of the principle which states that there is no way to distinguish between the effects on an observer of a uniform gravitational field and of a constant acceleration.

What does the curvature of space-time depend on?

• Speed

• Mass

• Acceleration

• Force