Inertia

Suppose that an astronaut throws a baseball in outer space at a location far from significant influences of gravity and air resistance. One would expect that the baseball would ____.

• eventually stop since all objects ultimately "lose their steam"

• eventually stop as its inertia slowly becomes used up

• continue in motion with the same speed and direction

• either a, b, or c -- depending on whether the astronaut continues to push it

List the objects in order from least to greatest inertia.

• CDBA

• ABCD

• BCDA

• CBAD

Mr. S guides a golf ball around the outside rim of the green at the Hole-In-One Putt-Putt Golf Course. When the ball leaves the rim, which path (J, K, or I) will the golf ball follow?

• J

• K

• I

Mac and Tosh are arguing in the cafeteria. Mac says that if he flings the jello with a greater speed it will have a greater inertia. Tosh argues that inertia does NOT depend upon speed, but rather upon mass. Who is correct?

• Mac

• Tosh

• Neither

• Both

An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by a(n) ____________________.

• unbalanced force

• inertia

• mass

• balanced force

More mass = More inertia

• True

• False

A bowling ball is rolled with a certain speed and strikes a bowling pin with a force indicated by the arrow in this illustration. When the bowling ball strikes the bowling pin, the force applied by the pin to the ball -

• depends on the mass of the bowling pin.
• is equal to the force applied by the ball.
• must be zero, since the pin is not moving.
• is equal to the force of gravity on both.

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Two cars with different masses travel at the same speed down a hill toward a stop sign. What will happen when both cars apply brakes at the same time to stop?

• The car with the smaller mass will require less forces to stop than the car with the larger mass.
• The car with the larger mass will amintain its velocity while traveling down the hill.
• The car with the smaller mass will take longer to stop than the car with the larger mass.
• The car with the larger mass will have less inertia than the car with the smaller mass.

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Safety belts protect people in cars in the event of an accident because, according to Newton’s Laws of Motion, when an impact causes the car to suddenly change its motion, -

• the people in the car will continue to move in the same direction and at the same speed as before the impact.
• the speed of the car always increases, giving it greater force since the mass will remain the same.
• the speed of the people always increases, since now they have, not one, but two forces acting on them.
• the car now has a greater overall mass - its own mass plus the mass of the object by which it has been struck.

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Why athlete run from a distance before making a long jump?

• to go against gravity

• to show off

• to gain inertia of motion

• to gain inertia of rest