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Center of Mass and Torque Quiz WIETeach2018

Total questions: 5

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

[30 sec] What is the average position of all parts of a system, weighted according to their masses called?

a)

center of mass

b)

center of gravity

c)

point of symmetry

d)

geometrical center

2.

[30 sec] Where is the center of mass of the ring?

a)

Point A

b)

Point B

c)

Point C

d)

Point D

3.

[30 sec] What is torque?

a)

how much a force acting on an object causes that object to move horizontally

b)

the rate of change of position with respect to time

c)

how much a force acting on an object causes that object to rotate

d)

the rate at which work is done

4.

[30 sec] For an object that is not rotating, why is the net torque on that object equal to zero?

a)

all the individual torques cancel each other

b)

all the individual torques are going in the same direction

c)

at least one of the individual torques is 0 N*m

d)

net torque should always be zero

5.

[45 sec] What is the formula that calculates the magnitude of the torque vector based on an angle θ?

a)
b)
c)
d)