The carnival game of darts shows all the following physics EXCEPT

Time to travel to board exceeds time for dart to fall.

What is NOT true about the motion shown?

The centrifugal force keeps the car in the circle.

What is true about the linear speed of a swing?

The vector is tangent to the circle.

Which does NOT describe the forces at the bottom?

Force of car on water exceeds the force of water on car.

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These questions refer to the application of mechanics to Amusement Park rides. The topics cover the material covered during the first 3 nine weeks.

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1
During free fall, what has a positive value?
Time
Acceleration
Vertical Velocity
Distance
2
The carnival game of darts shows all the following physics EXCEPT
Constant speed horizontally once thrown
Time to travel to board exceeds time for dart to fall.
Vertical Acceleration caused by gravity
Projectile Motion
3
What is NOT true about the motion shown?
Acceleration is a vector
Acceleration equals (v2 / r)
The centrifugal force keeps the car in the circle.
Force is pointed inward to center.
4
What is at a maximum when the riders are lifted and held still at the top of the ride?
Potential Energy
All of the above
(Weight x Height)
Work done in lifting to top
5
What concept does this ride best illustrate?
Pendulum
Conservation of Energy
Free Fall
Conservation of Momentum
6
What are you NOT feeling at the labeled locations after starting from rest?
Heaviest at X (more g's)
Inertia at Y makes one fly out of seat.
More speed at Z than X
Lightest at Y (less g's)
7
What concept does this ride BEST illustrate?
Vertical Kinematics
Horizontal Kinematics
Conservation of Energy
Conservation of Momentum
8
What specific concept does this ride illustrate?
Free Fall
Conservation of Momentum
Conservation of Energy
Pendulum
9
Which concept is LEAST shown in the picture?
Person will continue until stopped by a greater force.
When a coaster stops suddenly.
Newton's 2nd Law
Inertia
10
At the bottom of the Skycoaster swing, what is true about the energy?
Max PE
Half PE and Half KE
No Energy
Max KE
11
What is true about the linear speed of a swing?
It is greater for swings in the center.
The vector is tangent to the circle.
It is circumference x period.
The speed increases when tau increases.
12
Which is FALSE when the Rockin Rollercoaster in Florida starts extremely quickly?
The initial speed is zero.
The shorter the time period, the more the acceleration.
The acceleration is negative.
You feel pushed back when it starts.
13
At what location is the KE a maximum?
W
X
Z
Y
14
The only external power needed is to lift the car to the first hill? Why?
Momentum
All of the above
Inertia
Conservation of Energy
15
What concept does this ride best illustrate?
Conservation of Energy
Free Fall
Pendulum
Conservation of Momentum
16
If you count that your friend completes 20 cycles in a minute., what is true?
Period is 0.5 s
Frequency is 0.333 s
Period is 3 s
Frequency is 20 Hz
17
What type of problem would you solve with data from the Lazy River?
Centripetal Motion
Horizontal Kinematics
Projectile Motion
Vertical Kinematics
18
Which does NOT describe the forces at the bottom?
The water's force is negative.
The water is a retarding force.
Net Force on the car can be computed by 2nd Law.
Force of car on water exceeds the force of water on car.
19
Which of Newton's Laws does this ride best illustrate?
4th
1st
2nd
3rd
20
Which of Newton's Laws does this carnival game illustrate?
1st
4th
2nd
3rd

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