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| horses that move with the fastest linear speed on a merry go round are located where? |
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| your pet hamster sits on a record player whose angular speed is constant. if he moves to a point twice as far from the center, then his linear speed...? |
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| which moves faster in m/s on a merry go round; a horse on the inside or horse on the outside? |
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| if a turntable's rotational speed is doubled, then the linear speed of a pet hamster sitting on the edge of the record will..? |
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| an industrial flywheel has a greater rotational inertia when most of its mass is... |
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| a coin and a ring roll down an incline starting at the same time. the one to reach the bottom first will be the |
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| a torque acting on an object tends to produce...? |
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| on a balanced seesaw, a boy three times as heavy as his partner sits..? |
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| 1/3 the distance from the fulcrum |
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| put a pipe over the end of a wrench when trying to turn a stubborn nut on a bolt, to effectively make the wrench handle twice as long, youll multiply the torque by...? |
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| toss a baseball bat into the air and it wobbles about its |
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| the long, heavy tail of a spider monkey enables the monkey to easily vary its..? |
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| the center of mass of a human body is located at a point....? |
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| that changes as a person bends over. |
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| the famous leaning tower of pisa doesnt topple over because its center of gravity is...? |
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| the chef at the infamous fattening tower of pizza tosses a spinning disk of uncooked pizza dough into the air. the disk's diameter increases during the flight, while its rotational speed...? |
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| centrifugal forces are an apparent reality to observers in a reference frame that is...? |
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| when a twirling ice skater brings her arm inward, her rotational speed..? |
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| consider a rotating donut-shaped space habitat where living quarters are on the inside surface farthest from the axis. if the rotational speed of the habitat increases, the apparent weight of people inside...? |
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| if the earth had two identical moons in one circular orbit, an the moons were as far apart in that orbit as they could be, the center of gravity of the erth-moons sytem would be..? |
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| outside the earth, but within the orbital path of moons |
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| when doing somersaults, youll more easily rotate when your body is... |
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| to turn a stubborn screw, it is best to use a screwdriver that has a..? |
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| two people are balanced on a seesaw. if one person leans toward the center of the seesaw, that persons end of the seesaw will...? |
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| to kick a football si it wont topple end over end, kick it so the force of impact extends... |
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| through its center of gravity |
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| a car travels in a circle with constant speed the net force on the car is...? |
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| directed toward the center of the curve |
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| a huge rotating cloud of particles in space gravitate together to form an increasingly dense ball. as it shrinks n size, the cloud.. |
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| if the polar icecaps melted, the resulting water would spread over the entire earth, this new mass distribution would tend to make the length of a day... |
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| suppose you are at the center of a large freely-rotating horizontal turntable in a carnival funhouse. as you crawl toward the edge, the angular momentum of you and the turntable...? |
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| remains the same but the RMP's decrease. |
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| stand a meterstick on its end and let go and it rotates to the floor. if you attack a heavy weight to its upper end and repeat, falling time ill be...? |
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