This quiz asesses course standards 1–7. If you can do the tasks described below, you will satisfy the standards on the quiz.
Given a formula involving physical quantities, determine the units of the result.
Multiply and divide physical quantities, expressing the results in the correct units.
Identify when physical quantities can and cannot be added and subtracted.
Given a quantity in one unit and an equality between that and another unit, express the same quantity in the other unit.
Chain together conversions involving intermediate units.
Identify the correct SI units for different physical quantities.
Given a position-time graph, construct a velocity-time graph and an acceleration-time graph for the same motion.
On a position-time graph, identify the times during which velocity and acceleration are positive, negative, or zero.
Given a velocity-time graph, construct an acceleration-time graph for the same motion.
Given a velocity-time graph, construct a consistent position-time graph. Identify and explain how position-time graphs consistent with the same velocity-time graph can differ from each other.
Given an acceleration-time graph, construct a consistent velocity-time graph. Identify how velocity-time graphs consistent with the same acceleration-time graph can differ from each other.
Given a position-time graph, a velocity-time graph, or an acceleration-time graph, create a verbal description of motion consistent with the graph.
Define average velocity, instantaneous velocity, average acceleration, and instantaneous acceleration.
Identify the relationship between and difference between instantaneous speed and instantaneous velocity.
Identify the relationship between and difference between path length and displacement.
Identify the relationship between and difference between average speed and average velocity along a path.
Given a vector expressed as Cartesian components, express the same vector as magnitude and direction counterclockwise of the +x axis.
Given a vector expressed as magnitude and direction, express the same vector as Cartesian components.
Given the angle from a vector in the xy plane to a line in the xy plane at a known angle from the +x axis, find the vector’s angle from the +x axis.
Add and subtract vectors graphically.
Add and subtract vectors using their Cartesian components.
Multiply a vector by a scalar, either using magnitude and direction or Cartesian components.
Given a right triangle, identify its hypotenuse.
Given an acute interior angle of a right triangle, identify its adjacent and opposite sides.
Given an acute interior angle of a right triangle, identify the side length ratios giving the sine, cosine, and tangent of the angle.
Given the lengths of two sides of a right triangle, find the length of the third side.
Construct the formula for position as a function of time from a verbal description of constant-velocity motion.
Construct a meaningful diagram describing constant-acceleration motion from a verbal description of the motion.
Construct the formula for position as a function of time from a verbal description of constant-acceleration motion.
In a constant-velocity scenario, given any two of the quantities, find the third: velocity, duration, distance traveled.
In a constant-acceleration scenario, given any three of the quantities, find the fourth: distance traveled, duration, initial velocity, final velocity, acceleration.
Given the formulas for the positions of two different bodies both undergoing constant-acceleration motion, find when and where they meet, or when and where they are separated by a particular distance, or when and where their velocities have a specified relationship.
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