Circular Motion and Gravitation
A ball tied to a string swings horizontally and forms a conical pendulum; if we increase the length of the string while keeping the swing speed fixed, how will the tension in the string change?
Increase since longer strings require greater restraining to prevent slippage at higher altitudes.
Stay the same proportionally, adjusting to match varying lengths and maintaining consistent performance characteristics.
Vary unpredictably depending on environmental factors like air resistance, temperature fluctuations, etc., affecting conditions beyond simple theoretical considerations.
Decrease because larger circle means less sharp turning, thus lower required inward pulling 'centripetal' need generating less tightening effect.
In an experiment where a car travels around a flat circular track, how does tripling the radius of its path affect centripetal acceleration if its speed remains unaltered?
Centripetal acceleration is reduced to one-third of its original value.
Centripetal acceleration increases six-fold due to increased pathway curvature.
Centripetal acceleration triples because radius has tripled.
There's no change to centripetal acceleration as speed hasn't changed.
For an object being swung in a horizontal circle by a string, what force prevents the object from moving inward in uniform straight-line motion?
The centripetal force is balanced by the centrifugal force, keeping it in linear motion.
A twisting force from the user keeps increasing its velocity along a straight path.
Earth's gravity pulls downward, preventing it from moving straight ahead.
The tension force from the string provides the centripetal force keeping it in circular motion.
If friction is acting as the centripetal force on a car turning on flat ground, what happens to this force if you double both mass (m) and velocity (v)?
It quadruples
It doubles
It remains unchanged
It halves
A bullet embeds itself into a block at rest on a horizontal frictionless surface; what must be true about linear momenta before and after this perfectly inelastic collision?
The linear momenta before embedding equals combined linear momenta after embedding.
The block's linear momenta before embedding exceeds combined linear momenta after embedding.
Linear momenta before collision cancels out leading to zero combined linear momentum post-collision.
Bullet's linear momentum remains unchanged, while block acquires additional linear momentum post-collision.
Why doesn't the normal force equal centripetal force when an object travels uniformly in a horizontal circular motion?
The normal force acts perpendicular to the surface while the centripetal force acts toward the circle's center.
There is no normal force present during horizontal circular motion.
The normal force oscillates rapidly, making comparison difficult.
The normal force is always equal to weight regardless of motion.
A small spacecraft expels gas particles backwards at high speed through space; what describes how this system conserves its angular momentum around its center mass given no outside torques present?
The spacecraft rotates opposite direction since angular momentum is conserved.
Gas expulsion increases system's overall angular velocity despite conservation principles.
Spacecraft remains stationary despite gas exclusion due to external torques being negligible.
Gases rotating create net torque causing spacecraft spinning faster opposite direction.

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In an experiment featuring an object swinging in a horizontal circle at the end of a string, what happens to the tension in the string if its length is doubled while keeping mass and speed constant?
Tension in the string doubles.
Tension in the string quadruples.
Tension in the string reduces by half.
Tension in the string remains unchanged.
An object is attached to one end of a free rope and is being spun in a vertical circle. At the lowest point of the circle, tension and weight are ___________.
perpendicular to one another
in opposite directions
in the same direction
proportional to one another
In an isolated system, two gliders of equal mass undergo an elastic head-on collision; if one was initially at rest, how is the velocity of the moving glider affected immediately after the collision?
The moving glider doubles its velocity.
The moving glider reverses direction but maintains its speed.
The moving glider continues with the same velocity.
The moving glider comes to rest.