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Circular Motion and Gravitation

Question 1
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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?

Question 2
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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?

Question 3
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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?

Question 4
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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)?

Question 5
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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?

Question 6
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Why doesn't the normal force equal centripetal force when an object travels uniformly in a horizontal circular motion?

Question 7
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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?

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Question 8
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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?

Question 9
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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 ___________.

Question 10
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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?