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Question 1
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A cart moving at a constant speed along a frictionless track collides with a stationary cart of equal mass; how do their speeds compare after an elastic collision?

Question 2
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What happens to the acceleration of an object if the net external force applied to it is doubled while its mass remains unchanged?

Question 3
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What force is required to keep a 5 kg object moving at a constant velocity of 10 m/s?

Question 4
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If a car traveling in a straight line triples its velocity over a certain time interval, by what factor does the kinetic energy of the car change within that same time interval?

Question 5
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Given two projectiles launched at different angles but with identical initial speeds, how does their time of flight compare if air resistance is negligible and they land at the same height they are launched from?

Question 6
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To investigate how non-inertial reference frames could affect projectile trajectories contrary to classical mechanics predictions, what kind of experiment could be designed?

Question 7
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If two particles undergo an oblique elastic collision and one particle initially at rest ends up moving at an angle θ\thetaθ with respect to its original position, what was the initial speed ratio v1v2\frac{v_1}{v_2}v2​v1​​ between them assuming they have equal masses?

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Question 8
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What motion property is directly related to an object's velocity?

Question 9
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A particle starts at rest and accelerates along a straight line under variable acceleration a=ktna=kt^na=ktn, where kkk is a positive constant and n>0n>0n>0; how does changing nnn influence the particle's position xxx after some fixed time TTT?

Question 10
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A satellite orbits Earth in circular orbit with orbital velocity vov_ovo​, calculate the change in its kinetic energy when it radially moves from orbit radius roldr_{old}rold​ to rnewr_{new}rnew​ where rnew=32×roldr_{new} = 32 \times r_{old}rnew​=32×rold​ using only universal gravitation constants and masses involved.