Conceptual Physics A – Comprehensive Review Worksheet
Name: ____________________________ Date: ___________
Understanding Relationships
1. What does a direct relationship mean?
2. What does an inverse relationship mean?
3. Sketch or describe the graph of a direct relationship.
4. Sketch or describe the graph of an inverse relationship.
5. Write an equation showing a direct relationship between force (F) and acceleration
(a).
6. Write an equation showing an inverse relationship between gravitational force (Fg)
and distance (r).
7. What kind of relationship exists between potential energy and height?
8. What kind of relationship exists between kinetic energy and speed?
Key Concepts & Definitions
9. What two things does a vector have?
10. List three vector quantities and three scalar quantities.
11. Define acceleration.
12. Define force.
13. Define momentum.
14. What is displacement?
15. What is velocity?
16. What is the difference between mass and weight?
17. If you went to Jupiter, which would change: mass, weight, both, or neither?
18. True or False: Momentum is conserved in an inelastic collision.
19. True or False: Kinetic energy is conserved in an elastic collision.
20. True or False: Kinetic energy is conserved in an inelastic collision.
