Year 12 · TCE / Physics
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Make a short deck from material you need to recall without notes.
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- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- What does the gradient of a displacement–time graph give?
- What does the area under a velocity–time graph give?
- What does the gradient of a velocity–time graph give?
- State the four equations of uniformly accelerated motion.
- How do you add two displacement vectors that are not at right angles?
- What is terminal velocity?
- A car slows from 25 m s⁻¹ to rest in 5.0 s. What is its acceleration?
- Why must km h⁻¹ be converted before using the motion equations?
- What is the difference between distance and displacement?
- What sign convention problems arise in vertical motion?
- Why are the horizontal and vertical motions of a projectile treated separately?
- What is the vertical velocity of a projectile at the top of its path?
- How do you find the time of flight for a projectile landing lower than its launch point?
- What launch angle gives the maximum range on level ground (no air resistance)?
- How do you find the speed and direction of a projectile just before landing?
- A ball rolls off a 1.25 m high table at 3.0 m s⁻¹. How far from the table does it land?
- Two objects are released at the same time from the same height: one dropped, one thrown horizontally. Which lands first?
- What shape is the path of a projectile without air resistance?
- How does air resistance change a projectile's path?
- Give the formula for the maximum height reached by a projectile above its launch point.
- Define momentum and give its unit.
- State the principle of conservation of momentum.
- What is impulse, and how is it found from a graph?
- Why do airbags and crumple zones reduce injury?
- How do you tell whether a collision is elastic?
- How is momentum conserved in a two-dimensional collision?
- Define work and state its formula for a force at an angle.
- What does the area under a force–distance graph represent?
- Define power and give two formulas.
- A 1500 kg car accelerates from rest to 20 m s⁻¹. How much kinetic energy does it gain?
- State Newton's first law.
- State Newton's second law.
- State Newton's third law.
- What should a free-body diagram show?
- How do you resolve weight on an inclined plane of angle θ?
- How does a rocket or jet produce thrust using momentum?
- What provides the centripetal force for a car on a flat curve?
- Give the formulas for centripetal acceleration in terms of speed and period.
- Why is "centrifugal force" not drawn on a free-body diagram?
- A 0.20 kg ball on a string moves in a horizontal circle of radius 0.50 m at 3.0 m s⁻¹. What is the net force on it?
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