Honors Physics Mid-Term Review 2020

The following concepts will be tested:

• Prefixes – nano to giga
• Metric and British Units
• SI Units (7)
• Distance
• Velocity (Constant and Variable)
• Acceleration
• Free Fall
• Graphing Motion (d, v, a)
• Problem Solving – separation of falling objects
• Functions – sine, cosine, tangent (SOH CAH TOA)
• Units for Vectors
• Minimum magnitudes for vector addition
• Adding and Resultant Vectors
• Airplane and Force Vector Addition
• Vector Addition using Law of Sines and Cosines
• Vector Addition by Components
• Vector parallel to a slope
• Vectors of climbing airplane
• Positive and negative vector x and y components
• Angle of projectile launch for maximum distance
• Addition of horizontal velocity and vertical free fall
• Pythagorean Triples (3, 4, 5) (5, 12, 13)   (8, 15, 17) and multiples
• Free Body Diagrams
• Force and equation F = ma
• Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
• Mass and weight
• Friction – Static and Kinetic
• Coefficient of Static and Kinetic Friction µ_s+k
• Vehicles and Friction
• The Privileged Planet Essay – List five conditions on earth, in the solar system, or in the galaxy which allows complex life (human beings) to flourish on this planet, Earth.  After each of the five conditions explain why that condition must occur for complex life here on earth to exist.