Circular Motion Concepts

moving or tending to move toward a center...

• centripetal force

• centrifugal force

• Tangent

• Curvature

the process or act of turning or circling around something

• Curvature

• Rotation

• Radius

• Orbit

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You swing a bucket of water attached to a string in a circle above your head. What keeps the water in the bucket?

• Friction

• Centripetal Force

• Gravity

• Inertia

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Where is the net force when the rollercoaster is at the top of the loop?

• Towards the sky

• Towards the Right

• Towards the left

• Towards the ground

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Acceleration of an object toward the center of a curved or circular path

• velocity

• acceleration

• displacement

• centripetal acceleration

Which direction would the pink object go if the disc suddenly stopped turning?

• vector D

• vector C

• vector B

• vector A

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A force ____ to the motion causes the object to change its path from a straight line to a circle.

• perpendicular

• faster

• slower

• stronger

Centripetal acceleration acts in which direction?

• in a line tangent to the circle

• towards the center of the circle

• on the circumference

• outside the circle

The rate at which a rotating object spins is called ____.

• linear motion

• angular velocity

• radians

• acceleration

the angle defined by the ratio of radius to circumference is ---

• the diameter

• the velocity

• one radian

• the angular momentum