Unit 4 Section 1 Practice Scrimmage

What is the formula for Hooke's Law?

What is the unit of frequency?

• Newton

• Joule

• Hertz

• Meter

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A mass attached to a spring oscillates with a period of 2 seconds. What is its frequency?

• 0.5 Hz

• 1 Hz

• 2 Hz

• 4 Hz

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Which graph best represents the displacement vs. time for an object in simple harmonic motion?

• A straight line

• A parabola

• A sine wave

• An exponential curve

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If the amplitude of a mass-spring system is doubled, what happens to the maximum potential energy stored in the spring?

• It is halved

• It stays the same

• It doubles

• It quadruples

A pendulum has a period of 3 seconds. What is its frequency?

Which of the following statements is true about the total mechanical energy in an ideal simple harmonic oscillator?

• It increases over time

• It decreases over time

• It remains constant

• It is always zero

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