Circular Motion & Centripetal Force MCQ Practice & Quizzes

Practice Questions

• BeginnerA speed skater goes around a turn that has a radius of \(31 \, \text{m}\). The skater has a speed of \(14 \, \text{m/s}\) and experiences a centripeta…
• BeginnerA 2.0 kg ball on the end of a 0.65 m long string is moving in a vertical circle. At the bottom of the circle, its speed is 4.0 m/s. Find the tension i…
• BeginnerWhile driving fast around a sharp right turn, you find yourself pressing against the car door. What is happening?
• BeginnerA car rounds a curve at a steady \( 50 \) \( \text{km/h} \). If it rounds the same curve at a steady \( 70 \) \( \text{km/h} \), will its acceleration…
• BeginnerThe Moon does not crash into the Earth because:
• BeginnerA car moving around a circular track with a constant speed has
• BeginnerConsider an object on a rotating disk at a distance \( r \) from its center, held in place on the disk by static friction. Which of the following stat…
• BeginnerAre astronauts really “weightless” while in orbit?
• IntermediateA 2.00 x102 g block on a 50.0 cm long string swings in a circle on a horizontal, frictionless table at 75.0 rpm. What is the speed of block? What is t…
• IntermediateA \(5.0 \, \text{g}\) coin is placed \(15 \, \text{cm}\) from the center of a turntable. The coin has coefficients of static and kinetic friction of \…
• IntermediateA car travels at a constant speed around a circular track whose radius is \(2.6 \, \text{km}\). The car goes once around the track in…
• IntermediateA car is safely negotiating an unbanked circular turn at a speed of 21 m/s. The road is dry, and the maximum static frictional force acts on the tires…
• IntermediateA \(1.00 \, \text{kg}\) mass is attached to a \(0.800 \, \text{m}\) long string and spun in a vertical circle. The mass completes \(2.00\) revolutions…
• IntermediateA 2.2 kg ball on the end of a 0.35 m long string is moving in a vertical circle. At the bottom of the circle, its speed is 5.3 m/s. Find the tension i…
• IntermediateA delivery truck is traveling north. It then turns along a leftward circular curve. The packages in the truck to slide to the RIGHT. Which of the foll…
• IntermediateSuppose you are a passenger traveling in car along a road that bends to the left. Why will you feel like you are being thrown against the door. What c…
• AdvancedThe International Space Station has a mass of \(4.2 \times 10^{5} \, \text{kg}\) and orbits Earth at a distance of \(4.0 \times 10^{2} \, \text{km}\)…
• AdvancedA conical pendulum is formed by attaching a ball of mass \( m \) to a string of length \( L \), then allowing the ball to move in a horizontal circle…
• AdvancedA concrete highway curve of radius \(60.0 \, \text{m}\) is banked at a \(12.0^\circ\) angle. What is the maximum speed with which a…
• AdvancedThe ultracentrifuge is an important tool for separating and analyzing proteins. Because of the enormous centripetal accelerations, the centrifuge must…
• AdvancedTwo wires are tied to the \(500 \, \text{g}\) sphere as shown above. The sphere revolves in a horizontal circle at a constant speed of…
• AdvancedTwo object rests on a platform rotating at constant speed. Object A is at distance of half the platform's radius from the center. Object B lays at edg…
• AdvancedA rock is whirled on the end of a string in a horizontal circle of radius \(R\) with a constant period \(T\). If the radius of the circle is reduced t…
• AdvancedWhat is a man's apparent weight at the equator if his weight is \(500 \, \text{N}\)? The Earth's radius is \(6.37 \times 10^{6} \, \text{m}\).

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