Last year's essay topics (will obviously get modified some before Monday):
Possible Final Exam Essay Topic List
1. Explain an object’s motion (a car speeding up, a baseball
being thrown) verbally in terms of what happens to the object, mathematically
or visually with numbers, and graphically, relating velocity, position, or
acceleration.
2. When given a scenario, explain an object’s motion as the
result of a set of forces acting on it.
Explain how net force determines the direction and magnitude of
acceleration.
3. Explain inertia, and relate it to a scenario. (riding in a car going around a corner, a
roller coaster, or a car accident)
4. Explain how friction works, and the effect of changing:
surface type, surface area, weight, or angle of surface may affect it.
5. Verbally and mathematically, relate energy to work done
on an object, either through showing work ~ GPE when work is done to lift
something, or work ~ KE when work is done to speed up or slow down
something.
6. Using information about net force and mass, determine the
effect on an object’s acceleration.
7. Describe the relationships between input work, output
work, efficiency, time, and power, and relate them to a scenario given.
8. Explain heat, why it happens, and different mechanisms
for heat. Relate specific heat or
conductivity to a given scenario to explain it.
9. Discuss issues relevant to Earth’s interior; processes
involved with plate tectonics / earthquakes and volcanoes.
10. Explain how a machine alters the type of work done, not
the amount, and diagram an example to explain visually and mathematically.
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