A spring-mass system oscillates with total mechanical energy \(E\). What is the kinetic energy when the displacement is half the amplitude?
A planet orbits a star in a perfect circle. What provides the centripetal force?
The time period of a mass \(m\) on a spring is \(T\). If the spring constant is doubled, what happens to the period?
For a planet orbiting the Sun, what is the relationship between orbital period \(T\) and orbital radius \(r\)?
A mass is dropped from rest and oscillates on a vertical spring. What is the equilibrium position relative to the unstretched spring?
Which of the following increases the period of a simple pendulum?
A 2-kg mass attached to a vertical spring stretches it by 0.2 m. What is the spring constant?
What is the phase difference between displacement and acceleration in SHM?
What is the gravitational field strength on the surface of a planet of mass \(M\) and radius \(R\)?
How does the total energy in SHM change as the system oscillates?
What is the maximum speed \(v_{max}\) of a mass-spring oscillator with amplitude \(A\) and angular frequency \(\omega\)?
In gravitational potential energy \(U = -\frac{GMm}{r}\), what does the negative sign indicate?
A mass is oscillating with frequency \(f\). What happens to the period if frequency doubles?
The acceleration of a mass in SHM is given by \(a = -\omega^2 x\). What is the significance of the negative sign?
A satellite orbits Earth in a circular orbit. What happens to orbital speed if the radius doubles?
For a mass \(m\) on a spring, if the amplitude is doubled, what happens to the total mechanical energy?
Which expression gives the gravitational potential energy of a two-mass system separated by distance \(r\)?
If a pendulum clock is taken to the Moon (where \(g\) is smaller), what happens to its period?
The restoring force in SHM is proportional to:
If the mass in a mass-spring system is quadrupled, what happens to the period?
A 0.5 kg mass attached to a spring with \(k = 200\,N/m\) oscillates with amplitude 0.1 m. What is the maximum speed?
A pendulum of length 1.5 m swings on Earth (\(g = 9.8\,m/s^2\)). What is the period?
A planet has mass \(6 \times 10^{24}\) kg and radius \(6.4 \times 10^6\) m. What is the gravitational acceleration at its surface?
A mass-spring oscillator has amplitude 0.3 m and angular frequency 5 rad/s. What is the maximum acceleration?
An object in circular orbit has orbital radius \(2 \times 10^7\) m and speed \(3 \times 10^3\) m/s. What is the centripetal acceleration?
A 3 kg mass attached to a horizontal spring oscillates with frequency 2 Hz. What is the spring constant?
The potential energy of a spring compressed by 0.05 m with \(k = 300 N/m\) is:
An object of mass 5 kg oscillates with amplitude 0.2 m and frequency 1 Hz. What is the total energy?
If the period of a mass-spring system is 0.5 s, what is its angular frequency?
A planet of mass \(6 \times 10^{24}\) kg orbits at radius \(4.2 \times 10^7\) m. What is the gravitational potential energy of a 1 kg satellite there?