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A ball hangs from a string attached to the ceiling. The force holding the ball up is the tension in the
string, T.

According to Newton’s 3rd law:

A. the Earth pulls the ball down

B. the tension equals the weight

C. the string pulls the ceiling down

D. the ball pulls the string down

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2
Which of the following is not a consequence of Newton’s 3rd law?

A. Gas coming out of a rocket is pushed backwards and the rocket is pushed forwards.

B. When a rifle is fired it recoils into the hunters shoulder.

C. The weight equals the normal force for a box at rest on the table.

D. When a boy steps off a skateboard the board moves back.

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3
A red ball is floating in a bucket of water held up by the up thrust.

Newton’s 3rd law implies that:

A. the water exerts a force on the bucket

B. force exerted by ball on water = buoyancy

C. weight of bucket = normal force on bucket

D. Weight of fluid displaced = weight of ball

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4
A red ball collides with a blue ball as shown below.

After the collision the blue ball has a velocity of 2 ms-1 to the right. The velocity of the red ball is:

A. -2 ms-1
B. 1 ms-1

C. -1 ms-1

D. 2 ms-1

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5
A red ball collides with a blue ball as shown below.

After the collision they stick together, their combined velocity is:

A. 6 ms-1

B. 1 ms-1

C. 2 ms-1

D. 4 ms-1

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6
The two balls below are going to be pushed apart by the compressed springs between them
After the event the red ball has a velocity of 17 ms-1 to the left. The velocity of the blue ball is:

A. 17 ms-1

B. 8.5 ms-1

C. 34 ms-1

D. 4 ms-1

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7
Two balls travelling at 3 ms-1 collide with a line of identical red balls collide as shown.
If the velocity of the single ball is 4 ms-1 the velocity of the pair is:

A. 1.5 ms-1

B. 1.0 ms-1

C. 2.0 ms-1

D. 0.5 ms-1

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8
Sand falls into a truck at a rate of 10 kg per second.
The force required to keep the truck travelling at 5 ms-1 is:

A. 10 N

B. 2N

C. 100 N

D. 50 N

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9
A space mum pulls on a rope to rescue her space child as shown below
They will most likely meet at

 A

 B

 C

 D

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10
Below is a (made up!) graph of force vs time for a ball being struck by a baaseball bat.

The impulse of the collision is:

A. 0.32 Ns

B. 0.25 Ns

C. 320 Ns

D. 250 Ns