Question Sets
Untimed practice sets. Take one here, or find them embedded right inside a course's concepts.
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69 sets
High School (11–12)Heat Engines, the Second Law and Entropy
Ten questions on the second law: engines and their efficiency, a Carnot engine, a freezer, entropy, reversible processes and an impossible machine. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Thermodynamic Processes and Specific Heats of Gases
Ten questions on gas processes: Mayer's relation, heating at steady pressure, isothermal and isochoric changes, and quick squeezes that heat a gas. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Laws of Thermodynamics
Ten questions on heat, work and the first law: signs of heat and work, a piston, a gas's internal energy, a cycle on a pressure-volume graph, Joule's paddle wheel and a free expansion. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Heat Transfer
Ten questions on heat transfer: a window, two rods joined end to end, the sea breeze, Stefan's and Wien's laws, and a cooling cup of soup. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Calorimetry and Change of State
Ten questions on heat: warming water, mixing, a copper block in water, melting ice, steam burns, a kettle, a calorimeter and ice in a drink. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Temperature and Thermal Expansion
Ten questions on temperature, gases and expansion: a foreign weather report, moles in a flask, a warmed gas, a long bridge, a hole in a plate, a pond in winter and the molecules in a cubic metre. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Fluid Flow, Bernoulli's Principle and Viscosity
Ten questions on viscosity and surface tension: oil under a plate, Stokes' law, falling drops, a soap bubble, water and mercury in thin tubes, and detergents. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Fluid Flow, Bernoulli's Principle and Viscosity
Ten questions on moving fluids: a narrowing pipe, a hose and a tap, Bernoulli's equation, a jet from a tank, a Venturi meter and the lift on a wing. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Pressure and Fluids
Ten questions on pressure and floating: a swimming pool, a garage lift, a diver, a water barometer, three vessels of different shapes, a stone under water, an iceberg and a ship that sails into the sea. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Elasticity and Mechanical Properties of SolidsWork, Energy and Power
Ten questions on elastic energy and design: a tow rope, wires end to end and side by side, a hot rail, the rope of a crane, beams and girders, and the tallest mountain. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Elasticity and Mechanical Properties of Solids
Ten questions on shear, squeezing and Poisson's ratio: a tile on a wall, a lead block, water in the deep sea, a copper cube under pressure, rubber, and the links between the moduli. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Elasticity and Mechanical Properties of Solids
Ten questions on stress and strain: a crane rod, a hanging sign, a copper and a steel wire, Young's modulus from a laboratory test, the stress-strain curve and the largest load a wire can hold. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)GravitationCircular Motion
Ten questions on satellites: orbital speeds and periods, the energy of an orbit, geostationary satellites, weightlessness and a scale in a lift. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)GravitationWork, Energy and Power
Ten questions on field, potential and escape: field strength, a satellite's energy, lifting a payload, a hollow sphere, escape speeds, and a probe fired straight up. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Gravitation
Ten questions on Kepler's laws and gravity: a long year, a comet's orbit, two students, a probe above the Earth, a deep mine, a graph of g to choose, weighing the Earth and a bigger planet. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Rotational Motion
Ten questions on angular momentum, balance and rolling: a turntable, a skater, a seesaw, a loaded plank, a rolling disc's energy split to choose, and a race down a slope. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Rotational Motion
Ten questions on torque and moment of inertia: a cross product, a door, a ring, a disc, a swinging rod, a flywheel and a bucket on a well. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Rotational Motion
Ten questions on the centre of mass and turning: weights on a table, a rod with two balls, an L-shaped plate, an astronaut and a toolbox, skaters on a rope, a firework, a fan, a potter's wheel and a grinder. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Work, Energy and Power
Ten questions on power and collisions: stairs, a car engine, the electricity bill, a pump, trolleys that stick, billiard balls, a bouncing ball, a ballistic pendulum and pucks on an air table. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Work, Energy and Power
Ten questions on potential energy and its conservation: a shelf, a spring's energy graph to choose, a water slide, a roller-coaster track, a pendulum, a toy launcher and a playground slide. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Work, Energy and Power
Ten questions on work and kinetic energy, set in everyday scenes: a bag carried along a corridor, a suitcase, two vectors, a sliding box, a cricket ball, a braking car, a stopping distance, a force graph and a spring. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)FrictionNewton's Laws of Motion
Ten questions on friction and circular motion: a friction graph to choose, a trunk, a dragged box, walking, a tilted book, an icy slope, a ramp, a flat bend and a banked curve. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Newton's Laws of Motion
Ten questions on everyday forces: weight on the Moon, a free-body diagram to choose, a spring, a rope pulling upward, two lifts, blocks pushed together, an Atwood machine and a picture on a wire. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Newton's Laws of Motion
Ten questions on Newton's laws, set in everyday scenes: a bus that brakes, a puck on ice, a scooter, a tennis racket, a fielder's catch, a toy gun, a horse and cart, two trolleys, a football kick and a firework. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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High School (11–12)Vectors and Motion in a Plane
Ten questions on projectiles and circular motion: a cricket ball at the top of its path, a packet dropped from a helicopter, a ceiling fan, a car on a bend and the Moon. Every answer has a worked solution that names the usual slip.
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