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, B 1. Galileo said that if you rolled a ball along a level surface it would
A) slow down due to its natural tendency to come to rest.
B) keep rolling without slowing down if no friction acted upon it.
C) roll as long as its inertia nudged it along.
D) roll in the opposite direction.
B When Galileo rolled a ball down an incline and up another incline, he found that the
ball rolled nearly to
A) its initial height.
B) halfway its original height.
C) three quarters its original height.
D) higher than its original height.
C According to Galileo, inertia is a
A) force like any other force.
B) special kind of force.
C) property of all matter.
D) concept opposite to force.
D Compared with a 1-kg block of solid iron, a 2-kg block of solid iron has twice as
much
A) inertia.
B) mass.
C) volume.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
A An object that has twice as much mass as another object also has twice as much A)
inertia.
B) velocity.
C) gravitational acceleration.
C A 1-kg mass at Earth's surface weighs about
A) 1 N.
B) 5 N.
C) 10 N.
D) 12 N.
B An object weighs 30 N on Earth. A second object weighs 30 N on the Moon. The
object with the greater mass is the one on
A) Earth.
B) the Moon.
C) same for each.
D) not enough information
D An object is pulled with three forces: one at 20 N to the right, another at 40 N to the
right, and the third at 30 N to the left. The net force is
A) 60 N to the right.
B) 60 N to the left.
C) 30 N to the left.
D) none of the above