Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________

Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #1:
NET FORCE

Direction: Calculate the Net Force acting on the box. Identify the direction the box will travel. Identify each as
balanced or unbalanced force.

1. 2. 3.

Net Force: ______________ Net Force: ______________

Direction: _______________ Direction: _______________
Balanced / Unbalanced Balanced / Unbalanced

Net Force: ______________

Direction: _______________
Balanced / Unbalanced

4. 5. 6.

Net Force: ______________ Net Force: ______________

Direction: _______________ Direction: _______________
Balanced / Unbalanced Balanced / Unbalanced

Net Force: ______________

Direction: _______________
Balanced / Unbalanced
7. 8.

Net Force: ______________

Direction: _______________
Balanced / Unbalanced

Net Force: ______________

Direction: _______________
Balanced / Unbalanced
Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #2:
MASS AND WEIGHT

Direction: Complete the table provided below. After that, answer the following questions. Use the back of your
paper for computation. Box your final answer.
Strength of gravity (g) on the surface, in Newtons per Kilogram (N/kg)

Mercur Venus Moon Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptun Pluto

y e

3.8 8.8 1.6 3.7 23.1 9.0 8.7 11.0 0.6

My Current Weight: _______ kg

Planet My Mass (kg) My Weight (N)

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Moon
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

1. What happens to your mass as you move from one planet to another?

2. On which planet do you weigh the most?

3. On which planet do you weigh least?

4. On which planet was your weight most similar to your weight on earth?

5. Imagine you went to Saturn. Write a story about a day in your life there. Include details about how your
different weight affected what you did.
Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #3:
FREE-BODY DIAGRAM

Direction: Apply the method described in the paragraph above to construct free-body diagrams for the various
situations described below.

1. A book is at rest on a tabletop. Diagram the forces acting on the book. 

2. A gymnast holding onto a bar is suspended motionless in mid-air. The bar is supported by two ropes that
attach to the ceiling. Diagram the forces acting on the combination of gymnast and bar.

3. An egg is free-falling from a nest in a tree. Neglect air resistance. Diagram the forces acting on the egg as it
is falling. 

4. A flying squirrel is gliding (no wing flaps) from a tree to the ground at constant velocity. Consider air
resistance. Diagram the forces acting on the squirrel. 

5. A rightward force is applied to a book in order to move it across a desk with a rightward acceleration.
Consider frictional forces. Neglect air resistance. Diagram the forces acting on the book. 
6. A rightward force is applied to a book in order to move it across a desk at constant velocity. Consider
frictional forces. Neglect air resistance. Diagram the forces acting on the book. 

7. A college student rests a backpack upon his shoulder. The pack is suspended motionless by one strap from
one shoulder. Diagram the vertical forces acting on the backpack.

8. A skydiver is descending with a constant velocity. Consider air resistance. Diagram the forces acting upon
the skydiver. 

9. A force is applied to the right to drag a sled across loosely packed snow with a rightward acceleration.
Neglect air resistance. Diagram the forces acting upon the sled. 

10. A football is moving upwards towards its peak after having been booted by the punter. Neglect air
resistance. Diagram the forces acting upon the football as it rises upward towards its peak. 
Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #4:
LAW OF ACCELERATION

Direction: Answer each problem. Show your complete solution and box your final answer. Round off your final
answer to two decimal places.

1. An object with a mass of 2.0 kg accelerates 2.0 m/s2 when an unknown force is applied to it. What is the
amount of the force?

2. An object accelerates 5.0 m/s2 when a force of 20.0 N is applied to it. What is the mass of the object?

3. An object accelerates 7.2 m/s2 when a force of 4.0 N is applied to it. What is the mass of the object?

4. An object with a mass of 3.2 kg has a force of 7.3 N applied to it. What is the resulting acceleration of the
object?

5. An object with a mass of 20.0 kg has a force of 5.0 N applied to it. What is the resulting acceleration of the
object?

6. Sally has a car that accelerates at 5 m/s2. If the car has a mass of 1000 kg, how much force does the car
produce?

7. What is the mass of a truck if it produces a force of 14,000 N while accelerating at a rate of 5 m/s2?

8. A10 kg bowling ball would require what force to accelerate down an alleyway at a rate of 3 m/s2?

9. Your own car has a mass of 2000 kg. If your car produces a force of 5000 N, how fast will it accelerate?

10. What is the mass of a falling rock if it produces a force of 147 N?

Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #5:
CENTRIPETAL FORCE

Direction: Answer each problem. Show your complete solution and box your final answer. Round off your final
answer to two decimal places.

1. A 2500 kg car enters a curve with a radius of 45 m. If the car is moving at a speed of 35 m/s, what is the
centripetal force that maintains the car’s circular motion through the curve?

2. A student is riding on a carousel at a speed of 4.0 m/s. If the Carousel has a radius of 5.0 m and the
centripetal force is 240 N, what is the student’s mass?

3. A 25 kg girl sitting on a carousel is moving at a speed of 4.0 m/s. If the girl is 5.0 m from the axis of the
carousel, what is the centripetal force that maintains her circular motion?

4. A NASCAR driver weighing 75 kg enters a corner with a radius of 155 m with a speed of 125 m/s. What is
the centripetal force that maintains his circular motion?

5. A girl sits on a tire swing that is attached with a rope that is 2.10 m in length. Her dad pushes her with a
speed of 2.5 m/s. If the centripetal force is 88.0 N, what is the girl’s mass?

6. A bicycle racer is riding at a speed of 13.2 m/s around a circular track with a radius of 40.0 m. If the
magnitude of the centripetal force is 377 N, what is the combined mass of the bike and rider?

7. A 905 kg test car travels around a 3.25 km circular track. If the magnitude of the centripetal force is 2140 N,
what is the car’s speed?

8. A pilot is flying a small plane at 30.0 m/s in a circular path with a radius of 100.0 m. If a centripetal force of
635 N is needed to maintain the pilot’s circular motion, what is the pilot’s mass?
Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #6:
WORK AND POWER

Direction: Answer each problem. Show your complete solution and box your final answer. Round off your final
answer to two decimal places.

1. A 2-kg object is moving at 3 m/s. A 4-N force is applied in the direction of motion and then removed after the
object has traveled an additional 5 m. How much work is done by the force?

2. A 500-kg elevator is pulled upward with a constant force of 5500 N for a distance of 50.0 m. What is the
work done by the weight of the elevator?

3. A sailor pulls a boat along a dock using a rope at an angle of 60.0º with the horizontal. How much work does
the sailor do if he exerts a force of 255 N on the rope and pulls the boat 3.00 m? A girl pulls a wagon along a
level path for a distance of 44 m. The handle of the wagon makes an angle of 22º above horizontal. If she pulls
on the handle with a force of 87 N, how much work is done?

4. A girl pulls a wagon along a level path for a distance of 44 m. The handle of the wagon makes an angle of
22º above horizontal. If she pulls on the handle with a force of 87 N, how much work is done?

5. A student who weighs 500 Newton climbed the stairs from the first floor to the third floor, 15 meters above,
in 20 seconds.
a. How much work did she do?
b. What was her power?

6. A student who weighs 500 Newton climbed the stairs from the first floor to the third floor, 15 meters above,
in 20 seconds.
a. How much work did she do?
b. What was her power?

7. A horse performs 15000 joules of work pulling a wagon for 20 seconds. What is the horse's power?

8. Josh and Jake are both helping to build a brick wall which is 6 meters in height. They each lay 250 bricks,
but Josh finishes this task in 3 hours while Jake requires 4.5 hours to complete his part. Who does more work,
or do they both do the same amount? Who has more power? Explain.
Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #7:
KINETIC AND POTENTIAL ENERGY

Direction: Answer each problem. Show your complete solution and box your final answer. Round off your final
answer to two decimal places.

1. You serve a volleyball that has a mass of 2.1 kg. The ball leaves your hand with a speed of 30 m/s. How
much kinetic energy does the volleyball have?

2. Sam is at the skate park. He has a mass of 22 kg and a speed of 7 m/s as he moves up a quarter pipes.
What is his kinetic energy?

3. Two objects were lifted by a machine. One object had a mass of 2 kilograms, and was lifted at a speed of 2
m/sec. The other had a mass of 4 kilograms and was lifted at a rate of 3 m/sec.
a. Which object had more kinetic energy while it was being lifted?
b. Which object had more potential energy when it was lifted to a distance of 10 meters? Show your
calculation.

4. How much gravitational potential energy has a boy whose mass is 50 kg and who is standing on top of a 1.5
meter high wall?

5. Determine the amount of potential energy of a 5.0Kg book that is moved to three different shelves on a
bookcase. The height of each shelf is 1.0 m, 1.5 m, and 2.0 m.

6. What is the kinetic energy of a 2,000.-Kg boat moving at 5.0 m/s?

7. A 75kg refrigerator is located on the 70th floor of a skyscraper (300m above ground). What is the potential
energy of the refrigerator?

8. A bullet has a mass of 0.0042kg. The muzzle velocity of the bullet coming out of the barrel of the rifle is
993m/s. What is the KE of the bullet as it exits the gun barrel?
Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #8:
WAVE SPEED

Direction: Answer each problem. Show your complete solution and box your final answer. Round off your final
answer to two decimal places.
1. A wave with a frequency of 14 Hz has a wavelength of 3 meters. At what speed will this wave travel?

2. The speed of a wave is 65 m/sec. If the wavelength of the wave is 0.8 meters, what is the frequency of the
wave?

3. A wave has a frequency of 46 Hz and a wavelength of 1.7 meters. What is the speed of this wave?

4. A wave traveling at 230 m/sec has a wavelength of 2.1 meters. What is the frequency of this wave?

5. A wave with a frequency of 500 Hz is traveling at a speed of 200 m/s. What is the wavelength?

6. A wave has a frequency of 540 Hz and is travelling at 340 m/s. What is its wavelength?

7. A wave has a wavelength of 125 meters is moving at a speed of 20 m/s. What is its frequency?

8. A wave has a frequency of 900 Hz and a wavelength of 200 m. At what speed is this wave travelling?

9. A wave has a wavelength of 0.5 meters and a frequency of 120 Hz. What is the wave’s speed?

10. Radio waves travel at a speed of 300,000,000 m/s. WFNX broadcasts radio waves at a frequency of
101,700,000 Hz. What is the wavelength of WFNX’s radio waves?
Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #9:
SPEED OF SOUND

Direction: Answer each problem. Show your complete solution and box your final answer. Round off your final
answer to two decimal places.
1. A 320 Hz tuning fork will produce a wave of what wavelength in air at 22°C?

2. We see a bolt of lightning and 4 s later we hear the thunderclap. If the speed of sound in air is 0.2 mi/s, how
far away is the lightning?

3. How many seconds will it take an echo to reach your ears if you yell toward a mountain 82 m away on a day
when the air temperature is 0°C?

4. You look up and see a helicopter pass directly overhead. 3.10 seconds later you hear the sound of the
engine. If the air temperature is 23.0°C, how high was the helicopter flying?

5. Navy ships use sonar (sound navigation and ranging) to detect submarines. A sound pulse sent by the ship
reflects off the submarine. If the submarine is 2.2 km away from the ship, and the speed of sound in seawater
is 1400 m/s, how long will it take the sound pulse to travel out and back?

6. A person is listening with his ear against the rail for an incoming train. When the train is 1.65 km away, how
long will it take him to hear the sound of the whistle? (The speed of sound in steel is 5200 m/s.)

7. What time is required for sound to travel 50.0 m through a copper pipe?

8. What is the wavelength in meters of the sound produced by a tuning fork which has a frequency of 320 Hz?
The temperature of the air is 15°C.

9. The echo of a ship’s foghorn reflected from an iceberg is heard 5.0 seconds after the horn was blown. If the
temperature of the air is – 10.0°C, how far away is the iceberg?

10. A man drops a stone into a mineshaft 250 m deep. How many seconds pass before he hears the stone
strike the bottom of the shaft?

Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ___________________

Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #10:
COLOR WHEEL SPECTRUM

Objectives:
1. Light is composed of colors of different frequencies and wavelength;
2. The frequencies of the colors of light are inversely proportional to the wavelength;
3. The product of the frequency and the wavelength of the colors of light is constant; and
4. The arrangement of colors of light shows the hierarchy of the color’s corresponding energy.

Frequency Wavelength Frequency x Energy

(Hz) (m) Wavelength (eV)

Red

Orange
Yellow

Green
Blue

Violet

 Terra (T) is a prefix for 1012 (1 THz = 1 x 1012 Hz)

 Nano (n) is a prefix equivalent for 10-9 (1 nm = 1 x 10-9 m)
 1 eV = 1.6 x 10-19 Joule

Guide Questions:
1. Which color registered the highest frequency? Shortest wavelength?

2. Which color registered the lowest frequency? Longest wavelength?

3. What did you observe about the wavelengths and frequencies of the different colors of light?

4. What did you observe about the products of frequencies and wavelengths?

5. Does the frequencies of the colors of light increase from Red to Violet?

6. What did you observe about the corresponding energies from Red to Violet?

7. How is frequency related to the energy of the colors of light?

Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________

Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #11:
COLOR ADDITION AND COLOR SUBTRACTION

A. Identify what color will appear based from the type of color the paper absorbs. Write you answer on the
space provided.
Magenta Red Blue
1. 2. 3.

Absorbs Blue Absorbs Blue Absorbs Blue

Appears _________ Appears _________ Appears _________

RBG
4. 5. Yellow 6. Cyan

Absorbs Green Absorbs Red Absorbs Blue

Appears _________ Appears _________ Appears _________

B. In the diagrams below, several sheets of paper are illuminated by different primary colors of light. Indicate
what primary colors of light will be reflected and the appearance of the sheet of paper.
BG RG BG
1. 2. 3.

White Paper Yellow Paper Red Paper

Appears _________ Appears _________ Appears _________

RB RBG BG
4. 5. 6.

Black Paper Magenta Paper Cyan Paper

Appears _________ Appears _________ Appears _________

BG
7. 8. RG 9. RB

Yellow Paper Red Paper Green Paper

Appears _________ Appears _________ Appears _________
C. Using CRAYOLA, color the picture below by following the prescribed color found below the picture.

1 – BLUE + GREEN
2 – RED + BLUE
3 – MAGENTA – BLUE
4 – RED + GREEN
5 – CYAN – BLUE
6 – YELLOW – RED
7 – RED + BLUE + GREEN
Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #12:
HEAT CAPACITY

Direction: Answer each problem. Show your complete solution and box your final answer. Round off your final
answer to two decimal places.

1. The temperature of 335 g of water changed from 24.5°C to 26.4°C. How much heat did this sample absorb?
(c for water = 4.18 J/g °C)

2. How much heat in kilojoules has to be removed from 225 g of water to lower its temperature from 25.0 oC to
10.0oC?

3. To bring 1.0 kg of water from 25oC to 99oC takes how much heat input?

4. 100.0 g of 4.0°C water is heated until its temperature is 37°C. If the specific heat of water is 4.18 J/g °C,
calculate the amount of heat energy needed to cause this rise in temperature.

5. 25.0 g of mercury is heated from 25°C to 155°C, and absorbs 455 joules of heat in the process. Calculate
the specific heat capacity of mercury.

6. What is the specific heat of silicon if it takes 192 J to raise the temperature of 45.0 g of Si by 6.0oC?

7. Assuming that Coca Cola has the same specific heat as water (4.18 J/g oC), calculate the amount of heat in
kJ transferred when one can (about 350g) is cooled from 25oC to 3oC .

8. What is the specific heat of lead if it takes 96 J to raise the temperature of a 75 g block by 10oC?

9. What is the specific heat capacity of silver metal if 55.00 g of the metal absorbs 47.3J of heat and the temperature rises
15.0°C?

10. A 15.75 g piece of iron absorbs 1086.75 joules of heat energy, and its temperature changes from 25°C to
175°C. Calculate the specific heat capacity of iron.
Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #13:
OHM’S LAW

Direction: Answer each problem. Show your complete solution and box your final answer. Round off your final
answer to two decimal places.

1. A subwoofer needs a household voltage of 110 V to push a current of 5.5 A through its coil. What is the
resistance of the subwoofer?

2. If a toaster produces 12 ohms of resistance in a 120-volt circuit, what is the amount of current in the circuit?

3. A 12 Volt car battery pushes charge through the headlight circuit resistance of 10 ohms. How much current
is passing through the circuit?

4. How much voltage would be necessary to generate 10 amps of current in a circuit that has 5 ohms of
resistance?

5. An electric heater works by passing a current of 100 A though a coiled metal wire, making it red hot. If the
resistance of the wire is 1.1 ohms, what voltage must be applied to it?

6. A circuit contains a 1.5 volt battery and a bulb with a resistance of 3 ohms. Calculate the current.

7. A light bulb has a resistance of 5 ohms and a maximum current of 10 A. How much voltage can be applied
before the bulb will break?

8. What current flows through a hair dryer plugged into a 120 Volt circuit if it has a resistance of 25 ohms?

9. What happens to the current in a circuit if a 1.5-volt battery is removed and is replaced by a 3-volt battery?

10. What happens to the current in a circuit if a 10Ω resistor is removed and replaced by a 20Ω resistor?
Name: ________________________________________________________ Score: ____________________
Grade & Section: _______________________________________________ Date: _____________________

WORKSHEET #14:
ELECTRIC CIRCUITS

Direction: Draw the following circuits as described below. If the circuit is complete, use arrows to show the
movement of electrons around the circuit (be sure to draw them in the correct direction)

1. Draw a circuit that has a cell, an open switch and one light bulb connected in series.

2. Draw a circuit that has a battery, a closed switch and a resistor connected in series.

3. Draw a circuit that has a cell and a closed switch on the main path, a light bulb on the first branch, and a
resistor on the second branch connected in parallel.

4. Draw a circuit that has a battery, an open switch and two light bulbs connected in series.

5. Draw a circuit that has a cell and an open switch on the main path, a light bulb on the first branch and a light
bulb with an ammeter after it on the second branch connected in parallel.