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Sample Problems: Momentum and Energy

Problem Name Multiple-Choice/Short Answer Multiple-Choice/Multiple Response Representation Translation Ranking Tasks Context-Based Reasoning Problems Estimation Problems Qualitative Questions Essay Questions
P&E1. Taking Cyrano to the moon (*)            
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P&E2. Break a leg (not!)        
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P&E3. Carts and graphs(*)
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P&E4. When can you conserve momentum?(*)              
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P&E5. The astronaut and the cream pie (*)        
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P&E6. Graphs and carts
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P&E7. The ice-skating professor(*)        
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P&E8. Colliding carts
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P&E9. Billiards over the edge
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P&E10. When can you conserve energy?              
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P&E11. Fan carts P&E(*)
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P&E12. Sticky carts
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P&E13. Momentum and energy?              
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P&E14. Rolling carts down hill (*)  
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P&E15. Continental drift          
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P&E16. Closing the door (*)        
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P&E17. Pushing a block            
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P&E18. Jumping into a haystack (*)        
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P&E19. Adjusting a projectile        
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P&E20. Momentum conservation in subsystems(*)              
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P&E21. Conserving momentum but not energy?              
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P&E22. Work-energy, impulse-momentum, and N2 (*)    
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P&E23. Launching a ball with a spring(*)    
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P&E24. Table hockey(*)
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P&E25. Stopping a train(*)    
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P&E26. Pushing a Porsche(*)     
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P&E27. What's conserved?(*)        
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P&E28. Testing the theorems(*)    
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