GCSE Physics – Terminal velocity

Last updated: 11/05/2020
AQA GCSE Science – Combined science foundation Forces GCSE Physics – Terminal velocity

Learning Objectives

-I can describe how an object reaches terminal velocity
-I can draw and interpret velocity-time graphs for objects that have reached terminal velocity

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  1. What is acceleration due to gravity?

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  2. What do objects fall through as they reach the Earth?

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  3. What fluid do most falling objects fall through?

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  4. What do objects falling through a fluid eventually reach?

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  5. When an object moves at constant speed what is true?

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  6. What is Newton’s Second Law?

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  7. What happens when an object first starts falling?

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  8. With what acceleration does an object first fall?

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  9. What happens as the object’s velocity increases?

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  10. What do collisions with air particles cause?

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  11. What happens to air resistance as speed increases?

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  12. What direction is the resultant force on an object when it first falls?

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  13. What direction does air resistance work in for a falling object?

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  14. What does air resistance do to weight?

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  15. What happens to resultant force as the object speeds up?

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  16. What eventually happens to resultant force?

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  17. When does resultant force = 0?

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  18. What stays the same throughout an object’s fall?

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  19. What do we call the maximum speed of a falling object?

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  20. What happens to acceleration as resultant force decreases?

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  21. Why does a skydiver stop accelerating when they release their parachute?

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  22. What happens to the velocity-time graph for an object approaching terminal velocity?

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  23. What does the area underneath a velocity-time graph represent?

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  24. What would a denser fluid cause?

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  25. What else would a denser fluid cause?

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