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Thinking Problems: Momentum and Energy

Problem Name Multiple-Choice/Short Answer Multiple-Choice/Multiple Response Representation Translation Ranking Tasks Mechanism-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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P&E29. Potential energy analogs for chemical reactions        
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P&E30. Launching a block up a ramp (*)        
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P&E31. Hybridizing your car (*)          
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P&E32. Energy skate-park (*)    
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P&E33. The perfect bouncer  
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P&E34. The bungee jumper (*)    
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P&E35. The dipped track  
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P&E36. Energy skate-park 2    
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P&E37. A superelastic collision    
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P&E38. Trap-jaw ants (*)    
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P&E39. Child on a trampoline          
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P&E40. The bulldog on the skateboard (*)    
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P&E41. The train, the hill, and the bumper (*)  
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(*) Problems marked with an asterisk have web solutions available. Click on the asterisk to go to the solution. A password is required. Contact redish@umd.edu to get access.

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