AP Physics 1 Oscillatory Motion and Waves — practice questions
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Practice AP Physics 1 Oscillatory Motion and Waves in the app →The time to complete one full oscillation is called the:The SI unit for frequency, one cycle per second, is the:The maximum displacement from equilibrium in an oscillation is called the:Oscillatory motion where the net force follows Hooke's law is called:The force that pulls an oscillating object back toward equilibrium is the:A simple harmonic oscillator can be used as a clock because its period is:Making an oscillating object stiffer, that is raising its force constant, makes the period:Amplitude is measured in metres for a mass on a spring, but for sound oscillations it is measured in units of:A simple pendulum behaves as a simple harmonic oscillator only for amplitudes that are:The only two things that affect the period of a simple pendulum are gravity and its:A car settling when someone gets in would keep oscillating if it were not for damping supplied by:Because a pendulum's period depends on gravity, a pendulum of precisely known length can be used to measure:Just after a mass on a spring is released from maximum displacement, its velocity is negative because the systFor a mass on a spring, the acceleration is obtained from the force using:A vibration differs from an oscillation in that a vibration may be:If all the work done in deforming an object goes into deformation alone, that work is stored as:Two pendulums differing only in the mass of the bob will: