They are organized here to match the chapters of the commercial Top Hat text, "Living Physics vol. 1". (PDFs of the text are also available in this portal.) In Top Hat, these questions can be autograded and integrated into most Learning Management Systems.
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Classical Mechanics > Applications of Newton's Laws, Gravity, Linear Momentum, Motion in One Dimension, Motion in Two Dimensions, Newton's First Law, Newton's Second Law, Newton's Third Law, Work and Energy
Electricity & Magnetism > Electrostatics > Charge, Coulomb's Law, Induced Charge
Fluid Mechanics > Dynamics of Fluids > Bernoulli's Principle, Equation of Continuity, Flow Rate, Hagen-Poiseuille Equation, Viscosity
Fluid Mechanics > Statics of Fluids > Archimedes' Principle, Density and Buoyancy, Measuring Pressure, Static Pressure
Fluid Mechanics > Surface Tension
Thermo & Stat Mech > First Law, Thermal Properties of Matter
Biochemistry
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Chemical Bonding
Chemical Energetics > Energy
Intermolecular Forces
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