Forces Overview
1. **Indicate type of force for each action:**
- Screwing in a light bulb: **Turn or Twist** (forces involved twist motion)
- Opening a refrigerator: **Pull** (pulling door open)
- Plaiting hair: **Pull and Twist** (twist hair strands and pull)
- Typing on a keyboard: **Push** (pressing keys down)
- Skipping with a rope: **Pull and Push** (rope is pulled and pushed in turns)
- Scooping porridge: **Push and Pull** (spoon pushes into porridge and pulls up)
- Peeling a banana: **Pull and Twist** (twist peel and pull)
- Moving a wheelbarrow: **Push and Pull** (handle pushed or pulled to move)
2. **At each point (A-D) on ball diagram:**
- Point A: Force applied, motion starts, forces unbalanced, overcoming friction and gravity
- Point B: Forces balanced (equal contact force and gravity), ball rolling at constant speed
- Point C: Forces unbalanced due to friction slowing ball, motion slows
- Point D: Ball at rest, net force zero (balanced forces)
3. **Match statements to picture numbers:**
- Changes shape temporarily: Picture 3
- Changes shape permanently: Picture 2
- Starts motion of object: Picture 1
- Stops motion of object: Picture 5
- Changes direction of movement: Picture 4
4. **Least force used when kicking balls:**
- Styrofoam (lowest mass 5g, so less force to travel same distance)
5. **Reason:**
- (b) The greater the mass, the more force is needed.
6. **Styrofoam ball in water likely behaves as picture B (floating near top)**
- Reason: Styrofoam has low density, less than water, so it floats.
7. **Two forces acting on ball in container C:**
- (a) Gravity and (d) Upthrust (buoyancy) forces
8. **Ball in container C totally immersed because:**
- (a) Its weight force and buoyancy (upthrust) force are equal
9. **Which boy is doing work?**
- (b) Boy in Picture B
- Reason: Doing work requires force causing displacement; sweeping leaves involves moving objects, studying does not.
10. **Safety advice for new driver on wet, smooth roads:**
- Drive slower than usual
- Maintain greater distance from other vehicles
- Avoid sudden movements (steering, acceleration, braking)
- Use treaded tyres to prevent slipping
- Stay alert and cautious
11. **Treaded tyres help because:**
- (c) They push backwards against the road (creating forward reaction force)
12. **Surfaces inferred to differ in friction:**
- Longer arrow surface has less friction (rolls farther)
- Shorter arrow surface has more friction (stops sooner)
- Reason: More friction means more energy lost, reducing distance rolled
13. **Main forces illustrated:**
- I = Air resistance
- II = Friction
- III = Floating
14. **Explanation of pictures:**
- A: Ant applies force uphill showing work against gravity and friction
- B: Boulder at rest showing balanced forces with gravity and normal contact force equal