Middle School Physics Quest Worksheets

Practice problems are so much more fun if they’re worked into stories!

These are practice problems worked into stories. They're intended to be used alongside your existing curriculum, so they're just practice, not lessons.

Each of the worksheets includes over 15 pages of practice problems, with an answer key.

Types of Practice Problems Included

Energy

• Identifying Types of Energies:
  • Kinetic
  • Gravitational Potential
  • Thermal
  • Sound
  • Nuclear
  • Electrical
  • Chemical
• Describing Energy Changes in a Scenario (e.g., Potential to Kinetic)
• Converting between Joules, calories, and Calories
• Calculating Energy:
  • Gravitational Potential
  • Kinetic
• Using Energy Conservation to solve for height

1-D Kinematics

• Solving for velocity when given distance and time
• Solving for distance if given velocity and time
• Solving for time if given velocity and distance
• Solving for distance in constant acceleration problems
• Solving for final or initial velocity in constant acceleration problems
• Solving for time in constant acceleration problems

Momentum

• Calculating Total Momentum
• Using Conservation of Momentum to Solve for Final Speed
• Elastic Collisions
• Inelastic Collisions
• Impulse