physics exam 2

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If electricity costs 7.06¢/kW∙h, how much would it cost you to run a 120 W stereo system 4 hours per day for 4.0 weeks?

$0.95

If a net force accelerates a 4.5-kg tool at 40 m/s 2, what acceleration would that same net force give to an 18-kg tool?

10 m/s^2

Three objects are moving along a straight line as shown in the figure. Taking the positive direction to be to the right, what is the total momentum of this system?

-14 kg

A 3.0-kg object moves to the right at 4.0 m/s. It collides in a perfectly inelastic collision with a 6.0 kg object moving to the left at 2.0 m/s. What is the total kinetic energy after the collision?

0 J

A stone with a mass of 1.0 kg is tied to the end of a light string which keeps it moving in a circle with a constant speed of 4.0 m/s on a perfectly smooth horizontal tabletop. The radius of the path is 0.60 m. How much work does the tension in the string do on the stone as it makes one-half of a complete circle?

0 J

An ideal spring with a force constant (spring constant) of 15 N/m is initially compressed by 3.0 cm from its uncompressed position. How much work is required to compress the spring an additional 4.0 cm?

0.030 J

A 320-g air track cart traveling at 1.25 m/s suddenly collides elastically with a stationary 270-g cart. What is the speed of the 320-g cart just after the collision?

0.11 m/s

A 50.0-kg crate is being pulled along a horizontal smooth surface. The pulling force is 10.0 N and is directed 20.0° above the horizontal. What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the crate?

0.188 m/s^2

An object slides on a level floor. It slows and comes to a stop with a constant acceleration of magnitude 2.4 m/s 2. What is the coefficient of kinetic friction between the object and the floor?

0.24

A 2.0-m rope is lying on a table. You pick up one end and start raising it vertically. How high above the table is the center of mass (or center of gravity) of the rope when half of the rope has lifted off the table?

0.25 m

A 0.330-kg volleyball is thrown vertically downward with a speed of 0.150 m/s in a place where g = 9.81 m/s 2. It takes it 0.0655 s to reach the ground. What is the magnitude of its momentum just before it hits the ground?

0.262 kg*m/s

On a planet where g = 10.0 m/s 2 and air resistance is negligible, a sled is at rest on a rough inclined hill rising at 30° as shown in the figure. The object is allowed to move and it stops on a rough horizontal surface, at a distance of 4.0 m from the bottom of the hill. The coefficient of kinetic friction on the hill is 0.40. What is the coefficient of kinetic friction between the horizontal surface and the sled?

0.31

It requires 0.30 kJ of work to fully drive a stake into the ground. If the average resistive force on the stake by the ground is 828 N how long is the stake?

0.36 m

A 50.0-kg block is being pulled up a 16.0° slope by a force of 250 N that is parallel to the slope. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the block and the slope is 0.200. What is the acceleration of the block?

0.412 m/s^2

How much work is required to stretch an ideal spring of spring constant (force constant) 40 N/m from x = 0.20 m to x = 0.25 m if the unstretched position is at x = 0.00 m?

0.45 J

A 0.14-kg baseball is dropped from rest from a height of 2.0 m above the ground. What is the magnitude of its momentum just before it hits the ground if we neglect air resistance?

0.88 kg*m/s

A 20-g bead is attached to a light 120 cm-long string as shown in the figure. If the angle α is measured to be 18°, what is the speed of the mass?

1.1 m/s

A 60.0-kg man stands at one end of a 20.0-kg uniform 10.0-m long board. How far from the man is the center of mass (or center of gravity) of the man-board system?

1.25 m

A 340-g air track cart traveling at 1.25 m/s suddenly collides elastically with a stationary 300-g cart. What is the speed of the 300-g cart just after the collision?

1.33 m/s

If you pitch a baseball with twice the kinetic energy you gave it in the previous pitch, the magnitude of its momentum is

1.41 times as much.

In a police ballistics test, a 10.0-g bullet moving at 300 m/s is fired into a 1.00-kg block at rest. The bullet goes through the block almost instantaneously and emerges with 50.0% of its original speed. What is the speed of the block just after the bullet emerges?

1.5 m/s

An object hits a wall and bounces back with half of its original speed. What is the ratio of the final kinetic energy to the initial kinetic energy?

1/4

The figure shows an acceleration-versus-force graph for three objects pulled by wires. If the mass of object 2 is 36 kg, what are the masses of objects 1 and 3?

12 kg and 90 kg

A certain aircraft has a mass of 300,000 kg. At a certain instant during its landing, its speed is 27.0 m/s. If the braking force is a constant 445,000 N, what is the speed of the airplane 10.0 s later?

12.2 m/s

A 10-kg dog is running with a speed of 5.0 m/s. What is the minimum work required to stop the dog in 2.40 s?

125 J

An 8.0-g bullet is suddenly shot into a 4.0-kg block, at rest on a frictionless horizontal surface, as shown in the figure. The bullet remains lodged in the block. The block then moves against a spring and compresses it by 8.9 cm. The force constant (spring constant) of the spring is 1400 N/m What is the magnitude of the impulse on the block (including the bullet inside) due to the spring during the entire time interval during which the block compresses the spring?

13 N*s

A 60-kg skier pushes off the top of a frictionless hill with an initial speed of 4.0 m/s. How fast will she be moving after dropping 10 m in elevation? Air resistance is negligible.

15 m/s

You do 116 J of work while pulling your sister back on a frictionless swing, whose chain is 5.10 m long, until the swing makes an angle of 32.0° with the vertical. What is your sister's mass?

15.3 kg

A 100-N force has a horizontal component of 80 N and a vertical component of 60 N. The force is applied to a cart on a level frictionless floor. The cart starts from rest and moves 2.0 m horizontally along the floor due to this force. What is the cart's final kinetic energy?

160 J

In order to simulate weightlessness for astronauts in training, they are flown in a vertical circle. If the passengers are to experience weightlessness, how fast should an airplane be moving at the top of a vertical circle with a radius of 2.5 km?

160 m/s

A child pulls on a wagon with a force of 75 N If the wagon moves a total of 42 m in 3.1 min what is the average power delivered by the child?

17 W

An ideal spring stretches by 21.0 cm when a 135-N object is hung from it. If instead you hang a fish from this spring, what is the weight of a fish that would stretch the spring by 30 cm

199 N

Car J moves twice as fast as car K, and car J has half the mass of car K. The kinetic energy of car J, compared to car K is

2 to 1.

An ideal spring has a spring constant (force constant) of 2500 N/m. is stretched 4.0 cm. How much work is required to stretch the spring by 4.0 cm?

2.0 J

A 2.0-kg mass moving at 5.0 m/s suddenly collides head-on with a 3.0-kg mass at rest. If the collision is perfectly inelastic, what is the speed of the masses just after the collision?

2.0 m/s

The figure shows a block of mass m resting on a 20° slope. The block has coefficients of friction and with the surface of the slope. It is connected using a very light string over an ideal pulley to a hanging block of mass 2.0 kg. The string above the slope pulls parallel to the surface. What is the minimum mass m so the system will remain at rest when it is released from rest?

2.1 N

A 3.0-kg mass and a 5.0-kg mass hang vertically at the opposite ends of a very light rope that goes over an ideal pulley. If the masses are gently released, what is the resulting acceleration of the masses?

2.5 m/s^2

An object that weighs 75 N is pulled on a horizontal surface by a horizontal pull of 50 N to the right. The friction force on this object is 30 N to the left. What is the acceleration of the object?

2.6 m/s^2

How many joules of energy are used by a 1.0-hp motor that runs for 1.0 hour? (1 hp = 746 W)

2.7 MJ

An object with a mass of 10 kg is initially at rest at the top of a frictionless inclined plane that rises at 30° above the horizontal. At the top, the object is initially 8.0 m from the bottom of the incline, as shown in the figure. When the object is released from this position, it eventually stops at a distance d from the bottom of the inclined plane along a horizontal surface, as shown. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the horizontal surface and the object is 0.20, and air resistance is negligible. Find the distance d.

20 m

A 50-kg box is being pushed along a horizontal surface. The coefficient of static friction between the box and the ground is 0.65, and the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.35. What horizontal force must be exerted on the box for it to accelerate at 1.2 m/s 2?

230 N

A fire hose is turned on the door of a burning building in order to knock the door down. This requires a force of 1000 N. If the hose delivers 40 kg of water per second, what is the minimum velocity of the stream needed to knock down the door, assuming the water doesn't bounce back?

25 m/s

A brick is moving at a speed of 3 m/s and a pebble is moving at a speed of 5 m/s. If both objects have the same kinetic energy, what is the ratio of the brick's mass to the rock's mass?

25 to 9

It takes 87 J of work to stretch an ideal spring from 1.4 m to 2.9 m from equilibrium. What is the value of the spring constant (force constant) of this spring?

27 N/m

What is the net power needed to change the speed of a 1600-kg sport utility vehicle from 15.0 m/s to 40.0 m/s in 4.00 seconds?

275 kW

When a car of mass 1167 kg accelerates from 10.0 m/s to some final speed, 4.00 × 10 5 J of work are done. Find this final speed.

28 m/s

How much kinetic energy does a 0.30-kg stone have if it is thrown at 44 m/s?

290 J

A net force F acts on a mass m and produces an acceleration a. What acceleration results if a net force 2F acts on mass 4m?

2a

How much work must be done by frictional forces in slowing a 1000-kg car from 26.1 m/s to rest?

3.41x10^5 J

A very small 51-g steel ball is released from rest and falls vertically onto a steel plate. The ball strikes the plate and is in contact with it for 0.50 ms. The ball rebounds elastically and returns to its original height. The total time interval for a round trip is 3.00 s. What is the magnitude of the average force exerted on the ball by the plate during contact with the plate?

3000 N

A highway curve of radius 100 m, banked at an angle of 45°, may be negotiated without friction at a speed of

31 m/s

Pulling out of a dive, the pilot of an airplane guides his plane into a vertical circle with a radius of 600 m. At the bottom of the dive, the speed of the airplane is 150 m/s. What is the apparent weight of the 70-kg pilot at that point?

3300 N

What is the minimum energy needed to lift a 1.0-kg rocket to a height of 200 km and to give it a speed of 8.0 km/s at that height? (Neglect air resistance and the small decrease in g over that distance.)

34 MJ

A bead is moving with a speed of 20 m/s at position A on the track shown in the figure. This track is friction-free, and there is no appreciable air resistance. What is the speed of the bead at point C?

34 m/s

A proton of mass m is at rest when it is suddenly struck head-on by an alpha particle (which consists of 2 protons and 2 neutrons) moving at speed v. If the collision is perfectly elastic, what speed will the alpha particle have after the collision? (Assume the neutron's mass is equal to the proton's mass.)

3v/5

In the figure, a ball hangs by a very light string. What is the minimum speed of the ball at the bottom of its swing (point B) in order for it to reach point A, which is 1.0 m above the bottom of the swing?

4.4 m/s

A 0.140 kg baseball is thrown horizontally with a velocity of 28.9 m/s. It is struck with a constant horizontal force that lasts for 1.85 ms, which results in a velocity of 37.0 m/s in the opposite direction. What was the magnitude of the horizontal force?

4.99 kN

A golf club exerts an average horizontal force of 1000 N on a 0.045-kg golf ball that is initially at rest on the tee. The club is in contact with the ball for 1.8 ms. What is the speed of the golf ball just as it leaves the tee?

40 m/s

As shown in the figure, a bullet of mass 0.010 kg moving horizontally suddenly strikes a block of wood of mass 1.5 kg that is suspended as a pendulum. The bullet lodges in the wood, and together they swing upward a vertical distance of 0.40 m. The length of the string is 2.0 m. What was the speed of the bullet just before it struck the wooden block?

420 m/s

A 10-kg mass, hung by an ideal spring, causes the spring to stretch 2.0 cm. What is the spring constant (force constant) for this spring?

49 N/cm

Two planets have the same surface gravity, but planet B has twice the radius of planet A. If planet A has mass m, what is the mass of planet B?

4m

A dinner plate falls vertically to the floor and breaks up into three pieces, which slide horizontally along the floor. Immediately after the impact, a 200-g piece moves along the + x-axis with a speed of 2.00 m/s, a 235-g piece moves along the + y-axis with a speed of 1.50 m/s. The third piece has a mass of 100 g. What is the speed of the third piece?

5.33 m/s

If 4.0 J of work are performed in stretching an ideal spring with a spring constant (force constant) of 2500 N/m, by what distance is the spring stretched?

5.7 cm

Astronaut Jennifer's lifeline to her spaceship comes loose and she finds herself stranded, "floating" 100 m from the mothership. She suddenly throws her 2.00-kg wrench at 20 m/s in a direction away from the ship. If she and her spacesuit have a combined mass of 200 kg, how long does it take her to coast back to her spaceship?

500 s

The curved section of a horizontal highway is a circular unbanked arc of radius 740 m. If the coefficient of static friction between this roadway and typical tires is 0.40, what would be the maximum safe driving speed for this horizontal curved section of highway?

54 m/s

A rock falls from a vertical cliff that is 4.0 m tall and experiences no significant air resistance as it falls. At what speed will its gravitational potential energy (relative to the base of the cliff) be equal to its kinetic energy?

6.3 m/s

A super dart of mass 20 g, traveling at 350 m/s, strikes a steel plate at an angle of 30° with the plane of the plate, as shown in the figure. It bounces off the plate at the same angle but at a speed of 320 m/s. What is the magnitude of the impulse that the plate gives to the bullet?

6.7 N*s

An astronaut weighs 99 N on the Moon, where the acceleration of gravity is 1.62 m/s 2. How much does she weigh on Earth?

600 N

A 1200-kg car is pulling a 500-kg trailer along level ground. Friction of the road on the trailer is negligible. The car accelerates with an acceleration of 1.3 m/s 2. What is the force exerted by the car on the trailer?

650 N

A 10.0-kg picture is held in place by two wires, the first one hanging at 50.0° to the left of the vertical and the second one at 45.0° to the right of the vertical. What is the tension in the first wire?

69.6 N

A 900-kg car traveling 30.0° south of east at 12.0 m/s suddenly collides with a 750-kg car traveling north at 17.0 m/s. The cars stick together after colliding. What is the speed of the wreckage just after the collision?

7.21 m/s

The acceleration of gravity on the Moon is one-sixth what it is on Earth. An object of mass 72 kg is taken to the Moon. What is its mass there?

72 kg

A car moving at a steady 10 m/s on a level highway encounters a depression that has a circular cross-section with a radius of 30 m. The car maintains its speed as it drives through the depression. What is the normal force exerted by the seat of the car on a 60.0-kg passenger when the car is at the bottom of the depression?

790 N

A steady horizontal force lasting for 2.1 s gives a 1.25 kg object an acceleration of 3.2 m/s 2 on a frictionless table. What impulse does this force give to the object?

8.4 kg *m/s

A block of mass m = 9.0 kg and speed V and is behind a block of mass M = 27 kg and speed of as shown int the figure. The surface is frictionless, and the blocks suddenly collide and couple. After the collision, the blocks have a common speed of 0.90 m/s. How much kinetic energy of the blocks is lost due to the collision?

8.6 J

A child does 350 J of work while pulling a box from the ground up to his tree house at a steady speed with a light rope. The tree house is 4.0 m above the ground. What is the mass of the box?

8.9 kg

in a carnival ride, passengers stand with their backs against the wall of a cylinder. The cylinder is set into rotation and the floor is lowered away from the passengers, but they remain stuck against the wall of the cylinder. For a cylinder with a 2.0-m radius, what is the minimum speed that the passengers can have so they do not fall if the coefficient of static friction between the passengers and the wall is 0.25?

8.9 m/s

A girl of mass 55 kg throws a ball of mass 0.80 kg against a wall. The ball strikes the wall horizontally with a speed of and it bounces back with this same speed. The ball is in contact with the wall What is the magnitude of the average force exerted on the wall by the ball?

800 N

You push downward on a trunk at an angle 25° below the horizontal with a force of If the trunk is on a flat surface and the coefficient of static friction between the surface and the trunk is 0.61, what is the most massive trunk you will be able to move?

81 kg

Two astronauts, of masses 60 kg and 80 kg, are initially right next to each other and at rest in outer space. They suddenly push each other apart. How far has the heavier astronaut moved when the lighter astronaut has moved 12 m?

9.0 m

A puck with a mass m 1 = 50 g moving at 1.0 m/s approaches a stationary puck with a mass m 2 = 100 g on a frictionless air table, and they undergo a sudden two-dimensional elastic collision. After the collision, both pucks have identical speeds, but travel in different directions. What is the angle between the original and final paths of puck with mass m 1?

90 degrees

xTwo objects, with masses m 1 and m 2, are originally a distance r apart. The magnitude of the gravitational force between them is F. The masses are changed to 2m 1 and 2m 2, and the distance is changed to 4r. What is the magnitude of the new gravitational force?

F/4

When a cannon fires a cannonball, the cannon will recoil backward because the

momentum of the cannonball and cannon is conserved.

A child falls sideways off a sled while sledding on frictionless ice. What happens to the velocity of the sled?

It remains the same.

If you blow up a balloon, and then release it, the balloon will fly away. This is an illustration of

Newton's third law.

Two cars collide head-on. At every moment during the collision, the magnitude of the force the first car exerts on the second is exactly equal to the magnitude of the force the second car exerts on the first. This is an example of

Newton's third law.

A net force F accelerates a mass m with an acceleration a. If the same net force is applied to mass 2m, then the acceleration will be

a/2.

Which of the following is a false statement?

The center of mass of an object must lie within the object.

A small car meshes with a large truck in a head-on collision. Which of the following statements concerning the magnitude of the average collision force is correct?

The small car and the truck experience the same average force.

A child's toy is suspended from the ceiling by means of a string. The Earth pulls downward on the toy with its weight force of 8.0 N. If this is the "action force," what is the "reaction force"?

The toy pulling upward on the Earth with an 8.0-N force.

A 20-N weight and a 5.0-N weight are dropped simultaneously from the same height. Ignore air resistance. Compare their accelerations.

They both accelerate at the same rate because they have the same weight to mass ratio.

Consider two masses m 1 and m 2 at the top of two frictionless inclined planes. Both masses start from rest at the same height. However, the plane on which m 1 sits is at an angle of 30° with the horizontal, while the plane on which m 2 sits is at 60°. If the masses are released, which is going faster at the bottom of its plane?

They both are going the same speed.

A packing crate slides down an inclined ramp at constant velocity. Thus we can deduce that

a frictional force is acting on it.

To accelerate your car at a constant acceleration, the car's engine must

develop ever-increasing power.

Suppose a satellite were orbiting the Earth just above the surface. What is its centripetal acceleration?

equal to g

A golf club hits a golf ball with a force of 2400 N. The golf ball hits the club with a force

exactly 2400 N.

A roller coaster car is on a track that forms a circular loop in the vertical plane. If the car is to just maintain contact with track at the top of the loop, what is the minimum value for its centripetal acceleration at this point?

g downward

When is kinetic energy conserved?

in elastic collisions

The speed of Halley's Comet, while traveling in its elliptical orbit around the Sun,

increases as it nears the Sun.

What is the correct unit of work expressed in SI units?

kg m 2/s 2

What is the correct unit of power expressed in SI units?

kg m 2/s 3

A ball drops some distance and gains 30 J of kinetic energy. Do not ignore air resistance. How much gravitational potential energy did the ball lose?

more than 30 J

A very heavy object moving with speed v collides head-on with a very light object at rest. The collision is elastic, and there is no friction. The heavy object barely slows down. What is the speed of the light object after the collision?

nearly 2v

A sailboat of mass m is moving with a momentum p. How would you represent its kinetic energy in terms of these two quantities?

p 2/(2m)

A block of mass M slides down a frictionless plane inclined at an angle θ with the horizontal. The normal reaction force exerted by the plane on the block is directed

perpendicular to the plane.

Two objects attract each other gravitationally. If the distance between their centers is cut in half, the gravitational force

quadruples

The quantity 1/2 k x2 is

the elastic potential energy of the object.

A 20-ton truck collides with a 1500-lb car and causes a lot of damage to the car. Since a lot of damage is done on the car

the force on the truck is equal to the force on the car.

A 100-kg football linebacker moving at 2.0 m/s tackles head-on an 80-kg halfback running 3.0 m/s Neglecting the effects due to digging in of cleats,

the halfback will drive the linebacker backward.

The gravitational force between two objects is proportional to

the product of the two objects.

Compared to its mass on the Earth, the mass of an object on the Moon is

the same.

The banking angle in a turn on the Olympic bobsled track is not constant, but increases upward from the horizontal. Coming around a turn, the bobsled team will intentionally "climb the wall," then go lower coming out of the turn. Why do they do this?

to take the turn at a faster speed

Of the following, which is not a unit of power?

watt/second


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