PHY 1014 ALL HOMEWORK
A hunter fires a bullet from a horizontally-held rifle while simultaneously dropping another bullet from the side of the rifle. Which bullet hits the ground first?
both hit at the same time
Two motorcycle stunt drivers, one light and the other much heavier, drive their motorcycles up and off an inclined ramp at identical speeds. They both rise in the air and land downrange. Neglecting air drag, the one to attain the greatest height and greatest range is the
both the same
Water pressure is greatest against the
bottom of a submerged object
If the radius of the Earth somehow increased with no change in mass, your weight would
decrease.
An empty jar is pushed open side downward into water so that air trapped inside can't escape. As it is pushed deeper, the buoyant force on the jar
decreases
As water in a confined pipe speeds up, the pressure it exerts against the inner walls of the pipe
decreases
For each degree a volume of air at 0°C is cooled, its pressure
decreases by 1/273
A rock is thrown upward at 50° with respect to the horizontal. As it rises, its vertical component of velocity
decreases.
If a loaf of bread is compressed, its
density increases
The pressure in a liquid depends on liquid
depth and density
The air in this room has
energy, weight, mass
Compared to the buoyant force on you when floating in fresh water, buoyant force on you when floating in the dense water of the Dead Sea is
equal to your weight
If a battleship sinks in a canal lock, the water level in the lock
fall
Blood pressure is normally greater in your
feet
Very importantly, a hydraulic press can multiply
forces
How far must one travel to completely be beyond Earth's gravity?
forget it; you can't travel far enough
Consider two planets in space that gravitationally attract each other. If the masses of both planets are doubled, and the distance between them doesn't change, then the force between them is
four times as much.
When you touch a hot penny in sunlight with your finger, energy flows
from the penny to your finger.
The Sun is spherical due to
gravitation
Lobsters live on the bottom of the ocean. Compared with the density of seawater, the density of a lobster is
greater
Airplane lift is achieved when air pressure on the bottom of a wing is
greater than pressure on top.
When gas in a container expands to twice its volume, its density
halves
Compared to a giant iceberg, a hot cup of coffee has
higher temperature, but less thermal energy
Two objects move toward each other due to gravity. As the objects get closer and closer, the force between them
increases.
Compared with an empty ship, the same ship loaded with Styrofoam will float
lower in the water
Whether one object is warmer than another object has most to do with
molecular kinetic energy.
The force of gravity acts on all apples on an apple tree. Some apples are twice as far from the ground. Such twice-as-high apples of the same mass, have
practically the same weight.
When you stand on tiptoes on a bathroom scale, there is an increase in
pressure on the scale, not registered as weight
Buoyant force acts upward on a submerged object because
pressure up on bottom is greater than downward pressure on top of the object.
When a suction cup sticks to a wall it is
pushed to the wall by the atmosphere
If your mass and the mass of Earth remained the same while the Earth's radius was halved, your weight would
quadruple
If your mass remains unchanged while both the mass of Earth and its radius doubles, your weight
reduces by half.
Roll a bowling ball off the edge of a table. As it falls, its horizontal component of motion
remains constant.
When an ice cube in a glass of water melts, the water level
remains the same
A rock is thrown upward at 50° with respect to the horizontal. As it rises, its horizontal component of velocity
remains unchanged.
A projectile is fired vertically from the surface of the Earth at 8 km/s and remains in a vertical path. The projectile will
rise and fall back to Earth's surface.
Weight can be simulated in a space vehicle if the vehicle is
rotating.
Buoyant force is greatest on a submerged 1 cubic centimeter block of aluminum or lead
same on each
Two life preservers have identical volumes, one filled with Styrofoam and the other filled with sand. When both life preservers are fully submerged, the buoyant force is greater on the one filled with
same on each if volumes remain the same
Strictly speaking, gas pressure inside an inflated stretched balloon is
slightly greater than air pressure outside the balloon
Compared with the buoyant force of the atmosphere on a 1-L helium-filled balloon, the buoyant force of the atmosphere on a nearby 1-L solid iron block is
the same
Pumice is a volcanic rock that floats. Compared with the density of water, its density is
the same
If a pressure of 20 kPa is applied to one piston in a simple hydraulic device, the pressure on a piston of larger area will be
the same 20 kPa.
After a rock that is thrown straight up reaches the top of its path and is starting to fall back down, its acceleration is
the same as it was at the top of its path
A ball is thrown upwards and caught when it returns. Neglecting air resistance, the speed with which it is caught is
the same as its initial speed.
Compared to the speed a satellite loses when traveling from nearest to farthest points from Earth, the speed gained when returning from farthest to nearest is
the same.
The speeds of the planets about the Sun depend on
their distances from the Sun.
Planets would crash into the Sun if it weren't for
their tangential velocities.
If a projectile is fired straight up at a speed of 10 m/s, neglecting air resistance, the time it takes to reach the top
1 s
What is the buoyant force acting on a 10-ton ship floating in the ocean?
10 tons
How deep must an inverted drinking glass be pushed beneath the surface of water so that the volume of enclosed air is squeezed to half?
10.3 m
A woman who normally weighs 400 N stands on top of a very tall ladder so she is one Earth-radius above Earth's surface. What is her weigh there?
100 N
Escape speed from Earth is
11.2 km/s.
The density of air at room temperature is about 0.0012 grams/cm3. Estimate the mass of air inside an average automobile.
2 kg
It would be easier to pull evacuated Magdeburg hemispheres apart if they were
2 km above the ocean surface
A volume of helium gas has a temperature of 10°C. The same gas twice as hot has a temperature of
293°C.
The temperature of melting ice is
32F and 0 C
What is the force of gravity on a 500-N woman standing on Earth's surface?
500 N
A projectile is launched at an angle of 15° above the horizontal and lands downrange. With no air resistance, what other projection angle for the same speed would produce the same downrange distance?
75°
The amount of gravitational force that acts on a space vehicle that orbits Earth is
nearly as much as the vehicle's weight on Earth's surface
At absolute zero, a substance has
no more energy to give up
For the astronauts inside an orbiting space vehicle, there is no force of Earth's gravity acting on them. This statement is
always false.
A swimmer cannot snorkel more than a meter deep because air
at the surface will not freely enter the higher-pressure region in the compressed lungs
The International Space Station orbits at an average 360-km altitude so that it is mainly above Earth's
atmosphere
In the vacuum of outer space, there is no
atmospheric pressure.
If the volume of an object were to double with no change in mass, its density would
be half
A bubble of air released from the bottom of a lake
becomes larger as it rises.
The fastest moving planet in a solar system is
the planet nearest the Sun.
The lowest temperature concievable in nature is
-273°C
A bullet fired horizontally hits the ground in 0.5 s. If it had been fired with twice the velocity it would have hit
0.5 s.
An object is placed exactly halfway between the Earth and the Moon. The object will fall toward the
Earth.
Thermal energy can be measured in
Joules, calories, Calories
The planet Neptune was discovered by perturbations of
Uranus.
If the Sun were twice as massive,
its pull on the Earth would double and Earth's pull on the Sun would double.
) If a room is cold it is due to a
lack of adequate thermal energy.
A lobster crawls onto a bathroom scale submerged on the ocean bottom. Compared to its weight above the surface, its apparent weight under water is
less
A lunar month is about 28 days. If the Moon were closer to Earth than it is now, the lunar month would be
less than 28 days.
Minimal orbit speed about Earth is about 8 km/s. Minimal orbital speed about the Moon would be
less than 8 km/s
According to Newton, the greater the distance between gravitationally interacting objects, the
less the gravitational force between them.
What prevents satellites such as the space shuttle from falling?
nothing, they continually fall around and around Earth
Which is the smallest unit of measurement for temperature?
one Fahrenheit degree
A 1-ton blimp hovers in air. The buoyant force acting on it is
one ton
Heat is thermal energy that flows due to
temperature differences.
Newton discovered
that gravity is universal.
Escape speed for a rocket is less from
the Moon.
The reason a life jacket helps you float is that
the combined density of you and the jacket is less than your density alone
There is a legend of a Dutch boy who bravely held back the Atlantic Ocean by plugging a leak near the top of a dike with his finger until help arrived. Which of the following is most likely?
the force on his finger would have been less than 1 N
The pair of water-filled caissons of the Falkirk Wheel have equal weights when
they carry unequal weights of floating boats. they carry equal-weight floating boats. one carries a heavy floating boat and the other only water.
Suspend a pair of Ping-Pong balls from two strings so there is a small space between them. If you blow air between the balls, they will swing
towards each other
The motion of molecules that most affects temperature is
translational motion
An Earth satellite is simply a projectile freely falling around the Earth.
true
Consider two planets in space that gravitationally attract each other. If the mass of one planet is doubled, and the distance between them doesn't change, then the force between them is
twice as much
When a chocolate bar is cut in half, its density is
unchanged
A change in pressure at any point in a confined fluid at rest is transmitted
undiminished to all points in the fluid.
A fish normally displaces its own
volume and weight of water
A completely submerged object always displaces its own
volume of fluid.
A rising balloon is buoyed up with a force equal to the
weight of air it displaces.
Atmospheric pressure is caused by the
weight of the atmosphere.
Inside a freely falling elevator you would experience no
weight.
Passengers in a high-flying jumbo jet feel their normal weight in flight. Passengers in an orbiting space vehicle do not because passengers are
without support forces.