Practice Exam Covering Newtons Laws (Chapter 5 & 6 in Serway)

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) The figure shows an acceleration-versus-force graph for three objects pulled by rubber bands. The mass of object 2 is 36 kg. What are the masses of objects 1 and 3? 1)

A) 14 kg and 90 kg

B) 14 kg and 72 kg

C) 90 kg and 18 kg

D) 72 kg and 18 kg 2)

2) The figure shows an acceleration-versus-force graph for a 125 g object. What should be the value of the first tick-mark on the vertical scale?

A) 0.00400

B) 4

C) 8

D) 0.00800 3)

3) The figure shows two forces acting on an object. They have magnitudes F1 = 6.3 N and F2 = 2.1 N. What third force will cause the object to be in equilibrium?

A) 6.6 N at 108 counterclockwise from F1 C) 4.2 N at 162 counterclockwise from F1

B) 6.6 N at 162 counterclockwise from F1 D) 4.2 N at 108 counterclockwise from F1

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Solve the problem. (Use g = 9.8 m/s2 .) 4) If I weigh 702 N on Earth and 5320 N on the surface of a nearby planet, what is the acceleration due to gravity on that planet? A) 64.6 m/s 2 B) 54.2 m/s 2 C) 85.4 m/s 2 D) 74.3 m/s 2

4)

5) A 80 N force is needed to slide a 50.0 kg box across a flat surface at a constant velocity. What is the coefficient of kinetic friction between the box and the floor? A) 0.15 B) 0.13 C) 0.16 D) 0.18 6) A 6.0 kg box slides down an inclined plane that makes an angle of 39 with the horizontal. If the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.19, at what rate does the box accelerate down the slope? A) 5.5 m/s2 B) 5.2 m/s2 C) 6.2 m/s2 D) 4.7 m/s2 7) Two boxes are sitting side by side on a frictionless surface. The box on the left has a mass of 11 kg, and the box on the right has a mass of 17 kg. If a 29 N force pushes on the 11 kg box from the left, what is the force exerted on the 17 kg box by the 11 kg box? A) 22 N B) 18 N C) 11 N D) 14 N 8) Engineers are designing a curved section of a highway. If the radius of curvature of the curve is 194 m, at what angle should the curve be banked so that a car traveling at 29.0 m/s will stay on the road without the aid of frictional forces? A) 26.1 B) 16.7 C) 21.0 D) 23.9 9) The figure shows two packages that start sliding down a 20 ramp from rest a distance d = 6.6 m along the ramp from the bottom. Package A has a mass of 5.0 kg and a coefficient of friction 0.20. Package B has a mass of 10 kg and a coefficient of friction 0.15. How long does it take package A to reach the bottom?

5)

6)

7)

8)

9)

A) 2.7 s

B) 3.5 s

C) 3.2 s

D) 3.0 s

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10) The figure shows two 1.0 kg blocks connected by a rope. A second rope hangs beneath the lower block. Both ropes have a mass of 250 g. The entire assembly is accelerated upward at 2.3 m/s2 by
force F . What is the tension at the top end of rope 1?

10)

A) 3.5 N

B) 2.9 N

C) 15 N

D) 18 N 11)

11) The figure shows two 1.0 kg blocks connected by a rope. A second rope hangs beneath the lower block. Both ropes have a mass of 250 g. The entire assembly is accelerated upward at 5.5 m/s2 by
force F . What is the tension at the bottom end of rope 1?

A) 6.9 N

B) 19 N

C) 38 N

D) 23 N 12)

12) The figure shows a 100 kg block being released from rest from a height of 1.0 m. It then takes 0.90 s to reach the floor. What is the mass of the block on the left?

A) 48 kg

B) 60 kg

C) 54 kg

D) 42 kg

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13) A wooden block A of mass 4.0 kg slides on a frictionless table when pulled via a massless string and pulley array by a hanging box B of mass 5.0 kg, as shown in the figure. What is the acceleration of block A as it slides on the frictionless table? Hint: think carefully about the acceleration constraint. Compare this problem with problem 5.28 in serway. Note that in this problem the accelaration of B is twice that of A, while in problem 5.28 the accelaration of m2 equals half that of m1, why?????

13)

A) 3.1 m/s2

B) 2.7 m/s2

C) 4.1 m/s2

D) 3.5 m/s2 14)

14) A piano mover raises a 100 kg piano at a constant rate using a frictionless pulley system, as shown below. With roughly what force is the mover pulling down on the rope?

A) B) C) D) E) 15)

2000 N 250 N 1000 N 500 N Depends on the velocity! 15)

A)

B)

C)

D)

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16) A rope pulls on the lower block in the figure with a tension force of 20 N. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the lower block and the surface is 0.16. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the lower block and the upper block is also 0.16. What is the acceleration of the 2.0 kg block?

16)

A) 7.6 m/s2

B) 9.2 m/s2

C) 8.4 m/s2

D) 6.9 m/s2 17)

17) The figure shows a block of mass m resting on a 20 slope. The block has coefficients of friction s = 0.55 and k = 0.45 with the surface. It is connected via a massless string over a massless,

frictionless pulley to a hanging block of mass 2.0 kg. What is the minimum mass m that will stick and not slip?

A) 3.9 kg

B) 1.4 kg

C) 2.3 kg

D) 3.8 kg 18)

18) Consider the following figure. Assume the strings and pulleys have negligible masses and the coefficient of kinetic friction between the 2.0 kg block and the table is 0.25. What is the acceleration of the 2.0 kg block?

A) 1.7 m/s2

B) 4.0 m/s2

C) 3.2 m/s2

D) 2.5 m/s2 19)

19) A 23 kg mass is connected to a nail on a frictionless table by a (massless) string of length 1.3 m. If the tension in the string is 51 N while the mass moves in a uniform circle on the table, how long does it take for the mass to make one complete revolution? A) 4.5 s B) 4.8 s C) 5.2 s D) 3.8 s

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20) The figure (not to scale) shows a 3.0 kg ball tied to the end of a 50 cm long string being swung in a circle in a vertical plane at constant speed. The center of the circle is h = 190 cm above the floor. The ball is swung at the minimum speed necessary to make it over the top without the string going slack. If the string is released at the instant the ball is at the top of the loop, how far to the right of the center of the circle does the ball hit the ground?

20)

A) 150 cm

B) 0.0 cm

C) 120 cm

D) 140 cm 21)

21) The figure shows two wires tied to a 3.3 kg sphere which revolves in a horizontal circle at constant speed. At this particular speed the tension is the same in both wires. What is the tension?

A) 44 N

B) 32 N

C) 22 N

D) 24 N

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22) The figure shows two wires that are tied to a 710 g mass which revolves in a horizontal circle at a constant speed of 7.5 m/s. What is the tension in the upper wire?

22)

A) 41 N

B) 20 N

C) 34 N

D) 27 N 23)

23) In an amusement park ride passengers stand inside an 8 m radius cylinder. Initially the cylinder rotates with its axis oriented along the vertical. After the cylinder has acquired sufficient speed, it tilts into a vertical plane, that is, the axis tilts into the horizontal, as shown in the figure. Suppose that, once the axis has tilted into the horizontal, the ring rotates once every 4.5 s. If a rider's mass is 70 kg, with how much force does the ring push on her at the top of the ride?

A) 1800 N

B) 1100 N

C) 410 N

D) 690 N

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Figure 5.1

24) A system of blocks and a frictionless pulley is shown in Fig. 5.1. Block A has a mass of 5.0 kg and is on a rough surface ( = 0.40). Block C has a mass of 4.0 kg. An external force P = 25.0 N, applied vertically to block A, maintains the system in static equilibrium as shown in Fig. 5.1. The mass of block B is closest to: A) 3.1 kg B) 2.8 kg C) 2.3 kg D) 2.6 kg E) 2.1 kg
Figure 5.5

24)

A system comprising blocks, a light frictionless pulley, a frictionless incline, and connecting ropes is shown. The 9-kg block accelerates downward when the system is released from rest.

25) In Fig. 5.5, the acceleration of the system is closest to: A) 1.9 m/s2 B) 2.1 m/s2 C) 1.7 m/s2

D) 1.5 m/s2

E) 2.3 m/s2

25)

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Figure 5.7

A system comprising blocks, a light frictionless pulley, and connecting ropes is shown. The 9-kg block is on a smooth horizontal table ( = 0). The surfaces of the 12-kg block are rough, with = 0.30.

26) In Fig. 5.7, the mass M is set so that it descends at constant velocity when released. The mass M is closest to: A) 3.6 kg B) 3.3 kg C) 3.0 kg D) 2.4 kg E) 2.7 kg

26)

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