Physics 211.

Exam 1 Fall 2005

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The exam is worth a total of 118 points, composed of three types of questions.

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1. Alice and Bill are standing at the top of a cliff of height H. Both throw a ball with
initial speed v0. Alice throws her ball straight down and Bill throws his ball straight up.
The speeds of the balls when they hit the ground are vA and vB respectively. Which of
the following is true:



a. vA > vB
b. vA = vB
c. vA < vB




2. A girl is standing on a train that is moving west at 30 mph. She throws a ball
horizontally. A boy on the ground observes the horizontal component of the velocity of
the ball to be 5mph east. What is the horizontal component of the balls velocity with
respect to the girl?

a. 25 mph east
b. 35 mph east
c. 40 mph east


3. Which of the following statements best describes the motion of an object that has a
constant net force acting on it:

a. Its acceleration must be in the same direction as the force.
b. Its velocity must be in the same direction as the force.
c. Its velocity and its acceleration must both be in the same direction as the force.


4. Two blocks of masses m1 = 1kg and m2 = 2kg are connected by a massless spring
with spring constant k = 100 N/m and placed on a frictionless plane inclined at 30. The
larger block is connected to the wall via a weightless rope. What is the tension T in the
rope?

a. 4.9 N
b. 7.6 N
c. 14.7 N
d. 19.6 N
e. 27.4 N




v
0
Bill
Alice
H
v
A

v
B
v
0

m
2

m
1

30
T
k
g
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The next two questions refer to the following situation:

A football is kicked across a level field. The ball spends 3 seconds in the air and lands
60 m from the point where it was kicked. (Ignore air resistance.)




5. What is the speed of the ball at the top of its trajectory?

a. 0 m/s
b. 5 m/s
c. 10 m/s
d. 15 m/s
e. 20 m/s


6. What is the maximum height H reached by the ball.

a. 9 m
b. 10 m
c. 11 m
d. 12 m
e. 13 m





7. A kid ties a rock to the end of a string and spins it in a circular path in the vertical
plane. When the rock is at the bottom of the circle, which of the following is true about
the tension T in the string:

a. T = mg
b. T < mg
c. T > mg




H v
0
v
0x
v
0y
60m
t = 0 t = 3 s
T
g
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8. The moon has mass MM = 7.3 x 1022 kg. It rotates about Earth in a circular orbit of
radius RM = 3.84 x 108 m with period T = 27.3 days. The Earth has mass Me = 6.0 x 1024
kg and radius Re = 6.4x106 m. What is the centripetal acceleration of the moon due to its
motion around Earth?









a. 0.0060 m/s2
b. 0.00033 m/s2
c. 0.31 m/s2
d. 0.000051 m/s2
e. 0.0027 m/s2



The next two questions are about the following situation:

Three identical masses M connected by massless ropes are being pulled to the right with
a 9 N force across a horizontal, frictionless surface. The tension in the center rope is T.

9. If M = 3 kg, what is the tension in the center rope?

a. T = 3.0 N
b. T = 9.0 N
c. T = 6.0 N
d. T = 4.5 N
e. T = 7.0 N


10. If one were to double M for all three masses, and still pull to the right with a 9 N
force, the tension in center string would

a. double
b. triple
c. stay the same

M
M M
T
9 N
R
e

R
M

M
e

M
M

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11. An inclined plane makes an angle u with respect to horizontal. A box sits at rest on
the ramp, held in place only by friction. The magnitude of the frictional force exerted by
the ramp on the box is:

a. mg sin u
b. mg cos u
c. mg








The next two questions refer to the following situation.

A car of mass m= 2000 kg is driving with constant speed v= 40 m/s on a circular track of
radius R = 22 m.




12. What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the car?

a. 1.0g
b. 3.6g
c. 4.4g
d. 5.2g
e. 7.4g



13. At the moment the car is pointing North, a passenger drops a rock out the window of
the car. As viewed from above, what direction will the rock travel?

a. North
b. West
c. Northeast


N
E
R
m
Top view
u
g
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14. A 30 kg block (M1) is placed on a frictionless plane that inclines at a 30o angle with
respect to the surface of Earth. This block is connected to another 20 kg block (M2) via a
weightless rope over a frictionless, ideal pulley. The second block is hanging vertically,
as shown in the figure. What is the tension of the rope?


a. 55.0 N
b. 92.4 N
c. 147.4 N
d. 176.6 N
e. 294.6 N







The next two questions are about the following situation:

Blocks A and B accelerate on a frictionless horizontal surface while being pushed by
your hand. Denote FA,H as the magnitude of the force on block A due to the hand, FA,B
as the magnitude of the force on block A due to block B, and FB,A as the magnitude of
the force on block B due to block A. Block B has 5 times the mass of block A.

15. Which statement correctly relates the magnitudes of FA,B and FB,A ?

a. FB,A = FA,B
b. FB,A > FA,B
c. FB,A < FA,B


16. What statement correctly relates the magnitude of the forces FA,H and FA,B?

a. FA,H = 2.4FA,B
b. FA,H = 1.2FA,B
c. FA,H = 1.5FA,B
d. FA,H = 3.0FA,B
e. FA,H = 4.0FA,B
F
A,H
A

B


M
1

M
2

u = 30
g
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The next two questions are about the following situation:

The two graphs below were obtained in Physics 211 Lab 2. A mass M is suspended
vertically from the end of a spring. The other end of the spring is connected to a force
probe which is rigidly connected to a support. A motion detector below the mass records
the displacement of the mass. Assume that the force probe and motion detector read zero
when the mass is hanging statically on the end of the spring.

When the mass is allowed to oscillate over the motion detector, the following graphs are
obtained.


17. What is the force constant k of the spring?

a. k = 10 N/m
b. k = 20 N/m
c. k = 25 N/m
d. k = 35 N/m
e. k = 50 N/m



18. Keeping the mass the same and doubling the peak displacement, the peak force
would

a. double
b. stay the same
c. not enough information
-2
-1
0
1
2
F
o
r
c
e

(
N
)
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Time (seconds)
-4
0
4
D
i
s
p
l
a
c
e
m
e
n
t

(
c
m
)
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Time (seconds)
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19. A truck of mass M = 1200 kg is moving up a hill with a constant acceleration a. A
block of mass m = 3.3 kg is held in place by static friction, with coefficient of friction
with
respect to the horizontal. What is the maximum acceleration the truck can have before
the block will slip?


a. 0.4 m/s2
b. 2.0 m/s2
c. 4.4 m/s2
d. 1.4 m/s2
e. 5.3 m/s2






The next two questions refer to the following situation:

A student can swim with a speed
V
in still water. She swims across a river of width W
and back. The river has a current of speed U, as shown in the figure. She swims in a
path so that she travels directly from one side of the river to the other, such that her
displacement is perpendicular to the shoreline. The path the student takes in the water is
shown in the figure.





20. How long does it take the swimmer to get across the river and back?

a.
2 2
2 / W V U

b.
( )
2 2
2 / WV V U

c.
2
tan
W U
V V
(
(


d. 2W/V
e.
( )
2
2
4W U V +



21. If she didnt mind ending up downstream a bit the swimmer could get to the opposite
bank and back in a shorter time than if she takes the path described above.

W
water
swimmers
path
m
o = 22
a

M
g
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a. True
b. False
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The next two questions refer to the following situation.

A rabbit runs across a parking lot on which a set of coordinate axis has been drawn. The
coordinates of the rabbits position as a function of time t are given by:

2
0.3 7.2 28 x t t = + +
and
2
0.22 9.1 30, y t t = +

with t in seconds and x and y in meters.

22. At t = 15 s, what is the velocity of the rabbit?

a.

0.6 0.4 i j +

b.

0.2 1.6 i j +

c.

1.8 2.5 i j


23. The rabbit is moving with constant acceleration.

a. True
b. False

The next two questions refer to the following situation.

A block of mass m1 (labeled by U) is placed on top of a larger block of mass m2 (labeled
by L). A man is trying to pull the blocks to the right via a spring (labeled by S) attached
to the large block, but the blocks do not move.








24. The friction force between the large block and the ground is FL,G. What is the
magnitude of the friction force between the large and small block?

a. 0
b. FL,G m1/m2
c. FL,G m1/(m1+m2)

25. Which one of the following pairs of forces is not an action-reaction pair in the
figure?

a. the weight of mass m1 and the normal force of mass m2 pushing on mass m1.
b. the spring pulling to the right on m2 and m2 pulling to the left on the spring.
c. the weight of mass m2 and the gravitational force on the earth from mass m2.
L
F
S

U
S
m
1

m
2

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The next three questions refer to the following situation.

A box of mass m = 2 kg is being pulled by a horizontal string across the top of a second
box having a mass of M = 5 kg. The kinetic coefficient of friction between the upper box
The upper box has a constant velocity, and the lower box starts out at rest and accelerates
to the left.




26. Which of the following statements best describes the total force acting on the upper
box (mass m):

a. The total force on the upper box points to the left.
b. The total force on the upper box points to the right.
c. The total force on the upper box is zero.


27. Which of the following is the free body diagram for the lower box (mass M):
(a) (b) (c)








28. What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the lower box (mass M)?

a. 0.78 m/s2
b. 0.85 m/s2
c. 0.93 m/s2
d. 1.14 m/s2
e. 9.81 m/s2


T
m=2kg


T
M=5kg

No friction
=0.2
N
Mg
mg
N
Mg
T mg
N
Mg
mg
Mg
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Formula Sheet

Position: r
Velocity: v = dr/dt
Acceleration: a = dv/dt = d2r/dt2

Constant acceleration:
v = v0 + at
r = r0 + v0t +
1
2
at2
v2 = v02 + 2a(x-x0)

g = 9.81 m/s2 = 32.2 ft/s2

GN = 6.672 x 1011 N m2/kg2.

1 mile = 1.609 km





Fnet = ma
FA,B = -FB,A

F = mg (gravity near earths surface)

N 1 2
12
2
G m m
F =
R
-


F = - kAx

F s


Quadratic formula:
If
2
0 ax bx c + + =
then
2
4
2
b b ac
x
a

=





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