CONFIDENTIAL AS/OCT 2010/PHY081

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FINAL EXAMINATION

COURSE PHYSICS
COURSE CODE PHY081
EXAMINATION OCTOBER 2010
TIME 3 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

1. This question paper consists of two (2) parts : PART A (10 Questions)
PART B (6 Questions)

2. Answer ALL questions from PART A and any four (4) questions from PART B in the
Answer Booklet. Start each answer on a new page.

3. Do not bring any material into the examination room unless permission is given by the
invigilator.

4. Please check to make sure that this examination pack consists of:

i) the Question Paper

ii) an Answer Booklet - provided by the Faculty

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO

This examination paper consists of 10 printed pages
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PART A

(TAKE g = 10 m s2)

QUESTION 1

a) Convert 1500 kg m"3 to g cm"3

(1 mark)

b) A sheet of paper is 0.30 m long, 18.0 cm wide and 0.15 mm thick. What is the volume of
the sheet of paper in m3?

(3 marks)

QUESTION 2

a) What is the difference between scalar quantity and vector quantity?

(1 mark)
b) A car with initial velocity of 18 m s"1 moves along a straight line with a constant
acceleration and travels a distance of 0.5 km in 15 seconds. Determine the acceleration
of the car.
(3 marks)

QUESTION 3

a) State the Newton's Second Law.

(1 mark)

b) A horizontal force of 33 N acts on a body of mass 3.2 kg. Find the acceleration of the
body if no other force acts on it.
(3 marks)

QUESTION 4

a) State the Principle of Conservation of Linear Momentum.

(2 marks)

b) What should the velocity of a van of mass 3000 kg is driven so that its momentum is
equal to the momentum of a car of mass 1200 kg moving at 55 km h"1?
(2 marks)

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QUESTION 5

a) State the Principle of Conservation of Energy.

(1 mark)

b) A boy needs 156 Joule of work to raise 1.45 kg flag up a flagpole. How tall is the
flagpole?
(3 marks)

QUESTION 6

Find the volume of a balloon filled with Helium which can lift a load of 178 kg including the
weight of the empty balloon.
Given: pair = 1.29 kg m"3, pHe = 0.179 kg m"3
(4 marks)

QUESTION 7

6000 J of energy is needed to increase the temperature of 0.5 kg metal by 4 °C. How much
energy is needed to increase the temperature of 15 kg of the same metal by 10 °C?

(4 marks)

QUESTION 8

Figure 1 shows the displacement versus distance graph for water wave.
Displacement (cm)

Distance (m)

Figure 1

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i) What is the amplitude of the wave?

(1 mark)

ii) What is the wavelength of the wave?

(1 mark)

iii) What is the velocity of the wave if t = 6s?

(2 marks)

QUESTION 9

a) What is a critical angle?

(1 mark)

b) The index of refraction of a glass and the speed of light in a vacuum are 1.52 and 3.0 x
108 m s"1 respectively. Calculate the speed of light in the glass.
(3 marks)

QUESTION 10

a) Figure 2 shows a rod magnet inserted into a solenoid. When the magnet is pulled away,
the current flow is shown as follows.

Figure 2

i) What is the pole of X?

(1 mark)

ii) Name the rule used to determine the pole X.

(1 mark)

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b) Figure 3 shows a conductor PQ (which is part of a circuit) carrying current I, placed in a

magnetic field B. Indicate the direction of the force F on the conductor if the B field is into
the page. Name the rule that you use to indicate this direction.
(2 marks)

x x x
Figure 3

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PARTB

QUESTION 1

a) A car accelerates from 10 m s"1 to a velocity of 20 m s"1 in 4 s. Later it moves with a

constant velocity for 10 s and stops after 5 s.

i) Sketch a velocity - time graph for the whole journey.

(4 marks)

ii) Calculate the acceleration for each case during the whole journey.
(3 marks)

iii) Find the total distance travelled.

(3 marks)

b) Figure 4 shows a trolley of mass 2 kg is being pulled on a rough horizontal table by a

force of 2.0 N that makes this trolley moves at a constant velocity.

2.0 N
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ffr

Figure 4

i) What is the frictional force between the trolley and the table?
(2 marks)

ii) The force, F is then increased to 3.2 N. What is the acceleration of the
trolley?
(3 marks)

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QUESTION 2

a) Give two (2) differences between elastic and inelastic collision.

(2 marks)

b) A bullet of mass 10 g is fired into a block of wood, mass 390 g which is lying on a
smooth surface. The wood and the bullet then move together at a velocity of 10 m s"1.

i) What was the velocity of the bullet before the collision?

(3 marks)

ii) What is the total kinetic energy before and after the collision?
(4 marks)

c) An object 25 cm in front of a lens has its real image formed 20 cm at the back of the
lens

i) Is the lens convex or concave? State the reason for your answer
(2 marks)

ii) Calculate the focal length and the magnification of this lens.

(4 marks)

QUESTION 3

a) Define

i) Zero error
(1 mark)
ii) Basic quantity
(1 mark)

iii) Derived quantity

(1 mark)

b) A marble with a mass of 20 g was released from a height of 20 m and bounced back
to a height of 13 m after hitting the floor. Calculate the loss of potential energy in this
system.
(3 marks)

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c) A ball of 4 kg mass is rolling horizontally with a speed of 2.0 m s'1. Calculate:

i) the work done on the ball in order to change its speed to 6.0 m s"1.
(3 marks)

ii) the constant force that would do this work in a distance of 8.0 m.
(3 marks)

iii) the power expended in order to change the speed in a time of 3.0 s.
(3 marks)

QUESTION 4

a) State Pascal's principle.

(1 mark)

b) A hydraulic jack has a small cylinder that has a cross sectional area of 100 cm2 and a
big cylinder with cross sectional area of 2000 cm2. If an 80 N force is exerted on the
small cylinder, how much force is gained by the big cylinder?
(4 marks)

c) Figure 6 shows a cubical copper block of density 8920 kg m"3. The length of each
edge is 1.50 cm. The cubical copper block is attached to a string and then totally
immersed in oil of density 820 kg m"3.

i) What is the buoyant force experienced by the block?

(5 marks)

ii) What is the tension in the string?

(5 marks)

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Figure 6

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QUESTION 5

a) An electric heater supplies 2.5 kW of power in the form of heat to a tank of water at
15 °C.
i) How long will it take to boil the 20 kg of water in the tank? (Assume no heat
losses to surrounding)
(4 marks)

ii) Find the total heat released when the water become a steam at 128 °C.
(4 marks)

b) What is the mass of steam that must be injected into a calorimeter initially containing
300 g of ice cube and 500 g of water at 0°C if the final temperature is to be 70°C?
Ignore the heat capacity of the calorimeter.
(7 marks)
Given:
Specific heat capacity of water = 4200 J kg"1 °C"1
Specific latent heat of vaporization of water = 2.26 x 106 J kg"1
Specific latent heat of fusion of water = 3.36 x 105 J kg"1

QUESTION 6

a) Define potential difference and give its SI unit.

(2 marks)

b) Three (3) resistors are connected as in Figure 7 below. Given Ri = 2 Q, R2 = 12 Q,

R3 = 6 Q and V = 12 V. Assume there is no internal resistance.

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Ri
R2 R3

Figure 7
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i) Calculate the total resistance of the circuit.
(3 marks)

ii) Calculate the total current from the power supply.

(2 marks)

iii) Calculate the potential difference across R^ and R2 resistors.

(4 marks)

iv) Calculate the value of current across R2 and R3.

(4 marks)

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