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001 (part 1 of 2) 10.0 points
A ball is dropped from the top of a tall building of height h = 50 m .
About how long does it take for the ball to
hit the ground? (Neglect air resistance.)
3. less than 9.8 m/s2 .

4. 9.8 m/s2
004 10.0 points
A stone is thrown straight upward and at the
top of its trajectory its velocity is momentarily zero.
1. 3.1 s
2. 5.2 s
3. 1 s
4. 2.4 s
5. 10 s
If the ball has lost half the magnitude of its
impact momentum immediately after it recoils, to what height does the ball reach after
its rst rebound?
1. h
h
3
h
3.
2
2.
4. 0
5.
h
4
003 10.0 points

If you drop an object, it will accelerate downward at a rate of g = 9.8 m/s2 .
If you throw it downward instead, its acceleration (in the absence of air resistance) will
be
1. greater than 9.8 m/s2 .
2. Unable to determine.
What is its acceleration at this point?

1. 9.8 m/s2 down
2. 9.8 m/s2 up
3. Zero
4. Unable to determine
005 10.0 points
A car travels in a straight line for 5 h at a
constant speed of 80 km/h.
What is its acceleration?
Answer in units of m/s2
006 10.0 points
The acceleration due to gravity on planet X is
one fth that on the surface of the earth.
If it takes 3.2 s for an object to fall a certain
distance from rest on earth, how long would
it take to fall the same distance on planet X?
Answer in units of s
007 10.0 points
A basketball player achieves a hang time of
0.875 s in dunking the ball.
What vertical height will he attain? The
acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .
Answer in units of m
What is its average speed during the fall?

008 10.0 points
An object is released from rest on a planet
that has no atmosphere. The object falls
freely for 3 m in the rst second.
What is the magnitude of the acceleration
due to gravity on the planet?
1.
2gh
2.
gh
3.
1
2
1. 12.0 m/s2
4. 0
2. 1.5 m/s2
gh
5. 2
3. 6.0 m/s2
6.
4. 10.0 m/s2
2
5. 3.0 m/s
009 10.0 points

A ball is dropped from rest at point O . It
passes a window with height 3.8 m in time
interval tAB = 0.02 s.
O
A
y
1
gh
2
011 10.0 points

A ball is thrown upward. After reaching a
maximum height, it continues falling back toward Earth. On it way down, the ball is
caught at the same height at which it was
thrown upward.
hA
y
hB
v0
3.8 m
t
x
Identify the correct pair of equations, which

enable us to solve for speed vB . Assume down
is the positive y direction. Use g = 9.8 m/s2 .
v = v is the speed of the ball.
1. vB vA = g tAB , vA + vB =
gh
tAB
h
2. vA vB = g tAB , vA + vB =
tAB
h
vA + vB
=
3. vB vA = g tAB ,
2
tAB
vA + vB
h
4. vA vB = g tAB ,
=
2
tAB
010 10.0 points

A ball is released from rest and falls a distance
h under the inuence of gravity.
O tB
tA
Neglecting air resistance, what is its speed
when caught?
1. More than its initial speed
2. Not enough information is given.
3. Less than its initial speed
4. The same as its initial speed
Consider the position of a ball thrown down
with an initial speed of 18 m/s.
5. First greater than 9.8 m/s2 , then less
y
2.8 s
t
18 m/s
6. Equal to 9.8 m/s2

015 10.0 points
An object is thrown upward from the origin
along the positive y direction and caught.
Which graph correctly describes the y coordinate of the vertical motion while the object
is in the air?
h
What will be its position after 2.8 s? Let
the initial position be 0. The acceleration of
gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .
Consider the position of a ball thrown up
with an initial speed of 18 m/s.
y
y
1.
y
2.
t
y
h
t
3.
18 m/s
t
2.8 s
What will be its position after 2.8 s?
014 10.0 points
Consider the motion of a bullet red straight
down from the top of a high cli. Consider
only the motion after the bullet has left the
barrel of the gun and before it hits the ground.
Ignore air resistance.
What is the magnitude of the acceleration
of the bullet during this motion?
y
5.
t
6. None of these graphs are correct.
1. Equal to 0
2. Less than 9.8 m/s2
3. More than 9.8 m/s2
4. First less than 9.8 m/s2 , then greater
4.
y
7.

y
8.
t
y
9.
t
016 10.0 points
If you drop a rock from a height of 24 m , it accelerates at g and strikes the ground 2.21313 s
later.
If you drop the same rock from half that
height, what will be its acceleration? The
1. About half
2. More
4. The same
5. 0
A golf ball is released from rest from the top
of a very tall building. Choose a coordinate
system whose origin is at the starting point
of the ball, and whose y axis points vertically
upward.
Neglecting air resistance, calculate the velocity of the ball after 3.43 s. The acceleration
of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .
Answer in units of m/s
What is the position of the ball after 3.43 s?
Neglect air resistance.
An object is dropped from rest.

What is its instantaneous speed when it has
been in motion for 7 s? The acceleration of
020 10.0 points
A ball is held at rest a distance D above the
ground and dropped. At the instant that
the ball is dropped, another ball is thrown
straight upward from ground level at speed v0 .
The balls move straight toward one another.
At what height above the ground do they
collide?
gD
2
2 v0
gD
2. D 1 2
v0
2gD
3. D 1 2
v0
D
4.
3
D
5.
2
v2
6. D 0
g
gD
7. D 1 + 2
v0
2
v
8. D + 0
g
1. D 1
9. Zero, meaning ground level.

021 10.0 points
If you drop an object, it will accelerate downward at a rate of 9.8 m/s2 .
If you throw it downward instead, its acceleration (in the absence of air resistance) will
be
2. 9.8 m/s2 .
3. greater than 9.8 m/s2 .
019
10.0 points

4. less than 9.8 m/s2 .
A window washer drops a brush from a scaffold on a tall oce building.
What is the speed of the falling brush after
2.79 s? (Neglect drag forces.) The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .
027 10.0 points

A bullet is dropped into a river from a very
high bridge. At the same time, a second bullet
is red from a gun, straight down toward the
water.
Neglecting air resistance, the acceleration
just before striking the water

How far has it fallen in that time?
2. is greater for the dropped bullet.
024 10.0 points

An object is in free fall. At one instant, it is
traveling at 42 m/s.
Exactly 4.1 s later, what is its speed? The
4. depends on how high they started.
025 10.0 points

Two objects, one having twice the mass of
the other, are released at rest from the same
height in a vacuum. At the end of their fall,
their velocities are equal because
1. N one of these
2. the acceleration of the larger object is
three times greater than that of the small
object.
3. the force of gravity is the same for both
objects.
4. anything falling in vacuum has constant
velocity.
5. both objects have the same acceleration.
026 10.0 points
A wrench falls out of the gondola of a balloon
that is 770 m above the ocean.
Assuming negligible air resistance, what
was the wrenchs speed as it hit the water?
The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 .
3. is greater for the red bullet.
5. is the same for each bullet.

028 10.0 points
A freely falling body has a constant acceleration of 9.8 m/s2 .
This means that
1. the speed of the body increases by 9.8
m/s during each second.
2. the body falls 9.8 m during the rst second
only.
3. the acceleration of the body increases by
9.8 m/s2 during each second.
4. the body falls 9.8 m during each second.
5. the acceleration of the body decreases by
9.8 m/s2 during each second.
029 10.0 points
In each second of fall, the distance a freely
falling object will attain is
1. about 10 m.
2. about 5 m.
3. increasing.
4. the same, but not 5 m nor 10 m.
030 10.0 points
The acceleration due to gravity on the moon
is about one-sixth its value on earth.
If a baseball reaches a height of 49 m when
thrown upward by someone on the earth,
what height would it reach when thrown in
the same way on the surface of the moon?
031 10.0 points
A heavy object and a light object are dropped
at the same time from rest in a vacuum.
The heavier object reaches the ground
2. at the same time as the lighter object.
3. sooner than the lighter object.

A owerpot falls from a window sill 38.5 m
above the sidewalk.
What is the velocity of the owerpot when
it strikes the ground? The acceleration of
How much time does a passerby on the sidewalk below have to move out of the way before
the owerpot hits the ground?
Stephanie serves a volleyball from a height of
0.84 m and gives it an initial velocity of +8.4
m/s straight up.
How high will the volleyball go? The acceleration of gravity is 9.81 m/s2 .
4. later than the lighter object.

A robot probe drops a camera o the rim of
a 351 m high cli on Mars, where the free-fall
acceleration is 3.7 m/s2 .
Find the velocity with which it hits the
ground.
Find the time required for the camera to reach
the ground.
A tennis ball is thrown vertically upward with
an initial velocity of +7.6 m/s.
What will the balls velocity be when it
returns to its starting point? The acceleration
of gravity is 9.81 m/s2 .
How long will the ball take to reach its starting
point?

How long will it take the ball to reach its
maximum height?
040
10.0 points
An object was suspended in a xed place

(y = 0) and then allowed to drop in a free fall.
Taking up as the positive vertical direction,
which of the following graphs correctly represents its vertical motion as displacement vs
time?
y
t
1.
y
2.

y
t
3.
5. continually change by varying amounts

depending on its speed.
042
y
t
4.
10.0 points
An object is thrown vertically upward.

Disregarding air resistance, which graph
represents the velocity v of the object as a
function of time t?
y
t
5.
v
t
1.
y
t
6.
v
y
t
7.
8.
2.
3.
y
t
9.
10.
4.
y
t
041 10.0 points

An object falls with constant acceleration.
Its velocity must

At t = 0 a ball is thrown upward from the
ground at point O. Two seconds later the ball
hits the ground.
1. continually change by the same amount

each second.
2. None of these
hmax
3. be constant also.
4. continually decrease.
v0

What is the maximum height of the ball?
Take the acceleration due to gravity to be 10
m/s2 .
1. h = 40 m
2. h = 10 m
ity of the ball as it passes the point A on its

way up, where OA is one third the maximum
height?
1. vA =
2. vA =
3. h = 5 m
3. vA =
4. h = 20 m
1
v0
5
1
v0
2
1
v0
6
4. vA =
1
v0
3
6. h = 8 m
5. vA =
2
v0
3
7. h = 35 m
6. vA =
5. h = 25 m
8. h = 12 m
9. h = 16 m
2
v0
3
1
7. vA = v0
3
1
8. vA = v0
2
10. h = 30 m
9. vA =
What is the initial velocity of the ball?
1. v0 = 30 m/s
2. v0 = 20 m/s
3. v0 = 8 m/s
4. v0 = 5 m/s
5. v0 = 16 m/s
6. v0 = 10 m/s
7. v0 = 25 m/s
8. v0 = 35 m/s
9. v0 = 40 m/s
10. v0 = 12 m/s
For an initial velocity of v0 , what is the veloc-
10. vA =
1
v0
5
1
v0
4
046 10.0 points

Assume a freely falling object were somehow
equipped with an odometer to measure the
distance it travels.
The distance it travels each second would
be
1. greater than the second before.
2. Not enough information to determine
3. constant.
4. less than the second before.
047 10.0 points
Assume a freely falling object on a planet
similar to Earth (where g = 9.8 m/s2 ) were
somehow equipped with a speedometer.
Its speed reading would increase each second by
1. about 5 m/s.
6. More than 9.8 m/s2 .
2. about 15 m/s.
3. an amount dependent on its initial
speed.
4. about 20 m/s.
5. about 10 m/s.
048 10.0 points
Suppose I throw a ball straight up in the air
with initial velocity v0 .

What conclusion can be reached about the
speed of the bullet?
1. Not enough information to answer.
2. First faster than its initial speed, then
slower.
3. Equal to zero.
4. Equal to its initial speed.
5. First slower than its initial speed, then
faster.
6. Always faster than its initial speed.
7. Always slower than its initial speed.
8. Equal to 9.8 m/s.
At the balls highest point, which is true?

1. a = 0, v = 0
2. a = 0, v = 0
3. a = 0, v = 0
4. a = 0, v = 0
A bullet is red straight down from the top of
a high cli.
What is the acceleration of the bullet?
1. Equal to 9.8 m/s2 .
2. Not enough information to answer.
3. First faster than 9.8 m/s2 , then slower.
4. Less than 9.8 m/s2 .
5. First slower than 9.8 m/s2 , then faster.
9. Equal to 9.8 m/s2 .

The tallest volcano in the solar system is the
18 km tall Martian volcano, Olympus Mons.
An astronaut drops a ball o the rim of the
crater and that the free fall acceleration of the
ball remains constant throughout the balls
18 km fall at a value of 4.4 m/s2 . (We assume
that the crater is as deep as the volcano is tall,
which is not usually the case in nature.)
Find the time for the ball to reach the crater
oor.
Find the magnitude of the velocity with which
the ball hits the crater oor.
053 10.0 points
A ball is thrown upward.
v0
7.1 m
What is its initial vertical speed? The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 and maximum
height is 7.1 m ,. Neglect air resistance.
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3. less than 9.8 m/s2 .

003 10.0 points

What is its acceleration at this point?

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What is its average speed during the fall?

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Identify the correct pair of equations, which

010 10.0 points

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5. First greater than 9.8 m/s2 , then less

6. Equal to 9.8 m/s2

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An object is dropped from rest.

9. Zero, meaning ground level.

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2. is greater for the dropped bullet.

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4. depends on how high they started.

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3. is greater for the red bullet.

5. is the same for each bullet.

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4. later than the lighter object.

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An object was suspended in a xed place

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5. continually change by varying amounts

An object is thrown vertically upward.

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043 (part 1 of 3) 10.0 points

1. continually change by the same amount

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ity of the ball as it passes the point A on its

046 10.0 points

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050 (part 2 of 2) 10.0 points

At the balls highest point, which is true?

9. Equal to 9.8 m/s2 .

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