Practice Test 2

5) A crane lifts a 425 kg steel beam vertically a distance of 117 m. How much work does the
crane do on the beam if the beam accelerates upward at 1.8 m/s2? Neglect frictional forces.
A) 5.8 105 J
B) 3.4 105 J
C) 4.0 105 J
D) 4.9 105 J
11) A brick is resting on a rough incline as shown in the figure. The friction force acting on the
brick, along the incline, is

A) zero.
B) equal to the weight of the brick.
C) greater than the weight of the brick.
D) less than the weight of the brick.
9) Three objects are connected by massless wires over a massless frictionless pulley as shown in
the figure. The tension in the wire connecting the 10.0-kg and 15.0-kg objects is measured to be
133 N. What is the mass M?

A) 8.33 kg
B) 33.9 kg
C) 35.0 kg
D) 52.8 kg
E) 95.0 kg

19) At any angular speed, a certain uniform solid sphere of diameter D has half as much
rotational kinetic energy as a certain uniform thin-walled hollow sphere of the same diameter
when both are spinning about an axis through their centers. If the mass of the solid sphere is M,
the mass of the hollow sphere is
A) 3/5 M.
B) 5/3 M.
C) 5/6 M.
D) 6/5 M.
E) 2 M.
3) A 3.00-kg ball swings rapidly in a complete vertical circle of radius 2.00 m by a light string
that is fixed at one end. The ball moves so fast that the string is always taut and perpendicular to
the velocity of the ball. As the ball swings from its lowest point to its highest point
A) the work done on it by gravity and the work done on it by the tension in the string are both
equal to -118 J.
B) the work done on it by gravity is -118 J and the work done on it by the tension in the string is
+118 J.
C) the work done on it by gravity is +118 J and the work done on it by the tension in the string is
-118 J.
D) the work done on it by gravity is -118 J and the work done on it by the tension in the string is
zero.
E) the work done on it by gravity and the work done on it by the tension in the string are both
equal to zero.
4) Consider a plot of the displacement (x) as a function of the applied force (F) for an ideal
elastic spring. The slope of the curve would be
A) the spring constant.
B) the reciprocal of the spring constant.
C) the acceleration due to gravity.
D) the reciprocal of the acceleration of gravity.
E) the mass of the object attached to the spring.
2) A horizontal disk rotates about a vertical axis through its center. Point P is midway between
the center and the rim of the disk, and point Q is on the rim. If the disk turns with constant
angular velocity, which of the following statements about it are true? (There may be more than
one correct choice.)
A) P and Q have the same linear acceleration.
B) Q is moving twice as fast as P.
C) The linear velocity of Q is twice as great as the linear velocity of P.
D) The linear acceleration of P is twice as great as the linear acceleration of Q.
E) The angular velocity of Q is twice as great as the angular velocity of P.

41) A car needs to generate 75.0 hp in order to maintain a constant velocity of 27.3 m/s on a flat
road. What is the magnitude of the total resistive force acting on the car (due to friction, air
resistance, etc.)? (1 hp = 746 W)
A) 2.05 103 N
B) 2.75 N
C) 1.03 103 N
D) 2.87 103 N
14) A potential energy function for system 1 is given by U1(x) = Cx2 + Bx3. The potential
energy function for system 2 is given by U2(x) = A + Cx2 + Bx3, where A is a positive quantity.
How does the force on system 1 relate to the force on system 2 at a given position?
A) The force on the two systems will be in opposite directions.
B) The force is identical on the two systems.
C) The force on the second system will be with less than the force on the first system.
D) There is no relationship between the forces on the two systems.
E) The force on the second system will be with greater than the force on the first system.
10) An 8.0-m massless rod is loosely pinned to a frictionless pivot at 0, as shown in the figure. A
very small 4.0-kg ball is attached to the other end of the rod. The ball is held at A, where the rod
makes a 30 angle above the horizontal, and is released. The ball-rod assembly then swings
freely with negligible friction in a vertical circle between A and B. The tension in the rod when
the ball passes through the lowest point at D is closest to

A) 160 N.
B) 200 N.
C) 120 N.
D) 80 N.
E) 40 N.

6) A box of mass m is pressed against (but is not attached to) an ideal spring of force constant k
and negligible mass, compressing the spring a distance x. After it is released, the box slides up a
frictionless incline as shown in the figure and eventually stops. If we repeat this experiment but
instead compress the spring a distance of 2x

A) the box will go up the incline twice as high as before.

B) just as it moves free of the spring, the box will be traveling twice as fast as before.
C) just as it moves free of the spring, the box will be traveling four times as fast as before.
D) just as it moves free of the spring, the box will have twice as much kinetic energy as before.
E) just before it is released, the box has twice as much elastic potential energy as before.
5) Two objects having masses m1 and m2 are connected to each other as shown in the figure and
are released from rest. There is no friction on the table surface or in the pulley. The masses of the
pulley and the string connecting the objects are completely negligible. What must be true about
the tension T in the string just after the objects are released?

A) T = m2g
B) T > m2g
C) T < m2g
D) T = m1g
E) T > m1g

29) An 0.80-kg block is held in place against the spring by a 67-N horizontal external force (see
the figure). The external force is removed, and the block is projected with a velocity v1 = 1.2 m/s
upon separation from the spring. The block descends a ramp and has a velocity v2 = 1.9 m/s at
the bottom. The track is frictionless between points A and B. The block enters a rough section at
B, extending to E. The coefficient of kinetic friction over this section is 0.39. The velocity of the
block is v3 = 1.4 m/s at C. The block moves on to D, where it stops. The spring constant of the
spring is closest to

A) 3900 N/m.
B) 2600 N/m.
C) 2000 N/m.
D) 1600 N/m.
E) 1100 N/m.
7) A small car has a head-on collision with a large truck. Which of the following statements
concerning the magnitude of the average force due to the collision is correct?
A) The truck experiences the greater average force.
B) The small car experiences the greater average force.
C) The small car and the truck experience the same average force.
D) It is impossible to tell since the masses are not given.
E) It is impossible to tell since the velocities are not given.
3) You are standing on a skateboard, initially at rest. A friend throws a very heavy ball towards
you. You can either catch the object or deflect the object back towards your friend (such that it
moves away from you with the same speed as it was originally thrown). What should you do in
order to MINIMIZE your speed on the skateboard?
A) Catch the ball.
B) Deflect the ball.
C) Your final speed on the skateboard will be the same regardless whether you catch the ball or
deflect the ball.

15) A 15-g bullet is shot vertically into an 2-kg block. The block lifts upward 8.0 mm (see the
figure). The bullet penetrates the block and comes to rest in it in a time interval of 0.0010 s.
Assume the force on the bullet is constant during penetration and that air resistance is negligible.
The initial kinetic energy of the bullet is closest to

A) 21 J
B) 14 J
C) 10 J
D) 0.0012 J
E) 0.16 J
38) A 4.00-kg block rests on a 30.0 incline as shown in the figure. If the coefficient of static
friction between the block and the incline is 0.700, what magnitude horizontal force F must act
on the block to start it moving up the incline?

A) 34.0 N
B) 51.1 N
C) 54.7 N
D) 84.0 N
E) 76.4 N

35) In the figure, a 60-cm length of uniform wire, of 60 g mass and negligible thickness, is bent
into a right triangle. The x and y coordinates of the center of mass, in cm, are closest to

A) (8, 3).
B) (8, 5).
C) (9, 4).
D) (10, 3).
E) (10, 5).
5) A dumbbell-shaped object is composed by two equal masses, m, connected by a rod of
negligible mass and length r. If I1 is the moment of inertia of this object with respect to an axis
passing through the center of the rod and perpendicular to it and I2 is the moment of inertia with
respect to an axis passing through one of the masses, it follows that
A) I1 = I2.
B) I1 > I2.
C) I2 > I1.
5) A 3.45-kg centrifuge takes 100 s to spin up from rest to its final angular speed with constant
angular acceleration. A point located 8.00 cm from the axis of rotation of the centrifuge moves
with a speed of 150 m/s when the centrifuge is at full speed.
(a) What is the angular acceleration (in rad/s2) of the centrifuge as it spins up?
(b) How many revolutions does the centrifuge make as it goes from rest to its final angular
speed?