PHY1121 DISCUSSION GROUP SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

1.

Questions a, b and c refer to the figure shown above which represents the
displacement of a particle as a function of time. The particle moves in a straight
line.
a.

What is the average velocity of the particle during the time interval 0 to 5
seconds?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

b.

+65 m/s
+55 m/s
+13 m/s
+11 m/s
+2.0 m/s

What is the instantaneous velocity of the particle at time 5 seconds?

A. 5.0 m/s

c.

B. 2.0 m/s

C. 0

D. +2.0 m/s

E. +5.0 m/s

What is the instantaneous acceleration of the particle at time 5 seconds?

A. 2.5 m/s2

B. 1.0 m/s2

C. 0

D. +1.0 m/s2

E. +2.5 m/s2

2. The position of a particle as it moves along the x axis is given by x(t) = t33t2+6t,
where is the particle when it reaches its minimum speed (after t = 0)?

(A) 3 m
(B) 4 m
(C) 8 m
(D) 2 m
(E) 7 m

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(60
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The driver first sees the deer when it is 84.0 m ahead and 0.6 s later he applies the
m
brakes so that the car slows at the constant rate of 5.8 2 . If the deer freezes in fear,
s
(a) does the car hit the deer? (b) If not, how many meters separate the car and the deer
after the car stops?

3. A deer walks onto a highway in front of a car which is traveling at 26.8

4. Consider that a coin is dropped into a wishing well. You want to determine the depth
of the well from the time t between releasing the coin and hearing it hit the bottom.
Suppose that t = 2.059 s and assume that the speed of sound in air is 330 m/s. What is
the depth of the well?
(A) 20.77 m
(B) 19.59 m
(C) 23.56 m
(D) 18.43 m
(E) 39.20 m
5. A ball is thrown downward with an initial speed of 25 m/s from the top of a 210-m tall
building. At the same time, another ball is thrown upward from the ground level with
a speed of 25 m/s. At what distance from the bottom do the two balls pass each other?
6. An object is dropped from rest from a height h. During the final 2 s of its fall, it
traverses a distance of 56 m. Determine h.
7.

A point moves along a straight line. The dependence of its velocity, , on time, t, is
shown in the graph above. The dependence of the distance traveled, s, on time is
given by the formula
(A) s = 1.5t+3t2.
(B) s = 3t+1.5t2.
(C) s = 1.5t+0.5t2.
(D) s = 3t+0.25t2.

8.

Once in a circus in Germany, I saw a stunt in which a clown fired out of cannon landed
in a speeding toy fire engine which was racing away from him. Suppose the situation
was as I have sketched here. The clown, of mass 60 kg, is fired with speed o at the
same instant the fire engine starts to move directly away from him. The fire engine
moves forward with a constant acceleration of g/4. The fire engine is 5 meters ahead
of the clown when they start. Assume the clown lands at the same elevation from
which he is fired. The cannon makes an angle with horizontal, where sin = 4/5 and
cos = 3/5. With what speed must the clown leave the cannon in order to land in the
truck?
(A) 8.75 m/s
(B) 6.50 m/s
(C) 2.15 m/s
(D) 4.43 m/s
(E) 4.85 m/s
9. A ball is thrown horizontally from the top of a building 100 m high. The ball strikes
the ground at a point 65 m horizontally away from and below the point of release. The
speed of the ball (in m/s) just before it strikes the ground is
(A) 43.
(B) 47.
(C) 39.
(D) 36.
(E) None of the above.