VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

FACULTY OF APPLIED AND COMPUTER SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS & NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING

SUBJECT : PHYSICS 1 TEST2

CODE : APFSG 1A

DATE : 18 MARCH 2016

DURATION : 90 MINUTES

EXAMINER : Mr. F.P. NEMALILI, Mr. G.S NKOSI, and

Mr. M.L. MBANDEZI

MODERATOR : Dr. I.Q. SIKAKANA

MARKS:
FULL MARKS : 60

INSTRUCTION:
1. Answer all questions.
2. Question can be answered in any order, but Subsections must be kept together.
3. Non-Programmable calculators may be used.
4. When doing calculations, give the final answer to at least two decimal places.

This question paper consists of 5 - typed pages, including the

Front page.

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE BEFORE PERMISSION IS GRANTED

 Physics 1 APIFSG 1A Test2 – March 2016

QUESTION 1: MULTIPLE CHOICE [2 x 5 = 10]

Write the correct answer for each of the following in your answer book. (Example 1.1. A)
1.1. Two forces act on a ball. For which orientation of the forces will the ball acquire an
acceleration with the largest magnitude?

A. B. C. D.

1.2. Apple A is dropped from rest from a window. At the same instant, apple B is thrown downward
and apple C is thrown upward from the same window. Which statement concerning the apples
after their release is necessarily true if air resistance is neglected?

A. At some instant after it is thrown, the acceleration of apple C is zero.

B. All three apple strike the ground at the same time.
C. All three apple reach the ground with the same velocity.
D. All three apple have the same acceleration at any instant.
E. All three apple have the same initial velocity.

1.3. The two hot-air balloons in the drawing below are 48.2 and 61.0 m above the ground. A person
in the left balloon observes that the right balloon is 13.3° above the horizontal. What is the
horizontal distance x between the two balloons?

A. 55.44 m
B. 2.96 m
C. 0.019 m
D. 208.78 m
E. 264.22 m

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1.4. A 2.0-N rock slides on a frictionless inclined plane. Which one of the following statements is true
concerning the normal force that the plane exerts on the rock?


A. The normal force is 2.0 N.
B. The normal force is less than 2.0 N, but greater than zero newtons.
C. The normal force increases as the angle of inclination, θ, is increased.
D. The normal force is greater than 2.0 N,
E. The normal force is zero newton.

1.5. A rubber ball of mass m traveling horizontally towards east with a constant speed v hits a wall
and bounces back to the west with the same speed v. The change in momentum is:

A. Zero
B. ∆P = mv, West
C. ∆P = 2mv, East
D. ∆P = ½mv, East
E. ∆P = 2mv, West

QUESTION 2: [18]
2.1. Define displacement [2]

2.2 A person going for a walk follows the path shown in the figure below. The total trip consists of
four straight line paths. At the end of the walk, what is the magnitude and direction of the
resultant displacement measured from the starting point? [6]

2.3 The left ventricle of the heart accelerates blood from rest to a velocity of +26 cm/s.

a. If the displacement travelled by the blood is +2.0 cm, determine its acceleration. [3]
b. Find the time it takes the blood to reach its final velocity of 26 cm/s2? [3]

2.4. A box is hanging at rest from a wire when suddenly the wire breaks. The time it takes for the ball
to fall halfway to the ground is 1.2 s. Find the time it takes for the box to fall from rest all the
way to the ground. [4]

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QUESTION 3: [32]
3.1. Define or state the following:
a. Newton’s second law in words, [2]
b. A non-conservative force. [2]

3.2. A roller-coaster car starts from rest at the top of an 18 m hill as shown in the diagram below.
The car travels to the bottom of the hill and continues up the next hill that is 10.0 m high. How
fast is the car moving at the top of the 10.0 m hill, if friction is ignored? [4]

18 m
10.0 m

3.3. A cord passing over a massless and frictionless pulley has a 10 kg mass hanging from one end
and a 6 kg mass hanging from the other, as shown in the figure below. Find the acceleration of
the masses. [4]

3.4. A 70 kg skier is coasting down a 25 o slope as shown in the figure below. Near the top of the
slope, the skier has an initial speed of 3.6 m/s. She accelerates down the slope and the
magnitude of the kinetic friction which opposes her motion is 60 N. Ignoring the air resistance,
determine her final speed at the bottom of 30 m downhill. [5]

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3.5. In the drawing, the weight of the block on the table is 185 N and that of the hanging block is
422 N. The friction coefficient between the 185 N and the table is 0.125. Assuming the pulley to
be massless and frictionless, calculate the acceleration of the two blocks, and the tension in the
cord. [6]

3.6. A 1.50 kg hammer strikes a nail with a speed of 4.50 m/s and bounces back with the same
speed after an elastic collision lasting 0.075 s. What is the magnitude of the average force the
hammer exerts on the nail? [3]

3.7. The ballistic pendulum shown in the figure below consists of a stationery 2.50 kg block of wood
suspended by a wire of negligible mass. A bullet of mass 0.030 kg is fired into the block. The
block and bullet swings to a maximum height of 0.650 m above the initial position. Assume that
air resistance is negligible; determine the speed with which the bullet is fired. [6]

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INFORMATION AND FORMULA SHEET

CONSTANT:
Acceleration due to gravity : g = 9.80 m/s 2
Universal gravitational constant : G = 6.673 x 10-11 N.m2/kg2
1 2
s  ut  at , v  u  at ; Wnc  KE  PE
2
v 2f  v02  2as ; s
1
v0  v f t
2

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PHYSICS 1 TEST2 MEMORANDUM 2016 - SEMESTER 1

Question 1 [5X2 = 10]

1.1 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6
C D A B E

Question 2 [18]
2.1. Displacement is the shortest distance between the initial and final position, with direction from
the initial to the final position. [2]
2.2

R x  10  0  15 cos 30  20 cos 60  12.99m

R y  0  30  15 sin 30  20 sin 60  20.18m
R  (12.99) 2  (20.18) 2  23.99  24.00
Ry
tan  
Rx
 20.18 
  tan 1    57.23 South of West or 57.23 below negative x - axis
0 0

 12.99  [6]

2.3. a.

v 2  v02  2ax
v 2  v02 0.26 2  02
a   1.69m / s
2x 2(0.02) [3]
b.

 v  v0 
x t
 2 
[3]
2x 2  0.02
t   0.15s
v  v0 0  0.26

2.4.
y  v0t  12 at 2  12 at 2  12 (–9.80 m/s 2 )(1.2 s)2  –7.1 m
Thus total displacement is  14.2 m,

2y 2(–14.2 m)
t   1.7 s [4]
a –9.80 m/s2

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QUESTION 3 [32]

3.1. a. When a net external force F acts on an object the object will accelerate. The acceleration
is directly proportional to the net force and inversely proportional to the mass of the object.
The direction of the acceleration is the same as the direction of the net force [2]

b. A force is Non conservative if the work it does on a moving object depend on the path of
motion of the object. [2]
3.2.
E f  E0
1 1
mv f  mgh f  mv 0  mgh0
2 2

2 2 [4]
1 1
 v f  9.8  10   (0) 2  9.8  18
2

2 2
 v f  12.52m / s
3.3

10kg Object 6kg Object

Fy  ma Fy  ma
m10 g  T = m10 a  98  T  10a...........(1) T  m5 g = m5 a  T  49  5a.............(2)
(1)  (2) : 98  49  15a
 a  3.27m / s 2
[4]
3.4

Wnc  KE  PE   f cos s 

1
2

m v f  vi
2

2
 mg h f  hi 

60 cos180(30)  1 (70)v f 2  1 (70)(3.6) 2  70  9.8(0  12.68)

2 2
 1800  453.6  8698.48  35v f
2
[5]
v f  14.49m / s

Or
Wnet  KE 
1
2

m v f  vi
2

2

Wnet  (Fnet cos )s

 Wnet  (mg sin   f k ) cos s  (70  9.8  sin 25  60) cos180 30  6897.48 J
1 1
 6897.48  (70)v f  (70)(3.6) 2
2

2 2
v f  14.49m / s

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3.5.
185 N Block
F y  0  FN  W  0
 FN  185 N
F x  ma  T  f k  ma
 T  0.125  185  18.88a.
 T  23.125  18.88a...............(1)

422 N Block
F y  ma  W  T  ma
 422  T  43.06a....................(2)
(1)  (2) : 422  23.125  18.88a  43.06a [6]
 a  6.44m / s 2
Subtitute a  6.44m/s 2 into (1) we get :
T  23.125  18.88  6.44  144.71N

3.6.
F t  mv f  mv i
mv f  mv i 1.5(4.5  (4.5)) [3]
F   180 N
t 0.075

3.7.
E f  E0
1
m1  m2 v f 2  m1  m2 gh f  1 m1  m2 v0 2  m1  m2 gh0
2 2
1 1
 v f  9.8  0   (0) 2  9.8  0.650
2

2 2
 v f  3.57m / s

[6]
Pi  Pf
m1v1i  m2 v2i  m1  m2 v f
0.030v1i  0  0.030  2.50  3.57
v1i  301.07m / s