Habib University - City Campus

Course Title: Physics 101, Mechanics

Instructor’s name: Dr. Tajdar Mufti
Assignment: First
Last Date of Submission: 09-03-2017

Please make sure to submit the assignment before or on the deadline, no marks after deadline.

Question 01: On a dry road, a car with good tires may be able to brake with a constant deceleration
of 4.92 sm2 . (a) How long does such a car, initially traveling at 27.2 m
s , take to stop? (b) How far does the
car travel in this time? (c) Graph x versus t for the deceleration.

Question 02: Two diamonds begin a free fall from rest from the same height, 1.0s apart. How long
after the first diamond begins to fall will the diamonds be 10m apart?

Question 03: Here are two vectors in meters:

→
−
a = 4.0î − 3.0ĵ (1)
and
→
−
b = 6.0î + 8.0ĵ (2)
→
−
What are the (a) the magnitude and (b) the angle (relative to î) of a ? What are (c) the magnitude
→
− →
−
and (d) the angle of b ? What are (e) the magnitude and (f ) the angle of → −
a + b ; (g) the magnitude
→
− → →
−
and (h) the angle of b − − a ; and (i) the magnitude and (j) the angle of →
−
a − b ? (k) What is the angle
→
− → − →
− →
−
between the directiions of b − a and a − b ?

Question 04: Here are the three vectors in meters:

→
−
d1 = −3.0î + 3.0ĵ + 2.0k̂ (3)
→
−
d2 = −2.0î − 4.0ĵ + 2.0k̂ (4)
→
−
d3 = 2.0î + 3.0ĵ + 1.0k̂ (5)
→
− → − → − →
− → − → − →
− →
− → −
What are the results from (a) d1 .(d2 + d3 ), (b) d1 .(d2 × d3 ), and (c) d1 × (d2 + d3 )?

Question 05: A cart is propelled over an xy plane with acceleration components ax = 4.0 sm2 and
ay = −2.0 sm2 . Its initial velocity has components v0x = 8.0 m m
s and v0y = 12.0 s . In unit-vector notation,
what is the velocity of the cart when it reaches its greatest y coordinate?

Question 06: In figure 1, a ball is launched with a velocity of magnitude 10.0 m

s at an angle 50.0
in degrees to the horizontal. The launch point is at the base of the shown ramp of horizontal length
w = 6.0m and height h = 3.60m. A plateau is located at the top of the ramp. (a) Does the ball land
on the ramp or the plateau? When it lands, what are the (b) magnitude and (c) angle of displacement
from the launch point?

1
 h

Figure 1: