PHY01: GENERAL PHYSICS 1

2nd Quarterly Exam – SET A

Name: _________________________________________________ Section: ___________ D) 36 J

E) 54 J
General Directions:
4. What is the tangential speed of a lug nut on a wheel of a car if the lug nut is located
 All belongings, except for writing materials and calculators w/o cover, must be
0.114 m from the axis of rotation; and the wheel is rotating at 6.53 rev/sec?
placed inside your bag. Bags should be placed in front
 Borrowing of items is not permitted
A) 0.745 m/s
 Shade the corresponding letter of the best answer in the answer sheet. NO ERAS- B) 1.49 m/s
URES ALLOWED C) 2.98 m/s
 This questionnaire may be used as scratch D) 4.68 m/s
E) 9.36 m/s

Course Outcome 5: Rotational Motion 5. Two forces are acting on an object. Which of the following statements is correct?
A) The object is in equilibrium if the forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in di-
1. During the spin-dry cycle of a washing machine, the motor slows from 90 rad/s to 30 rection.
rad/s while the turning the drum through an angle of 180 radians. What is the magni- B) The object is in equilibrium if the net torque on the object is zero.
tude of the angular acceleration of the motor? C) The object is in equilibrium if the forces act at the same point on the object.
A) 64 rad/s2 D) The object is in equilibrium if the net force and the net torque on the object are both
B) 32 rad/s2 zero.
C) 10 rad/s2 E) The object cannot be in equilibrium because more than one force acts on it.
D) 20 rad/s2 6. A wrench 0.500 m long is applied to a nut with a force of 80.0 N. Because of the
E) 1.0 rad/s2 cramped space, the force must be exerted upward at an angle of 60.0 with respect to a
2. A grindstone increases in angular speed from 4.00 rad/s to 12.00 rad/s in 4.00 s. line from the bolt through the end of the wrench. How much torque is applied to the
Through what angle does it turn during that time if the angular acceleration is con- nut?
stant? A) 34.6 N • m
A) 8.00 rad B) 4.56 N • m
B) 12.0 rad C) 11.8 N • m
C) 16.0 rad D) 14.2 N • m
D) 32.0 rad E) 20.0 N • m
E) 64.0 rad 7. A mechanic is "spin balancing" an automobile tire, radius R = 0.46 m, by placing it in
3. A 1.0-kg wheel in the form of a solid disk rolls along a horizontal surface with a speed a machine which applies a torque to accelerate the tire to a speed equivalent to travel-
of 6.0 m/s. What is the total kinetic energy of the wheel? ing 50 m/s. The tire has a mass of 32 kg and has a moment of inertia equivalent to a
A) 9.0 J hoop of radius 0.31 m. How much torque must the machine apply to the tire to bring it
B) 18 J up to speed in 12 s?
C) 27 J A) 27.86 Joule
 B) 26.85 Joule A) The tangential acceleration is zero m/s2.
C) 28.01 Joule B) The tangential acceleration depends on the angular velocity.
D) 28.12 Joule C) The tangential acceleration is equal to the centripetal acceleration.
E) 27.92 Joule D) The tangential acceleration is constant in both magnitude and direction.
E) The tangential acceleration depends on the change in the angular velocity.
8. A child standing on the edge of a freely spinning merry-go-round moves quickly to the
center. Which one of the following statements is necessarily true concerning this 12. It has been suggested that an automobile can be powered for short trips by removing
event and why? energy from a spinning flywheel which has been "charged" overnight by a small electric
A) The angular speed of the system decreases because the moment of inertia of the motor. How much energy can be stored in a solid cylindrical flywheel of radius 0.25 m
system has increased. and mass 50 kg rotating 10 000 rpm? If the car normally requires an average of 50 000
B) The angular speed of the system increases because the moment of inertia of the Joule/second, how long could it run if it can extract 40% of the energy from the flywheel?
system has increased.
A) 6.12 seconds.
C) The angular speed of the system decreases because the moment of inertia of the
B) 6.90 seconds
system has decreased.
C) 7.21 seconds
D) The angular speed of the system increases because the moment of inertia of the
D) 7.81 seconds
system has decreased.
E) 6.50 seconds
E) The angular speed of the system remains the same because the net torque
on the merry-go-round is zero N  m. 13. A cyclist rides a bicycle with a wheel radius of 0.500 m across campus. A piece of
plastic on the front rim makes a clicking sound every time it passes through the fork. If
9. A person pushes on the edge of a 0.90 m wide door with a horizontal force of 5.0 N the cyclist counts 320 clicks between her apartment and the cafeteria, how far has she
acting at an angle of 35° to the plane of the door. What is the torque of the force about traveled?
the door hinge? A) 0.50 km
A) 6.28 N-m B) 0.80 km
B) 6.35 N-m C) 1.0 km
C) 6.42 N-m D) 1.5 km
D) 6.12 N-m E) 1.8 km
E) 6.60 N-m
14. A horizontal plank 4.00 m long and having mass 20.0 kg rests on two pivots, one at the
10. What is the magnitude of the angular acceleration of a 25.0-kg disk of radius 0.800 m left end and a second 1.00 m from the right end. Find the magnitude of the force ex-
when a torque of magnitude 40.0 N • m is applied to it? (Moment of inertia of disk: erted on the plank by the second pivot.
I=(1/2)mr^2) A) 32.0 N
A) 2.50 rad/s2 B) 45.2 N
B) 5.00 rad/s2 C) 112 N
C) 7.50 rad/s2 D) 131 N
D) 10.0 rad/s2 E) 98.2 N
E) 12.5 rad/s2
15. What is the angular speed in rad/s of the second hand of a watch?
11. A rigid body rotates about a fixed axis with a constant angular acceleration. Which A) 1.7 × 10–3 rad/s
one of the following statements is true concerning the tangential acceleration of any B) 0.10 rad/s
point on the body? C) 0.02 rad/s
 D) 6.28 rad/s B) Momentum is a scalar quantity.
E) 60 rad/s C) The SI unit of momentum is kg • m2/s.
D) The momentum of an object is always positive.
Course Outcome 4: Impulse, Momentum and Collisions
E) Momentum and impulse are measured in the same units.
16. A soccer player runs up behind a 0.450-kg soccer ball traveling at 3.20 m/s and kicks it 21. Complete the following statement: A collision is elastic if
in the same direction as it is moving, increasing its speed to 12.8 m/s. What magnitude A) the final velocities are zero.
impulse did the soccer player deliver to the ball? B) the objects stick together.
A) 2.45 kg • m/s C) the final kinetic energy is zero.
B) 4.32 kg • m/s D) the final momentum is zero.
C) 5.61 kg • m/s E) the total kinetic energy is conserved.
D) 7.08 kg • m/s
E) 9.79 kg • m/s 22. A system consists of three balls at different locations near the origin, as shown at right.
Ball 1 has a mass of 2.0 kg and is located on the x-axis at x1 = –2.0 m. ; ball 2 has an
17. Which one of the following is characteristic of an inelastic collision? unknown mass and is located at (x2 = +4.0 m, y2 = +3.0 m); ball 3 is somewhere on
A) Total mass is not conserved. the y-axis at an unknown location, and it has a mass of 1.0 kg. The coordinates of the
B) Total energy is not conserved. center-of-mass of this system are (Xcenter of mass = 0, Ycenter of mass= +2.0 m).
C) Linear momentum is not conserved. Find the location of ball 3.
D) Kinetic energy is not conserved.
E) The change in momentum is less than the total impulse. A. +3 B. -3 C. +5 D. -5 E. +2

18. A 0.004-kg bullet is fired into a 0.200-kg block of wood at rest on a horizontal surface. 23. Complete the following statement: Different types of collisions between interacting
After impact, the block with the embedded bullet slides 8.00 m before coming to rest. bodies are categorized on the basis of
If the coefficient of friction is 0.400, what is the speed of the bullet before impact? A) kinetic energy conservation.
A) 96 m/s B) mechanical energy conservation.
B) 112 m/s C) linear momentum conservation.
C) 286 m/s D) the magnitude of the forces involved.
D) 404 m/s E) the temporal duration of the collision.
E) 812 m/s 24. A baseball of mass m, initially at rest, is struck by a bat so that it acquires a speed v.
19. A 100-kg cannon at rest contains a 10-kg cannon ball. When fired, the cannon ball If t represents the duration of the collision between the bat and the ball, which one of
leaves the cannon with a speed of 90 m/s. What is the recoil speed of the cannon? the following expressions determines the magnitude of the average force exerted on the
A) 4.5 m/s ball?
B) 9 m/s A) (1/2)mv2
C) 45 m/s B) mv/t
D) 90 m/s C) (1/2)mv2t
E) zero m/s D) mt2/(2v)
E) mvt
20. Which one of the following statements concerning momentum is true?
A) Momentum is a force. 25. A 0.10-kg object moving initially with a velocity of 0.20 m/s eastward makes an elastic
head-on collision with a 0.15-kg object initially at rest. What is the final velocity of the
 0.10-kg object after the collision? D) 72.1 N
A) 0.16 m/s eastward E) 102 N
B) 0.16 m/s westward
C) 0.040 m/s eastward 30. Apply conservation of momentum to a one-dimensional inelastic collision.
D) 0.040 m/s westward A pickup truck with mass 1.80x103 kg is traveling eastbound at +15.0 m/s, while a compact
E) None of these car with mass 9.00x102 kg is traveling westbound at -15.0 m/s. The vehicles collide head-
26. Jennifer is walking at 1.22 m/s. If Jennifer weighs 552 N, what is the magnitude of on, becoming entangled. What is the change in Kinetic Energy of the system consisting of
her momentum? both vehicles?
A) 97.0 kg • m/s A. -2.70 x105 Joule
B) 137 kg • m/s B. +2.70 x105 Joule
C) 68.6 kg • m/s C. -3.50 x105 Joule
D) 672 kg • m/s D. +3.50 x105 Joule
E) 951 kg • m/s E. -3.70 x105 Joule
27. Complete the following statement: Momentum will be conserved in a two-body colli-
sion only if
A) both bodies come to rest.
B) the collision is perfectly elastic. Course Outcome 6: Periodic Motion, Waves, and Sound
C) the kinetic energy of the system is conserved.
31. A mass of 0.40 kg, hanging from a spring with a spring constant of 80.0 N/m, is set
D) the net external force acting on the two-body system is zero.
into an up-and-down simple harmonic motion. If the mass is displaced from equilib-
E) the internal forces of the two body system cancel in action-reaction pairs.
rium by 0.10 m and released from rest, what is its speed when moving through the
28. Two objects of equal mass collide on a horizontal frictionless surface. Before the col- equilibrium point?
lision, object A is at rest while object B has a constant velocity of 12 m/s. After the A) 0
collision, the two objects are stuck together. What is the speed of the composite body B) 1.4 m/s
(A + B) after the collision? C) 2.0 m/s
A) 3.0 m/s D) 3.4 m/s
B) 6.0 m/s E) 4.2 m/s
C) 12 m/s
32. A loudspeaker at the base of a cliff emits a pure tone of frequency 3000.0 Hz. A man
D) 24 m/s
jumps from rest from the top of the cliff and safely falls into a net below. How far
E) 36 m/s
has the man fallen at the instant he hears the frequency of the tone as 3218.0 Hz? The
29. A 57.0-g tennis ball is traveling straight at a player at 21.0 m/s. The player volleys the speed of sound is 343 m/s.
ball straight back at 25.0 m/s. If the ball remains in contact with the racket for 0.060 s, A) 12.2 m
what average force acts on the ball? B) 15.3 m
A) 22.6 N C) 31.7 m
B) 32.5 N D) 46.8 m
C) 43.7 N E) 61.0 m
33. A ball hung from a vertical spring oscillates in simple harmonic motion with an angu- B) 0.90 Hz
lar frequency of 2.6 rad/s and an amplitude of 0.075 m. What is the maximum accel- C) 1.1 Hz
eration of the ball? D) 1.3 Hz
A) 0.13 m/s2 E) 1.7 Hz
B) 0.20 m/s2
C) 0.51 m/s2 37. What is the difference in phase between the points A and B?
D) 2.6 m/s2 A) (π/4) radians
E) 35 m/s2 B) (π /2) radians
C) π radians
For item 4-7: The displacement of a vibrating string versus position along the string is D) (3π/4) radians
shown in the figure. The periodic waves have a speed of 10.0 cm/s. A and B are E) 2π radians
two points on the string.
38. A block is suspended from the ceiling by a long, thin strip of tungsten metal. The
strip behaves as a spring. To produce a 0.25 m horizontal deflection of the block, a
force of 6.5 N is required. Calculate the spring constant for the tungsten strip.

34. What is the amplitude of the wave? A) 0.038 N/m

A) 2 mm B) 1.2 N/m
B) 4 mm C) 1.6 N/m
C) 8 mm D) 13 N/m
D) 12 mm E) 26 N/m
E) 16 mm
39. Which one of the following terms is used to describe a system in which the degree of
35. What is the wavelength of the wave? damping is just enough to stop the system from oscillating?
A) 3.0 cm A) critically damped
B) 6.0 cm B) underdamped
C) 9.0 cm C) slightly damped
D) 12 cm D) overdamped
E) 15 cm E) resonance
36. What is the frequency of the wave? 40. What is the period of a pendulum consisting of a 6-kg object oscillating on a 4-m
A) 0.60 Hz string?
 A) 0.25 s  
B) 0.50 s x(t )  (0.50m) cos  t 
C) 1.0 s 44. The position of a simple harmonic oscillator is given by 3 
D) 2.0 s where t is in seconds. What is the maximum velocity of this oscillator?
E) 4.0 s A) 0.17 m/s
B) 0.52 m/s
For items 11 & 12: A relaxed spring protrudes from an opening 0.0500 meters as shown in C) 0.67 m/s
Figure A. A 1.00-kg block is found to just force the spring completely into the opening D) 1.0 m/s
as shown in Figure B. E) 2.0 m/s
45. A particle on a spring moves in simple harmonic motion along the x-axis between turn-
ing points at x1 = 100 cm and x2 = 140 cm. At which of the following positions does
the particle have its maximum kinetic energy?
A) 100 cm
B) 110 cm
C) 120 cm
D) 130 cm
E) 140 cm
41. Determine the spring constant k.
A) 20.0 N/m ---------- end of exam ----------
B) 196 N/m
C) 392 N/m
D) 3920 N/m
E) 7840 N/m
42. How much potential energy is stored in the spring in Figure B?
A) 0.245 J
B) 0.490 J
C) 4.90 J
D) 9.80 J
E) zero J
43. The position of an object moving with simple harmonic motion is given by 𝑥(𝑡) =
4 𝑐𝑜𝑠 (6𝜋𝑡), where x is in meters and t is in seconds. What is the period of the oscil-
lating system?
A) 4 s
B) 1/6 s
C) 1/3 s
D) 6π s
E) impossible to determine from the information given