PHYS 1110 Final

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Exam Version 0001

Please do not open the exam until you are asked to.

Your exam should have 12 pages, numbered F.1 thru F.12.

This exam consists of 30 multiple choice questions, worth 3.33 points each.

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Possibly useful information:
On any problems involving gravity, use g=9.8 m/s2!
You may also find it useful to know sin 30=0.5, cos 30=0.866, tan 30=0.577, and for

-b b 2 - 4ac
.
2a
Neglect air resistance (unless stated otherwise).
For some problems, extra (unneeded) information is given!
Circle the closest answer and Bubble in questions 1-30 ON YOUR BUBBLE SHEET!
ax2 + bx + c = 0, x =

Some constants which might prove useful:

Mass of Earth: 5.98 x 1024 kg
Radius of Earth: 6.38 x 106 m
Gravitational constant G = 6.67 x 10-11 Nm2/kg2
Density of water: 1 g/cm3 = 1000 kg/m3
Atmospheric pressure: 1 atm = 105 Pa = 14.7 psi = 760 mmHg
Moment of inertia for objects with mass M and radius R:
Ring or hoop with axis through center: MR2
Cylinder or disk with axis through center: 1/2 MR2
Solid sphere with axis through center: 2/5 MR2
Hollow sphere with axis through center: 2/3 MR2
Rod of full length L with axis through center: 1/12 ML2
Rod of full length L with axis at one end: 1/3 ML2
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1. A 15 kg rock is 1.2 x 108 m from the center of a planet with a mass of 7.0 x 1026 kg. What force does the
rock exert on the planet?
A) 3.2 N
B) 27 N
C) 49 N
D) 147 N
E) 5.9 x 109 N

2. A solid piece of plastic of volume Vp, and density p is floating in a cup of water with
density w. What is the magnitude of the buoyant force on the plastic?
A) 0
B) w Vp
C) p Vp
D) w Vp g
E) p Vp g

3. The velocity vectors are shown at an early time (v1) and a later time
(v2). Which vector could represent the average acceleration during this
time?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) D
E) None of them

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r
v1

r
v2

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4. A mass m is on the end of a spring and is oscillating back and

forth between A and A as shown in the figure. When the mass is at
position 0 and moving to the right, the acceleration of the mass is
A) Positive (to the right)
B) Negative (to the left)
C) Zero
D) Impossible to determine

5. A rope is looped over a pulley and connected to a bucket of

water. The bucket has a mass of 25 kg and is being lowered at a
constant speed. The rope which the person is lowering makes an
angle of 30 with respect to the horizontal direction as shown.
What is the force the person is exerting on the rope?
A) 0 N
B) 123 N
C) 245 N
D) 490 N
E) Impossible to determine with the information given

-A
k

+A

30

6. Two air carts are initially at rest on parallel tracks. Cart A has twice the mass of cart B. The same force is
applied to both carts for the same amount of time. After that time what can we say about the magnitude of the
momenta of the two carts?
A) Cart A has the same momentum as Cart B
B) Cart A has twice as much momentum as Cart B
C) Cart B has twice as much momentum as Cart A
D) Cart A has more momentum but it is not twice as much
E) Cart B has more momentum but it is not twice as much

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7. Three tanks are filled to the same height with water as shown. The
diagrams are correctly scaled. For which tank is the pressure on the
bottom the greatest?
A) A
B) B
C) C
D) Exactly two tanks are tied
E) All three tanks are tied

8. A 12.0 kg mass is on the end of a horizontal spring with a spring

constant of 85 N/m. The mass is initially at the equilibrium position
with a speed of 4.0 m/s. How far out will the mass go before returning?
A) 0 m
B) 0.8 m
C) 1.5 m
D) 2.3 m
E) None of the above

9. An elevator car is at rest when its supporting cable breaks. The elevator
car falls a distance H before first making contact with a spring. The spring
is compressed by an amount L before the elevator comes to rest. At what
point during the fall does the elevator start to slow down (remember to
ignore air resistance)?
A) Before the elevator first touches the spring
B) At the exact instant the elevator touches the spring
C) After the elevator first touches the spring
D) More than one of A,B,C is a possibility, need more information.

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k

+A

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10. A Ferris Wheel has a diameter of 40 m. How fast would the Ferris Wheel have to rotate
for a person to feel weightless at the top?
A) Need more information to solve this problem
B) 0.5 rad/s
C) 0.7 rad/s
D) 14 rad/s
E) 20 rad/s

11. The graph shows the position of two trains on parallel tracks as a
function of time. Which of the following statements is true?

position

A) Both trains speed up the entire time

B) At time tC both trains have the same speed
C) Both trains have the same velocity at some point before tC.
D) Both trains have the same acceleration at some point before tC.
E) 0 or 2 of the above answers are correct

tC

12. A ruler has had a hole drilled through the middle and this hole is a pivot
around which the ruler can freely rotate. The ruler has a mass of 0.2 kg and a
length of 1 m and is initially at rest. The stand on which the ruler is mounted is
securely fastened to a table. A student briefly pushes downward on the right side
of the ruler (50 cm from the middle) with a force of 9.8 N causing the ruler to
start spinning clockwise. What can you conclude about the net force on the ruler
and net torque (around the pivot) on the ruler during the time the student is
pushing?
A) Net force = 0 and net torque out of the page
B) Net force = 0 and net torque into the page
C) Net force 0 and net torque = 0
D) Net force 0 and net torque out of the page
E) Net force 0 and net torque into the page

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13. A rock is shot from a large cannon on the Earth and streaks out to space.
At the moment that it crosses the orbit of the International Space Station
(ISS), what is the magnitude of the acceleration of the rock compared to the
acceleration of the International Space Station? Ignore any gravitational
forces between the ISS and the rock.
A) Rocks acceleration is smaller
B) Rocks acceleration is greater
C) Accelerations are the same
D) Depends on the relative masses of the rock and ISS
E) Depends on the initial launch velocity of the rock

ISS
Earth
rock

14. A force F of 3.0 N is applied to a wrench as shown. The force is applied 0.50 m from the pivot at the angle
shown. The vector torque is
A) 0.75 N m into the page
0.5 m
B) 0.75 N m out of the page
C) 1.3 N m into the page
D) 1.3 N m out of the page
E) None of these
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15. A hockey puck slides down into and through the bottom of a smooth icy ditch, as shown. (The path of the
puck is shown with the dashed line.) Assume no friction and assume that the bottom of the ditch has a round
circular shape. At the moment when the puck is at the bottom of the ditch, which free-body diagram most
accurately represents the directions and relative magnitudes of the forces on the puck.

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16. A kid throws a rock off of the top of a cliff with a speed of 16 m/s at an angle of 30o with respect to the
horizontal. It reaches the ground after 3.5 seconds. How tall is the cliff?
A) 4 m
B) 12 m
C) 28 m
D) 32 m
E) 60 m

17. At t = 0, a rock is thrown straight up from the surface of the earth with a speed of a few meters per second.
It rises and then falls back down to the ground. Assume that air resistance is negligible. Upward is chosen as
the positive y-direction. Which of the following graphs most accurately shows velocity vs. time for the rock
while it is in flight?
(a)
(c)
v
(b)
v
v
t

t
v

(d)
(e) None of these is correct.
t

18. An astronaut in space is weighed by connecting the astronaut to the end of a spring (with a spring constant
of 750 N/m) and measuring the period. If the period is measured to be 2.0 s, what is the mass of the astronaut?
A) 19 kg
B) 55 kg
C) 76 kg
D) 188 kg
E) None of the above

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19. A mass is hanging from a rope and swinging around a circular path at constant speed as shown in the figure.
Which answer shows the forces acting on the mass (neglecting air resistance)?

A.

Support

B.
mass

C.

rope

circular
path

D.
E. None of these

20. A hockey player takes a shot on an empty net using a 0.30 kg puck from deep in his own zone.
Unfortunately he is playing on really bad ice so the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.20. What is the minimum
initial speed the puck needs to have to make it the 22 m to the goal?
A) 4.2 m/s
B) 6.7 m/s
C) 9.3 m/s
D) 21 m/s
E) 86 m/s

21. Suppose a ping-pong ball (mass 5 g) and a bowling ball (mass 5 kg) are rolling toward you. Both have the
same momentum, and you exert the same force to stop each. During the period in which they are being
stopped, which ball travels farther?
A) ping-pong ball
B) bowling ball
C) both travel the same distance
D) impossible to determine

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22. Air cart A has a mass of 0.4 kg and a speed of 2.0 m/s. It strikes air cart B which has a mass of 0.6 kg and is
at rest. The two air carts stick together and move off. How much energy is lost in the collision?
A) 0.32 J
B) 0.48 J
C) 0.61 J
D) 0.67 J
E) 0.80 J

23. A block and sphere are connected by an ideal string (massless,

not stretchy) running over an ideal pulley. There is no friction
between the block and the table, and we can neglect air resistance.
When the block is released, what is the motion of the sphere?
A) The sphere accelerates downward at a constant 9.8 m/s2
B) The sphere accelerates downward at a > 9.8 m/s2 and the
acceleration is constant in time.
C) The sphere accelerates downward with a < 9.8 m/s2, and the
magnitude of this acceleration changes steadily with time
D) The sphere accelerates downward with a < 9.8 m/s2, and the
acceleration is constant in time.
E) The sphere acceleration gradually increases from 0 to 9.8 m/s2.

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Massless,
frictionless
pulley

Block

Table
with friction
No friction

Sphere A

Floor

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A hoop and a sphere roll without slipping and an ice cube slides without friction. They are all released from
rest at the top of a long ramp. They all start at the same height, h, above ground level.

24. When the three objects are down at the flat part at the bottom, which
one is moving the fastest?
A) The hoop.
B) The sphere.
C) The ice cube.
D) The sphere and hoop tie for fastest, beating the ice cube.
E) They all have the same speed.

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25. In the previous problem, after leveling out at the bottom, the track climbs up again on the right as shown in
the figure. Which object ends up the highest on the right side?
A) The hoop.
B) The sphere.
C) The ice cube.
D) The sphere and hoop stop at the same height, which is higher than where the ice cube gets to.
E) They all stop at the same height.

26. A pottery wheel (disk) of mass 20 kg and radius 15 cm is

initially at rest. A piece of clay with a mass of 4 kg and a speed
of 10 m/s hits the side of the pottery wheel as shown. The clay
sticks to the outside of the wheel causing the wheel to start
rotating. After the collision, what is the angular velocity of the
wheel? Note that the center of the pottery wheel is fixed in
place.
A) 6 rad/s
B) 11 rad/s
C) 19 rad/s
D) 27 rad/s
E) 67 rad/s

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27. A jar is filled with liquid of uniform density. The liquid is

flowing out of the exit at point D with constant velocity. Points B
and C are at the same height as point D. Point A is at the top of
the jar. Rank the pressures at the four points from highest to
lowest.
A) A>B=C=D
B) B>A=C=D
C) D>C>B>A
D) B>C>A=D
E) Need more information to rank all of them.

28. A disk with a mass of 470 g and radius of 12 cm is spinning on a

frictionless pivot at 60 revolutions per minute. A finger is pushed
against the edge of the disk in the direction of the center of the disk
with a force of 0.7 N. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the
finger and disk is 0.40. What is the magnitude of the angular
acceleration?
A) 0.1 rad/s2
B) 4.7 rad/s2
C) 6.3 rad/s2
D) 9.9 rad/s2
E) 25 rad/s2

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29. If you stood on a planet which has a mass that is twice as great as the Earths and a diameter which is also
twice as great, you would weigh
A) of your Earth weight
B) of your Earth weight
C) the same as on Earth
D) twice your Earth weight
E) four times your Earth weight

30. A 3 m long plank has a mass of 25 kg and a

pivot in the middle. A 55 kg person stands on the
left end of the plank. How far from this person (x)
should a 65 kg person stand to balance the plank?
A) 0.23 m
B) 1.85 m
C) 2.54 m
D) 2.77 m
E) There is no way for this to happen

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