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Test 1
Due: 11:59pm on Sunday, September 12, 2010
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Exercise 1.12
A useful and easy-to-remember approximate value for the number of seconds in a year is .

Part A
Determine the percent error in this approximate value. (There are 365.24 days in one year.)

ANSWER: 0.446
Correct

Exercise 1.28

Part A
How many dollar bills would you have to stack to reach the moon? (Depending on age, dollar bills can be stacked with about 2-3 per
millimeter.)

Express your answer using one significant figure.

ANSWER: 1.0×1012
dollar bills
All attempts used; correct answer displayed

Exercise 1.45

Part A

Use vector components to find the magnitude of the vector needed to balance the two vectors shown in the figure . Let the 625- vector be
along the -y-axis and let the +x-axis be perpendicular to it toward the right.

ANSWER: 781
Correct

Part B
Find the direction of the vector needed to balance this two vectors.

ANSWER: 166
counterclockwise from -axis
Correct

Exercise 1.47

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Write each vector in the figure in terms of the unit vectors and .

Part A

ANSWER:
=
Correct

Part B

ANSWER:
=
Correct

Part C

ANSWER:
=
Correct

Part D

ANSWER:
=
Correct

Problem 1.76
On a training flight, a student pilot flies from Lincoln, Nebraska to Clarinda, Iowa, then to St. Joseph, Missouri, and then to Manhattan, Kansas .
The directions are shown relative to north: is north, is east, is south, and is
west.

Part A
Use the method of components to find the distance she has to fly from Manhattan to get back to Lincoln.

ANSWER: 189
Correct

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Part B
Find the direction (relative to north) she must fly to get there.

ANSWER: -10.5
=
Correct

Problem 1.82
You are hungry and decide to go to your favorite neighborhood fast-food restaurant. You leave your apartment and take the elevator 10 flights
down (each flight is 3.0 ) and then go 15 south to the apartment exit. You then proceed 0.2 east, turn north, and go 0.1 to the
entrance of the restaurant.

Part A
Determine the displacement from your apartment to the restaurant. Use unit vector notation for your answer, being sure to make clear your
choice of coordinates.

Take the beginning of the journey as the origin, with north being the y-direction, east the x-direction, and the z-axis vertical.

ANSWER:

Correct

Part B
How far did you travel along the path you took from your apartment to the restaurant?

ANSWER: 345
Correct

Part C
What is the magnitude of the displacement you calculated in part A?

ANSWER: 219
=
Correct

Problem 1.92

When two vectors and are drawn from a common point, the angle between them is .

Part A

If and have the same magnitude, for which value of will their vector sum have the same magnitude as or ?

ANSWER: 120
=
Correct

Problem 1.94

Part A

Given two vectors and . Obtain a unit vector perpendicular to these two vectors.

Express your answer as a unit vector in the form , , where the x, y, and z components are separated by commas.

ANSWER: -0.720,0.332,-0.609
=
Correct

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Test Your Understanding 1.9: Unit Vectors

Part A

Rank the following vectors from largest to smallest magnitude.

ANSWER:

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Correct

The magnitude of a vector is . Note that the value of the magnitude does not depend on

whether the components , , and are positive or negative.

Problem 1.91

The two vectors and are drawn from a common point, and .

Part A

Show that if , the angle between the vectors and is 90 .

ANSWER: My Answer:

Part B

Show that if , the angle between the vectors and is greater than 90 .

ANSWER: My Answer:

Part C

Show that if , the angle between the vectors and is between 0 and 90 .

ANSWER: My Answer:

Exercise 1.15

Part A
Estimate the percent error in measuring a distance of about 85 with a meter stick.

Express your answer using two significant figures.

ANSWER: 0.12
Correct

Part B
Estimate the percent error in measuring a mass of about 16 with a chemical balance.

Express your answer using two significant figures.

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ANSWER: 6.3×10−3
Correct

Part C

Estimate the percent error in measuring a time interval of about 8 with a stopwatch.

Express your answer using two significant figures.

ANSWER: 2.1×10−2
Correct

Exercise 1.16
A rectangular piece of aluminum is 5.20 long and 1.80 wide.

Part A
Find the area of the rectangle.

ANSWER: 9.36
Correct

Part B
Find the uncertainty in the area.

Express your answer using one significant figure.

ANSWER: 7×10−2
Correct

Exercise 1.17
As you eat your way through a bag of chocolate chip cookies, you observe that each cookie is a circular disk with a diameter of
and a thickness of 4.5×10−2 0.005 .

Part A

Find the average volume of a cookie.

Express your answer using two significant figures.

ANSWER: 2.6
Correct

Part B
Find the uncertainty in the volume of a cookie.

Express your answer using one significant figure.

ANSWER: 0.3
Correct

Part C
Find the ratio of the diameter to the thickness.

Express your answer using two significant figures.

ANSWER: 190
Correct

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Part D
Find the uncertainty in this ratio.

Express your answer using one significant figure.

ANSWER: 20
Correct

Exercise 1.37
A rocket fires two engines simultaneously. One produces a thrust of 690 directly forward while the other gives a thrust of 480 at an angle
16.2 above the forward direction.

Part A
Find the magnitude of the resultant force which these engines exert on the rocket.

ANSWER: 1160
N
Correct

Part B
Find the deviation of the direction (relative to the forward direction) of the resultant force which these engines exert on the rocket.

ANSWER: 6.64
Correct

Exercise 1.46
Two ropes in a vertical plane exert equal magnitude forces on a hanging weight but pull with an angle of 86.0 between them.

Part A

What pull does each one exert if their resultant pull is 402 directly upward?

ANSWER: 275
Correct

Problem 1.65
Iron has a property such that a 1.00 volume has a mass of (density equals ). You want to manufacture iron
into cubes and spheres.

Part A
Find the length of the side of a cube of iron that has a mass of 140 .

ANSWER: 2.61
Correct

Part B

Find the radius of a solid sphere of iron that has a mass of 140 .

ANSWER: 1.62
Correct

Problem 1.73

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A spelunker is surveying a cave. She follows a passage that takes her a distance 178 straight west, then a distance 213 in a direction
45.0 east of south, then a distance 274 at 30.0 east of north. After a fourth unmeasured displacement she finds herself back where she
started.

Part A
Use the method of components to determine the magnitude of the fourth displacement.

ANSWER: 140
m
Correct

Part B
Use the method of components to determine the direction of the fourth displacement.

ANSWER: 38.3
South of West
Correct

Problem 1.78: Getting Back

An explorer in the dense jungles of equatorial Africa leaves his hut. He takes 43 steps at an angle 45 north of east, then 80 steps at an angle
60 north of west, then 49 steps due south. Assume his steps all have equal length. Save him from becoming hopelessly lost in the jungle by
giving him the displacement, calculated using the method of components, that will return him to his hut.

Part A
What is the magnitude of the displacement that will return the explorer to his hut?

Express your answer using two significant figures.

ANSWER: 52
steps
Correct

Part B
What is the direction of the displacement that will return the explorer to his hut?

Express your answer using two significant figures.

ANSWER: 11
= East of South
Correct

Problem 1.79
A ship leaves the island of Guam and sails a distance 275 at an angle 47.0 north of west.

Part A

In which direction must it now head so that its resultant displacement will be 130 directly east of Guam? (Express your answer as an angle
measured south of east)

ANSWER: 32.3
= south of east
Correct

Part B

How far must it sail so that its resultant displacement will be 130 directly east of Guam?

ANSWER: 376
Correct

Problem 1.84

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You are camping with two friends, Joe and Karl. Since all three of you like your privacy, you don't pitch your tents close together. Joe's tent is
25.0 from yours, in the direction 24.0 north of east. Karl's tent is 43.5 from yours, in the direction 36.5 south of east.

Part A
What is the distance between Karl's tent and Joe's tent?

ANSWER: 38.0
=
Correct

Multiple Choice Question - 1.19

Part A
A vector is given as follows:

The angle between vector and the y-axis, in degrees, is closest to:

ANSWER:
61
151
90
119
29

Correct

Multiple Choice Question - 1.26

Part A

An airplane undergoes the following displacements: First, it flies 66 km in a direction 30 east of north. Next, it flies 49 km due south. Finally, it
flies 100 km 30 north of west. Using analytical methods, determine how far the airplane ends up from its starting point.

ANSWER:
80.7 km
79.1 km
82.3 km
75.9 km
77.5 km

Correct

Short Answer Question - 1.3

Part A

Find the vector product × of the two vectors and , where =7 +8 and = -6 -3 . Express your result in terms of the

, , and unit vectors.

ANSWER:

Correct

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Short Answer Question - 1.5

Part A

In the figure, the magnitude of vector is 18.0 units, and the magnitude of vector is 12.0 units. What vector must be added to the

vectors and in the figure so that the resultant of these three vectors points in the - -direction and has a magnitude of 7.50 units? Use

vector components to find your answer, and express vector by giving its magnitude and the angle in degrees it makes with the x-axis taking

counterclockwise to be positive.

Enter your answers numerically separated by a comma.

ANSWER: 15.5,209
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Score Summary:
Your score on this assignment is 84.1%.
You received 84.11 out of a possible total of 100 points.

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