PHYSICS QUIZ ON MOTION IN TWO DIMESNIONS

1 A projectile has an initial velocity of 40 m/s at the edge of a

roof top. Find the horizontal and vertical components of its
velocity after 3 seconds?
2 Michael is competing in the long jump. Assume that his total
velocity (velocity of x and y directions combined) right
before he jumped was 6.5 m/s.
a. If he jumped at an angle of 35 degrees, what would his
vertical velocity be?
b. How long will he stay in the air then?
3 an arrow accelerates from zero to 40m/s in the 0.5 s it is in
contact with the bow string. What it the average acceleration?
4 An air plane travelling at 70 m/s drops a box of supplies.
What horizontal distance will the box travel before striking
the ground 340 m below?
5 a base ball leaves the bat with a velocity of 30 m/s at an angle
of 30. what are the horizonatal and vertical components of its
velocity after 3 secs?
6 a stone is thrown vertically downward from the top of a
bridge. Four seconds later it strikes the water below. If the
final velocity was 60m/s, what was the initial velocity of
stone, and how high was the bridge?
7 a hammer is thrown vertically upward to the top of a roof 16
m high. what minimum initial velocity is required?
8 A baseball was thrown from 1 m hill. Assume that the ball
had an initial velocity of 70 km/h (19.44 m/s) at 40 degrees.
a. What was the initial velocity in x direction?
b. What was the initial velocity in y direction?
c. How long will it take for the ball to land on ground?
d. How far will the ball travel?
9 a truck moving at an initial velocity of 30 m/s is brought to a
stop in 10 seconds. What was the acceleration of the truck,
and what was the stopping distance?

10 a projectile leaves the ground with a velocity of 35 m/s at an

angle of 32. what was the time of flight, and how far did it
travel horizontally?
11 a projectile has an initial velocity of 40 m/s at the edge of a
roof top. Find the horizontal and vertical components of its
velocity after 3 seconds?
12 a brick is given an initial down ward velocity of 6 m/s. what
is its final velocity after falling a distance of 40 m?
13 A ball with a mass of 250 g has a centripetal acceleration of 5
m/s2. What is the centripetal force acting on this ball?
14 a monorail train is travelling at 22 m/s must be stopped in a
distance of 120 m. what average acceleration is required, and
what is the stopping time?
15 A 1300 kg car takes 35 s to travel around a circular road that
has a radius of 40 m.
a. What is the velocity of the car?
b. What is the acceleration of the car?
16 A point on the rim of a 0.25 m radius rotating wheel has a
centripetal acceleration of 4.0 m/s2. What is the angular
velocity of the wheel?
17 A coin is placed on a stereo record, which takes 3 seconds to
make a complete revolution. Assume that the coin has a
velocity of 5 m/s.
a. What is the accelaraion of the coin?
b. What is the distance from the center of the stereo record
to the coin?

18 . battle ship simultaneously fires two shells at enemy ships. If

the shells follow the parabolic trajectories shown, which ship gets
hit first?
a. Boat A
b. Boat B
c. They will both be hit at the same time.
19. A 0.3 m radius automobile tire rotates how many rad after
starting at rest and accelerating at a constant 2 rad/s2 over a 5 s
interval?
a. 300m/s/s
b. 33.3 m/s/s
c. 30 m/s/s
d. 3 m/s/s
20. An object is moving in a circular path at a constant speed. If the
radius of the path is tripled while the speed remains the same, by
what factor will the centripetal on the object be multiplied?
21. A stone is thrown at an angle of 30 above the horizontal from
the top edge of a cliff with an initial speed of 12 m/s. A stop watch
measures the stone's trajectory time from top of cliff to bottom to
be 5.6 s. What is the height of the cliff? (g = 9.8 m/s) and air
resistance is negligible)
a. 58 m
b. 154 m
c. 120 m
d. 197 m
e. 213 m
22. A stone is thrown with an initial speed of 15 m/s at an angle of
53 above the horizontal from the top of a 35 m building. If g =
9.8 m/s
and air resistance is negligible, then what is the speed of the rock
as it hits the ground?
a. 15 m/s
b. 21 m/s
c. 30 m/s
d. 36 m/s

e. 42 m/s
23. A car goes around a bend. What provides the centripetal
force?
a. Gravity
b. Friction
c. Electrostatic friction
d. No force at all
24. A bridge that was 5.0 m long has been washed out by the rain
several days ago. How fast must a car be going to successfully
jump the stream? Although the road is level on both sides of the
bridge, the road on the far side is 2.0 m lower than the road on this
side.
a. 5.0 m/s
b. 7.8 m/s
c. 13 m/s
d. 25 m/s
e. 27 m/s
25. Arvin the Ant is on a picnic table. He travels 30 cm eastward,
then 25 cm northward, and finally 15 cm westward. What is the
magnitude of Arvin's net displacement?
a. 70 cm
b. 57 cm
c. 52 cm
d. 29 cm
e. 18 cm
26. Arvin the Ant travels 30 cm eastward, then 25 cm northward,
and finally 15 cm westward. What is Arvin's direction of
displacement with respect to his original position?
a. 59 N of E
b. 29 N of E
c. 29 N of W
d. 77 N of E
e. 15 N of W

27. A runner circles a track of radius 100 m in 100 s moving at a

constant rate. If the runner was initially moving north, what has
been the runner's average acceleration when halfway around the
track?
a. At a constant rate, the average acceleration would be zero.
b. 2 m/s, west
c. 0.25 m/s, south
d. 1.5 m/s2, east
e. No answer is correct
28. A baseball thrown from the outfield is released from shoulder
height at an initial velocity of 29.4 m/s at an initial angle of 30.0
with respect to the horizontal. If it is in its trajectory for a total of
3.00 s before being caught by the third baseman at an equal
shoulder-height level, what is the ball's net
vertical displacement during its 3-s trajectory?
a. 11.0 m
b. 9.80 m
c. 22.1 m
d. zero
e. 44.1 m
29. a dive shaft has an angular velocity of 60 rad/s. at what
distance should flyweights be positioned from the axis if they are
to have a linear velocity of 12 m/s.?
30. A ventilation fan has blades 0.25 m long rotating at 20 rpm.
What is the tangential velocity of each blade tip?
a. 0.02 m/s
b. 0.52 m/s
c. 5 m/s
d. 20 m/s
31. A girl of mass 30 kg is on a roundabout of radius 5 m that
makes one complete turn every 5 seconds. What is the
centripetal force acting on her?
32. A ball is rolled horizontally off a table with an initial speed of
0.24 m/s. A stopwatch measures the ball's trajectory time from

table to the floor to be 0.30 s. What is the height of the table? (g =

9.8 m/s and air resistance is negligible)
a. 0.11 m
b. 0.22 m
c. 0.33 m
d. 0.44 m
e. 0.55 m
33. A 75-kg person on skis is going down a hill sloped
at 30. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the
skis and the snow is 0.15. How fast is the skier going
10.0 s after starting from rest
a. 36 m/s/s
b. 78 m/s/s
34. . A carnival ride has a 3.0-m radius and rotates
once every 1.7 s. What is the speed of the rider?
a. 11m/s
b. 9.4 m/s
c. 3.4 m/s
d. 5 m/s
35. A 175-N sign is supported in a motionless
position by two ropes that each make 53[degree]
angles with the horizontal. What is the tension in the
ropes
a. 109 N
b. 175 N
c. 146 N
d. 310 N
36. You accidentally throw your car keys horizontally
at 5.0 m/s from a cliff 45 m high. How far from the
base of the cliff should you look for your keys
a. 225m
b. 135m
c. 15m

d. 45m
37. A model aeroplane is tethered to a post and held by a
fine line. It flies in a horizontal circle. Then the line breaks.
What direction will it fly in?
a. Directly to the center of the earth
b. Directly away from the center of the earth
c. In a circular path, as before
d. In a straight line as a tangent
38. Angular velocity is measured in:
a. Meters/second
b. Degrees/second
c. No units at all
d. Radian/second

39.
If the speed of the mass at the top of the circle is 3.6 m/s, what is
the tension in the string at this location?
a. 6.5 N
b. 12 N
c. 18 N
d. 30 N
40. The toy car runs off the edge of a table that is 1. 225m high. The car lands 0. 400m from the base of the
table. How long did it take the car to fall?
a. 0.5 seconds
b. 0.9 seconds
41. 0.6 seA grindstone spinning at the rate of 8.3 rev/s has what
approximate angular velocity?
42.It takes a motor 5 seconds to accelerate from rest to
3000 rpm. What is its angular acceleration?

43. Traveling 16 m/s, a 1600 kg car rounds a curve 32 m in

radius.
The centripetal force on the car is ?
44. Find the magnitude of the resultant acceleration of a
particle moving in a circle of radius 0.5 m at the instant when
its angular velocity is 3 rad/sec and its angular acceleration is 4
rad/s/s?
44. An electric motor turns 600rpm. What is the angular
velocity?
What is the angular displacement after 6 s?