Int. Mech.

Practice exam 2 Name___________________________

1. In order to get an object moving, you must push harder on it than it pushes back on you.
A) True
B) False
Answer: B

2. A truck is using a hook to tow a car whose mass is one quarter that of the truck. If the force
exerted by the truck on the car is 6000 N, then the force exerted by the car on the truck is
A) 1500 N.
B) 24000 N.
C) 6000 N.
D) 12000 N.
E) We need to know if the car is accelerating to answer this question.
Answer: C

3. An object of mass m rests on a flat table. The earth pulls on this object with a force of
magnitude mg. What is the reaction force to this pull?
A) The table pushing up on the object with force mg.
B) The object pushing down on the table with force mg.
C) The table pushing down on the floor with force mg.
D) The object pulling upward on the Earth with force mg.
E) The table pulling upward on the Earth with force mg.
Answer: D

4. An astronaut weighs 99 N on the Moon, where the acceleration of gravity is 1.62 m/s2. How
much does she weigh on Earth?
A) 16 N
B) 61 N
C) 99 N
D) 600 N
E) 440 N
Answer: D

5. If a net force accelerates a 4.5-kg tool at 40 m/s2, what acceleration would that same net force
give to an 18-kg tool?
A) 180 m/s2
B) 10 m/s2
C) 160 m/s2
D) 9.8 m/s2
E) 32 m/s2
Answer: B

6. A 1200-kg car is pulling a 500-kg trailer along level ground. Friction of the road on the trailer
is negligible. The car accelerates with an acceleration of 1.3 m/s2. What is the force exerted by
the car on the trailer?
A) 550 N
B) 600 N
C) 650 N
D) 700 N
E) 750 N
Answer: C

7. A push of magnitude P acts on a box of weight W as shown in the figure. The push is directed
at an angle below the horizontal, and the box remains a rest. The box rests on a horizontal
surface that has some friction with the box. The friction force on the box due to the floor is equal
to

A) P sin
B) P cos
C) 0
D) P cos + W
E) P + W
Answer: B

8. Three boxes are pulled along a horizontal frictionless floor by a constant horizontal pull P.
The boxes are connected by very light horizontal strings having tensions T1 and T2 as shown in
the figure. Which of the following statements about the tensions is correct? (There could be more
than one correct choice.)

A) T1 = P
B) T2 = P
C) T1 + T2 = P
D) T2 > T1
E) T1 > T2
Answer: E

9. Two boxes are connected to each other by a string as shown in the figure. The 10-N box slides
without friction on the horizontal table surface. The pulley is ideal and the string has negligible
mass. What is true about the tension T in the string?
 A) T = 10 N
B) T = 20 N
C) T = 30 N
D) T < 30 N
E) T > 30 N
Answer: D

10. Two objects of unequal masses, M and m (M > m), are connected by a very light cord passing
over an ideal pulley of negligible mass. When released, the system accelerates, and friction is
negligible.

Which one of the following free-body diagrams most realistically represents the forces acting on
the two objects in the moving system?

A)

B)
C)

D)

Answer: C
Var: 1

11. A 200-N sled of slides down a frictionless hillside that rises at 37 above the horizontal. What
is the magnitude of the force that the hill exerts on the sled parallel to the surface of the hill?
A) 200 N
B) 120 N
C) 160 N
D) 150 N
E) 0 N
Answer: E

12. A block of mass m sits at rest on a rough inclined ramp that makes an angle with the
horizontal. What must be true about normal force F on the block due to the ramp?
A) F > mg
B) F > mg cos
C) F > mg sin
D) F = mg cos
E) F = mg sin
Answer: D
13. A 40-kg box is being pushed along a horizontal smooth surface. The pushing force is 15 N
directed at an angle of 15 below the horizontal. What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the
crate?
A) 0.16 m/s2
B) 0.36 m/s2
C) 0.47 m/s2
D) 0.39 m/s2
E) 0.68 m/s2
Answer: B

14. In the figure, block A has a mass of 3.00 kg. It rests on a smooth horizontal table and is
connected by a very light horizontal string over an ideal pulley to block B, which has a mass of
2.00 kg. When block B is gently released from rest, how long does it take block B to travel 80.0
cm?

A) 0.404 s
B) 0.494 s
C) 0.639 s
D) 0.785 s
E) 0.935 s
Answer: C

15. A bulldozer attempts to drag a log weighing 500 N along the rough horizontal ground. The
cable attached to the log makes an angle of 30 above the ground. The coefficient of static
friction between the log and the ground is 0.50, and the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.35.
What minimum tension is required in the cable in order for the log to begin to slide?
Answer: 220 N
Var: 1

16. A horizontal 52-N force is needed to slide a box across a flat surface at a constant
velocity of 3.5 m/s. What is the coefficient of kinetic friction between the box and the floor?
A) 0.11
B) 0.09
C) 0.10
D) 0.13
Answer: A

17. Two packages are connected by a very light string that goes over an ideal pulley as shown in
the figure. Package A has a mass of 3.0 kg and can slide along a rough plane inclined at 30
above the horizontal. The string acts on package A parallel to the surface of the plane. The
coefficient of static friction between package A and the plane is 0.40. What minimum mass
should package B have in order to start package A sliding up the ramp?

Answer: 2.5 kg

18. A 7.5-N force is exerted on the 1.3-kg block shown at

figure at right.

The correct ranking of the interacting forces is

a) F1,2 =F2,1 =F2,3 =F3,2

b) F1,2 =F2,1 > F 2,3=F 3,2

c) F1,2 =F2,1 < F 2,3=F 3,2

d) F1,2 > F 2,1 > F 2,3> F 3,2

Answer:
4.- Now the 7.5-N force is exerted on the 4.9-kg block
shown at figure at right, find again the magnitude and
direction of the interaction forces between:

a) F1,2 =F2,1 =F2,3 =F3,2

b) F1,2 =F2,1 > F 2,3=F 3,2

c) F1,2 =F2,1 < F 2,3=F 3,2

d) F1,2 > F 2,1 > F 2,3> F 3,2

Answer:
19. According to the Free Body Diagram below, the equation in the x direction is

a) ma x =F 4 + F 3 cos

b) ma x =F 4 F3 sin

c) ma x =F 3 cos+ F 4

d) ma x =F 3 cosF 4

Answer: D
20. A crate pushed along the floor with velocity v slides a distance d after the pushing force is removed.

If the mass of the crate is doubled but the initial velocity is not changed, what distance does the crate
slide before stopping?

a) 2d
b) d
c) d
d) 4d

21. A crate pushed along the floor with velocity v slides a distance d after the pushing force is removed.

If the initial velocity of the crate is doubled to 2v i but the mass is not changed, what distance does the
crate slide before stopping?
a) 2 d
b) d
c) d
d) 4 d

22. A 24 kg child goes down a straight slide inclined38 above horizontal. The child is acted on by his
weight, the normal force from the slide, and kinetic friction.
23. How large is the normal force of the slide on the child?

N = 185 N