Assignment I

Instructure: Fandi Oktasendra, M.Sc

General Physics - Jul-Dec 2018
September 5, 2018

Direction: Work with your mates in your study group to solve these problems. Submit your work as per group
(not by individual) to your class chairman (komting)

1. An automobile travels on a straight road for 40 km at 30 km/h. It then continues in the same direction for
another 40 km at 60 km/h. (a) What is the average velocity of the car during this 80 km trip? (Assume that
it moves in the positive x direction.) (b) What is the average speed? (c) Graph x versus t and indicate how
the average velocity is found on the graph.
2. At a certain time a partile had a speed of 18 m/s in the positive x direction, and 2.4 s later its speed was 30
m/s in the opposite direction. What is the average acceleration of the particle during this 2.4 s interval?
3. With what speed must a ball be thrown vertically from ground level to rise to a maximum height of 50 m?
(b) How long will it be in the air? (c) Sketch graphs of y, v, and a versus t for the ball. On the first two
graphs, indicate the time at which 50 m is reached.
4. A proton inilitally has ~v = 4.0î−2ĵ+3.0k̂ v = 4.0i - 2.0j + 3.0k and then 4.0 s later has ~v = −2.0î−2.0ĵ+5.0k̂ (in
meters per second). For that 4.0s , what are (a) the proton’s average acceleration aavg in unit-vector notation,
(b) the magniture of aavg and (c) the angle between aavg and the postive direction of the x axis?
5. In Figure 1, a stone is projected at a cliff of height h with an initial speed of 42.0 m/s directed at angle
θ0 = 60o above the horizontal. the stone strikes at A, 5.5 s after launching. Find (a) the height h of the cliff,
(b) the speed of the stone just before impact at A and (c) the maximum height H reached above the ground.
6. You throw a ball toward a wall at speed 25 m/s and at angle θ0 = 40o above the horizontal (Figure 2). The
wall is distance d = 22 mm from the release point of the ball. (a) How far above the release point does the
ball hit the wall? What a the (b) horizontal and (c) vertical components of its velocity as it hits the wall?
(d) When it hits, has it passed the highest point on its trajectory?

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