2010-11 Physics 1 Quiz Practice 1

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QUESTION 1
This and the next two questions are about the following situation:

A circular saw blade of radius 0.1 meters rotates at a speed of 1800 revolutions
per minute.
The angular velocity ω of the saw blade is
(a) ω = 132.1 rad/s (b) ω = 188.5 rad/s
(c) ω = 207.4 rad/s (d) ω = 289.9 rad/s
(e) ω = 314.2 rad/s

QUESTION 2
Suppose the blade speeds up so that ω = 452 rad/s. What is the centripetal acceleration, a, of a small tooth on the outer
edge of the saw blade?
(a) a = 13310 m/s2 (b) a = 18273 m/s2
(c) a = 20430 m/s2 (d) a = 25020 m/s2
(e) a = 57750 m/s2

QUESTION 3
This and the next two questions are about the following
situation:
A boat captain guides his boat across the river at an angle
θ as shown. The river flows toward the east.
If the speed of the boat with respect to the river, |vb/r|, is
12 mph, the angle θ = 60° and she ends up on the opposite bank directly across from her starting point, what is the
speed, |vr|, of the river?
(a) |vr| = 6.0 mph (b) |vr| = 7.3 mph
(c) |vr| = 9.1 mph (d) |vr| = 9.8 mph
(e) |vr| = 10.6 mph

QUESTION 4
At a different time of the year, the captain must launch at an angle θ less than 60° in order to end up directly opposite.
At this time of year, |vr| is
(a) smaller than above.
(b) the same as above.
(c) larger than above.

QUESTION 5
This and the next two questions are about
the following situation:
A boy wants to throw a water balloon from a
roof deck and hit the far side of the street
below. He throws the ball at 5 m/s at an
angle of 45° to the horizontal.

If vboy = 0, what is the maximum height, h,

reached by the balloon above the street?
(a) h = 6.8 m (b) h = 6.3 m
(c) h = 5.9 m (d) h = 5.1 m
(e) h = 4.6 m
QUESTION 6
This time, suppose the boy gets a running start, vboy = 3 m/s toward the street. What is the speed of the balloon, vballoon,
when it hits the street?
(a) vballoon = 9.9 m/s (b) vballoon = 10.8 m/s
(c) vballoon = 11.6 m/s (d) vballoon = 12.4 m/s
(e) vballoon = 13.8 m/s

QUESTION 7
A projectile is shot out at 45° with respect to the horizon with an initial velocity of Vx = Vy = Vxy. When is the
earliest time, t, that the velocity vector makes an angle of 30° with respect to the horizontal?
(a) t = Vxy / (g sin 30°)
(b) t = Vxy (1 - sin30°) / g
(c) t = Vxy tan 30° / g
(d) t = Vxy (1 - tan 30°) / g
(e) t = Vxy / (g tan 30°)

QUESTION 8
This and the next two questions are about the following situation:
A car travels around a banked racing track curve as shown below. The curve has a radius of curvature of R; the car is
moving into the page.

The centripetal acceleration of the car traveling around the curve is

(a) in the negative x direction.
(b) perpendicular to g and away from the center of the curve.
(c) perpendicular to g and toward the center of the curve.

QUESTION 9
Suppose the curve is icy and there is no friction between the wheels and the road. What speed of the car, vice, ensures
that it does not slide up or down the roadway?

QUESTION 10
This and the next two questions are about the following situation:
In part of a yo-yo trick, a student rotates the yo-yo of mass m = 0.25 kg at the end of its string of length l = 0.75 m in a
vertical plane. The student is careful to have the speed of the yo-yo constant at v = 3 m/s throughout the rotation.
What is the tension, Ttop, in the string at the top of the path?
 (a) Ttop = 0.548 N
(b) Ttop = 0.923 N
(c) Ttop = 1.85 N
(d) Ttop = 3.78 N
(e) Ttop = 5.45 N

QUESTION 11
Where does the tension have its maximum value?
(a) at the top of the path
(b) on the left or right sides of the path
(c) at the bottom of the path

QUESTION 12

This and the next question are about the following situation:

A block of mass 7 kg is placed on top of a block of mass 10 kg, which in turn sits on a frictionless horizontal surface,
as shown in the figure. A force F = 20 N is applied to the 10 kg block, and the 7 kg block is held in place by a string
attached to the wall. There is static friction between the blocks, which keeps the lower block from moving.

What is the tension, T, in the string?

(a) T = 5 N
(b) T = 10 N
(c) T = 20 N

QUESTION 13

The force F is now slowly increased. It is observed that when F reaches 25 N, the lower block begins to move to the
right. What is the coefficient of static friction, μs, between the blocks?

(a) μs = 0.26
(b) μs = 0.36
(c) μs = 0.49
(d) μs = 0.55
(e) μs = 0.61

QUESTION 14

This and the next question are about the following situation:

A block of mass m1 rests on a frictionless ramp, which makes an angle θ with respect to the horizontal. It is attached to
a string that wraps over a massless pulley. A block of mass m2 hangs vertically from the other end of the string. The
whole system is initially held at rest. It is then released.

Which one of the expressions below right is a correct expression for the acceleration of the m2 mass after the system is
released? Take the positive direction to be vertically upwards, as shown in the figure.

QUESTION 15

Let m1 = 15 kg, m2 = 5 kg. If the acceleration of m2 were measured to be +1.23m/s2, what would be the tension, T, in the
string?

(a) T = 98 N
(b) T = 55 N
(c) T = 35 N
(d) T = 22 N
(e) T = 12 N