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1. What is the total
displacement of a student who walks 3 blocks east, 2 blocks north, 1 block
west, and then 2 blocks south ?
0
2 blocks
east
2
blocks west
8
blocks
2. A baseball pitcher throws a
fastball at 42 m/s. If the batter is 18 m from the pitcher,
approximately how much time does
it take for the ball to reach the batter ?
1.9 s
2.3 s
0.86 s
0.43 s
3. As a body falls near the surface of the Earth, its acceleration
decreases
increases
remains the same
4. A stone is dropped from a
bridge 45 meters above the surface of a river. Approximately how
many seconds does the stone take
to reach the water's surface ?
1.0 s
10. s
3.0 s
22 s
5. A 100 N force acts at a 30oangle to the horizontal. The magnitude of the vertical
component of this force is
approximately
30. N
50. N
71 N
87 N
6. What is the magnitude of the
net force acting on a 2000 kg car as it accelerates from rest to a
speed of 15 m/s in 5.0 s ?
6000 N
20,000
N
30,000
N
60,000
N
7. The magnitude of the
gravitational force of attraction between Earth and the Moon is approximately
2.1 x
1020 N
6.0 x
1024 N
6.7 x
10-11 N
7.8 x
1028 N
8. How much work is done on a
downhill skier by an average braking force of 980 N to stop her in a
distance of 10. meters ?
10. J
98 J
1000 J
9800 J
9. A spring has a spring constant
of 120 N/m. How much potential energy is stored in the spring
as it is stretched 0.20 meter ?
2.4 J
4.8 J
12 J
24 J
10. A bicyclist accelerates from
rest to a speed of 5.0 m/s in 10. s. During the same 10. seconds,
a car accelerates from a speed of
22 m/s to a speed of 27 m/s. Compared to the acceleration of
the bicycle, the acceleration of
the car is
less
greater
the same
11. The work required to raise a
10. kg box from the surface of the earth to a height of 5.0 m is
50. J
100 J
200 J
490 J
12. The work done in accelerating
an object along a frictionless horizontal surface is equal to the
object's change in
momentum
velocity
potential
energy
kinetic
energy
13. Which is a vector quantity ?
power
weight
energy
mass
14. As a baseball moves from a
distance of 3.0 m to a distance of 6.0 m above the earth's surface,
the gravitational potential
energy of the ball-earth system
decreases
increases
remains
the same
15. If the distance between two
masses is tripled, the gravitational force between them becomes
1/9 as
great
1/3 as
great
3
times as great
9
times as great
16. If an unbalanced force of 50.
N accelerates an object 20 m/s2, the mass of the object is
0.40
kg
2.5 kg
70. kg
1000
kg
17. A motor has an output of 1000 W. When the motor is working at full
capacity, how much time will it require
to lift a 50 N weight 100 m ?
5 s 10 s 50 s
100
s
18. A basketball player who weighs 600 N jumps 0.5 m vertically off the floor.
What is her kinetic energy just before hitting the floor ?
30 J
60 J
300 J
600 J
19. Starting from rest, an object rolls freely down an incline that is 10 m long in 2 s.
The acceleration of the object is approximately
0.5 m/s2
2 m/s2
5 m/s2
10 m/s2
20. The work done on a 10.0 kg mass to give it a speed of 5.00 m/s is
50.0 J
2.00 J
125 J
250. J
21. A net force of 12 N acting north on an object for 4.0 s will produce an impulse of
48 kg*m/s north
48 kg*m/s south
3.0 kg*m/s north
3.0 kg*m/s south
22. A force of 3 N moves a 10 kg mass horizontally a distance of 3 m at constant velocity.
The work done against friction is
6 J
9 J
3 J
30 J
23. Two point masses that are equal are separated by a distance of 1 meter.
If one mass is doubled, the gravitational force between the two masses would be
1/2 as great
2 times greater
1/4 as great
4 times greater
24. Two horizontal forces act on a 1.0 kg wooden block as shown below.
If the block accelerates to the right at 2.0 m/s2, and F2 = 4.0 N, what is F1 ?
-0.5 N
-1.0 N
-2.0 N
-4.0 N
25. Two forces act concurrently on a point as shown below.
What is the magnitude of the resultant of these two forces ?
4.0 N
14 N
16 N
20. N
26. The graph below shows the motion of an object traveling in a straight line.
What is the total distance traveled by the object ?
45 m
90. m
150 m
210 m
27. As the angle between two concurrent forces of 5.0 N and 7.0 N increases from
0o to 180o, the magnitude of their resultant changes from
0 N to 35 N
2.0 N to 12 N
12 N to 2.0 N
12 N to 0 N
28. A 20. kg mass moving at a speed of 3.0 m/s is stopped by a constant force of 15 N.
How many seconds must the force act on the mass to stop it ?
0.20 s
1.3 s
5.0 s
4.0 s
29. A crane raises a 200. N weight to a height of 50. m in 5.0 s.
The crane does work at the rate of
8.0 x 10-1 W
2.0 x 101 W
2.0 x 103 W
5.0 x 104 W
30. 10 J of work are done in accelerating a 2.0 kg mass from rest across a horizontal frictionless table.
The total kinetic energy gained by the mass is
3.2 J
5.0 J
10. J
20. J
31. An object travels in a
circular path of radius 5.0 m at a uniform speed of 10. m/s. What is the magnitude
of the object's centripetal
acceleration ?
10. m/s2
2.0 m/s2
5.0 m/s2
20. m/s2
32. A 1 kg object is thrown
horizontally and a 2 kg object is dropped vertically at the same instant and from the
same point above the ground. If
friction is neglected, which object will hit the ground first ?
1 kg object
2 kg object
both hit the ground at the same time
Base your answers to questions 33 through 37 on the diagram below which shows a rock being thrown off a cliff with an initial horizontal velocity of 20. m/s east. (Disregard air resistance)
33. How long does it take the rock
to hit the ground ?
4.5 s
20. s
2.0 s
3.2 s
34. What is the initial vertical
component of the rock's velocity ?
0 m/s
5.0 m/s
10. m/s
20. m/s
35. What is the horizontal speed
of the rock after falling for 1.0 s ?
1.0 m/s
100 m/s
20. m/s
9.8 m/s
36. What is the vertical speed
of the rock after falling for 1.0 s ?
1.0 m/s
100 m/s
20. m/s
9.8 m/s
37. If the rock were thrown off
the cliff at 40. m/s east, what would increase ?
vertical acceleration
time in the air
horizontal distance
Base your answers to questions 38 and 39 on the diagram below which shows a satellite orbiting the earth.
38. Toward which
letter does the centripetal acceleration of the satellite point ?
A
B
C
D
39. Toward which
letter does the velocity of the satellite point ?
A
B
C
D
Base your answers to questions 40 and 41 on the diagram below which shows a toy airplane traveling in a circular path.
40. If only the speed of the toy airplane were doubled, what would happen to the centripetal acceleration ?
it would be halved
it would double
it would be quartered
it would quadruple
41. What is the direction of
the centripetal acceleration of the toy airplane ?
north
south
east
west
Base your answers to questions 42 through 46 on the diagram below which shows the
trajectory of a projectile launched
on the Earth's surface.
42. What is the
initial vertical velocity of the projectile ?
35 m/s
20 m/s
40 m/s
30 m/s
43. What is the
initial horizontal velocity of the projectile ?
35 m/s
20 m/s
40 m/s
30 m/s
44. If the angle
were decreased to 50o, the horizontal distance traveled by the projectile would
decrease
increase
remain the same
45. What is the horizontal
velocity of the projectile at point P ?
35 m/s
20 m/s
40 m/s
30 m/s
46. What is the vertical
velocity of the projectile at point P ?
35 m/s
20 m/s
40 m/s
0 m/s
Base your answers to questions 47 through 51 on the information below.
A ball is thrown horizontally with a speed v from a height h above level ground.
47. If the height above the
ground were increased, the initial vertical velocity of the ball would
decrease
increase
remain the same
48. If the height above the
ground were increased, the time of flight of the ball would
decrease
increase
49. If the initial speed of the
ball were increased, the time of flight of the ball would
decrease
increase
remain the same
50. If the initial speed of the
ball were increased, the horizontal distance traveled by the ball would
decrease
increase
remain the same
51. If the initial speed of the
ball were increased, the vertical acceleration of the ball would
decerease
increase
remain the same