2016 Kale Ab Secondary School Physics Work sheet III for Grade 12

Instruction:
Supply the correct answer for the following problems showing all the necessary steps clearly and neatly.
The answer must be there along with its respective question. Do individually and then submit your work in
group of at most six members.

1. Which of the following are equivalent?

(a) 6400km and 6.4 x108cm (b) 2x104 cm and 2x106 mm
(c) 800m and 80x102m (d) 100 μm and 1mm

2. A 4kg block is given an initial speed of 8m/s at the bottom of 30° inclined plane. The frictional
force that retards its motions is 15N. If the block is directed up the inclined plane, how far will it
move before it stops?
A. 3.66m B. 4.40 C. 3.38m D. 4.67m
3. A woman driving a 2000 kg car along a level road at 30m/s takes her foot off the gas to see how far
her car will roll before it slows to a stop. She discovers that it takes 150m. What is the average force
of friction acting on the car?
A. 9000N B. 6000N C. 3000N D. 400N
4. A 2kg object experiences two concurrent forces of 100N at 30° above the positive x-axis and 80 N
at 60° above the negative x-axis. what is the magnitude to acceleration of the object?
A. 68 m/s2 B. 48 m/s2 C. 64 m/s2 D. 46 m/s2
5. A driver moving at a constant speed of 30m/s sees an accident up ahead and hits the brakes. If the
car decelerates at a constant rate of -5m/s2, how far does the car go before it comes to a stop?
A. 120m C. 40m
B. 100m D. 20m
6. The planet Jupiter is about 318 times as massive as Earth, yet on its surface you would weigh only
about 2.4 times your weight on earth. Why is this happened?
A. Your mass is 132.5 times less on Jupiter
B. You are 132.5 times more weight less there
C. Jupiter is significantly farther from the sun
D. Jupiter’s radius is about 11.5 times the Earth’s radius
7. If two particles have equal; momentum, then which one of the following statements is TRUE about
their kinetic energies?
A. Their kinetic energies are always equal
B. Their kinetic energies are never equal
C. Their kinetic energies are equal when their masses are the same
D. Their kinetic energies are equal when the speed of one of the particle is half the speed of
the other particle and their masses are the same
8. A block of mass 10kg is pulled up a rough inclined plane with a force of 100 N parallel to the
inclined plane. The inclined plane makes an angle of 37° with the horizontal. At the instant when
the force is applied the block has a speed of 1.5m/s. if the coefficient of kinetic friction if 0.4, and
the block is pulled up 5m, what is the change in the kinetic energy of the block?
 A. 20 J B. 30 J C. 40 J D. 45.5 J
9. Find the distance of the centre of mass of the system shown in the diagram from point A. The rod is
mass less.

3m 3m 1m

A. 3.73m B. 2.09m C. 2.45m D. 5.86m

10. A wheel starts from rest and rotates with constant angular acceleration to reach an angular speed of
12 rad/s in 3s. what is the magnitude of the angular acceleration of the wheel in rad/s 2and the angle
in radians through which it rotates in this time interval respectively?
A. 4,18 B. 3,18 C. 18,5 D. 18,4
11. Which of the following objects has the largest moment of inertia assuming they all have the same
mass and radius?
A. A solid disk C. A circular loop
B. A solid sphere D. A solid cylinder
12. The radius of the wheel shown below is 0.75m. What is its moment of inertia?
3kg

3kg 3kg

3kg

A. 2.25kgm2 B. 3.38kgm2 C. 6.75kgm2 D. 9.00kgm2

iˆ  3.6 ˆj ) m
13. A 1.5 kg particle moves in the xy-plane with velocity v = (4.2 s What is its angular

momentum when its position vector is r = (1.5 iˆ + 2.2 ĵ )m?

m2 m2 m2 m2
A. -22 k̂ kg s B. 14.6 k̂ kg s C. -14.6 k̂ kg s D.22 k̂ kg s
14. Two particles with masses 2m and 3m are moving toward each other along the x axis with the same
initial speeds v. particle 2m is traveling to the left, and particle 3m is traveling to the right. They
undergo an elastic glancing collision such that particle 2m is moving in the negative y direction
after the collision. What are the x component of the final velocity of particle 3m and the kinetic
energy of particle 2m, respectively?
A. 0.33 V and 0.7 mv2 C. 0.67 v and 0.70 mv2
B. 0.33 v and 1.40 mv2 D. 0.67 v and 1.4 mv2
15. A very large open tank is full of oil whose density is 800kg/m 3. If the absolute pressure at the
bottom of the tank is 1.81x105pa, then what is the depth of the oil? (Note that atmospheric pressure
is 1.01 x 105 pa)
A. 100m B. 75m C. 10m D. 9.5m
16. Water flows through a fire hose of diameter 6.35 cm at a rate of 0.012m 3/s . The fire hose ends in a
nozzle of inner diameter 2.20 cm. what is the speed with which the water exits the nozzle?
B. 46.8 m/s C. 31.6 m/s D. 23.4 m/s
A. 63.2m/s
17. A garden hose has an inside diameter of 16cm. the hose can fill a 10 liter bucket in 20 seconds. If
the diameter of the nozzle is reduced to 8cm,
A. Water exits with a speed twice the speed inside the hose.
B. A 10 litter bucked can be filled in 10 seconds.
C. A 20 litter bucket can be filled in 40 seconds.
D. Water exits with a speed half the speed inside the hose.
18. A table-tennis ball which is spherical in shape has a diameter of 6cm and average density of
0.4g/cm3. What force is required to hold it completely submerged under water?
A. 0.68 N downward C. 1.13 N downward
B. 0.68 N upward D. 1.13 N upward
19. When a load of 500 kg is handing from a steel wire of length 3m and cross sectional area 0.20 cm 2,
the wire stretches beyond no-load length. If the Young’s modulus for the sire made of steel is Y = 2
x 1011pa, what is the change in length of the beyond its no-load length?
A. 3.75mm B. 2.75mm C. 1.75mm D. 0.75mm
20. A horizontal pipe of 10cm in diameter has a smooth reduction a pipe of 5cm in diameter. If the
pressure of the water in the larger pipe is 80kpa and the pressure in the smaller pipe is 60kpa, at
what rate does the water flow through the smaller pipe?
A. 1..63 m/s B. 6.53 m/s C. 13.6 m/s D. 42.67 m/s
21. A glass flask whose volume is exactly 1000cm at 0°C is totally filled with 1000cm3 of mercury at
3

this temperature. When flask if the coefficient of volume expansion of mercury is 1.82 X 10 -4/ C°,
what should be the coefficient of volume expansion of the glass?
A. 1.52 x10-4/C° B. 1.82 x 10-4/C° C. 3.00 x10-5/C° D. 1.00x 10-5/C°
22. The cross-sectional areas of the small and large pistons of a hydraulic lift are 4cm 2 and 0.02m2,

F
respectively. What is the magnitude of the force 1 that must be applied to the small piston to lift a
weight w = 15,000N placed on the large piston?
2
A. 3.0 x 10 N B. 7.5 x 105 N C. 1.5 x 104 N D. 3 x 106 N
23. If the Earth is at one fourth of its present distance from the Sun, the duration of the year will be
A. one fourth of the present year
B. half the present year
C. one - eighth the present year
D. one - sixth the present year
24. The driver of a car travelling at 72km/h observes the light 300m ahead of him turning red. The
traffic light is timed to remain red for 20s before it turns green. If the motorist wishes to passes the
light without stopping to wait for it to turn green, calculate
(i) the required uniform acceleration of the car
(ii) the speed with which the motorist crosses the traffic light.
25. A stone is dropped from the top of the tower 50m high. At the same time another stone is thrown up
from the foot of the tower with a velocity of 25m/s. At what distance from the top and after how
much time the stones cross each other?
26. A boy throws a ball so that it may just clear a wall 3.6m high. The boy is at a distance of 4.8m from
the wall. The ball was found to hit the ground at a distance of 3.6m on the other side of the wall.
Find the least velocity with which the ball can be thrown.
27. Two equal forces are acting at a point with an angle of 60° between them. If the resultant force is
equal to 20√3N, find the magnitude of each force.
28. A body of mass 2 kg initially at rest is moved by a horizontal force of 0.5N on a smooth frictionless
table. Obtain the work done by the force in 8sec and show that this is equal to change in kinetic
energy of the body.
29. A body is thrown vertically up from the ground with a velocity of 39.2m/s. At what height will its
kinetic energy be reduced to one – fourth of its original kinetic energy?
30. Determine the initial velocity and acceleration of particle travelling with uniform acceleration in a
straight line if it travels 55m in the 8th second and 85m in the 13th second of its motion.
31. An elevator is required to lift a body of mass 65kg. Find the acceleration of the elevator, which
could cause a reaction of 800 N on the floor.
32. A body whose mass is 6 kg is acted on by a force which changes its velocity from 3m/s to 5m/s.
Find the impulse of the force. If the force is acted for 2seconds, find the force in Newton.
33. A cricket ball of mass 150g moving at 36m/s strikes a bat and returns back along the same line at
21m/s. What is the change in momentum produced? If the bat remains in contact with the ball for
1/20s, what is the average force exerted in Newton.
34. A motor boat moves at a steady speed of 8m/s , If the water resistance to the motion of the boat is
2000N, calculate the power of the engine.
35. Two blocks of mass 300kg and 200kg are moving toward each other along a horizontal frictionless
surface with velocities of 50m/s and 100m/s respectively. Find the final velocity of each block if the
collision is completely elastic.