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A final exam for basic high school physics mechanics class

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Final Exam Physics Mechanics

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Final Exam Physics 1

YOU MUST SHOW ALL WORK FOR FULL CREDIT. This includes writing the
knowns, unknowns, and equations used, the full algebraic process during
solving, substituting numbers into the equations properly, and including units
both in your work and answer. Circle your final answer.

1) A 1200 kg car drives down a street at 40 km/h. A 3kg ball suddenly


bounces into the street from the right sidewalk 5m in front of the car.
a. If it takes the driver 0.65s to react and apply the brakes, how
many meters will the car have moved BEFORE it begins to slow
down?
b. Does the car hit the ball?
c. If the ball came into the street moving perpendicular to the car
at 5 m/s, was hit by the car which loses 2km/hr of speed, in an
elastic collision, and was thrown away from the car, what is the
ball’s speed immediately after the collision? Hint: use the
conservation of momentum equation.
d. Extra Credit: How many meters does the ball fly before landing if
it is thrown at a 30-degree angle upwards from the ground?

2) A jet starts from rest and accelerates in a straight line at a constant


acceleration of 5.00 m/s2 for 50.0 s before leaving the ground.
a. How far did it travel?
b. How fast was the jet going when it took off?

3) A crane is lifting a 200kg crate vertically at 1.0 m/s when a bag of its
cargo is dropped. The crate continues moving upwards. The bag falls
for 3.0 s.
a. What is the bag’s final velocity?
b. How far has the bag fallen?
c. How far below the crate is the bag?
d. How much work is done to lift crate to where the bag fell from?
e. How much power is needed to lift the crate 5m in 3s?
4) Two blocks are connected by a string over a frictionless, massless
pulley such that one is resting on an inclined plane 33 degrees from
the horizontal and the other is hanging over the top edge of the plane.
The hanging block (m1) has a mass of 8.0 kg, and the one on the plane
(m2) has a mass of 4.0 kg. The coefficient of kinetic friction between
the block and the inclined plane is 0.23. The blocks are released from
rest.

a. Draw the free body diagram of each block.


b. Write a sum of the forces equation for each block in both the x
and y direction.
c. Extra Credit: What is the acceleration of the blocks?
d. What is the tension in the string connecting the blocks?

5) In a solar model, the Moon is 3.9 km from Earth’s center and 1.5 km
from the Sun’s center. The masses of Earth and the Sun are 6.0kg and
2.0kg, respectively. G is 6.67E-11 m^3/kg*s^2
a. What is the force of gravity between the Earth and the sun if
their centers are 4.81m from each other?
b. Extra Credit: Find the ratio of the gravitational fields due to Earth
and the Sun at the center of the Moon

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