Physics Fall Semester Review

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1D Motion

displacement distance ∆v
velocity= speed= acceleration=
time time ∆t

1. A rabbit hops 2 meters east in 5 seconds. It then turns around and hops 2 meters west for another
5 seconds. What is the rabbits average velocity?

2. The slope on a position time graph represents____________________

3. Determine whether the following quantities are scalars or vectors.

80 m/s North____________ 60 m/s___________ 5 meters right _______ 8 kg _________

4. Which of the following is a pair of vector quantities?

5. A car travels 80 meters east and then turns around and goes 20 meters west then turns and goes
10 meters north.
a) What is the car’s total displacement?

b) What is the car’s total distance?

6. A train travels 8 km in two hours and then stops for an hour. It then travels another 40 km in 4 hours.

c) What is the car’s average speed?

d) What is the car’s average velocity?

7. The speed of a car decreases uniformly from 35 m/s to 15 m/s in a time interval of 4 seconds.
What is the magnitude of the car’s acceleration?

8. Describe the motion of the object in graph to the right.

9. Draw what speeding up and then slowing down to a stop

10. What is the average velocity of the object between 0 and 5 seconds?

11. How fast is the object moving at 7 seconds?

12. What is the object’s total displacement after 12.5 seconds?

The graph below represents the motion of a car. For questions #13- 17 refer to the graph below.

13. During which interval is the car moving the fastest?

14. Which statement describes the motion of the car during segment C?

15. Does the car ever come to a stop? If so during which segment?

16. What distance did the car travel after 30 seconds?

17. What is the car’s average speed after 10 seconds has gone by?
 Refer to the graph to the right for questions #18-21

18. How fast is the object going at 20 seconds?

19. How fast is the object going at 30 seconds?

20. Explain the motion of the car between 40 and 50 seconds.

21. Does the object ever come to a stop? If so when?

2 D Motion
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Refer to the graph to the Below for questions #19

Vx = ______ ax = ______

Vy = ______ ay = ________

Vx = 3 m/s

Vy = 10 m/s Vx = ______ ax = ______

Vy = ______ ay = ______

20. A ball is thrown horizontally at a speed of 24 meters per second from the top of a cliff. If the ball hits
the ground 4.0 seconds later, approximately how high is the cliff?

21. An arrow is shot straight up into the air with a speed of 30 m/s.
a) What is it’s vertical speed at it’s maximum height?
b) What will it’s vertical speed be right when it returns to it’s launch height?
c.) What is it’s vertical speed 2 seconds after it is shot? Is it still going up?
22. Two balls are thrown horizontally from the top of a building 24.0 m tall. Ball A is thrown with a
velocity of 30.0 m/s, and ball B with a velocity of 15.0 m/s. Which of the following statements is
true?

a) Ball A and B hit the ground at the same time and at the same horizontal distance from the
base of the building.

b) Ball A takes twice as long to hit the ground as ball B hit and they both hit the ground at
the same horizontal distance from the base of the building.

c) Ball A and B hit the ground at the same time and the horizontal distance for A is twice
the horizontal distance for B.

d) Ball A takes twice as long to hit the ground as ball B and the horizontal distance for A is
twice the distance for B.

23. A box was dropped from an airplane moving with a speed of 250 mph. Assuming the airplane did
not change direction or speed and that there was no air resistance, where was the box relative to
the airplane when it landed?
a) The box was behind the airplane
b) The box was under the airplane
c) The box was ahead of the airplane
d) This cannot be determined without knowing the mass of the box and the
airplane.

24. The vector below has :

a) a positive x component and a negative y component

25. A ball rolls off a 1.0 m high table and lands on the floor 3.0 m away from the table. How long will it
take to reach the floor?

26. A watermelon is dropped straight down from the top of a building. What is the initial vertical
velocity and horizontal velocity of the watermelon?
a.) vertical 0 m/s, horizontal 9.8 m/s
b.) vertical 0 m/s, horizontal 0 m/s
c.) vertical 9.8 m/s, horizontal 0 m/s
d.) vertical 9.8 m/s, horizontal 9.8 m/s
Relative Motion

27. A person in a car travelling at 10 m/s relative to the Earth throws a ball with a speed of 5 m/s in the
direction opposite to the motion of the car. What is the velocity of the ball relative to Earth as it
leaves the thrower’s hand?
28. A person on a bus travelling at 3 m/s relative to the Earth is walking at 3 m/s in the opposite direction
of the buses’ movement. What is the velocity of the person relative to Earth?

29. A person on a bus travelling at 10 m/s relative to the Earth is walking at 3 m/s in the direction of the
buses’ movement. What is the velocity of the person relative to Earth?

Gravity

30. The gravitational force between two spheres that are separated by a distance is 40 N.
The spheres are moved so that they are now 3 times farther away. What is the new force between
Them?

31. Suppose the gravitational force between two spheres is 100 N. The mass of one sphere triples
Calculate the new force between them.

32. Two spheres a distance apart part experience a gravitational force of 10 N between them. Calculate
the new force between them if they are now half as far away?

33. Determine the mass of a student that weighs 400N.

Forces

34. A nurse applies a horizontal force of 147 N on a bed that has a mass of 152 kg. What is the
magnitude of the normal force acting on the bed?

35. A cart with a mass of 5 kg rests on a floor next to a wall as shown in the diagram. A person pushes
on the cart to the left toward the wall with a force of 100 N. Which of the following statements is
true in this situation?
a. The wall does not push on the cart.
b. The floor pushes 100 N up on the cart.
c. The cart pushes 100 N down on the floor.
 d. The wall pushes 100 N to the right on the cart.

35. A small car and a large SUV are at a stoplight. Both cars exert the same force when accelerating.
When the light turns green, both drivers push their accelerators to the floor at the same time. The
following statement describes what happens.
a. The SUV pulls ahead of the car
b. The small car pulls ahead of the SUV
c. They accelerate at exactly the same rate.
d. There is not enough information to predict what happens.

36. In the free-body diagram shown at right, which way will the balloon move?

37. Refer to the illustration below. A force is applied to each of the four 1 kg blocks to slide them
across a steel table. Which block experiences the most friction?

38. A heavy box is pushed across the surface of a desk to the right. According to Newton’s laws of
motion, which of the following statements is correct?
a. The desk exerts an upward force on the box greater than the box’s weight.
b. The desk exerts an upward force on the box smaller than the box’s weight.
c. The desk exerts an upward force on the box equal to the box’s weight.
d. It is impossible to know how the upward force on the box compares to the box’s weight

39. In the illustration below a student is applying a 10 N force to slide a block across a table at a constant
speed. The student then cuts the block in half and places on top of the other block. What is the force
required to slide the stacked blocks across the table at a constant speed?
Circular Motion
40. Ms. Haddad decided that she was going to try a new exercise. Perhaps, she pondered, by swinging a
bowling ball at the end of a chain above her head in a horizontal circle she would develop arms like Xena
the Warrior Princess. So she took a 8.0 kg bowling ball and swung in a 3.0-meter radius circle at a
velocity of 0.9m/s. What would be the centripetal force on the bowling ball?

41. In a desperate attempt to impress the ladies, Coach Hairfield purchased a red corvette. To appear
“cool” he wanted to drive his corvette as fast as possible around the student parking lot after school. The
radius of the curve he planned to drive is 10 meters HE made one lap in 8 seconds at a velocity of 7.8 m/s.

a) What is the period of the rotation?

b) What is the centripetal acceleration?

c) If the mass of the corvette and Coach Hairfield is 1650 kg, what is the centripetal force
experienced by the car?

42. A test car moves at a constant speed around a circular track. If the car is 38.2 m from the track’s
center and has a centripetal acceleration of 8.05 m/s2, what is the car’s tangential speed?

43 A car is coming around a curve with a radius of 5 meters at a constant speed. What will happen to the
 centripetal force if we increase the radius to 10 meters?
a) Force increases by a factor of 2
b) Force increases by a factor of 4
c) Force decreases by a factor of 2
d) Forces decreases by a factor of 4

Thermodynamics
Explain the relationship between temperature, kinetic energy and entropy

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