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number being multiplied by the specified power of ten. For instance, 3.5 E-3 means
3.5 times ten to the -3 power.
1) A snail can travel at a rate of 2.3 inches per minute. At the same rate, how
many miles will it travel in a year?
2) Convert 3.675 E5 Mg into ng.
3) A rectangular block of Beryllium is measured and found to be 2.48 cm wide,
5.77 cm long, and 1.8 cm tall. What is its volume in cubic meters?
4) A right triangle has a 68� angle. The adjacent side to that angle measures
16 meters. What is the area of the triangle?
5) How many significant figures do the following have?
a) 34.6
b) .000045050
c) 60000
d) 3.400 E-8
e) 9200006
6) Convert these decimal numbers to scientific notation:
a) 6190000
b) .0000000000577
c) 12
d) .9
e) 30000000
7) Convert these scientific notational numbers to decimal numbers:
a) 4.508 E-5
b) 6.88 E11
c) 3.81 E-1
d) 4 E2
8) Give x and y coordinates for the following points given in polar coordinates:
a) (54 , 30�)
b) (600 , 45�)
c) (87.5 , 18�)
9) Give r and theta for the following points given in rectangular coordinates:
a) (3 , 4)
b) (12 , 24)
c) (9.25 , 2.75)
10) Planet X is known to have a mass of 2.85 E24 kg. Assuming it is a perfect
sphere in shape, and its diameter is 5.59 E6 m, calculate its density.
11) The mass of the sun is 2 E30 kg, and the mass of the Hydrogen atom, of
which the sun is mainly composed, is 1.67 E-27 kg. How many Hydrogen atoms
are in the sun?
12) The basic function of an automobile carburetor is to atomize the gasoline
and mix it with air to promote rapid combustion. Assume that 50 cubic cm of
gasoline is atomized into N spherical particles, each with a radius of 2.0 E-5
m.
What is the total surface area of these N spherical droplets?
13) The speed of light is 3.00 E8 m/s. If the distance from the sun to the Earth
is
93,000,000 miles, how long does it take for light to arrive here from the sun?
(One mile = 1609.44 m)
14) The Andromeda galaxy is about 2 E6 light years distant. The snail in problem
deep. If grains of sand are perfect cubes and measure .25 mm on a side, how many
12) Human reaction time averages about .18 s. That benevolent wizard reappears
in your life again and tells you he will hold a thousand dollar bill just above
your open
thumb and forefinger and will drop it any moment. The length of the bill is 15.5
cm.
If your reactions are average, will you catch the money or let it slip thru your
fingers?
Assume the bill falls straight down without any air resistance.
13) The distance from the Earth to the sun is 93,000,000 miles. Find the
velocity
of the Earth in its orbit about the sun.
14) A railroad train travels from point A to point B at a rate of 80 miles per
hour and
returns by the same route at 100 miles per hour. What is its average velocity
for
the round trip?
15) Two men, each holding a baseball, stand at the top of a building. Each man
throws their baseball at a speed of 16 m/s, one straight up and one straight
down.
The first one hits the street in a time t1. How much later is it for the second
ball
to hit the street (in terms of t1)?
16) Construct a displacement-time graph with the following specifications:
a) From t=0 to t=2 s, the body travels at a constant 2 m/s
b) From t=2 to t=4 s, the body remains motionless
c) From t=4 to t=7 s, the body travels at a constant 1 m/s
d) From t=7 to t=9 s, the body travels at a constant -3 m/s
e) From t=9 to t=10 s, the body remains motionless
What is the final displacement of the body from its starting position?
What is its average velocity?
17) Observe the following graph and describe the motion during each interval:
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18) A crazed physics teacher jumps out of an airplane and accelerates with
gravity
to a maximum velocity of 58.8 m/s in 6 s. He then opens his parachute and after
a
four second deceleration, descends at 10 m/s for 60 seconds, reaching the
ground.
From what height did the crazed physics teacher jump?
Physics 1 --- Chapter 3 Study Sheet
1) Explain the difference between a vector and a scalar and gives three examples
of each.
2) Derive the equation: sin squared theta + cos squared theta = 1.
3) Explain what arithmetic combinations of scalars, vectors, and constants are
allowable and what their resultants are.
4) A man is taking his pregnant wife to the hospital to deliver a baby. They
live
14.0 km south and 11.5 km east of the hospital. If they travel unimpeded at a
constant speed of 25 m/s, how much time would they save by traveling in a direct
12 m in between the two spans of the bridge. If the spans are elevated 22�
relative
to the horizontal, what must your car's minimum velocity be to be able to safely
14) Mark McGwire strikes an incoming 42 m/s fastball. The ball leaves the bat at
54 m/s after a ball-on-bat contact time of .03 s. What force is exerted on the
.15
kg baseball?
15) Kristi Yamaguchi moves on the ice at 12 m/s and coasts to a halt in 140m
on a smooth, level ice surface. What is the coefficient of friction between the
ice and the skates?
16) Thelma and Louise are using a rope to pull a safe out of a bank that weighs
1200 N across a level surface with constant velocity. The rope makes a 20� angle
above the horizontal and the tension in the rope is 250 N. What is the
coefficient
of friction?
17) A 30 kg traffic light hangs midway between two poles 50 m apart. If the sag
in
the cable is .75 m, what is the tension in each side of the cable?
18) You drive to San Francisco and park your car in front of your friend's house
on a
rather inclined street. You know that the coefficient of friction between your
tires
and the street is m = .78. What is the steepest angle, q, that you can park your
car
(wheels locked) without it slipping downhill?
19) Ingemar Stenmark was skiing at 22 m/s down a 30� snow slope, when he
encountered a large patch of wet snow. The wet snow had a coefficient of
friction
of m = .67. How far down the hill did he go before coming to a halt?
20) A 150 N sled is pulled up a 28� slope at a constant speed by a force of
100N.
Near the top of the incline, the sled is released. With what acceleration does
the
sled go back down the hill?
14) You smack a tennis ball against a wall and notice that the ball only has 3/4
of its original
speed when it bounces back. What part of its kinetic energy did it lose during
its collision
with the wall?
15) You and your friends exert a force of 3500 N at an angle of 12� to the
horizontal
pushing your broken down primer gray 1964 Impala with dingle balls, tuck and
roll
interior, twice pipes, grey lights in the wheel wells, and "Crystal Blue
Persuasion"
painted on the rear glass. The car has mass of 1500 kg. You achieve an
acceleration of
1.7 m/s/s over a distance of 10 meters. What force of friction acts to retard
the motion
of the car? How much work is done by you and your friends?
16) You ride your bicycle down a hill. Your total mass is 54 kg. At the top of
the hill, your
speed is 5 m/s. The hill is 18 m high and 165 m long. If the force of friction
is 20 N, what is
your speed at the bottom of the hill?
17) The Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone Park shoots water to a height of 40 m
nearly
every hour. At what velocity must the water leave the ground?
18) Grossbarger T. Zyglewicz, a polish weightlifter, can lift 250 kg to a height
of 2 meters
in 1.75 seconds. How much work does he do and what is his power output?
19) Last time you went water skiing you noticed that the speedboat required 85
kW to
move at a constant speed of 18 m/s. What is the resistive force of the water at
that speed?
20) Brett Butler throws a .15 kg baseball at a speed of 40 m/s and at initial
angle of 22�
from a height of 2 m. What are the kinetic and potential energies of the ball at
the
highest point in its trajectory?
21) My MR2 sportscar has a mass of 1120 kg and accelerates from zero to 25 m/s
in 7.8 s.
What is the average horsepower delivered by the engine? (1 hp = 746 W)
22) A spring platform is constructed for a stunt man to use for simulating the
results
of a nearby explosion. If the spring is compressed a distance of .375 m, it can
launch
a 70 kg stunt man to a height of 6 m when released vertically from rest.
Neglecting all
of the resistive forces, determine the spring constant and the speed of the
stunt man
as he passes the equilibrium position (x = 0) of the spring.
Physics 1 --- Chapter 6 Study Sheet
1) Describe the relationship between force, momentum, time, mass and velocity.
2) Describe the principle of conservation of momentum; describe how it applies
to
two-dimensional motion as well as linear motion.
3) Describe the difference between elastic and perfectly inelastic collisions
and give
an example of each.
4) A 55 kg roller skater accelerates from rest to a speed of 18 m/s in 4.0 s.
What is her
change in momentum? What force must have been applied? Verify your answer using
principles of mechanics.
5) A swimmer jumps horizontally off an aluminum skiff (small boat) of mass 175
kg. The
swimmer's speed immediately after leaving the skiff is 3.2 m/s. If the skiff
moves at a
speed of 1.25 m/s, what is the mass of the swimmer?
6) A 4800 kg bus moving at 28 m/s rams into a parked car and locks bumpers as
the
two vehicles continue down the road at 19 m/s. What is the mass of the parked
car?
7) A 65 g racquetball, initially moving horizontally at 47 m/s, slams into the
wall and
rebounds at a speed of 39 m/s. What is its change in momentum?
8) An army howitzer of mass 3200 kg fires a 70 kg shell with a velocity of 220
m/s at an
angle of 40� above the horizontal. Given that the howitzer rides on frictionless
wheels,
what is the recoil velocity of the howitzer along the level ground on which it
sits?
9) A machine gun is attached to a railroad flat car of mass 1.45 x 105 kg which
is able
to roll with negligible friction. How many bullets of mass 16 g must be fired at
330 m/s
off the back by the gun so that the railcar achieves a forward speed of 1.0 m/s?
10) Roger Clemens throws a 150 g baseball at Junior Griffey at a speed of 42
m/s. The
batter hits the ball straight back at the pitcher with a return speed of 58 m/s.
If the bat
is in contact with the ball for .045 s, what is the impulse experienced by the
ball?
11) A pendulum bob of mass 50 g is suspended from a string 1.4 m long at an
angle of
28� from the vertical. If the pendulum is released from rest and strikes an 80 g
ice
puck at the lowest point in its swing, what will the speed of the ice puck be if
all of the
pendulum's momentum is transferred to the puck?
13) If the diameter of the Earth is 7827 miles, calculate the linear speed due
to the Earth's
rotation for a person standing at the equator of the Earth.
14) The cord of a weed whacker is .18 m in length. If the motor rotates at 24
rev/s, what is the
tangential velocity of the end of the cord?