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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
1) A nonuniform, 80.0-g, meterstick balances when the support is placed at the 51.0-cm 1)
mark. At what location on the meterstick should a 5.00-g tack be placed so that the
stick will balance at the 50.0 cm mark?
A) 35.0 B) 66.0 C) 16.0 D) 34.0 E) 67.0
cm cm cm cm cm

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the
question.
2) A 3.00-kg ball rests in a frictionless groove as shown in the figure. 2)

(a) What is the magnitude of the force that the left side of the groove exerts on
the ball?
(b) What is the magnitude of the force that the right side of the groove exerts
on the ball?

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 3) In the figure, a 10.0-m long bar is attached by a frictionless hinge to a wall and 3)
held horizontal by a rope that makes an angle θ of 53° with the bar. The bar is
uniform and weighs 39.9 N. How far from the hinge should a 10.0-kg mass be
suspended for the tension T in the rope to be 125 N?

4) An aluminum wire and a steel wire, each of length 2.0 m, are hung from the 4)
ceiling. A 5.0-kg mass is suspended from the lower end of each wire. The
aluminum wire has a diameter of 2.2 mm. What must be the diameter of the
steel wire if it is to stretch the same distance as the aluminum wire, so that the
two wires maintain equal lengths after the masses are attached? Young's
modulus for aluminum is 0.70 × 1011 N/m2 and for steel it is
2.0 × 1011 N/m2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
5) A 0.600-mm diameter wire stretches 0.500% of its length when it is stretched with a 5)
tension of 20.0 N. What is the Young's modulus of this wire?
A) 1.41 × 1010 N/m2
B) 3.54 × 109 N/m2
C) 2.78 × 109 N/m2
D) 5.66 × 1010 N/m2
E) 6.43 × 109 N/m2

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 6) A 1000-kg object hangs from the lower end of a steel rod 5.0 m long that is suspended 6)
vertically. The diameter of the rod is 0.80 cm and Young's modulus for the rod is
210,000 MN/m2. What is the elongation of the rod due to this object?
A) 0.46 cm
B) 1.8 cm
C) 0.047 cm
D) 1.2 cm
E) 0.12 cm

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the
question.
7) In the figure, a uniform ladder 12 meters long rests against a vertical 7)
frictionless wall. The ladder weighs 400 N and makes an angle θ of 79° with
the floor. A man weighing 790 N climbs slowly up the ladder. When he has
climbed to a point that is 7.8 m from the base of the ladder, the ladder starts to
slip. What is the coefficient of static friction between the floor and the ladder?

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
8) A 120-kg refrigerator, 2.00 m tall and 85.0 cm wide, has its center of mass at its 8)
geometrical center. You are attempting to slide it along the floor by pushing
horizontally on the side of the refrigerator. The coefficient of static friction between
the floor and the refrigerator is 0.300. Depending on where you push, the refrigerator
may start to tip over before it starts to slide along the floor. What is the highest
distance above the floor that you can push the refrigerator so that it won't tip before it
begins to slide?
A) 1.42 m
B) 1.21 m
C) 1.00 m
D) 0.710 m
E) 1.63 m

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SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the
question.
9) A 20.0-kg uniform door has a width of 1.20 m and a height of 2.50 m. The 9)
door is mounted on a post by a pair of hinges, marked 1 and 2 in the figure, at
the top and bottom of the door. An external force of 60.0 N, at an angle of
30.0° above the horizontal, is applied to the small doorknob, as shown in the
figure. The doorknob is 1.00 m above the bottom of the door.
(a) Find the x component of the force that hinge 1 exerts on the door at the top.
(b) Find the SUM of the y components of the forces that hinges 1 and 2
together exert on the door.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
10) Tensile stress is 10)
A) the ratio of elastic modulus to strain.
B) the applied force per cross-sectional area.
C) the ratio of the change in length to the original length.
D) the strain per unit length.
E) the same as force.

11) The base of an aluminum block, which is fixed in place, measures 90 cm by 90 cm, 11)
and the height of the block is 60 cm. A force, applied to the upper face and parallel to
it, produces a shear strain of 0.0060. The shear modulus of aluminum is 3.0 × 1010
Pa. What is the sheer stress on the block?
A) 720 × 106 N/m2
B) 900 × 106 N/m2
C) 180 × 106 N/m2
D) 600 × 106 N/m2
E) 360 × 106 N/m2

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 12) If the torque on an object adds up to zero 12)
A) the object is at rest.
B) the forces on it also add up to zero.
C) the object cannot be turning.
D) the object could be accelerating linearly but it could not be turning.
E) the object could be both turning and accelerating linearly.

SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the
question.
13) A copper sphere has a radius of 2.50 m under normal room pressure of 1.0 × 13)
105 N/m2. If we increase the pressure on this sphere to 10 times the normal
room pressure, what is the change in its volume? The bulk modulus for copper
is 1.4 × 1011 Pa.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.
14) A uniform sign is supported against a wall at point P as shown in the figure. If the 14)
sign is a square 0.40 m on a side and its mass is 4.0 kg, what is the magnitude of the
horizontal force that the wall at P experiences?

A) 98 N B) 20 N C) 7.8 N D) 0.00 N

15) Which one of the following stresses would be most likely to cause a bone to fracture? 15)
A) tensile stress B) compressive stress
C) bulk stress D) sheer stress

16) A solid steel sphere with a radius of 2.0 m falls off a ship and sinks to a depth where 16)
the pressure is 15 MN/m2. The bulk modulus for this steel is 1.6 × 1011 N/m2. What
is the change in the radius of the sphere?
A) -0.062 mm
B) -0.19 mm
C) -0.42 mm
D) -0.021 mm
E) -4.2 mm

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17) A very light 1.00-m wire consists of two segments of equal length, one of steel 17)
(Young's modulus is 2.00 × 1011 N/m2) and one of brass (Young's modulus is
9.0 × 1010 N/m2). The steel segment is 1.50 mm in diameter, and the brass segment
has twice this diameter. When a weight w is hung from the ceiling by this wire, the
steel segment stretches by 1.10 mm. By what distance does the brass segment stretch?
A) 1.2 mm
B) 0.61 mm
C) 2.4 mm
D) 9.8 mm
E) 0.50 mm

18) Tensile strain is 18)

A) the ratio of the change in length to the original length.
B) the same as force.
C) the stress per unit area.
D) the ratio of stress to elastic modulus.
E) the applied force per cross-sectional area.

19) A uniform 300-kg beam, 6.00 m long, is freely pivoted at P, as shown in the figure. 19)
The beam is supported in a horizontal position by a light strut, 5.00 m long, which is
freely pivoted at Q and is loosely pinned to the beam at R. A load of mass is
suspended from the end of the beam at S. A maximum compression of 23,000 N in the
strut is permitted, due to safety. Under maximum load, find the magnitude of the x
component of the force exerted on the beam by the pivot at P.

A) 12,800 N
B) 13,800 N
C) 11,200 N
D) 16,000 N
E) 14,400 N

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20) The base of an aluminum block, which is fixed in place, measures 90 cm by 90 cm, 20)
and the height of the block is 60 cm. A force, applied to the upper face and parallel to
it, produces a shear strain of 0.0060. The shear modulus of aluminum is
3.0 × 1010 N/m2. What is the displacement of the upper face in the direction of the
applied force?
A) 3.6 B) 4.2 C) 3.0 D) 4.8 E) 5.4
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Answer Key
Testname: CHAPTER11EQUILIBRIUM

1) D
2) (a) 26.4 N (b) 21.5 N
3) 8.15 m from the hinge
4) 1.3 mm
5) A
6) A
7) 0.12
8) A
9) (a) -53.4 N (b) 166 N
10) B
11) C
12) E
13) -4.2 × 10-4 m3
14) B
15) D
16) A
17) B
18) A
19) B
20) A