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UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA FINAL EXAMINATION

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ENGINEERING PHYSICS CHE175 OCTOBER 2009 3 HOURS

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QUESTION 1 a) State the Newton's third law of motion. (2 marks) b) Suppose Rajiv lifts a 3 kg box from the floor to the table. Using your imagination, determine: i) The change in work done if Rajiv lifts the suitcase to different height of table (3m vs. 5m for instance). Explain your reason using physics concept. (Hint: no calculation needed). (2 marks) ii) Differences in power done by the activity if Rajiv lifts 5 kg of box compared to 3 kg initially. Explain your rationale. (Hint: no calculation needed). (2 marks) c) A wheel fall off Syakirah's bag, so she ties a rope to it and drags it along the floor of the house. The rope makes a 60.0 angle with respect of the horizontal floor. The bag has a mass of 25 kg and she pulls the rope with a force of 45 N. i) Determine the magnitude of the normal forces acting on the bag due to the floor. (6 marks)

ii) If the coefficient of kinetic friction between the bag and the marble floor is uk = 0.10, calculate the frictional force acting on the bag. (1 mark) iii) Calculate the acceleration of the bag when Syakirah pulls the rope. (2 marks) iv) If she starts to pull the rope from rest, determine time required for her to pull with this 45.0 N force until the bag reaches constant speed of 1.0 m/s. (1 mark) d) A forklift in XYZ Sdn. Bhd. lifts a crate of 555 kg from the height of 5 m to the final storage area which is 20 m height from the floor. Determine: i) The work done by the forklift. (2 marks) ii) Power required by the forklift if the time required completing its job is 1 min 20 s. (2 marks)

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QUESTION 2 a) Define an instantaneous angular velocity. (2 marks) b) Lydia is spinning a ball on a string around her head in a horizontal plane. Her intention is to precisely let go the ball at the right time so that the bail will hit a snake toy on the other side of the park. Based on your understanding in circular motion, recommend to Lydia when she supposed to release the string. (2 marks) c) A Mitsubishi car is going around an unbanked curve at the recommended speed of 11 m/s. If the radius of curvature of the path is 25 m and the coefficient of static friction between the tire rubber and the road is 0.70, i) Suggest whether the car skid or not as it goes around the curve. (5 marks) ii) For a car to safely negotiate the curve at the speed in (i), calculate the banking angle required. (3 marks) iii) Recommend what happen to the car if goes around the curve at 25 m/s. (1 mark) iv) Determine the safe speed for traveling around the curve if the road surface is wet from a recent rain and the coefficient of static friction between the wet road and the rubber tires is 0.50. (2 marks) d) The angle through which a rotating wheel has turned in time t is given by 9 = 8.51 151 2 + 1.614, where 6 is in radians and t in seconds. i) Determine an expression for the instantaneous angular velocity, GO. (1.5 marks) ii) Determine an expression for the instantaneous angular acceleration, a. (1.5 marks) iii) Calculate angular velocity (w) and angular acceleration (a) when t = 3.0 s. (2 marks)

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QUESTION 3 a) An undersea research chamber in Pulau Manukan is spherical in shape with an external diameter of 8 m. The mass of the chamber, when occupied, is 85000 kg. It is anchored to the sea bottom by a cable (Assume density of water as 1000 kg/m3 and g = 9.81 m/s2). Calculate: i) ii) The buoyant force on the chamber. (3 marks) The tension in the cable. (3 marks) b) If you open up the tap water every day in your house, you will observe that the stream of water from the tap becomes narrower as it falls to the sink. Using your knowledge in fluid dynamics, i) Briefly explain the phenomena. (2 marks) ii) State the equation involved. (1 mark) c) An open-tube mercury manometer is used to measure the pressure in an oxygen tank. When the atmospheric pressure is 1.04 bar, calculate the absolute pressure (in Pa) in the tank if the height of the mercury in the tube is i) 21.0 cm higher. (3 marks) ii) 5.2 cm lower. (2 marks) d) A Cessna private jet flies on a horizontal path without any different in height. There is a pressure difference of 500 Pa between the lower and upper surfaces of the wings. The area of each wing surfaces is about 100 m2. The air moves below the wings at a speed of 80.5 m/s. Calculate: i) The weight (in N) of the plane. (3 marks) (3 marks)

ii) The air speed above the wings (Assume density of air = 1.29 kg/m3).

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QUESTION 4 a) Said has a single 60-W bulb in his room. Predict the changes in overall resistances, voltages and currents if he installs additional 100 W bulbs in parallel circuit. (Hint: no calculation needed) (3 marks) b) Based on Figure 1 below, calculate the currents in each resistor. (10 marks) /,

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QUESTION 5 a) Define heat and specific heat. (3 marks) b) The principal virtue of Pyrex glass (a = 3 x 10~6 C"1) is that its coefficient of linear expansion is smaller than an ordinary glass (a = 9 x 10"6 C"1). From this fact, explain the superiority of Pyrex glass heat resistivity compared to ordinary glass from this property point of view. (3 marks) c) A 15 g of lead bullet is tested by firing into a fixed block of wood with mass of 1.05 kg. The block and the bullet absorb all the heat generated. After thermal equilibrium has reached, the system has a temperature raised measured as 0.020C. Calculate the entering speed of the bullet. (Given: Specific heat of lead = 130 J/kgC and wood = 1700 J/kgC) (4 marks) d) A 215 g sample of substance is heated at 330C and then plunged into a 105 g aluminum calorimeter cup containing 165 g of water and a 17 g of glass thermometer at 12.5C. The final temperature is 35.0C. Determine the specific heat of the substance assuming no water boils away. (Given: Specific heat aluminum = 900 J/kgC, water = 4186 J/kgC and glass = 840 J/kgC) (5 marks) e) An iron ball has a diameter of 6 cm and is 0.010 mm too large to pass through a hole in a brass plate when the ball and plate are at a temperature of 30 C. Calculate the equilibrium temperature where the ball is just passing through the hole. (Given: coefficient of linear expansion of iron = 1.2 x 10"5 C"1 and brass = 1.9 x 10"5 C"1) (5 marks)

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