Honors Physics Spring Semester Exam – June 2021 – Period 3:

1) What is the magnitude of the potential difference between points A and C for the circuit
shown in the figure? The battery is ideal, and all the numbers are accurate to two significant
figures.

A) 6.0 V
B) 4.0 V
C) 3.0 V
D) 2.0 V

2) The resistors in the circuit shown in the figure each have a resistance of What is the
equivalent resistance between points a and b of this combination?

A) 700 Ω
B) 2800 Ω
C) 175 Ω
D) 1400 Ω

3) Identical ideal batteries are connected in different arrangements to the same light bulb, as
shown in the figure. For which arrangement will the bulb shine the brightest?

A) A
B) B
C) C

4) Four unequal resistors are connected in a parallel with each other. Which one of the following
statements is correct about this combination?
A) The equivalent resistance is less than that of the smallest resistor.
B) The equivalent resistance is equal to the average of the four resistances.
C) The equivalent resistance is midway between the largest and smallest resistance.
D) The equivalent resistance is more than the largest resistance.
E) None of the other choices is correct.

5) Lucite has an index of refraction of 1.50. What is its critical angle if it is in air?
A) 1.16°
B) 15°
C) 41.8°
D) 65.2°
E) 87.4°

6) A light ray in glass arrives at the glass-water interface at an angle of θ = 48° with the normal.
The refracted ray in water makes an angle θ = 61° with the normal, as shown in the figure. The
index of refraction of water is 1.33. The angle of incidence is now changed to θ = 25°. What is
the new angle of refraction φ in the water?

A) 30°
B) 56°
C) 54°
D) 60°
E) 62°

7) A beam of light traveling in air strikes a slab of transparent material. The incident beam
makes an angle of 40° with the normal, and the refracted beam make an angle of 26° with the
normal. What is the speed of light in the transparent material? (c = 3.0 × 108 m/s)
A) 1.0 × 108 m/s
B) 2.0 × 108 m/s
C) 2.3 × 108 m/s
D) 3.0 × 108 m/s
E) 0.50 × 108 m/s

8) Light goes from material having a refractive index of n1 into a material with refractive index
n2. If the refracted light is bent away from the normal, what can you conclude about the indices
of refraction?
A) n1 > n2
B) n1 ≥ n2
C) n1 < n2
D) n1 ≤ n2
E) n1 = n2

9) Light having a frequency in vacuum of 6.0 × 1014 Hz enters a liquid of refractive index 2.0.
What is the frequency of the light in this liquid? (c = 3.0 × 108 m/s)
A) 12 × 1014 Hz
B) 6.0 × 1014 Hz
C) 3.0 × 1014 Hz
D) 1.5 × 1014 Hz
E) 2.0 × 1014 Hz

10) When a beam of light, originally traveling in air, enters a piece of glass having an index of
refraction of 3/2, its speed
A) increases by a factor of 3/2.
B) is reduced to 2/3 its original value.
C) is unaffected.

11) In a double-slit interference experiment you are asked to use laser light of different
wavelengths and determine the separation between adjacent maxima. You observe that this
separation is greatest when you illuminate the double slit with
A) blue light.
B) green light.
C) yellow light.
D) red light.
E) The separation is the same for all wavelengths.

12) Two in-phase loudspeakers are placed along a wall and are separated by a distance of 4.00
m. They emit sound with a frequency of 514 Hz. A person is standing away from the wall, in
front of one of the loudspeakers. What is the closest distance from the wall the person can stand
and hear destructive interference? The speed of sound in air is 343 m/s.
A) 0.34 m
B) 0.37 m
C) 0.73 m
D) 1.2 m
E) 1.6 m

13) If the frequency of a violin string is to be increased by 20%, what change in tension must be
applied?
A) 44%
B) 20%
C) 4.5%
D) 10%

14) Find the first three harmonics of a string of linear mass density 2.00 g/m and length 0.600 m
when the tension in it is 50.0 N.
A) 132 Hz, 264 Hz, 395 Hz
B) 66 Hz, 132 Hz, 198 Hz
C) 264 Hz, 528 Hz, 792 Hz
D) none of the above

15) A person stands between two speakers driven by the same source. Each speaker produces a
tone with a frequency of 200 Hz on a day when the speed of sound is 330 m/s. The person is
1.65 m from one speaker and 4.95 m from the other. What type of interference does the person
perceive?
A) constructive
B) destructive
C) both constructive and destructive
D) neither constructive nor destructive

16) An organ pipe of length L that is open at one end resonates in its third harmonic with a
wavelength of 2L/3. Is the other end of the pipe closed or open?
A) closed
B) open
C) We cannot tell from the information provided.

17) By how many decibels does the intensity level of a sound increase when you triple the
intensity of a source of sound?
A) 9.5 dB
B) 4.8 dB
C) 6.0 dB
D) 3.0 dB
E) 12 dB

18) If the intensity level by 15 identical engines in a garage is 100 dB, what is the intensity level
generated by each one of these engines?
A) 67 dB
B) 13 dB
C) 44 dB
D) 88 dB

19) What is the intensity of a 70-dB sound? The threshold of human hearing is 1.0 × 10-12
W/m2.
A) 10-4 W/m2
B) 10-5 W/m2
C) 10-6 W/m2
D) 10-7 W/m2

20) You drop a stone down a well that is 9.5 m deep. How long is it before you hear the splash?
The speed of sound in air is 343 m/s and air resistance is negligible.
A) 1.2 s
B) 1.3 s
C) 1.4 s
D) 1.5 s
E) 1.6 s

21) Light from a laser forms a 1.31-mm diameter spot on a wall. If the light intensity in the spot
is what is the power output of the laser? Assume that all the light emitted by the
laser hits the spot.
A) 21.3 mW
B) 13.2 mW
C) 17.9 mW
D) 24.7 mW

22) Transverse waves travel at in a string that is subjected to a tension of If the

23) A tsunami, an ocean wave generated by an earthquake, propagates along the open ocean at
700 km/hr and has a wavelength of 750 km. What is the frequency of the waves in such a
tsunami?
A) 0.93 Hz
B) 0.00026 Hz
C) 1.1 Hz
D) 6.8 Hz
E) 0.15 Hz

24) A fisherman fishing from a pier observes that the float on his line bobs up and down, taking
2.4 s to move from its highest point to its lowest point. He also estimates that the distance
between adjacent wave crests is 48 m. What is the speed of the waves going past the pier?
A) 1.0 m/s
B) 20 m/s
C) 10 m/s
D) 5.0 m/s
E) 120 m/s
25) You double your distance from a sound source that is radiating equally in all directions.
What happens to the intensity of the sound? It reduces to
A) one-half its original value.
B) one-fourth its original value.
C) one-sixteenth its original value.
D) none of the above

26) What is the frequency of the wave shown in the figure?

A) 0.5 Hz.
B) 1 Hz.
C) 2 Hz.
D) 4 Hz.
E) It cannot be determined from the given information.

27) How much mass should be attached to a vertical ideal spring having a spring constant (force
constant) of 39.5 N/m so that it will oscillate at 1.00 Hz?
A) 39.5 kg
B) 2.00 kg
C) 1.00 kg
D) 1.56 kg
E) 6.29 kg

28) If the amplitude of the motion of a simple harmonic oscillator is doubled, by what factor
does the maximum speed of the oscillator change?
A) 2
B) 4
C) It does not change.
D) 1/2
E) ¼

29) At what minimum rate is a 60.0-kg boy using energy when, in 8.00 s, he runs up a flight of
stairs that is 10.0-m high?
A) 75.0 W
B) 735 W
C) 4.80 kW
D) 48.0 W
30) A golf club exerts an average horizontal force of 1000 N on a 0.045-kg golf ball that is
initially at rest on the tee. The club is in contact with the ball for 1.8 ms. What is the speed of the
golf ball just as it leaves the tee?
A) 30 m/s
B) 35 m/s
C) 40 m/s
D) 45 m/s
E) 50 m/s