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Chapter Questions Kinematics

This document contains a chapter review with multiple choice and free response questions about kinematics concepts such as displacement, velocity, acceleration, projectile motion, and uniformly accelerated motion. It includes questions about graphs of motion, launch angles, flight times, ranges, and maximum heights of projectiles. The answers and explanations to the questions can be found in Chapter 13.

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Chapter Questions Kinematics

This document contains a chapter review with multiple choice and free response questions about kinematics concepts such as displacement, velocity, acceleration, projectile motion, and uniformly accelerated motion. It includes questions about graphs of motion, launch angles, flight times, ranges, and maximum heights of projectiles. The answers and explanations to the questions can be found in Chapter 13.

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Chapter 4 Review Questions

Answers and explanations can be found in Chapter 13.

Section I: Multiple Choice

1. An object that’s moving with constant speed travels


once around a circular path. Which of the following
statements are true concerning this motion? Select two
answers.

(A) The displacement is zero.


(B) The average speed is zero.
(C) The acceleration is zero.
(D) The velocity is changing.

2.

In section 5 of the velocity-versus-time graph, the


object is

(A) speeding up moving in the positive direction


(B) slowing down moving in the positive direction
(C) speeding up moving in the negative direction
(D) slowing down moving in the negative direction

3. Which of the following statements are true about


uniformly accelerated motion? Select two answers.

(A) If an object’s acceleration is constant, then it must


move in a straight line.
(B) If an object’s acceleration is zero, then its speed
must remain constant.
(C) If an object’s speed remains constant, then its
acceleration must be zero.
(D) If an object’s direction of motion is changing, then
its acceleration is not zero.

4. A baseball is thrown straight upward. What is the ball’s


acceleration at its highest point?

(A) g, downward

(B) g, downward

(C) g, upward

(D) g, upward

5. How long would it take a car, starting from rest and


accelerating uniformly in a straight line at 5 m/s2, to
cover a distance of 200 m ?

(A) 9.0 s
(B) 10.5 s
(C) 12.0 s
(D) 15.5 s

6. A rock is dropped off a cliff and strikes the ground with


an impact velocity of 30 m/s. How high was the cliff?

(A) 20 m
(B) 30 m
(C) 45 m
(D) 60 m

7. A stone is thrown horizontally with an initial speed of


10 m/s from a bridge. Assuming that air resistance is
negligible, how long would it take the stone to strike
the water 80 m below the bridge?

(A) 1 s
(B) 2 s
(C) 4 s
(D) 8 s

8. A soccer ball, at rest on the ground, is kicked with an


initial velocity of 10 m/s at a launch angle of 30°.
Calculate its total flight time, assuming that air
resistance is negligible.

(A) 0.5 s
(B) 1 s
(C) 2 s
(D) 4 s

9. A stone is thrown horizontally with an initial speed of


30 m/s from a bridge. Find the stone’s total speed
when it enters the water 4 seconds later, assuming that
air resistance is negligible.

(A) 30 m/s
(B) 40 m/s
(C) 50 m/s
(D) 60 m/s

10. Which one of the following statements is true


concerning the motion of an ideal projectile launched
at an angle of 45° to the horizontal?

(A) The acceleration vector points opposite to the


velocity vector on the way up and in the same
direction as the velocity vector on the way down.
(B) The speed at the top of the trajectory is zero.
(C) The object’s total speed remains constant during
the entire flight.
(D) The vertical speed decreases on the way up and
increases on the way down.

11. A stone is thrown vertically upward with an initial


speed of 5 m/s. What is the velocity of the stone 3
seconds later?

(A) 25 m/s, upward


(B) 25 m/s, downward
(C) 35 m/s, upward
(D) 35 m/s, downward

12. A car travelling at a speed of v0 applies its brakes,


skidding to a stop over a distance of x m. Assuming
that the deceleration due to the brakes is constant,
what would be the skidding distance of the same car if
it were traveling with twice the initial speed?

(A) 2x m
(B) 3x m
(C) 4x m
(D) 8x m

Section II: Free Response

1. This question concerns the motion of a car on a


straight track; the car’s velocity as a function of time is
plotted below.

(a) Describe what happened to the car at time t = 1 s.

(b) How does the car’s average velocity between time t


= 0 and t = 1 s compare to its average velocity
between times t = 1 s and t = 5 s?

(c) What is the displacement of the car from time t = 0


to time t = 7 s?
(d) Plot the car’s acceleration during this interval as a
function of time.

(e) Make a sketch of the object’s position during this


interval as a function of time. Assume that the car
begins at x = 0.

2. Consider a projectile moving in a parabolic trajectory


under constant gravitational acceleration. Its initial
velocity has magnitude v0, and its launch angle (with
the horizontal) is θ0.

(a) Calculate the maximum height, H, of the projectile.

(b) Calculate the (horizontal) range, R, of the projectile.

(c) For what value of θ0 will the range be maximized?

(d) If 0 < h < H, compute the time that elapses between


passing through the horizontal line of height h in
both directions (ascending and descending); that is,
compute the time required for the projectile to pass
through the two points shown in this figure:

3. A cannonball is shot with an initial speed of 50 m/s at a


launch angle of 40° toward a castle wall 220 m away.
The height of the wall is 30 m. Assume that effects due
to the air are negligible. (For this problem, use g = 9.8
m/s2.)

(a) Show that the cannonball will strike the castle wall.

(b) How long will it take for the cannonball to strike the
wall?

(c) At what height above the base of the wall will the
cannonball strike?

4. A cannonball is fired with an initial speed of 40 m/s and


a launch angle of 30° from a cliff that is 25 m tall.

(a) What is the flight time of the cannonball?

(b) What is the range of the cannonball?

(c) In the two graphs below, plot the horizontal speed of


the projectile versus time and the vertical speed of
the projectile versus time (from the initial launch of
the projectile to the instant it strikes the ground).

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