SECOND QUARTER - SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS IN GENERAL PHYSICS 1
General Instructions: Write your complete solutions in a clean sheet of paper, 1 whole per lesson.
Compile all 7 quizzes before submitting the hard copies.
LESSON 8 – ROTATIONAL EQUILIBRIUM AND ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS
1. A particle with mass 2.5 kg moves in a circular path of radius 1.5 m with a speed of 3 m/s.
What is the angular momentum of the particle about the center of the circular path?
2. An electric motor is rotating at 500 rpm. When it is turned off, the angular velocity
decreases uniformly and become 200 rpm in 7 sec.
a. What is the angular acceleration of the motor?
b. What is the number of revolutions the motor made in 7 seconds?
c. From the time the motor is turned off, how many seconds will elapse before the
motors stops to rotate? (i.e., the final angular velocity is zero)
3. A roller is in shape of a cylindrical shell with a mass of 25 kg and a radius of 0.8 m. If it is
rotating in its axis with an angular acceleration of 0.3 rad/s2, how much torque is acting on
the roller.
4. A car engine provides a torque of 380 N-m resulting to a rotation of 3200 rev/min. How
much power is given by the engine?
LESSON 9 – GRAVITY
1. Assume the mass of one person is 65 kg and the other person is 50 kg. Calculate the
gravitational force between them if they are 95 cm apart.
2. Calculate the total gravitational potential energy of the system below.
3. Calculate the velocity a 5000-kg rocket ship must have at the surface of the Earth in order
to escape the planet. How much kinetic energy is needed by the spaceship to be able to
escape the planet?
LESSON 10 – PERIODIC MOTION (Simple Harmonic Motion, Oscillation, Waves)
1. A spring-block system above a frictionless horizontal surface consists of a 250-g block and
a spring with a spring constant of 4.50 N/m. The block is displaced 8 cm from the
equilibrium point and then is released. What is the frequency and period of the block’s
motion?
2. What is the frequency and period of the SHM described in the graph below?
3. What should be the period of simple pendulum with a length of 45 cm?
LESSON 11 – MECHANICAL WAVES AND SOUND
1. What is the wavelength of a sound wave propagating in a rubber material (vw = 54 m/s) at
200 Hz?
2. The frequency of a sound wave propagating in sea water (vw = 1540 m/s) with a wavelength
of 1.5 m is approximately?
3. A fire truck is speeding to a fire accident at 90 m/s. The frequency of the siren is 1.5 kHz.
In what frequency will you hear the truck’s siren after it passes you? Assume vw = 330 m/s.
4. A superstar rides an open car waving to his fans at 20 m/s. When he is approaching, a fan
shouted to call his attention with a 300 Hz voice. What is the frequency of the fan’s voice
relative to the superstar? Assume vw = 330 m/s.
LESSON 12 – FLUID MECHANICS
1. A water tank is open to the atmosphere at the top. The water level inside is at 2 m. What is
the pressure at the bottom of the water tank if the atmospheric pressure is at 1 atm?
2. An object is submerged in water, and it displaces 10 mL of water. How much buoyant force
is experienced by the object?
3. The large piston of a hydraulic lift has a radius of 35 cm. How much force must be applied
to the small piston with radius 3.5 cm in order to lift a 2000-kg car?
4. The blood flowing at 10 cm/s in an artery with a radius of 0.3 cm enters an artery with a
reduced radius of 0.2 cm due to arteriosclerosis, a condition characterized by the thickening
of the arterial walls. How fast will the blood flow in the thickened artery?
LESSON 13 – TEMPERATURE AND HEAT
1. Normal human body temperature is approximately 37.OC. Convert the temperate to Kelvin
and Fahrenheit scales.
2. A glass container (k = 1.05 W/mK) with a surface area of 0.3 m2 is filled with hot water at
100OC and was let to cool in a room with a temperature of 27OC. If the wall of the container
is 0.8 cm thick, how much heat is transferred from inside the glass to the room per second?
3. A medallion made of nickel (𝛼 = 1.3x10-5/K) has a diameter of 0.1 m at 20OC. What will
be its diameter at 35OC?
LESSON 14 – IDEAL GASES AND THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
1. Calculate the number of moles of a 1 m3 gas at 0OC, 1 atm.
2. A milliliter of water can be converted to 1671 mL of stream by boiling at 1 atm. How much
work is done during vaporization?
3. A 1 mL water can be converted to 1671 mL of stream by boiling at 1 atm. If the heat of
vaporization is 2256 J/g, how much is the change in internal energy of water?
4. A coal-powered power station, a huge heat engine, absorbs 2.5x1014 J of heat from burning
coal and delivers 1.02x1014 J of work. What is the efficiency of the power station?
5. A Carnot Engine absorbs 3000 J of heat from a hot reservoir with a temperature of 400 K
and does some work. Afterwards, it releases 15 kJ pf heat to another reservoir with a
temperature of 250 K. Determine the total change in entropy.
