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PHYS 1020 Practice Test 2: Units 5,6,7

College of General Education


PHYS1020
1. A force of 100 N is applied to an object as shown. What is the vertical component of this
force?
100 N

30°

a. 0N
b. 50 N
c. 86.6 N
d. 100 N

2. A racecar is traveling at constant speed around a circular track. What happens to the
centripetal acceleration of the car if the speed is doubled?

a. The centripetal acceleration remains the same.


b. The centripetal acceleration increases by a factor of 2.
c. The centripetal acceleration increases by a factor of 4.
d. The centripetal acceleration is decreased by a factor of one-half
3. If a 0.45 kg board marker is thrown straight up at 7.5 m/s, what will its gravitational
potential energy be at its maximum height?
a. 0.80 J
b. 1.7 J
c. 13 J
d. 26 J

4. A 0.25-kg ball attached to a string is rotating in a horizontal circle of radius 0.5 m. If the
ball revolves twice every second, what is the tension in the string?
a. 2 N
b. 5 N
c. 10 N
d. 20 N
5. A net force F is required to give an object with mass m an acceleration a. If a net
force 6 F is applied to an object with mass 2m, what is the acceleration on this object?
a. 3a
b. 6a
c. 2a
d. 4a
6. A 150-N sled is pulled up a 28° slope at a constant speed by a force of 100 N. What is the
coefficient of kinetic friction between sled and slope?

a. 0.53
b. 0.22
c. 0.13
d. 0.33
7. On the Moon, freely falling objects accelerate downward at 1.62 m/s2. What is the mass
of a stone which weighs 105 N on the Moon?

a. 170 kg
b. 64.8 kg
c. 154 kg
d. 17.4 kg

8. Which of the following is an example of a nonconservative force?


a. gravity
b. magnetism
c. friction
d. Both choices A and B are valid.

9. A 75.0-kg man is riding an escalator in a shopping mall. The escalator moves the man at a
constant velocity from ground level to the floor above, a vertical height of 4.60 m. What
is the work done on the man by the gravitational force
a. -3.38× 103 𝐽
b. 5.92 × 103 𝐽
c. -9.00× 102 𝐽
d. 3.38 × 103
10. Relative to the ground, what is the gravitational potential energy of a 55.0-kg person who
is at the top of the Sears Tower, a height of 443 m above the ground?
a. 2.39 × 105 J

b. 19.5 × 105 J

c. 12.4 × 105 J

d. 0 J

11. An archer, about to shoot an arrow, is applying a force of + 240 N to a drawn bowstring.
The bow behaves like an ideal spring whose spring constant is 480 N/m. What is the
displacement of the bowstring
a. +0.50 m
b. - 0.50 m
c. 0 m
d. m
12. An archer pulls the bowstring back for a distance of 0.470 m before releasing the arrow.
The bow and string act like a spring whose spring constant is 425 N/m.
What is the elastic potential energy of the drawn bow?
a. 46.9 J
b. 75.0 J
c. 0J
d. 100 J

13. In the above case, if the arrow has a mass of 0.0300 kg. How fast is it traveling when it
leaves the bow?
a. 55.9 m/s
b. 85.0 m/s
c. 5.00 m/s
d. 33.3 m/s
14. An object experiences no acceleration. Which of the following cannot be true for the
object?
(a) A single force acts on the object.
(b) No forces act on the object.
(c) Forces act on the object, but the forces cancel.

15. If , , and the angle between and (when the two are drawn
starting from the same point) is 30°, what is the scalar product of these two vectors?

a. −13
b. 64
c. +37
d. −37
Problems

1. A 12 kg object is hanging motionless from two cables:

35o
Determine the tension in cable A and the
tension in cable B? A
B

12.0 kg
2. Block A, 3.0 kg, is connected to Block B, 5.5 kg, as shown. The coefficient of friction
between Block B and the table is 0.23
What is the acceleration of the system?

What is the tension in the string?


3. A motorcycle of mass 260 kg is traveling up one side of a hill and down the other side with
a constant speed of 18.0 m/s. The crest is a circular arc with a radius of 45.0 m.

a) Determine the force exerted by the arc on the motorcycle when it is at the top of a hill.

b) Determine the maximum speed that the cycle can have while moving over the crest
without losing contact with the road.
4. A 55-kg box is being pushed a distance of 7.0 m across the floor by a force whose
magnitude is 150 N. The force is parallel to the displacement of the box. The
coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.25.

Determine the work done on the box by each of the four forces that act on the box. Be
sure to include the proper plus or minus sign for the work done by each force.
5. A 5.0 × 104 kg space probe is traveling at a speed of 11 000 m/s through deep space.
Retrorockets are fired along the line of motion to reduce the probe’s speed. The retrorockets
generate a force of over a distance of 2500 km. What is the final speed of the
probe?
6. A mass of mB= 15.0 kg is placed on an inclined plane whose angle of inclination is 𝜃 =
20°. A massless cord connected to mB passes over a frictionless pulley and is attached to
a mass mA= 25.0 kg. The mass mB slides up the plane. The Co-efficient of kinetic friction
between mB and plane is 0.25

mB mA = 25.0 kg
mB = 15.0 kg
mA
μk = 0.25
20º

Find the acceleration of system


Find the tension in the string

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