FAKULTI TEKNOLOGI KEJURUTERAAN

ELEKTRIK DAN ELEKTRONIK

UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

TUTORIAL 1

Physical Quantities and Measurement

1. Write down the corresponding units and dimensions for each the quantities in the
Table 1 below:

Table 1
Quantity Unit Dimensions
Velocity
Acceleration
Force
Momentum
Energy
Power
Pressure
Frequency

2. Derived the unit of the following derived quantities:

i. Force
ii. Work

3. How many significant figures do each of the following numbers

have:
i. 214
ii. 81.60
iii. 7.03
iv. 0.03
v. 0.0086

4. Write the following as full (decimal) numbers with standard units:

i. 286.6 mm
ii. 85 mV
iii. 760 mg
iv. 60.0 ps
v. 22.5 fm
 5. Convert the following quantities:
i. 15 m2 to cm2
ii. 35 cm2 to m2
iii. 0.5 m3 to cm3
iv. 4 mm2 to cm2
v. 200 mm2 to m2
vi. 2.5 km2 to m2

6. On an interstate highway in a rural region of Wyoming, a car is traveling at a speed

of 38.0 m/s. Is the driver exceeding the speed limit of 75.0 mi/h?

Vector and Scalar

7. A car is driven 225 km west and then 78 km southwest (45°). What is the
displacementof the car from the point of origin (magnitude and direction)? Draw a
diagram.

8. Graphically determine the resultant of the following three vector displacements: (1)
24m, 36° north of east; (2) 18 m, 37° east of north; and (3) 26 m, 33° west of south.

9. A car travels 20.0 km due north and then 35.0 km in a direction 60.0° west of north as
shown in Figure 1. Find the magnitude and direction of the car’s resultant
displacement.

Figure 1

10. Based on the previous question, suppose the trip were taken with the two vectors in
reverse order: 35.0 km at 60.0° west of north first and then 20.0 km due north. How
would the magnitude and the direction of the resultant vector change?

Kinematics of Linear Motion

11. What must your car’s average speed be in order to travel 235 km in 3.25 h?
12. A particle at t1 = 2.0 s is at x1 = 4.3 cm and at t2 = 4.5 s is at x2 = 8.5 cm. What is its
average velocity? Can you calculate its average speed from these data?

13. A sports car accelerates from rest to 95 km/h in 4.5 s. What is its average acceleration
in m/s2?

14. At highway speeds, a particular automobile is capable of an acceleration of about 1.8

m/s2 . At this rate, how long does it take to accelerate from 80 km/h to 110 km/h?

15. A sprinter accelerates from rest to 9.00 m/s in 1.28 s. What is her acceleration in (a)
m/s2; (b) km/h2 ?

16. A car moving in a straight line starts at x = 0 at t = 0. It passes the point x = 25.0 m
with a speed of 11.0 m/s at t = 3.00 s. It passes the point x = 385 m with a speed of
45.0 m/s at t = 20.0 s. Find: (a) the average velocity and (b) the average acceleration
between t = 3.00 s and t = 20.0 s.

17. A car slows down from 25 m/s to rest in a distance of 85 m. What was its acceleration,
assumed constant?

18. A car accelerates from 12 m/s to 21 m/s in 6.0 s. What was its acceleration? How far
did it travel in this time? Assume constant acceleration.

19. Mary and Sally are in a foot race (Figure 2). When Mary is 22 m from the finish line,
she has a speed of 4.0 m/s and is 5.0 m behind Sally, who has a speed of 5.0 m/s. Sally
thinks she has an easy win and so, during the remaining portion of the race, decelerates
at a constant rate of 0.50 m/s2 to the finish line. What constant acceleration does Mary
now need during the remaining portion of the race, if she wishes to cross the finish
line side-by-side with Sally?

Figure 2
 20. A skier is accelerating down a 30.0° hill at 1.80 m/s2 (Figure 3). What is the vertical
component of her acceleration? (b) How long will it take her to reach the bottom of
the hill, assuming she starts from rest and accelerates uniformly, if the elevation
change is 325 m?

Figure 3

Freely Falling Object

21. A ball is thrown from the top of a building (Figure 4) with an Initial velocity of 20.0
m/s straight upward, at an Initialheight of 50.0 m above the ground. The ball just
misses the edge of the roof on its way down as shown right. Determine,
i. The time needed for the ball to reach its maximumheight
ii. The maximum height
iii. The time needed for the ball return to return the height from which it was
thrown and the velocity of the ball that instant
iv. The time needed for the ball to reach the ground
v. The velocity and position of the ball at t=5.00 s. Neglect air drag

Figure 4
22. An object does free fall motion. It hits the ground after 4 seconds. Calculate the
velocity of the object after 3 seconds and before it hits the ground. What can be the
height it is thrown?

23. The boy drops the ball from a roof of the house which takes 3 seconds to hit the ground.
Calculate the velocity before the ball crashes to the ground.

24. A stone is dropped from the top of a cliff. It is seen to hit the ground below after 3.75
s. How high is the cliff?

25. Estimate (a) how long it took King Kong to fall straight down from the top of the
Empire State Building (380 m high), and (b) his velocity just before “landing.”

26. A baseball is hit almost straight up into the air with a speed of about 20 m / s. (a) How
high does it go? (b) How long is it in the air?

27. A stone is dropped from the top of a cliff. It is seen to hit the ground below after 3.75
s. How high is the cliff?