J.H.

Cerilles State College

Mati, San Miguel, Zamboanga del Sur
Physics for Engineers
Problem Set

General Instructions:
1. Refer to your textbook as given by your instructor.
2. Solve the following problems.
3. Write your solutions and answers on short bond papers.
4. Box only your final answers.
5. Use black or blue inks only.
6. Compile all your solutions and have it soft bound.
7. Submit your compilation on or before September 30, 2023.
8. Your instructor reserves the right to deduct late submissions.

Textbook: University Physics (14th Ed.) by Young & Freedman

Topics Covered:
1. Chapter 1 – Units, Physical Quantities & Vectors
a. 1.8 – Components of Vectors
b. 1.9 – Unit Vectors
2. Chapter 2 – Motion along a Straight Line
a. 2.2 – Average & Instantaneous Velocity
b. 2.3 – Average & Instantaneous Acceleration
c. 2.4 – Motion with Constant Acceleration
d. 2.5 – Free Falling Bodies
3. Chapter 3 – Motion in Two or Three Dimensions
a. 3.3 – Projectile Motion
b. 3.4 – Motion in a Circle
c. 3.5 – Relative Velocity
4. Chapter 4 – Newton’s Laws of Motions
a. 4.2 – Newton’s First Law
b. 4.3 – Newton’s Second Law
c. 4.5 – Newton’s Third Law
5. Chapter 6 – Work & Kinetic Energy
a. 6.1 – Work
b. 6.2 – Kinetic Energy & the Work-Energy Theorem
c. 6.4 – Power
6. Chapter 7 – Potential Energy & Energy Conservation
a. 7.1 – Gravitational Potential Energy
b. 7.2 – Elastic Potential Energy
7. Chapter 8 – Momentum, Impulse & Collisions
a. 8.1 – Momentum & Impulse
b. 8.3 – Momentum Conservation & Collisions
8. Chapter 9 – Rotation of Rigid Bodies
a. 9.1 – Angular Velocity & Acceleration
b. 9.2 – Rotation with Constant Angular Acceleration
9. Chapter 10 – Dynamics of Rotational Motion
a. 10.1 – Torque
b. 10.3 – Rigid-Body Rotation about a Moving Axis
10. Chapter 11 – Equilibrium & Elasticity
a. 11.1 – Conditions for Equilibrium
b. 11.3 – Solving Rigid-Body Equilibriums
 c. 11.4 – Stress, Strain & Elastic Moduli
11. Chapter 12 – Fluid Mechanics
a. 12.1 – Gases, Liquids & Density
b. 12.2 – Pressure in a Fluid
c. 12.3 – Buoyancy
12. Chapter 14 – Periodic Motion or Oscillations
a. 14.1 – Describing Oscillation
b. 14.2 – Simple Harmonic Motion
c. 14.5 – The Simple Pendulum
13. Chapter 15 – Mechanical Waves
a. 15.1 – Types of Mechanical Waves
b. 15.2 – Periodic Waves
c. 15.3 – Mathematical Description of a Wave
14. Chapter 16 – Sound & Hearing
a. 16.1 – Sound Waves
b. 16.2 – Speed of Sound Waves
c. 16.3 – The Doppler Effect
15. Chapter 17 – Temperature & Heat
a. 17.1 – Temperature & Thermal Equilibrium
b. 17.2 – Thermometers & Temperature Scales
c. 17.4 – Thermal Expansion
16. Chapter 21 – Electric Charge & Electric Field
a. 21.1 – Electric Charge
b. 21.2 – Conductors, Insulators & Induced Charges
c. 21.3 – Coulomb’s Law
d. 21.4 – Electric Field and Electric Forces
17. Chapter 25 – Current, Resistance & Voltage
a. 25.1 – Current
b. 25.2 – Resistivity & Resistance
c. 25.4 – Electromotive Force & Circuits
18. Chapter 26 – Direct-Current Circuits
a. 26.1 – Resistors in Series & Parallel
19. Chapter 27 – Magnetic Field & Magnetic Forces
a. 27.1 – Magnetism & Magnetic Field
b. 27.3 – Magnetic Field Lines & Magnetic Flux
c. 27.4 – Motion of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field
20. Chapter 33 – The Nature and Propagation of Light
a. 33.1 – The Nature of Light
b. 33.2 – Reflection & Refraction
c. 33.3 – Total Internal Reflection
21. Chapter 34 – Geometric Optics
a. 34.1 – Reflection & Refraction at a Plane Surface
b. 34.2 – Reflection at a Spherical Surface
c. 34.3 – Refraction at a Spherical Surface
d. 34.4 – Thin Lenses
Problems

1. Chapter 1. Vector 𝑨 ⃗ is 2.90 cm long and is 60.0° above the

𝑥-axs in the first quadrant. Vector ⃗𝑩 ⃗ is 2.00 cm long and is
60.0° below the 𝑥-axs in the fourth quadrant. Use
components to find the magnitude and direction of (a) ⃗𝑨 ⃗ +
𝑩 ⃗⃗ − 𝑩
⃗⃗ ; and (b) 𝑨 ⃗⃗ .

2. Chapter 2. In the fastest measured tennis serve, the ball left the
racquet at 73.41 m/s. A served tennis ball is typically in contact
with the racquet for 29.0 ms and starts from rest. Assume
constant acceleration. (a) What was the ball’s acceleration during this serve? (b) How far did
the ball travel during the serve?

3. Chapter 3. In a carnival booth,

you can win a stuffed giraffe if
you toss a quarter into a small
dish. The dish is on a shelf
above the point where the
quarter leaves your hand and is
a horizontal distance of 2.0 m
from this point. If you toss the
coin with a velocity of 6.2 m/s
at an angle of 60° above the
horizontal, the coin will land in
the dish. Ignore air resistance.
(a) What is the height of the
shelf above the point where the quarter leaves your hand? (b) What is the vertical component
of the velocity of the quarter just before it lands in the dish?

4. Chapter 4. A 68.0-kg skater moving initially at 2.50 m/s on rough horizontal ice comes to rest
uniformly in 3.50 s due to friction from the ice. What force does friction exert on the skater?

5. Chapter 6. A 1.50-kg book is sliding along a rough horizontal

surface. At point A it is moving at 3.21 m/s, and at point B it has
slowed to 1.25 m/s. (a) How much work was done on the book
between A and B? (b) If -0.750 J of work is done on the book
from B to C, how fast is it moving at point C? (c) How fast
would it be moving at C if +0.750 J of work was done on it from B to C?

6. Chapter 7. A 25.0-kg child plays on a swing having support ropes that are 2.20 m long. Her
brother pulls her back until the ropes are 42.0° from the vertical and releases her from rest. (a)
What is her potential energy just as she is released, compared with the potential energy at the
bottom of the swing’s motion? (b) How fast will she be moving at the bottom? (c) How much
work does the tension in the ropes do as she swings from the initial position to the bottom of
the motion?

7. Chapter 8. A bat strikes a 0.145-kg baseball. Just before impact, the ball is traveling horizontally
to the right at 40.0 m/s; when it leaves the bat, the ball is traveling to the left at an angle of 30°
above horizontal with a speed of 52.0 m/s. If the ball and bat are in contact for 1.75 ms, find
the horizontal and vertical components of the average force on the ball.
8. Chapter 9. An airplane propeller is rotating at 1900 rpm (rev/min). (a) Compute the propeller’s
angular velocity in rad/s. (b) How many seconds does it take for the propeller to turn through
35°?

9. Chapter 10. A square metal plate 0.180 m on each side is pivoted about
an axis through point O at its center and perpendicular to the plate.
Calculate the net torque about this axis due to the three forces shown in
the figure if the magnitudes of the forces are F1 = 20.0 N, F2 = 24.0 N,
and F3 = 16.0 N. The plate and all forces are in the plane of the page.

10. Chapter 11. Two people carry a heavy electric motor by placing it on a
light board 2.00 m long. One person lifts at one end with a force of 440
N, and the other lifts the opposite end with a force of 620 N. (a) What
is the weight of the motor, and where along the board is its center of
gravity located? (b) Suppose the board is not light but weighs 200 N, with its center of gravity
at its center, and the two people each exert the same forces as before. What is the weight of the
motor in this case, and where is its center of gravity located?

11. Chapter 12. A cylindrical disk of wood weighing 50.0 N and

having a diameter of 30.0 cm floats on a cylinder of oil of density
0.850 g /cm3. The cylinder of oil is 75.0 cm deep and has a
diameter the same as that of the wood. (a) What is the gauge
pressure at the top of the oil column? (b) Suppose now that
someone puts a weight of 90.0 N on top of the wood, but no oil
seeps around the edge of the wood. What is the change in
pressure at (i) the bottom of the oil and (ii) halfway down in the
oil?

12. Chapter 14. In a physics lab, you attach a 0.200-kg air-track

glider to the end of an ideal spring of negligible mass and start it
oscillating. The elapsed time from when the glider first moves
through the equilibrium point to the second time it moves
through that point is 2.60 s. Find the spring’s force constant.

13. Chapter 15. A fisherman notices that his boat is moving up and down periodically, owing to
waves on the surface of the water. It takes 2.5 s for the boat to travel from its highest point to
its lowest, a total distance of 0.53 m. The fisherman sees that the wave crests are spaced 4.8 m
apart. (a) How fast are the waves traveling? (b) What is the amplitude of each wave? (c) If the
total vertical distance traveled by the boat were 0.30 m but the other data remained the same,
how would the answers to parts (a) and (b) change?

14. Chapter 16. A 50.0-m-long brass rod is struck at one end. A person at the other end hears two
sounds as a result of two longitudinal waves, one traveling in the metal rod and the other
traveling in air. What is the time interval between the two sounds? (The speed of sound in air
is 344 m/s; Brass has a Young’s Modulus of 9.0 × 1010 Pa and a density of 8.6 × 103 kg/m3.)

15. Chapter 17. You put a bottle of soft drink in a refrigerator and leave it until its temperature has
dropped 12.0 K. What is its temperature change in (a) °F and (b) °C?

16. Chapter 21. Three point charges are arranged along the x-axis. Charge 𝑞1 = +3.20 𝜇𝐶 is at
the origin, and charge 𝑞2 = −5.00 𝜇𝐶 is at x = 0.200 m. Charge 𝑞3 = −8.40 𝜇𝐶. Where is q3
located if the net force on q1 is 7.00 N in the −𝑥-direction?
17. Chapter 25. You want to produce three 1.00-mm-diameter cylindrical wires, each with a
resistance of 1.00 Ω at room temperature. One wire is gold, one is copper, and one is aluminum.
Gold, copper, and aluminum have resistivity values of 2.44 × 10−8 Ω ∙ m, 1.72 × 10−8 Ω ∙ m,
and 2.75 × 10−8 Ω ∙ m, respectively, at room temperature (20°C) (a) What will be the length
of each wire? (b) Gold has a density of 1.93 × 104 kg/m3. What will be the mass of the gold
wire? If the price of gold is Php 3,200.00 per gram, how much will the gold wire cost?

18. Chapter 26. For the circuit as shown in the figure, both meters
are idealized, the battery has no appreciable internal resistance,
and the ammeter reads 1.25 A. (a) What does the voltmeter
read? (b) What is the emf ℇ of the battery?

19. Chapter 27. A group of particles is traveling in a magnetic field

of unknown magnitude and direction. You observe that a proton moving at 1.50 km/s in the +x-
direction experiences a force of 2.30 × 10−16 N in the +y-direction, and an electron moving at
4.75 km/s in the -z-direction experiences a force of 8.60 × 10−16 N in the +y-direction. (a)
What are the magnitude and direction of the magnetic field? (b) What are the magnitude and
direction of the magnetic force on an electron moving in the -y-direction at 3.20 km/s?

20. Chapter 33. A parallel beam of light in air makes an angle of 50.0° with the surface of a glass
plate having a refractive index of 1.66. (a) What is the angle between the reflected part of the
beam and the surface of the glass? (b) What is the angle between the refracted beam and the
surface of the glass?

21. Chapter 34. An object is 18.0 cm from the center of a spherical silvered-glass tree ornament
6.00 cm in diameter. What are the position and magnification of its image?