HOCHIMINH CITY FINAL EXAM

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION

FACULTY OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
1st SEMESTER – ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-2023
GROUP OF FOUNDATION SCIENCES Subject: Physics 1
Course Number: PHYS130402
Test number: 01 (2 pages).
Duration: 90 minutes.
Note:
+ Students are allowed to use one hand-written A4 paper sheet as a memory aid.
+ Proctors are NOT allowed to explain anything related to the contents of the test.
+ The free fall acceleration is: g = 9.81 m/s2

Question 1: (1.0 mark). A boy is riding on a Ferris wheel that is rotating at constant speed.
The car in which the boy is riding always maintains its correct upward orientation and does
not invert. Consider the magnitude of the normal force on the boy from the seat. When is
it larger: at the top or the bottom of the wheel? Explain your answer.

Question 2: (1.0 mark) A car initially traveling eastward turns

north by traveling in a circular path at uniform speed as
shown in Figure 1. The length of the arc ABC is 250 m, and
the car completes the turn in 40.0 s.
a) Determine the car’s average speed during this 40.0-s 40.0°
interval.
b) What is the acceleration when the car is at B located at
an angle of 40.0? Express your answer in terms of the Figure 1
Figure 1
unit vectors iˆ and ĵ .

Question 3: (1.0 mark) Two objects are at rest on a frictionless surface. Object 1 has a greater
mass than object 2 (m1>m2). A constant force F is applied to the objects, one by one, and
accelerates them through the distance d in a straight line. At the end of this distance, which
object will have larger linear momentum? Explain your answer.

Question 4: (1.0 mark) A 2.50-kg iron horseshoe initially at 600°C is dropped into a bucket
containing 30.0 kg of water at 25.0°C. What is the final temperature of the water–horseshoe
system? Ignore the heat capacity of the container and assume a negligible amount of water
boils away. The specific heat of iron and water are 448 J/kgK and 4186 J/kgK respectively.

Question 5: (2.0 marks) A block of mass m1 = 2.00 kg and a

block of mass m2 = 6.00 kg are connected by a massless
string over a pulley in the shape of a solid disk having
radius R = 0.250 m and mass M = 3.00 kg. The fixed,
wedgeshaped ramp makes an angle of  = 40.0° as shown
in Figure 2. The coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.250 for
Figure 2
both blocks.
a) Draw force diagrams of both blocks and of the pulley.
b) Determine the acceleration of the two blocks.
c) Calculate the tensions in the string on both sides of the pulley.

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Question 6: (2.0 marks) A boy starts at rest and slides
down a frictionless slide as in Figure 3. The initial
height of the boy is H = 2.00 m. The bottom of the
track is at the same height as the ground. The boy
then leaves the track horizontally, slides on the
rough surface of the ground (the coefficient of
kinetic friction is k = 0.650) and stops at a
distance d (not scaled in the Figure) from the end of the Figure 3
slide.
a) Determine speed of the boy when he leaves the track.
b) Calculate the distance d.

Question 7: (2.0 marks) A sample of an ideal gas goes

through the process shown in Figure 4.
 From A to B, the process is adiabatic (the gas does
not receive or expel any energy by heat).
 From B to C, it is isobaric with 330 kJ of energy
entering the system by heat.
 The process CD is isothermal.
 From D to A, it is isobaric with 354 J of energy
leaving the system by heat. Figure 4
Given: 1 atm = 1.013105 Pa.
Calculate:
a) The work done on the gas in the process BC.
b) The heat enters the system in the process CD.
c) The work done by the gas in the cycle ABCDA.
d) The efficiency of a heat engine that works on the cycle ABCDA.

The End

ELO of the subject (knowledge) Test contents

[ELO 1.1]: Understanding various concepts, theorems, and laws related Questions: No. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
to classical mechanics and fluid mechanics.
[ELO 2.1]: Applying the knowledge and skills required to solve the
Questions: No. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6
problems in mechanics.
[ELO 2.3]: Applying the principles of thermodynamics to explain the
phenomena related to the temperature as well as solving the related Question: No. 4, 7
problems.

Date: December 28th, 2022

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 SOLUTIONS, KEYS AND SCORES
For Questions in Final Exam of Principles of Physics 1
Edited by: Phan Gia Anh Vu
Date of Exam: January 3rd 2023
Question Answer Score
1 The normal force exerted on the boy from the seat is larger if the car is at the the 0.5
bottom of the wheel.
Explanation:
The centripetal force that gives the boy the acceleration is the net force of the 0.5
gravitational force and the normal force fron the seat.
At the top of the wheel, the acceleration is downward, i.e. the acceleration is in
direction with the gravitational force . At the bottom of the wheel, the
acceleration is upward.
From Figure 1, the normal force is larger if the boy is at the bottom of the wheel
0.5

Figure 1
Top Bottom
2 a) The average speed of the car:
s 250
vavg    6.35m/s
t 40
a) The acceleration in this motion is centripetal acceleration with the magnitude 0.5
s v 2 6.252
of: R   159 m; ac    0.246 m/s 2
0.5 R 159


ˆ ˆ
ac  0.246 i cos130  j sin130 


ac  0.246 0.643iˆ  0.766 ˆj  0.5
 0.158iˆ  0.188 ˆj

3 The linear momentum of the heavier object – object one – is larger.

The acceleration of the object
F a m
a  ; Because the two objects are exerted by the same force: 1  2  1 . 0.5
m a2 m1
At the end of the distance d, the object’s speed is found:
v 2f  2ad  v f  2ad .
The object’s linear momentum at this moment is: p  mv f  m 2ad . Thus:
p1 m1v1 f m1v1 f m a1 m1
   1  1
P2 m2v2 f m2 v2 f m2 a2 m2 0.5
Note: The work-kinetic energy theorem can be used to explain the answer, too.
4 According to the energy conservation: Qh  Qw  0  Qh  Qw 0.5
mh ch T f  Th    mw cw T f  Tw 
The final temperature of the system is:
m c T  mw cwTw 2.5  448  600  30.0  4186  25 0.5
Tf  h h h   30.1C
mh ch  mwcw 2.5  448  30.0  4186

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5 a) Free body diagrams for the blocks and the
pulley:

 T2  
n  fk n

fk T1
0.5

 
m1 g m2 g
b) Dynamics equations for the blocks and the pulley:
    
m1 g  T1  n1  f k1  m1a1 (1)
    
m2 g  T2  n2  f k 2  m2 a2 (2) 0.5
  
 1   2  I (3)
Where  1  T1 R;  2  T2 R; a1  a2  R
From (1), (2) and (3) we obtain:
T1  f k 1  m1a ; n1  m1 g  0
m2 g sin   T2  f k 2  m2 a ; n2  m2 g cos   0
MR 2
T2  T1  R  I   0.5
2
m2 (sin   k cos  )  k m1
From these equations, solve for a: a 
M
m1  m2 
2
6.00   sin 40  0.250  cos 40   0.250  2.00
a  9.81  2.28m/s2
3.00
6.00  2.00 
2
c) The tensions on both sides of the pulley: 0.5
T1  m1  a  k g   a  2.00   2.28  0.250  9.81  9.46 N
M 3.00 0.5
T2  T1  a  9.46   2.28  12.9 N
2 2
6 a) The boy slides down the track frictionlessly, the energy of the system boy-
the Earth is conserved 0.5
1
E  0  K  U i.e. mv 2  mgH
2
The speed of the boy when he reaches the track’s end: 0.5
v  2 gH  2  9.81 2  6.26 m/s
b) He continues to slide on the ground. There is friction force between him an 0.5
the ground.
The work – kinetic energy can be applied for this process:
1 0.5
K  W friction   mv 2    k mgd
2
Solve for the distance d:
v2 6.262
K  W friction  d    3.07 m
2k g 2  0.650  9.81

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7 a) The work done on the gas:
Process B-C: WBC  pB VB  VC 
0.5
WBC   3  1.013  105   0.40  0.09 
 94 209 J
b) Process C-D:
V 
WCD  nRTC ln  C  0.5
 VD 
V   0.4 
WCD  pCVC ln  C    3 1.013 105  (0.4) ln    133547  134 kJ
 VD   1.2  0.5
C-D is an isothermal process, then
Eint,CD  WCD  QCD  0  QCD  WCD  134 kJ
c) The work done by the gas in the cycle ABCD:
Weng  Qh  Qc  QBC  QCD  QDA  330  134  354  110 J 0.5
d) The efficiency of the cycle ABCDA:
W 110 0.5
e  eng   0.237  23.7%
Qh 330  134

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