Review Questions

1. A car is traveling at a constant speed in a straight line. The east component of

2. Add the following vectors using components: 680 km/h [070.0], 200 km/h
[10.0 st of wt], 440 km/h [E 30.0O S].
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(823 km/h [1.54O st of et])

3. A person jogs east for 200.0 m, then north for 320 m, then bearing [250] for
280 m and finally south for 120 m. Determine the resultant displacement for the
jogger. (122 m [58.8O nt of wt])

4. Add the following vectors by components: 450 km [110], 330 km [65.0], 280
km [300], 70.0 km [west]. (428 km [17.0O nt of et])

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5. A 1.0 kg ball is dropped from the top of a building that is 38.75 m high. Students
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timed its fall and got 2.81 s. Calculate their experimental value of g .

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(9.81 m/s2 [dn] or 9.81 N/kg [dn])

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6. A stone is dropped from a high tower. Two seconds later a second stone is dropped
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from the same place on the tower. How far apart are the two stones by the time the
second stone has fallen for 3.0 s? (78 m)
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7. A stone thrown horizontally from the top of a tall building takes 7.56 s to reach the
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street. How high is the building? (280 m)

8. A ball is projected horizontally from a height of 3.0 m and it hits the floor 4.0 m
“down range”. Calculate
a) its time in flight.
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b) its horizontal velocity. (0.78 s, 5.1

m/s [fd])

9. At the instant a bullet is fired from a gun, the gun casing is ejected and dropped from
the gun. The bullet is given an initial horizontal velocity over level ground of
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4.0 x 102 m/s [fd] and the gun is fired from a distance of 1.0 m above the ground.
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a) What time elapses before the casing hits the ground?

10. Three masses are in a straight line as shown below. Mass A is 2.00 kg, mass B is
3.00 kg and mass C is 4.00 kg. The distance AB is 5.00 cm and BC is 2.50 cm.
Calculate the net force on B due to the gravitational attractions of A and C.

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 ----------------5.00 cm -------------  -----2.50 cm------ 
2.00 kg 3.00 kg 4.00 kg

(1.12 x 10-6 N [right])

11. Mass X of 250 kg and Y of 525 kg are placed 90.0 cm apart. Where should a
150 kg mass be placed so that the net gravitational force on it from X and Y will be
zero? (0.367 m from 250 kg mass)

12. A spy satellite is located one Earth radius above the surface of the Earth. What is its
period of revolution? (1.43 x 104 s)

13. A satellite circles the Earth once every 95.0 minutes at a mean altitude of 500.0 km.
Calculate the mass of the Earth. (The masses of planets are actually calculated from

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better value for the mass of the Earth.) (5.91 x 1024 kg)

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14. A satellite circles the Earth in 1.45 x 105 s at a mean distance of 5.98 x 107 m from

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the centre of the Earth. Calculate the mass of the Earth. (6.02 x 1024 kg)
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15. A 70 kg diver drops off a 12 m tower, with no initial velocity.
a) Using conservation of energy, find the speed that the diver hits the water?
b) What would his impact speed with the water be if he gave himself an initial
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upward velocity of 5.0 m/s? (15 m/s, 16 m/s)

16. An Olympic high jumper whose centre of mass is 0.85 m above the ground must
jump up and raise the centre of mass to a height of 2.0 m in order to clear the bar.
What upward initial velocity must the jumper have in order to do this? (4.8 m/s)
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17. A 1.50 m long pendulum is pulled aside so that it makes a 50.0o angle with the
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vertical. It is then released. What is the maximum speed of the pendulum during its
swing? (3.24 m/s)

18. A 2.500 m long pendulum is pulled back a horizontal distance of 60.0 cm and then
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released. What is the maximum speed of the pendulum during its swing? (1.20 m/s)
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19. A 30 kg girl slides down a slide at an amusement park, reaching the bottom with a
speed of 2.5 m/s. The slide is 10.0 m long and the top end is a vertical height of
4.0 m above the bottom end.
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a) What is her gravitational potential energy at the top of the slide if the reference
level for EPg is the bottom of the slide?
b) What is her kinetic energy when she reaches the bottom of the slide?
c) How much mechanical energy is converted to heat?
d) Calculate the size of the average frictional force acting on her as she goes down
the slide. (1.2 x 103 J, 94 J, 1.1 x 103 J, 1.1 x 102 N)

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 20. A 25.0 kg crate slid 25.0 m along a 35.00 ramp from rest. The force of friction
between the crate and ramp is 100 N. What is the speed of the crate at the bottom of
the ramp? (9.02 m/s)

21. A cart X of mass 4.0 kg was traveling at 6.0 m/s along a smooth floor when it struck a
stationary cart Y of mass 2.0 kg. After the glancing elastic collision, cart X moved off
at 3.0 m/s in some unspecified direction. What was the new speed of cart Y?
(7.3 m/s)

22. A water wave produced by a disturbance of frequency 5.0 Hz moves with a steady
speed of 20 cm/s. Find its period and wavelength. (0.20 s, 4.0 cm)

23. A wave has a speed of 15 cm/s and a period of 0.10s. What is the wave's wavelength
and frequency? (1.5 cm, 10 Hz)

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24. Calculate the speed of sound in air if a sound wave has a frequency of 200 Hz and a
wavelength of 1.75 m. (350 m/s)

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25. Complete the following diagrams of waves in a ripple tank by drawing the wave rays

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26. A ripple tank wave passes through a straight boundary between deep and shallow
water. The angle of incidence at the boundary is 450 and the angle of refraction is
300. What is the index of refraction for the waves going from deep to shallow
water? (1.4)
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27. The speed of water waves in a deep region of a ripple tank is 0.30 m/s. The waves
enter a shallow region at an angle of incidence of 400 and then move with a speed of
0.20 m/s. Calculate
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a) the index of refraction

28. When a wave goes through a given slit, it spreads a certain amount. By what factor
does the amount of spreading alter if the wavelength of the wave is doubled and the
slit width is tripled? (2/3 x)

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 29. From the pattern below and the point provided, take the necessary measurements to
use the formula
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(9.15 x 10-2 cm, 7.98 x 10-2 cm)

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