Nile University of Nigeria Lecturer:

Mr. AbdulAzeez Salawu

Faculty of Science

General Physics I (Physics 101) Assignment

Due date: 19th November, 2024. Use Plain A4 Paper

Submit it to your class rep. It should be handwritten.

The class rep should submit it to me by 11:00 AM

Instruction: Answer all questions and show workings

1. The density of lead is 30.2 𝑔/𝑐𝑚3 . What is this value in kilograms per meter cubes?

2. Write the dimensions for the following quantities (i) Potential energy (ii) Pressure
(iii) Impulse (iv) Moment of a force

1. A driver drives 4 km north and then 3 km east on a horizontal field. How far and in what
direction is she from the starting point?

2.

⃗1 + 𝑇
a. Find 𝑇 ⃗2
⃗2 − 𝑇
b. Find 𝑇 ⃗3

c. Find the resultant of the three forces as shown above

3. Given that:
⃗ = -i – 4j+2k. Find 𝐴 . 𝐵
𝐴= 2i + 9j–3k; and 𝐵 ⃗
4. Given that: 𝐴= 2i + 9j +3k and 𝐵 ⃗ = -i – 4k . Find 𝐴 𝑋𝐵 ⃗
5. A student throws a water balloon vertically downwards from the top of a building. The
ballon leaves the thrower’s hand with a speed of 16.0 m/s. air resistance may be ignored,
so the water balloon is in a free fall after it leaves the thrower’s hand. (a) what is its speed
after falling for 12.0 s (b) how far does it fall in 12.0 s ? (c) what is the magnitude of its
velocity after falling 100.0 m?
6. With what speed in miles/hr (1 m/s = 2.23 mi/hr) must an object be thrown to reach a
height of 91.5 m (equivalent to one football field)? Assume negligible air resistance.
7. It was once recorded that a Jaguar left skid marks that were 290 m in length. Assuming
that the Jaguar skidded to a stop with a constant acceleration of -3.90 m/s2, determine the
speed of the Jaguar before it began to skid.
8. A bullet is moving at a speed of 367 m/s when it embeds into a lump of moist clay. The
bullet penetrates for a distance of 0.0621 m. Determine the acceleration of the bullet
while moving into the clay. (Assume a uniform acceleration.)

9. A turtle crawls along a straight line, which we will call the x-axis with the positive
direction to the right. The equation for the turtle’s position as a function of time is x(t) =
5.0 cm + (4.00 cm/s)t – (0.625 cm/𝑠 2 )𝑡 2 . (a) Find the turtle’s initial velocity, initial
position, and initial acceleration. (b) At what time t is the velocity of the turtle zero? (c)
How long after starting does it take the turtle to return to its starting point? (d) At what
times t is the turtle a distance of 30.00 cm from its starting point? What is the velocity at
each of these times?

Questions 9-10
Starting from rest, an object accelerates on a straight level surface at the rate of 2 m/s 2 for
10 s.
10. What is the speed of the object at the end of 10 s?
(A) 5 m/s (B) 10 m/s (C) 20 m/s (D) 30 m/s (E) 40 m/s

11. What is the total distance traveled by the object during the 10 s interval?
(A) 20 m (B) 40 m (C) 80 m (D) 100 m (E) 120 m

Questions 11-12
An object moving in a straight line has a velocity v in m/s that varies with time t in s
according to the following function.
2
v = 8 + 2.5 t

12. The instantaneous acceleration of the object at t = 2 s is

(A) 2 m/s2 (B) 4 m/s2 (C) 6 m/s2 (D) 8 m/s2 (E) 10 m/s2
13. The displacement of the object between t = 0 and t = 6 s is
(A) 120 m (B) 180 m (C) 228 m (D) 242 m (E) 260 m

14. A 15 kg rock is dropped from rest on the earth and reaches the ground in 1.25 s. When it
is dropped from the same height on Saturn’s satellite Enceladus, it reaches the ground in
18.6 s. What is the acceleration due to gravity on Enceladus?

15. Starting from a pillar, you run 200 m east (the + x-direction) at an average speed of 5.0
m/s, and then run 280 m west at an average speed of 4.0 m/s to a post. Calculate (a) your
average speed from pillar to post and (b) your average velocity from pillar to post

16. An object in free fall has a velocity of 5 m/s in the upward direction. What is the
instantaneous velocity of the object one second later?
(A) 10 m/s down (B) 5 m/s up (C) 10 m/s up (D) 5 m/s down (E) 14 m/s down

17. At what vertical velocity should an object be launched at in order to achieve a height of
20 m?
(A) 10 m/s (B) 14 m/s (C) 19.8 m/s (D) 23 m/s (E) 29 m/s

18. How long will it take for an object accelerating at a constant rate of 5 m/s 2 to change its
velocity from 0 to 6 m/s?
(A) 0.6 s (B) 1.2 s (C) 2.4 s (D) 3.6 s (E) 4.8 s

19. An object is thrown straight downward on Earth with an initial velocity of 10 m/s from a
position of 20 m above the ground. The speed of the object when it reaches the ground is
about
(A) 13.2 m/s (B) 16.1 m/s (C) 19.5 m/s (D) 22.2 m/s (E) 31.7 m/s

Question 19 – 20
A car starting from rest uniformly accelerates in a straight line as shown below
20. What was the acceleration during the entire 3 second interval?
(A) 1 m/s2 (B) 3 m/s2 (C) 4 m/s2 (D) 6 m/s2 (E) 12 m/s2

21. The velocity as a function of time of a moving particle is given by v = α+ βt 2, where α

and β are constants and t is time in s. What is the acceleration of the particle at 3 s?
(A) 3β (B) 9β (C) 6β (D) 27β (E) 18β

22. A projectile is to be launched at an angle of 30° so that it falls beyond the pond of length
20 meters as shown in the figure.
a) What is the range of values of the initial velocity so that the projectile falls between
points M and N?

23. The human body can survive an acceleration trauma accident (sudden stops), if the
𝑚
magnitude of the acceleration is less than 250 𝑠2 . If you are in an automobile accident

with an initial speed of 105 km/h and you are stopped by an airbag that inflates from the

dashboard, over what distance must the airbag stop for you to survive the crash?

24. Give the results of the following calculations in standard SI units (m, kg, s etc., without
prefixes, but with powers of ten notation if needed),
a. (3.0 ×105 km/s) × (5.0 ns) =
b. (9.80 m/𝑠 2 ) × (2.70 s) =
 c. (19300 kg/𝑚3 ) × (1.00 𝑐𝑚)3

25. . A web page designer creates an animation in which a dot on a computer screen has a
𝑐𝑚 𝑐𝑚
position of 𝑟 = [4.0 𝑐𝑚 + (2.5 ) 𝑡 2 ] 𝑖 + (5.0 ) 𝑡𝑗
𝑠2 𝑠

(a) Find the magnitude and direction of the dot’s average velocity between t = 0 and t = 2.0 s.

(b) Find the magnitude and direction of the instantaneous velocity at t = 0, t = 1 s and t = 2 s.

26. A man stands on the roof of a 15.0-m-tall building and throws a rock with a velocity of

magnitude 30.0 m/s at an angle of 330 above the horizontal. You can ignore air

resistance. Calculate (a) the maximum height above the roof reached by the rock; (b) the

magnitude of the velocity of the rock just before it strikes the ground; and (c) the

horizontal range from the base of the building to the point where the rock strikes the

ground.

27. An antelope moving with constant acceleration covers the distance between two points

70.0 m apart in 7.0 s. Its speed as it passes the second point is 15.0 m/s. (a) What is its

speed at the first point? (b) What is its acceleration?

28. You normally drive on the freeway between Asokoro and Jabi at an average speed of 105

km/h and the trip takes 2 h and 20 min. On a Friday afternoon, however, heavy traffic

slows you down and you drive the same distance at an average speed of only 70 km/h.

how much longer does the trip take?

 ⃗⃗⃗ is 2.80 cm long and is 60oabove the x axis in the first quadrant. Vector 𝐵
29. Vector 𝐴 ⃗ is

1.90 cm long and is 600 below the x-axis in the fourth quadrant (as shown below). Use

components
⃗ (b) 𝐴 − 𝐵
to find the magnitude and direction of (a) 𝐴 + 𝐵 ⃗ ⃗ − 𝐴.
and (c) 𝐵

30. A baseball is popped straight up into the air and has a hang-time of 6.25 s. Determine the
height to which the ball rises before it reaches its peak. (Hint: the time to rise to the peak
is one-half the total hang-time.)