Physics Final (Part 2)

Front 1

Person X pushes twice as hard against a stationary brick wall as person Y. Which one of the following statements is correct?

Back 1

Both do zero work.

Front 2

A 4.0 kg object is moving with speed 2.0 m/s. A 1.0 kg object is moving with speed 4.0 m/s. Both objects encounter the same constant braking force, and are brought to rest. Which object travels the greater distance before stopping?

Back 2

Both objects travel the same distance.

Front 3

You slam on the brakes of your car in a panic, and skid a certain distance on a straight level road. If you had been traveling twice as fast, what distance would the car have skidded, under the same conditions?

Back 3

It would have skidded 4 times farther.

Front 4

Which requires more work, increasing a car's speed from 0 mph to 30 mph or from 50 mph to 60 mph?

Back 4

50 mph to 60 mph

Front 5

A stone is held at a height h above the ground. A second stone with four times the mass of the first one is held at the same height. The gravitational potential energy of the second stone compared to that of the first stone is

Back 5

four times as much.

Front 6

You and your friend, who weighs the same as you, want to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Your friend takes the elevator straight up. You decide to walk up the spiral stairway, taking longer to do so. Compare the gravitational potential energy of you and your friend, after you both reach the top.

Back 6

Both of you have the same amount of gravitational potential energy at the top.

Front 7

The graphs shown show the magnitude F of the force exerted by a spring as a function of the distance x the spring has been stretched. For which one of the graphs does the spring obey Hooke's law?

Back 7

Graph b

Front 8

When you throw a pebble straight up with initial speed V, it reaches a maximum height H with no air resistance. At what speed should you throw it up vertically so it will go twice as high?

Back 8

square root of 2 times V

Front 9

When you drop a pebble from height H, it reaches the ground with speed V if there is no air resistance. From what height should you drop it so it will reach the ground with twice speed?

Back 9

4H

Front 10

When you drop a pebble from height H, it reaches the ground with kinetic energy K if there is no air resistance. From what height should you drop it so it will reach the ground with twice as much kinetic energy?

Back 10

2H

Front 11

Two men, Joel and Jerry, push against a car that has stalled, trying unsuccessfully to get it moving. Jerry stops after 10 min, while Joel is able to push for 5.0 min longer. Compare the work they do on the car.

Back 11

Neither of them does any work.

Front 12

Two objects, one of mass m and the other of mass 2m, are dropped from the top of a building. If there is no air resistance, when they hit the ground

Back 12

the heavier one will have twice the kinetic energy of the lighter one.

Front 13

Swimmers at a water park have a choice of two frictionless water slides, as shown in the figure. Although both slides drop over the same height h, slide 1 is straight while slide 2 is curved, dropping quickly at first and then leveling out. How does the speed v1 of a swimmer reaching the bottom of slide 1 compare with v2, the speed of a swimmer reaching the end of slide 2?

Back 13

v1 = v2

Front 14

Two frisky otters slide down frictionless hillsides of the same height but different slopes. The slope of the hill of otter 1 is 30°, while the slope of the hill of otter 2 is 60°. If both start from rest, which otter is moving faster when she reaches the bottom of her hill?

Back 14

Both otters have the same speed at the bottom.

Front 15

A lightweight object and a very heavy object are sliding with equal speeds along a level frictionless surface. They both slide up the same frictionless hill with no air resistance. Which object rises to a greater height?

Back 15

They both slide to exactly the same height.

Front 16

A person stands on the edge of a cliff. She throws three identical rocks with the same speed. Rock X is thrown vertically upward, rock Y is thrown horizontally, and rock Z is thrown vertically downward. If the ground at the base of the cliff is level, which rock hits the ground with the greatest speed if there is no air resistance?

Back 16

They all hit the ground with the same speed.

Front 17

Joe and Bill throw identical balls vertically upward. Joe throws his ball with an initial speed twice as high as Bill. If there is no air resistance, the maximum height of Joe's ball will be

Back 17

four times that of Bill's ball.

Front 18

A stone can slide down one of four different frictionless ramps, as shown in the figure. For which ramp will the speed of the ball be the greatest at the bottom?

Back 18

The speed of the ball will be the same for all ramps.

Front 19

A girl throws a stone from a bridge. Consider the following ways she might throw the stone. The speed of the stone as it leaves her hand is the same in each case. Case A: Thrown straight up. Case B: Thrown straight down. Case C: Thrown out at an angle of 45° above horizontal. Case D: Thrown straight out horizontally. In which case will the speed of the stone be greatest when it hits the water below if there is no significant air resistance?

Back 19

The speed will be the same in all cases.

Front 20

A heavy frog and a light frog jump straight up into the air. They push off in such away that they both have the same kinetic energy just as they leave the ground. Air resistance is negligible. Which of the following statements about these frogs are correct? (There could be more than one correct choice.)

Back 20

Just as they leave the ground, the lighter frog is moving faster than the heavier frog. and Both frogs reach the same maximum height.

Front 21

If the force on an object is in the negative direction, the work it does on the object must be

Back 21

The work could be either positive or negative, depending on the direction the object moves.

Front 22

A heavy rock and a light rock are dropped from the same height and experience no significant air resistance as they fall. Which of the following statements about these rocks are correct? (There could be more than one correct choice.)

Back 22

When they reach the ground, the heavier rock has more kinetic energy than the lighter rock. and Both rocks have the same speed when they reach the ground.

Front 23

A 1-kg ball is released from a height of 6 m, and a 2-kg ball is released from a height of 3 m. Air resistance is negligible as they fall. Which of the following statements about these balls are correct? (There could be more than one correct choice.)

Back 23

Both balls will reach the ground with the same kinetic energy. and As they reach the ground, the 1-kg ball will be moving faster than the 2-kg ball.

Front 24

A heavy dart and a light dart are launched vertically by identical ideal springs. Both springs were initially compressed by the same amount. There is no significant air resistance. Which of the following statements about these darts are correct? (There could be more than one correct choice.)

Back 24

At the maximum height, both darts have the same gravitational potential energy. and The light dart goes higher than the heavy dart.

Front 25

A heavy sled and a light sled, both moving horizontally with the same speed, suddenly slide onto a rough patch of snow and eventually come to a stop. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the sleds and the rough snow is the same for both of them. Which of the following statements about these sleds are correct? (There could be more than one correct choice.)

Back 25

Both sleds will slide the same distance on the rough snow before stopping. and The friction from the snow will do more negative work on the heavy sled than on the light sled.

Front 26

If a stone is dropped with an initial gravitational potential energy of 100 J but reaches the ground with a kinetic energy of only 75 J, this is a violation of the principle of conservation of energy.

Back 26

False

Front 27

Two cyclists who weigh the same and have identical bicycles ride up the same mountain, both starting at the same time. Joe rides straight up the mountain, and Bob rides up the longer road that has a lower grade. Joe gets to the top before Bob. Ignoring friction and wind resistance, which one of the following statements is true?

Back 27

The amount of work done by Joe is equal to the amount of work done by Bob, but the average power exerted by Joe is greater than that of Bob.

Front 28

A 35-N bucket of water is lifted vertically 3.0 m and then returned to its original position. How much work did gravity do on the bucket during this process?

Back 28

0 J

Front 29

You throw a baseball straight up. Compare the sign of the work done by gravity while the ball goes up with the sign of the work done by gravity while it goes down.

Back 29

The work is negative on the way up and positive on the way down.

Front 30

Which one has larger kinetic energy: a 500-kg object moving at 40 m/s or a 1000-kg object moving at 20 m/s?

Back 30

The 500-kg object

Front 31

A truck has four times the mass of a car and is moving with twice the speed of the car. If Kt and Kc refer to the kinetic energies of truck and car respectively, it is correct to say that

Back 31

Kt = 16Kc.

Front 32

Three cars (car F, car G, and car H) are moving with the same speed and slam on their brakes. The most massive car is car F, and the least massive is car H. If the tires of all three cars have identical coefficients of kinetic friction with the road surface, which car travels the longest distance to skid to a stop?

Back 32

They all travel the same distance in stopping.

Front 33

Three cars (car L, car M, and car N) are moving with the same speed and slam on their brakes. The most massive car is car L, and the least massive is car N. If the tires of all three cars have identical coefficients of kinetic friction with the road surface, for which car is the amount of work done by friction in stopping it the greatest?

Back 33

Car L

Front 34

A person carries a 25.0-N rock through the path shown in the figure, starting at point A and ending at point B. The total time from A to B is 1.50 min. How much work did gravity do on the rock between A and B?

Back 34

0 J

Front 35

A person carries a 2.00-N pebble through the path shown in the figure, starting at point A and ending at point B. The total time from A to B is 6.75 min. How much work did gravity do on the rock between A and B?

Back 35

-30.0 J

Front 36

A force acts on an object, causing it to move parallel to the force. The graph in the figure shows this force as a function of the position of the object. How much work does the force do as the object moves from 4 m to 6 m?

Back 36

20 J

Front 37

A force acts on an object, causing it to move parallel to the force. The graph in the figure shows this force as a function of the position of the object. How much work does the force do as the object moves from 0 m to 4 m?

Back 37

20 J

Front 38

A force acts on an object, causing it to move parallel to the force. The graph in the figure shows this force as a function of the position of the object. How much work does the force do as the object moves from 6 m to 12 m?

Back 38

30 J

Front 39

A force acts on an object, causing it to move parallel to the force. The graph in the figure shows this force as a function of the position of the object. How much work does the force do as the object moves from 0 to 15 m?

Back 39

125 J

Front 40

The resultant force on an object over a 0.50-s time interval is plotted in the graph in the figure. How much work did this force do on the object during the 0.50-s interval?

Back 40

0 J

Front 41

A spring-loaded dart gun is used to shoot a dart straight up into the air, and the dart reaches a maximum height of 24 meters. The same dart is shot up a second time from the same gun, but this time the spring is compressed only half as far (compared to the first shot). How far up does the dart go this time (neglect all friction and assume the spring is ideal)?

Back 41

6.0 m

Front 42

A bead is moving with a speed of 20 m/s at position A on the track shown in the figure. This track is friction-free, and there is no appreciable air resistance. What is the speed of the bead at point C?

Back 42

34 m/s

Front 43

The figure shows a famous roller coaster ride. You can ignore friction. If the roller coaster leaves point Q from rest, what is its speed at the top of the 25-m peak (point S)?

Back 43

22 m/s

Front 44

In the figure, a ball hangs by a very light string. What is the minimum speed of the ball at the bottom of its swing (point B) in order for it to reach point A, which is 1.0 m above the bottom of the swing?

Back 44

4.4 m/s

Front 45

A roller coaster starts from rest at a height h at the left side of a loop-the-loop, as shown in the figure. It is not attached to the track in anyway, and there is no friction from the track or from air resistance. If the radius of the loop is R = 6.0 m, what is the minimum height h for which the roller coaster will not fall off the track at the top of the loop?

Back 45

15 m