A 0.
20-kg block rests on a frictionless, level surface and is attached to a horizontally aligned spring with a
spring constant of 80 N/m. The block is initially displaced 4.0 cm from the equilibrium point and then
released to set up a simple harmonic motion. A frictional force of 0.3 N exists between the block and
surface. What is the speed of the block when it passes through the equilibrium point after being released
from the 4.0-cm displacement point?
Select one:
a. 0.72 m/s
Correct
b. 0.45 m/s
c. 1.2 m/s
d. 0.63 m/s
Which of the first units given below can be units for angular acceleration while the second units can be
units for angular velocity?
Select one:
a.
b. rad/s^2,deg/hour
Correct
c.
d.
A woman who weighs 500 N stands on an 8.0 m long board that weighs 100 N. The board is supported at
each end. The support force at the right end is 2 times the support force at the left end. How far from the
right end is the woman standing?
Select one:
a. 2.4 m
b. 1.6 m
Correct
c. 4.0 m
d. 2.7 m
A spool of thread has an average radius of 1.00 cm. If the spool contains 126 m of thread, how many
turns of thread are on the spool? "Average radius" allows us to not need to treat the layering of threads on
lower layers.
Select one:
a. 100
b. 2000
Correct
c. 62,800
d. 1000
A bucket in an old well is hoisted upward by a rope which winds up on a cylinder having a radius of
0.050 m. How many rev/s must the cylinder turn if the bucket is raised at a speed of 0.20 m/s?
Select one:
a. 3.0 rev/s
b. 0.64 rev/s
Correct
c. 1.5 rev/s
d. 0.48 rev/s
displaced through an angle of 30° and then released. After a time, the maximum angle of swing is only
10°. How much energy has been lost to friction?
Select one:
a. 0.58 J
Correct
b. 0.66 J
c. 1.6 J
d. 2.0 J
The Earth's gravity exerts no torque on a satellite orbiting the Earth in an elliptical orbit. Compare the
motion at the point nearest the Earth (perigee) to the motion at the point farthest from the Earth (apogee).
At the point closest to the Earth:
Select one:
a. the kinetic energy and angular momentum will both be greater.
b. the angular speed will be greatest although the linear speed will be the same.
c. the speed will be greatest although the angular speed will be the same.
d. None of the above.
Correct
3.0 m/s along the line y = 5.0 m. As the mass passes across the y axis (i.e., passing the point (x, y = 0, 5.0
m)), what is its angular momentum with respect to the z axis?
Select one:
a. −30 SI units
b. −150 SI units
c. 30 SI units
Correct
d. 150 SI units
but stepping on carpet in an adjacent room feels comfortably warm. Why is this?
Select one:
a. It's because the tile is at room temperature while carpet is normally warmer.
b. It's because the tile is below room temperature while the carpet is at room temperature.
c. It's because the thermal conductivity of carpet is less than that of tile.
Correct
d. It's because the thermal conductivity of tile is less than that of carpet.
A majorette takes two batons and fastens them together in the middle at right angles to make an "x"
shape. Each baton was 0.90 m long and each ball on the end is 0.20 kg. (Ignore the mass of the rods.)
What is the moment of inertia if the arrangement is spun around an axis through the center perpendicular
to both rods?
Select one:
a. 0.064 kg·m2
b. 0.075 kg·m2
c. 0.096 kg·m2
d. 0.16 kg·m2
Correct
A train station bell gives off a fundamental tone of 530 Hz as the train approaches the station at a speed of
23 m/s. If the speed of sound in air is 346 m/s, what will be the apparent frequency of the bell to an
observer riding the train?
Select one:
a. 495 Hz
b. 346 Hz
c. 241 Hz
d. 565 Hz
Correct
e. 553 Hz
If I double the mass per unit length of guitar string, its natural frequency changes by what factor?
Select one:
a. 1
b. 1.41
c. 4
d. 2
e. 0.71
Correct
In which part of the ear is the cochlea?
Select one:
a. inner ear
Correct
b. outer ear
c. ear canal
d. middle ear
A temperature change from 15°C to 45°C corresponds to what incremental change in °F?
Select one:
a. 36
b. 54
Correct
c. 40
d. 313
When two sound waves are out of phase by ____, destructive interference will occur.
Select one:
a. 1,080°
Correct
b. 70°
c. 1,200°
d. 1,080°
e. 180°
In the afternoon, the decibel level of a busy freeway is 89 dB with 90 cars passing a given point every
minute. Late at night, the traffic flow is only 5 cars per minute. What is the late-night decibel level?
Select one:
a. 89 dB
b. 76 dB
Correct
c. 9 dB
d. 205 dB
e. 176 dB
The frequency separating audible waves and ultrasonic waves is considered to be 20 kHz. What
wavelength in air at room temperature is associated with this frequency? (Assume the speed of sound to
be 220 m/s.)
Select one:
a. 1.1 cm
Correct
b. 24.2 cm
c. 22 cm
d. 44 cm
e. 24.2 cm
A sound wave coming from a tuba has a wavelength of 1.5 m and travels to your ears at a speed of
360 m/s. What is the frequency of the sound you hear?
Select one:
a. 358.5 Hz
b. 1/540 Hz
c. 1/240 Hz
d. 540 Hz
e. 240 Hz
Correct
A wave travels in a string at 52 m/s. A second string of 25% greater linear density has the same tension
applied as in the first string. What will be the resulting wave speed in the second string?
Select one:
a. 47 m/s
Correct
b. 58 m/s
c. 60 m/s
d. also 52 m/s
e. 104 m/s
In an elastic solid there is a direct proportionality between strain and:
Select one:
a. stress.
Correct
b. elastic modulus.
c. temperature.
d. cross-sectional area.
Iced tea is made by adding ice to 1.7 kg of hot tea, initially at 80°C. How many kg of ice, initially at 0°C,
are required to bring the mixture to 10°C? (Lf = 3.33 × 105 J/kg, cw = 4 186 J/kg⋅°C)
Select one:
a. 1.1 kg
b. 1.3 kg
Correct
c. 1.7 kg
d. 0.9 kg
e. 1.5 kg
Find the final equilibrium temperature when 20.0 g of milk at 10.0°C is added to 160 g of coffee at
85.0°C. (Assume the specific heats of coffee and milk are the same as water and neglect the heat capacity
of the container.) cwater = 1.00 cal/g⋅°C = 4186 J/kg⋅°C
Select one:
a. 76.7°C
Correct
b. 98.6°C
c. 75.7°C
d. 74.4°C
e. 95.7°C
Perihelion, the near point to the Sun for the Earth in its orbit, occurs in January. In which of the following
months is the orbital angular momentum of the Earth the greatest?
Select one:
a. None of the above answers is correct.
Correct
b. only in January
c. in both April and October, but in no other months
d. only in July
A meterstick is supported by a knife-edge at the 50-cm mark. Doug hangs masses of 0.40 and 0.60 kg
from the 35-cm and 80-cm marks, respectively. Where should Doug hang a third mass of 0.30 kg to keep
the stick balanced?
Select one:
a. 10 cm
Correct
b. 30 cm
c. 70 cm
d. 20 cm
A ceiling fan is turned on and reaches an angular speed of 120 rev/min in 20 s. It is then turned off and
coasts to a stop in an additional 60 s. The ratio of the average angular acceleration for the first 20 s to that
for the last 60 s is which of the following?
Select one:
a. -3
Correct
b. -0.3
c. 0.3
d. 3
Equal wavelength waves of amplitude 0.25 m and 0.19 m interfere with one another. What is the resulting
minimum amplitude that can result?
Select one:
a. 0.06 m
Correct
b. −0.44 m
c. 0 m
d. 0.22 m
e. 0.19 m
Transverse waves travel with a speed of 283 m/s along a taut copper wire that has a diameter of 1.50 mm.
What is the tension in the wire? (The density of copper is 8.93 g/cm 3.)
Select one:
a. 1260 N
Correct
b. 1890 N
c. 315 N
d. 631 N
The superposition principle has to do with which of the following?
Select one:
a. the ability of some waves to move very far
b. effects of waves at great distances
c. how displacements of interacting waves add together
Correct
d. relativistic wave behavior
Which of the following ranges corresponds to the shortest wavelengths?
Select one:
a. audible
b. All have the same wavelengths.
c. ultrasonic
Correct
d. infrasonic
Two water waves meet at the same point, one having a displacement above equilibrium of 60 cm and the
other having a displacement above equilibrium of 70 cm. At this moment, what is the resulting
displacement above equilibrium?
Select one:
a. 10 cm
b. 95 cm
c. Information about the amplitudes needs to be given to find an answer.
d. 130 cm
Correct
e. 40 cm
A C note (f = 128 Hz) is sounded on a piano. If the length of the piano wire is 1.00 m and its mass density
is 5.00 g/m, what is the tension in the wire?
Select one:
a. 328 N
Correct
b. 1310 N
c. 655 N
d. 84 N
The oxygen molecule (O2) may be regarded as two masses connected by a spring. In vibrational motion,
each oxygen atom alternately approaches, then moves away from the center of mass of the system. If each
oxygen atom of mass m = 2.67 × 10−26 kg has a vibrational energy of 1.6 × 10−21 J and the effective spring
constant is 50 N/m, then what is the amplitude of oscillation of each oxygen atom?
Select one:
a. 1.1 × 10−11 m
b. 1.6 × 10−11 m
c. 3.2 × 10−11 m
d. 5.7 × 10−12 m
e. 8 × 10−12 m
Correct
A 0.23-kg mass is oscillating on a spring over a horizontal frictionless surface. When it is at a
displacement of 2.2 cm for equilibrium it has a kinetic energy of 1.7 J and a spring potential energy of 2.8
J. What is the maximum speed of the mass during its oscillation?
Select one:
a. 4.4 m/s
b. 6.3 m/s
Correct
c. 3 m/s
d. 4.4 m/s
e. 0.2 m/s
In which system is heat usually transferred from the cooler part to the warmer part?
Select one:
a. none of the above, because it is impossible to transfer heat in this manner
b. a stove as it heats up water
c. an electric fan that is running
d. a refrigerator that is running
Correct
A chamber that can be filled with different gases has placed in it a source of sound that in air produces a
frequency of 200 Hz and a microphone to pick up the sound for frequency analysis. First the chamber is
filled with helium (speed of sound 1 000 m/s at room conditions), then the helium is replaced with oxygen
(speed of sound 330 m/s at room conditions), and then finally the helium is replaced with carbon dioxide
(speed of sound 269 m/s at room conditions). In which gas is the highest frequency of sound found by the
microphone during this experiment?
Select one:
a. oxygen
b. carbon dioxide
c. helium
d. They all have the same frequency of sound.
Correct
Suppose a car has a 100,000 mile 10 year warranty on the wheels and axles of a car. How may turns will
the wheels of 0.80-m diameter make if both the mileage and time warranties run out simultaneously and
what will be the average angular velocities of the wheel? Assume that a mile = m and that a year
is s.
Select one:
a. , 0.2 rad/s
Correct
b. , 2 rad/s
c. , 0.2 rad/s
d. , 2 rad/s
e. , 0.2 rad/s
A bowling ball has a mass of 7.0 kg, a moment of inertia of 2.8 ×10−2 kg·m2, and a radius of 0.10 m. If it
rolls down the lane without slipping at a linear speed of 3.7 m/s, what is its total kinetic energy?
Select one:
a. 67.1 J
Correct
b. 37.0 J
c. 47.9 J
d. 19.2 J
A 3.0-m rod is pivoted about its left end. A force of 20 N is applied perpendicular to the rod at a distance
of1.2 m from the pivot causing a ccw torque, and a force of 4.8 N is applied at the end of the rod 3.0 m
from the pivot. The 4.8-N force is at an angle of 30o to the rod and causes a cw torque. What is the net
torque about the pivot? (Take ccw as positive.)
Select one:
a. 9.6 N·m
b. 31.2 N·m
c. -31.2 N·m
d. 16.8 N·m
Correct
e. -16.8 N·m
A bank vault is opened by applying a force of 300 N perpendicular to the plane of the door, 1.2 m from
the hinges. Find the torque due to this force about an axis through the hinges.
Select one:
a. 360 N·m
Correct
b. 300 N·m
c. 240 N·m
d. 180 N·m
A ventilation fan has blades 0.25 m in radius rotating at 30 rpm. What is the tangential speed of each
blade tip?
Select one:
a. 0.02 m/s
b. 20 m/s
c. 0.79 m/s
Correct
d. 0.52 m/s
given by x = (0.120 m) cos (πt/16). What is the maximum net force on the mass as it oscillates?
Select one:
a. 3.0 × 10−3 N
Correct
b. 0.98 × 10−3 N
c. 7.4 × 10−3 N
d. 4.7 N
Which of the following statements is true?
Select one:
a. Statements a and b are true.
b. A cold object contains only a little heat.
c. A hot object contains a lot of heat.
d. Objects do not contain heat.
Corr
A Boeing-737 airliner has a mass of 20 300 kg. The total area of the wings is 105 m2. What must be the
pressure difference between the top and bottom of the wings to keep the airplane up?
Select one:
a. 193 Pa
b. 1 905 Pa
c. 20 Pa
d. 1 895 Pa
Correct
e. 1 795 Pa
A Ferris wheel, rotating initially at an angular speed of 0.16 rad/s, accelerates over a 7.0-s interval at a
rate of 0.050 rad/s2. What is its angular speed after this 7.0-s interval?
Select one:
a. 0.85 rad/s
b. 0.51 rad/s
Correct
c. 1.2 rad/s
d. 0.46 rad/s
What are the base SI units for the torsion constant ?
Select one:
a.
b.
c. kg . m^2/s^2
Correct
d.
A figure skater with arms initially extended starts spinning on the ice at 3 rad/s. She then pulls her arms in
close to her body. Which of the following results?
Select one:
a. a greater angular momentum
b. a smaller angular momentum
c. a smaller rotational rate
d. a greater rotational rate
Correct
When an object is moving in simple harmonic motion, which of the following is at a minimum when the
displacement from equilibrium is zero?
Select one:
a. the total mechanical energy
b. the kinetic energy
c. the magnitude of the velocity
d. the magnitude of the acceleration
Correct
A spool of thread has an average radius of 1.00 cm. If the spool contains 135 m of thread, how many
turns of thread are on the spool? "Average radius" allows us to not need to treat the layering of threads on
lower layers.
Select one:
a. 3,400
b. 2,200
Correct
c. 21
d. 4,300
e. 1,100
A bucket of water with total mass 23 kg is attached to a rope, which in turn, is wound around a 0.080-m
radius cylinder at the top of a well. A crank with a turning radius of 0.25 m is attached to the end of the
cylinder. What minimum force directed perpendicular to the crank handle is required to just raise the
bucket? (Assume the rope's mass is negligible, that the cylinder turns on frictionless bearings, and that g =
9.8 m/s2.)
Select one:
a. 45 N
b. 135 N
c. 68 N
d. 72 N
Correct
Suppose a car has a 100,000 mile 10 year warranty on the wheels and axles of a car. How may turns will
the wheels of 0.80-m diameter make if both the mileage and time warranties run out simultaneously and
what will be the average angular velocities of the wheel? Assume that a mile = m and that a year
is s.
Select one:
a. , 0.2 rad/s
Correct
b. , 2 rad/s
c. , 0.2 rad/s
d. , 2 rad/s
e. , 0.2 rad/s
A bowling ball has a mass of 7.0 kg, a moment of inertia of 2.8 ×10−2 kg·m2, and a radius of 0.10 m. If it
rolls down the lane without slipping at a linear speed of 3.7 m/s, what is its total kinetic energy?
Select one:
a. 67.1 J
Correct
b. 37.0 J
c. 47.9 J
d. 19.2 J
A 3.0-m rod is pivoted about its left end. A force of 20 N is applied perpendicular to the rod at a distance
of1.2 m from the pivot causing a ccw torque, and a force of 4.8 N is applied at the end of the rod 3.0 m
from the pivot. The 4.8-N force is at an angle of 30o to the rod and causes a cw torque. What is the net
torque about the pivot? (Take ccw as positive.)
Select one:
a. 9.6 N·m
b. 31.2 N·m
c. -31.2 N·m
d. 16.8 N·m
Correct
e. -16.8 N·m
the plane of the door, 1.2 m from the hinges. Find the torque due to this force about an axis through the
hinges.
Select one:
a. 360 N·m
Correct
b. 300 N·m
c. 240 N·m
d. 180 N·m
A ventilation fan has blades 0.25 m in radius rotating at 30 rpm. What is the tangential speed of each
blade tip?
Select one:
a. 0.02 m/s
b. 20 m/s
c. 0.79 m/s
Correct
d. 0.52 m/s
The position of a 0.64-kg mass undergoing simple harmonic motion is given by x = (0.120 m) cos (πt/16).
What is the maximum net force on the mass as it oscillates?
Select one:
a. 3.0 × 10−3 N
Correct
b. 0.98 × 10−3 N
c. 7.4 × 10−3 N
d. 4.7 N
The speed of sound in air is a function of which one of the following?
Select one:
a. amplitude
b. temperature
Correct
c. wavelength
d. frequency
Find the final equilibrium temperature when 20.0 g of milk at 10.0°C is added to 160 g of coffee at
90.0°C. (Assume the specific heats of coffee and milk are the same as water and neglect the heat capacity
of the container, and cwater = 1.00 cal/g·°C = 4186 J/kg·°C)
Select one:
a. 81.1°C
Correct
b. 71.4°C
c. 85.3°C
d. 66.7°C
The superposition principle has to do with which of the following?
Select one:
a. how displacements of interacting waves add together
Correct
b. the ability of some waves to move very far
c. relativistic wave behavior
d. effects of waves at great distances
A refrigerator has a coefficient of performance of 3. When removing 2.6 × 104 J from inside the
refrigerator, how much energy is sent into the environment?
Select one:
a. 7.8 × 104 J
b. 3.5 × 104 J
Correct
c. 10.4 × 104 J
d. 0.9 × 104 J
e. 4.6 × 104 J
If the air temperature decreases, how does the resonant frequency in a pipe closed at one end change?
Select one:
a. It increases.
b. It decreases.
Correct
c. It doesn't change since one end of the pipe is closed.
d. It doesn't change because resonance is pressure phenomenon.
A long steel beam has a length of fifty meters on a cold day when the temperature is 0°C. What is the
length of the beam on a hot day when T= 40°C? (αsteel= 1.1 × 10−5/°C)
Select one:
a. 50.088 m
b. 50.0044 m
c. 50.044 m
d. 50.022 m
Correct
Transverse waves travel with a speed of 283 m/s along a taut copper wire that has a diameter of 1.50 mm.
What is the tension in the wire? (The density of copper is 8.93 g/cm 3.)
Select one:
a. 1890 N
b. 1260 N
Correct
c. 631 N
d. 315 N
Three identical springs each have the same spring constant k. If these three springs are attached end to end
forming a spring three times the length of one of the original springs, what will be the spring constant of
the combination?
Select one:
a. k/3
Correct
b. k
c. 1.73 k
d. 3 k
If one could transport a simple pendulum of constant length from the Earth's surface to the Moon's, where
the acceleration due to gravity is one-sixth (1/6) that on the Earth, by what factor would the pendulum
frequency be changed?
Select one:
a. about 2.5
b. about 6.0
c. about 0.41
Correct
d. about 0.17
If two adjacent frequencies of an organ pipe closed at one end are 500 Hz and 700 Hz, what is the length
of the organ pipe? (vsound = 340 m/s)
Select one:
a. 0.85 m
Correct
b. 1.50 m
c. 1.25 m
d. 1.70 m
According to the first law of thermodynamics, the sum of the heat gained by a system and the work done
on that same system is equivalent to which of the following?
Select one:
a. specific heat
b. temperature change
c. internal energy change
Correct
d. entropy change
A chamber that can be filled with different gases has placed in it a source of sound that in air produces a
frequency of 200 Hz and a microphone to pick up the sound for frequency analysis. First the chamber is
filled with helium (speed of sound 1 000 m/s at room conditions), then the helium is replaced with oxygen
(speed of sound 330 m/s at room conditions), and then finally the helium is replaced with carbon dioxide
(speed of sound 269 m/s at room conditions). In which gas is the highest frequency of sound found by the
microphone during this experiment?
Select one:
a. helium
b. carbon dioxide
c. They all have the same frequency of sound.
Correct
d. oxygen
If it is given that 546 K equals 273°C, then it follows that 423 K equals:
Select one:
a. 150°C.
Correct
b. 1200°C.
c. 473°C.
d. 127°C.
A pipe carrying water has a radius of 1.0 cm. If the flow velocity is 9.0 cm/s, which of the following
characterizes the flow? Take the viscosity of water to be 1.0 × 10−3 N⋅s/m.
Select one:
a. unstable
b. stagnant
c. streamlined
Correct
d. turbulent
Two children seat themselves on a seesaw. The one on the left has a weight of 400 N while the one on the
right weighs 300 N. The fulcrum is at the midpoint of the seesaw. If the child on the right is not at the end
but is 2.00 m from the fulcrum and the seesaw is balanced, what is the torque provided by the weight of
the child on the left? (Take ccw as positive.)
Select one:
a. -800 N·m
b. 600 N·m
Correct
c. -600 N·m
d. 200 N·m
e. 800 N·m
the length of A, so Young's modulus for B will be what factor times Young's modulus for A?
Select one:
a. 1.0
Correct
b. 1.5
c. 3.0
d. 0.5
surface, inclined at a 27° angle to the horizontal. The force of kinetic friction exactly balances the
component of gravity down the plane so that the plate, once started, glides down at constant velocity. If
90% of the mechanical energy of the system is absorbed by the aluminum, what is its temperature
increase at the bottom of the incline? (Specific heat for aluminum is 900 J/kg⋅°C.)
Select one:
a. 0.131 C°
b. 60.06 C°
c. 0.33 C°
d. 0.07 C°
Correct
e. 1.11 C°
A 4-g lead bullet traveling in 20°C air at 290 m/s strikes a flat steel plate and stops. What is the final
temperature of the lead bullet? (Assume the bullet retains all heat.) The melting point of lead is 327°C.
The specific heat of lead is 0.128 J/g⋅°C. The heat of fusion of lead is 24.5 J/g.
Select one:
a. 349°C
b. 419°C
c. 175°C
d. 327°C
Correct
e. 262°C
from an object by a factor of 6?
Select one:
a. 100%
b. about 157%
c. about 57%
Correct
d. 4 K
e. 6 K
An object of mass m and moment of inertia I has rotational kinetic energy KER. Its angular momentum is:
Select one:
a. (2 IKER)1/2.
Correct
b. (2 mKER)1/2.
c. 0.5 I/m.
d. not given.
