PHYS 201 TEST
#3 11/02/12 DR. HOLMES NAME
Do all seven problems. The worth of each
part of each problem is marked beside the place for the answer. All answers
should be in MKS units unless otherwise indicated. Show your work for partial credit.
Work should be under the problem, or clearly labeled on an extra sheet placed
underneath the top page of the test.
INFORMATION: MASS OF EARTH = 6.0 x 1024kg;
RADIUS OF EARTH = 6,378 km.
1) Consider a car of mass 1,800 kg. It can accelerate
from zero to 30 m/sec (67 mph) in 9
seconds on a level road.
a) What is the final kinetic energy of the
car?
810,000 Joules
b) Assuming the engine was the source of
this final kinetic energy, what is the average power of the engine (neglecting
the power needed to overcome friction and air resistance) during the
acceleration
in
c) If the engine provided a constant power,
did the acceleration of the car: [increase with increasing speed; stay constant
with increasing speed; or decrease with increasing speed] ?
decrease with increasing speed.
d) If the engine provided constant force,
did the power of the engine of the car: [increase with increasing speed, stay
constant with increasing speed, or decrease with increasing speed] ?
increase with increasing speed
2) Consider a 30 kg object.
a) How much energy will it take to lift the
object from the earth's surface up to a height of 50 meters?
14,700 Joules
b) Will it take [significantly less than
twice, about twice, or significantly more than twice] the energy to lift the
object to twice the height (from the surface up to a height of 100 meters)?
[Here "about" means a difference of less than 10%; significantly more
or less means a difference of more than 10%.]
About twice
c) How much energy will it take to lift the
object from the earth's surface up to a height of 5,000 kilometers above the
earth's surface?
8.27 x 108 Joules.
d) Will it take [significantly less than
twice, about twice, or significantly more than twice] the energy to lift the
object to twice the height (from the surface up to a height of 10,000
kilometers)?
Significantly less than twice.
3) a) What is the magnitude of the escape
velocity for an asteriod with mass of 2.3 x 1018 kg and a radius of
100 km ?
55.4 m/s = 124 mph.
b) Is this escape speed [less than, the same
as, or more than] the escape speed for an asteriod with the same mass but a
larger radius?
more than.
4) A person on a sled with combined mass 80
kg is at the top of a snow covered hill 34 meters in vertical height above the
base of the hill. The hill has a constant grade of 40° with the horizontal.
Assume there is no friction or air resistance.
a) Assuming the sled starts from rest (no
initial push), how fast will the sled be going at the base of the hill?
25.8 m/sec = 58 mph.
b) If the person had a running start so the
initial velocity was 4 m/s instead of zero, would the the answer to part-a be:
(less than 4 m/s more, 4 m/s more, or
more than 4 m/s more)?
Less than 4 m/s more.
c) If the sled started from rest but the
height of the hill were doubled (to 68 meters), would the final speed at the
base of the hill be: [less than twice as much, twice as much, more than twice
as much, can't determine with info given]
less than twice as much.
d) If the initial velocity were kept at zero
and the hill was at the original 34 meter height, but the angle of the hill was
decreased to 20o (made half as steep) from 40o, would the
final speed be: [half as fast; faster than half as fast; slower than half as
fast, the same speed] as the answer in part-a?
same.
e) If there WERE some friction, would the
sled be going [faster, the same speed,
or slower] down the more gentle slope (20o) than down the steeper
slope (40o) assuming the height of the hills were the same and both
started from rest?
It would go slower down the more gentle
slope.
5) Object #1 with mass1 =100
grams moving West with a speed of 33 m/s crashes into object #2 with mass2
= 1,400 grams moving West with a speed of 11 m/s.
a) If the two objects stick together, what
will their speed be immediately after the crash?
12.47 m/s
b) Will the objects be moving East or West
after the crash?
West.
c) Was momentum conserved in the crash?
(If the answer was no, then tell where the
momentum went to or came from):
Yes.
d)
Was kinetic energy (total for
both balls) the same before and after the crash?
(If the answer was no, then tell where the
energy went to or came from):
No, some of the initial energy went into
deforming the two objects.
6) An astronaut with a massASTR =
94 kg and wearing a tool belt full of tools that have a combined mass of 6 kg
(so initial mass is 100 kg) is floating beside a space station 38 meters
away. The safety line has been cut by someone closing a door and catching the
line in the door.
a) Can the astronaut "swim" back
to the station?
No;
b) Explain your answer to part a above:
Assume the astronaut and tools are initially
stationary. To get back to the spaceship, the astronaut throws a small wrench
of masswrench = .300 kg away from the space station with a velocity
of 25 m/s.
c) What will the final velocity of the
astronaut be after the throw?
0.075 m/s .
d) How long will it take the astronaut to
float back to the station after the throw?
505 seconds
e) How fast would the astronaut have to
throw a hammer of mass 1.5 kg to obtain the same speed as when the wrench was
thrown in part c?
4.93 m/s.
f) Would the astronaut need [less, the
same, or more] energy to throw the wrench than the hammer to reach the speed of
part c?
More.
7) A brass cylinder of mass 50 grams and
radius 1.5 cm rolls (without slipping) down an incline. Neglect any air resistance.
a) If the vertical height of the incline was
40 cm and it made an angle of 40° with the horizontal, and if the initial
velocity of the cylinder were zero, what would be the final speed of the
cylinder at the base of the incline?
2.29 m/s.
b) What would its angular velocity, w , at the
base of the incline be?
152 rad/sec.
c) If air resistance were negligible, would
a wooden cylinder of mass 15 grams and radius 1.5 cm roll down the same
incline: [slower than; at the same speed as; or faster than] the brass
cylinder?
Same speed.
d) Would a wooden ring of the same mass and
radius as the wooden cylinder roll down the incline; [slower than; at the same
speed as; faster than] the original brass cylinder?
Slower.
e) If the cylinder rolls without slipping,
is there friction acting on the cylinder?
yes
f) If the cylinder rolls without slipping,
is there energy lost to friction as the ring rolls down the incline?
no.