Physics Semester 1 Study Guide (Math Questions)

No important questions from test 1?

Test 2:

1. A car is sitting at a stoplight. When the light turns green, it begins to accelerate at 7.3m/s^2.

a. What is the final velocity of the car after 7 seconds? ___________m/s

b. How far does the car travel in this 7s time interval? ___________ m

c. How long does it take the car to travel 150m? ___________ s

2. A rowdy tourist drops a 5kg video camera off the edge of the Hoover Dam. It travels 200m
before it hits the Colorado River below:

a. What is its velocity just as it hits the river? ___________m/s

b. How long does it take for it to reach the river? ___________ s

3. A baseball ball is thrown vertically upward with an initial velocity of 12.0m/s.

a. What will the ball’s speed be when it returns to it’s starting point? ___________m/s

b. How long will the ball take to return to it’s starting point? ___________s

c. How long will the ball take to reach it’s maximum height? ___________s

d. How high will the ball travel? ___________m

 5. Vectors: Add and Subtract the two vectors below. Show the Resultant Vector.

A
B

A+B=R A–B=R

Test 3:

4. A plane travels 35km at an angle of 25° to the ground and then changes direction and travels
52km at an angle of 17° to the ground. What’s the magnitude and direction of the plane’s
total displacement?

Test 4:

2. A baseball is thrown at an angle of 35° relative to the ground at a speed of 35.0m/s.

a. How long was it in the air? ___________s

b. What was the maximum height of the ball in it’s trajectory? ___________m

c. How far did the ball travel downfield? ___________m

Class work sheet of the hardest problems (These are also the important problems on tests 4 & 5):

1. A 315kg box slides down a 35° ramp with an acceleration of 2.60m/s^2.

a. What is the Net Force (Fnet) on the box? ___________N

b. What is the force (Fx) caused by the tilt of the ramp and gravity? ___________M

c. What is the kinetic force of friction (Fk)? ___________N

d. What is the Normal Force (Fn) on the box? ___________N

e. What acceleration would a 75kg box have on this ramp? ___________m/s^2

f. What is the coefficient of kinetic friction µk between the box and the ramp? ______

2. A coach pulls on a rope attached to a sled on the field with a force of 550N at an angle of 35°
above the horizontal. The sled has a mass of 125kg, and µk between the sled and the grass is
0.23. Find the acceleration of the sled.

___________m/s^2

3. A touchdown pass from the TC quarterback is caught 23 meters downfield in the end zone
after being in the air for 3.3 seconds.

a. What is the maximum height of the ball in it’s trajectory? ___________m

b. At what angle was the ball thrown relative to the floor/horizontal? ___________

c. At what speed was the ball thrown? ___________m/s

d. What are the X and Y coordinates of the ball’s position at 4.7 seconds? _____, _____
No important questions from test 6.

Test 7:

1. Complete the table below for a rollercoaster such as drawn in class: (assume no friction)

40m

B 20m

Pt ____ PT A Pt B Pt C
ht 40m 0m 20m
PE
(mgh)

KE

Vel
(KE=.5mv^2)

a. How much work was done in the vertical direction to reach Pt. A in the table above?
___________ J

b. How much power is required to accomplish this work in 1 minute? __________ W

c. How much power is required to reach Pt. A in the rollercoaster above (also 1
minute) if there is a vertical component of Fk = 4000N? ___________ W

3. If the spring of a jack-in-the box is compressed a distance of 25cm from it’s relaxed length
and then released, what is the speed of the toy head when the spring returns to it’s natural
length? Assume the mass of the toy head is 100g, the spring constant is 50 N/m and the toy
head moves only in the vertical direction. Also disregard the mass of the spring. (remember
there are two forms of energy in this problem.)
___________m/s

Test 8:
 2. A 92kg man drops from rest on a diving board 10.0m above the surface of the water and
comes to rest 1.9s after reaching the water. What is the net force on the diver as he is
brought to rest?

___________N

4. A 30.0kg canoe moving to the left at 12.5m/s makes an elastic head-on collision with a
24.0kg raft moving to the right at 16.0m/s. After the collision, the raft moves to the left at
12m/s.

a. Find the speed of the canoe after the collision. __________m/s

b. Verify your answer by calculating the total kinetic energy before and after the
collision. ___________J

Test 9:

2. Assume a planet has a mass of 3.3 x 10^23 kg, a radius of 2440km, and orbits the sun in 88
days at a radius of 58,000,000 km. The sun’s mass is 2 x 10^30 kg. (Remember v=d/t and
assuming a circular orbit, d=2πr)

a. What is the planet’s centripetal acceleration? ___________m/s/s

b. What is the centripetal force between it and the sun? ___________N

c. Calculate your acceleration on the surface of the planet. ___________m/s/s

d. (Ex credit) what is the gravitational force between the Planet and the Sun?
___________N

4. Complete the following table using the data provided. Assume your mass is 60kg.

Planet Mass Radius Your Weight Your Acceleration

X __________kg 1.5 x 10^6m 2000N __________m/s