GENERAL PHYSICS I – 2ND QUARTER – PRACTICE TEST

Section A – Rotational Equilibrium and Rotational 8. A person exerts a horizontal force of 42 N on the
Dynamics end of a door 96 cm wide. What is the magnitude of
the torque if the force is exerted
1. The platter of the hard drive of a computer rotates at a. perpendicular to the door; and
7200 rpm. b. at a 60.0° angle to the face of the door?
a. What is the angular velocity of the platter?
b. If the reading head of the drive is located
3.00cm from the rotation axis, what is the Section B – Gravity
linear speed of the point on the platter just
1. Two objects attract each other gravitationally with a
below it?
force of 2.5 * 10-10 N when they are 0.25 m apart.
c. If a single bit requires 0.50 µm of length
Their total mass is 4.00 kg. Find their individual
along the direction of motion, how many bits
masses if:
per second can the writing head write when
a. The masses of the objects are equal.
it is 3.00cm from the axis?
b. The masses of the objects are not equal.

2. A rotating merry-go-round makes one complete

2. If you doubled the mass and tripled the radius of a
revolution in 4.0s.
planet, by what factor would g at its surface change?
a. What is the linear speed of a child seated
1.2m from the center?
3. A hypothetical planet has a mass 2.80 times that of
b. What is her acceleration?
Earth but has the same radius. What is g near its
surface?
3. A 15.0-N force (represented by
FT) is applied to a cord wrapped
4. Halley’s comet orbits the Sun roughly once every 76
around a pulley of mass M =
years. It comes very close to the surface of the Sun
4.00kg and radius R = 33.0cm.
on its closest approach.
The pulley accelerates uniformly
a. Estimate the greatest distance of the comet
from rest to an angular speed of
from the Sun.
30.0 rad/s in 3.00s. If there is a
b. Is it still “in” the solar system?
frictional torque τ = 1.10 m * N at
the axle, determine the moment of inertia of the
pulley. The pulley rotates about its center.
Section C – Periodic Motion
4. Consider again the pulley in the problem above, but
instead of a constant 15.0-N force being exerted on 1. A spring stretches 0.150
the cord, we now have a bucket of weight (m = m when a 0.300-kg mass
1.53kg) hanging from the cord. See Fig. 8–22a. We is gently suspended from
assume the cord has negligible it. The spring is then set
mass and does not stretch or up horizontally with the
slip on the pulley. Calculate the 0.300-kg mass resting on a frictionless table as
angular acceleration of the shown in the figure above. The mass is pulled so
pulley and the linear that the spring is stretched 0.100 m from the
acceleration of the bucket. equilibrium point, and released from rest. Determine:
Assume the same frictional a. the spring stiffness constant;
torque acts. b. the amplitude of the horizontal oscillation;
c. the magnitude of the maximum velocity;
d. the magnitude of the velocity when the mass
is 0.050 m from equilibrium;
5. A ballerina spins initially at 1.5 rev/s when her arms e. the magnitude of the maximum acceleration
are extended. She then draws her arms to her body of the mass;
and her moment of inertia becomes 0.88 kg * m 2, f. the total energy of the spring;
and her angular speed increases to 4.0 rev/s. What g. the kinetic energy of the spring half of its
was her initial moment of inertia? amplitude; and
h. the potential energy of the spring half of its
6. A bowling ball of mass 7.25 kg and radius 10.8 cm amplitude.
rolls without slipping down a lane at 3.10 m/s.
Calculate its total kinetic energy. 2. A pendulum has a period of 1.85 s on Earth. What is
its period on Mars, where the acceleration of gravity
7. A potter’s wheel is rotating around a vertical axis is about 0.37 that on Earth?
through its center at a frequency of 1.5 rev/s. The
wheel can be considered a uniform disk of mass 5.0 3. A fisherman’s scale stretches 3.6 cm when a 2.4 kg
kg and a diameter of 0.40 m. The potter then throws fish hangs from it.
a 2.6-kg chunk of clay, approximately shaped as a a. What is the spring stiffness constant?
flat disk of radius 7.0 cm, onto the center of the b. What will be the amplitude and frequency of
rotating wheel. What is the frequency of the wheel oscillation if the fish is pulled down 2.1 cm
after the clay sticks to it? Ignore friction. more and released so that it oscillates up
and down?
4. A mass m at the end of a spring oscillates with a Section G – Ideal Gases and the Laws of
frequency of 0.83 Hz. When an additional 780-g Thermodynamics
mass is added to m, the frequency is 0.60 Hz. What
is the value of m? 1. A heat engine exhausts its heat at 340°C and has a
Carnot efficiency of 36%. What exhaust temperature
would enable it to achieve a Carnot efficiency of
Section D – Mechanical Waves and Sound 42%?
1. Autofocusing cameras emit a pulse of ultrasonic
sound that travels to the object being photographed,
and include a sensor that detects the returning
reflected sound. To get an idea of the time sensitivity
of the detector, calculate the travel time of the pulse
for an object (a) 1.0 m away, and (b) 20 m away.
Assume the temperature is about 20 oC.

2. A trumpeter plays at a sound level of 75 dB. Three

equally loud trumpet players join in. What is the new
sound level?

3. The predominant frequency of a certain fire truck’s

siren is 1650 Hz when at rest. What frequency do
you detect if you move with a speed of 30.0 m/s:
a. toward the truck; and
b. away from it?

4. A tight guitar string has a frequency of 540 Hz as its

third harmonic. What will be its fundamental
frequency if it is fingered at a length of only 70% of
its original length?

5. A 5000-Hz sound wave is emitted by a stationary

source. This sound wave reflects from an object
moving toward the source (Fig. 12–22). What is the
frequency of the wave reflected by the moving object
as detected by a detector at rest near the source?

6. As a bat flies toward a wall at the speed of 7.0 m/s,

the bat emits an ultrasonic sound wave with a
frequency of 30.0 kHz. What frequency does the bat
hear in the reflected wave?

7. The sound level measured 30m from a jet plane is

140 dB. Estimate the sound level at 300m.

Section E – Fluid Mechanics

1. Water circulates throughout a house in a hot-water
heating system. If water is pumped out at a speed of
0.50 m/s through a 4.0 cm diameter pipe in the
basement under a pressure of 3.0 atm, what will be
the flow speed and pressure in a 2.6 cm diameter
pipe on the second floor 5.0 m above? Assume
pipes do not divide into branches.

Section F – Temperature and Heat