Quiz

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1--Given two vectors A  4.00iˆ  7.00 ˆj and B  5.00iˆ  2.00 ˆj , (a) find the magnitude of each
 
vector; (b) use unit vectors to write an expression for the vector difference A  B ; and (c)
 
find the magnitude and direction of the vector difference A  B . (d) In a vector diagram show
   
A, B, and A  B , and show that your diagram agrees qualitatively with your answer to (c).

2--(a) As shown in the figure below, write each vector in terms of the unit vectors iˆ and ĵ .
   
(b) Use unit vectors to express vector C , where C  3.00 A  4.00 B . (c) Find the magnitude

and direction of C .

FIG. Q2

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3--Find the scalar product A  B and the magnitude and direction of the vector product A  B
 
for the two vectors A and B in last problem.

4--The acceleration of a bus is given by a x (t )   t , where   1.2m/s 3 . (a) If the bus’s

velocity at time t = 1.0 s is 5.0 m/s, what is its velocity at time t = 2.0 s ? (b) If the bus’s

position at time t = 1.0 s is 6.0 m, what is its position at time t = 2.0 s ?

5--A daring 510-N swimmer dives off a cliff with a running horizontal leap, as shown in the

figure. What must her minimum speed be just as she leaves the top of the cliff so that she

will miss the ledge at the bottom, which is 1.75 m wide and 9.00 m below the top of the
cliff?

FIG. Q5

6--A model of a helicopter rotor has four blades, each 3.40 m long from the central shaft to

the blade tip. The model is rotated in a wind tunnel at 550 rev/min. (a) What is the linear

speed of the blade tip, in m/s? (b) What is the radial acceleration of the blade tip expressed as

a multiple of g?

7--A canoe has a velocity of 0.40 m/s southeast relative to the earth. The canoe is on a river

that is flowing 0.50 m/s east relative to the earth. Find the velocity (magnitude and direction)

of the canoe relative to the river.

8--After an annual checkup, you leave your physician’s office, where you weighed 683N.

You then get into an elevator that, conveniently, has a scale. Find the magnitude and

direction of the elevator’s acceleration if the scale reads (a) 725 N and (b) 595 N.

9--A 5.00-kg crate is suspended from the end of a short vertical rope of negligible mass. An

upward force F(t) is applied to the end of the rope, and the height of the crate above its initial

position (unit in meter) is given by y(t) = 2.80 t + 0.61 t3. What is the magnitude of F when t

= 4.00 s?

10--A small remote-controlled car with mass 1.60 kg moves at a constant speed of v = 12.0
m/s in a track formed by a vertical circle inside a hollow metal cylinder that has a radius of

5.00 m. What is the magnitude of the normal force exerted on the car by the walls of the

cylinder at (a) point A (bottom of the track) and (b) point B (top of the track)?

FIG. Q10

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11--A net force along the x-axis Fx  12.0  0.3 x ( N ) is applied to a 5.00-kg object that is

initially at the origin and moving in the -x direction with a speed of 6.00 m/s. What is the

speed of the object when it reaches the point x = 5.00 m?

12--A small block with mass 0.0400 kg slides in a vertical circle of radius R = 0.500 m on

the inside of a circular track. During one of the revolutions of the block, when the block is at

the bottom of its path, point A, the normal force exerted on the block by the track has

magnitude 3.95 N. In this same revolution, when the block reaches the top of its path, point

B, the normal force exerted on the block has magnitude 0.680 N. How much work is done on

the block by friction during the motion of the block from point A to point B?

13--A wooden block with mass 1.50 kg is placed against a compressed spring at the bottom

of an incline of slope 30.0°(point A). When the spring is released, it projects the block up

the incline. At point B, a distance of 6.00 m up the incline from A, the block is moving up

the incline at 7.00 m/s and is no longer in contact with the spring. The coefficient of kinetic
friction between the block and the incline is μk = 0.50. The mass of the spring is negligible.

Calculate the amount of potential energy that was initially stored in the spring.

14--To warm up for a match, a tennis player hits the 57.0-g ball vertically with her racket. If

the ball is stationary just before it is hit and goes 5.50 m high, what impulse did she impart?

15--The potential energy of a pair of hydrogen atoms separated by a large distance x is given

by U(x) = -C6/x6, where C6 is a positive constant. What is the force that one atom exerts on

the other? Is this force attractive or repulsive?

16--A marble moves along the x-axis. The potential-energy function is shown in the figure

below. (a) At which of the labeled x-coordinates is the force on the marble zero? (b) Which

of the labeled x-coordinates is a position of stable equilibrium? (c) Which of the labeled

x-coordinates is a position of unstable equilibrium?

FIG. Q16

17--A force F is applied to a 2.0-kg, radio-controlled model car parallel to the x-axis as it

moves along a straight track. The x-component of the force varies with the x-coordinate of

the car. Calculate the work done by the force F when the car moves from (a) x = 0 to x = 3.0

m; (b) x = 3.0 m to x = 4.0 m; (c) x = 4.0 m to x = 7.0 m; (d) x = 0 to x = 7.0 m; (e) x = 7.0 m

to x = 2.0 m.
 FIG. Q17

18--A 350-kg roller coaster car starts from rest at point A and slides down a frictionless

loop-the-loop. (a) How fast is this roller coaster car moving at point B? (b) How hard does it

press against the track at point B?

FIG. Q18

19--A 2.8-kg block slides over the smooth, icy hill. The top of the hill is horizontal and 70 m

higher than its base. What minimum speed must the block have at the base of the 70-m hill to

pass over the pit at the far (right-hand) side of that hill?

FIG. Q19

20--A system consists of two particles. At t = 0 one particle is at the origin; the other, which

has a mass of 0.50 kg, is on the y-axis at y = 6.0 m. At t = 0 the center of mass of the system

is on the y-axis at y = 2.4 m. The velocity of the center of mass is given by (0.75 m/s3)t2 i. (a)

Find the total mass of the system. (b) Find the acceleration of the center of mass at any time t.

(c) Find the net external force acting on the system at t = 3.0 s.