1) Which of the following has the largest momentum?

A) the Science building on campus B) a dog running down the street C) a tightrope walker crossing Niagara Falls D) a pickup truck speeding along a highway E) a Mack truck parked in a parking lot

2) A freight train rolls along a track with considerable momentum. If it rolls at the same speed but has twice as much mass, its momentum is A) quadrupled. B) doubled. C) unchanged. D) zero.

3) It is correct to say that impulse is equal to A) momentum. B) the change in momentum it produces. C) velocity multiplied by time. D) the force multiplied by the distance the force acts.

4) A rifle recoils while firing a bullet. The speed of the rifle's recoil is small because the A) rifle has much more mass than the bullet. B) momentum of the rifle is smaller. C) force against the rifle is smaller than against the bullet. D) momentum is mainly concentrated in the bullet.

5) When you are in the way of a fast-moving object and can't get out of its way, you will suffer a smaller force of impact if you decrease its momentum over a A) short time. B) long time. C) same way either way

6) A bullet is fired from a gun. The speed of the bullet will be about the same as the speed of the recoiling gun A) because velocity is conserved. B) because both velocity and momentum are conserved. C) if the mass of the bullet equals the mass of the gun. D) because momentum is conserved. E) none of these

7) Two billiard balls having the same mass and speed roll toward each other. What is their combined momentum after they meet? A) half the sum of their original momentums B) twice the sum of their original momentums C) 0 D) impossible to determine without additional information

(D) 4! radians/sec (E) 72 radians/sec2

8)

vo 2m 3m

14. A cart of mass 2m has a velocity vo before it strikes another cart of mass 3m at rest. The two carts couple and move off together with a velocity (A) (1/5) vo (B) (2/5) vo (C) (3/5) vo (D) ( 2/5) vo (E) (2/3) vo

15. When a certain rubber band is stretched a distance x, it exerts a restoring force of magnitude F = ax + bx2 . The work done by an outside agent in changing the stretch from x = 0 to x = L is (A) (ax + bx2 )L (B) a + 2bx (C) a + 2bL ax2 bx3 aL2 bL3 (D) + (E) + 2 3 2 3 16. The potential energy of a body of mass m is given by -mgx + 2 kx2 . The force acting on the body at position x is mgx2 kx3 (A) + 2 6 mgx2 kx3 (B) 2 6 (C) - mg +
1 kx 2 1

(D) - mg + kx (E) mg - kx

9) A 1000-kg car moving at 10 m/s brakes to a stop in 5 s. The average braking force is A) 3000 N. B) 2000 N. C) 5000 N. D) 4000 N. E) 1000 N.

10) A karate expert executes a swift blow and breaks a cement block with her bare hand. The magnitude of the force experienced by her hand is A) less than the force applied to the cement block. B) zero. C) identical to the force applied to the block. D) more than the force applied to the block. E) impossible to predict without additional information.

ANSWERS: D, B, B, A, B, C, C, B, B, C