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Physics 2211A/B Test form 741 Name ___________________________

Fall 2012
Test 4 Recitation Section (see back of test):__________

1) Print your name, test form number (above), and nine-digit student number in the section of the answer
card labeled "STUDENT IDENTIFICATION".

2) Bubble your test form number (ABOVE) in columns 1-3, skip column 4, then bubble in your student
number in columns 5-13.
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3) For each free-response question, show all relevant work supporting your answer. Clearly box or underline your final
answer. Correct answers which are not supported by adequate calculations and/or reasoning will be counted wrong.

4) For each multiple-choice question, select the answer most nearly correct, circle this answer on your test, and bubble it in on
your answer card. Show all relevant work on your quiz.

5) Be prepared to present your Buzzcard as you turn in your test. Scores will be posted to WebAssign after they have been been
graded. Quiz grades become final when the next quiz is given.

6) You may use a simple scientific calculator capable of logarithms, exponentials, and trigonometric functions. Programmable
engineering calculators with text or graphical capabilities are not allowed. Wireless devices are prohibited.


Final Exam date: Period FourTuesday December11, 8:0010:50 AM.

Review your full exam schedule carefully (and soon), to find out if you have a Conflict:

A Class One Conflict occurs when two exams are scheduled for the same time period.
If you have any other Period Four exam, you have a Class One Conflict.

A Class Two Conflict occurs when three exams are scheduled for the same day.
If you have three exams on Tuesday December 11, you have a Class Two Conflict.

If you have a conflict, please notify Dr. Jarrio via email as soon as possible.

The deadline for notifying us is Monday, November 12.


Your test form is: 741

This is a sample answer card. DO NOT use the test form you see on this sample.
Use the form number printed at the top of the page!

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The following problem will be hand-graded. Show all your work for this problem. Make no marks and leave no space on your
answer card for it.

[I] Teenagers in the town of Dullsville Ohio celebrate their sixteenth
birthday by driving over "Thrill Hill" at high speed. It is well known
among the teens that at a precise speed of 54 mph (24 m/s), a car will
momentarily become airborne at the very top of the hill, and the
passengers will feel an instant of apparent weightlessness.

(A) (12 points) What is the radius of curvature R for the hill, near the top?
























(B) (8 points) Suppose that a cautious new driver tops the hill at a speed of only 36 mph (16 m/s). What apparent weight will
the driver perceive, at the very top of the hill? Express your answer as a multiple of the driver's true weight, mg.

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The following problem will be hand-graded. Show all your work for this problem. Make no marks and leave no space on your
answer card for it.

[II] The Incredible Hulk (mass M) is standing on a railroad
flatcar (mass 2M) that is traveling east with a speed v
o
.
Ahead of him, he sees an identical flatcar traveling west, also
with a speed v
o
. To avoid the impending head-on collision,
the Hulk leaps horizontally backwards (i.e. westward) off the
flatcar, just before the cars collide.


(A) (12 points) If the Hulk leaves the first car with a speed v
o
relative to the flatcar, determine both Hulk's velocity along the
ground AND the flatcar's velocity along the ground, immediately after the leap.






















(B) (8 points) Assume that when the two flatcars collide they lock together and travel as one. What will be the velocity of the
Hulk (who is still airborne in his leap) relative to the cars, after they collide?


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The following problem will be hand-graded. Show all your work for this problem. Make no marks and leave no space on your
answer card for it.

[III] Due to a malfunctioning traffic light, a car (mass m) and a truck (mass 2m)
collide at a Y-intersection. Both vehicles were traveling at the posted speed
limit of 30 mph at the moment of collision. Immediately afterwards, the
truck is observed to be skidding due east at the posted speed limit, 30 mph.

(A) (12 points) With what velocity does the car skid away from the collision?
Express your answer as a speed in mph and an angle relative to one of the
four compass directions (N, S, E, or W).



























(B) (8 points) What is the direction of the average force exerted by the truck on the car, during the collision? Express your
answer as an angle relative to one of the four compass directions (N, S, E, or W).



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Question value 8 points
(1) A small car moving at high speed has a rear-end collision with a large truck moving in the same direction at a lower speed.
Assuming that external forces can be disregarded during the collision,

(a) The vehicles experience the same impulse during the collision.
(b) The vehicles will experience equal and opposite momentum transfers during the collision.
(c) The vehicles experience the same momentum change during the collision.
(d) The vehicles end up with equal momenta after the collision.
(e) The vehicles end up with equal velocities after the collision.







Question value 8 points
(2) A motorcycle on mass m is traveling eastward on the highway at a speed v. It suddenly brakes, veers left onto a northward-
directed county road, and then quickly accelerates back up to the speed vall in a very short time interval !t. During this
process, the total impulse delivered to the motorcycle by the ground

(a) is directed exacly north-eastward.

(b) cannot be determined because there are time-dependent forces involved.

(c) is zero, because the motorcycles speed did not change, overall.

(d) is directed somewhere between northward and westward, but an exact direction cannot be specified.

(e) is directed exactly north-westward.





Question value 8 points
(3) A tennis ball is dropped onto the ground, and bounces back upwards. While in contact
with the ground (for a total time T), it experiences a sinusoidal force, with a magnitude
given by the time-dependent expression:
! ! ! !
!
!"#
!
!
! for 0 ! t ! T,
where F
m
is a constant. What is the magnitude of the average force exerted on the
tennis ball while it is in contact with the ground? (Hint: first, determine the impulse.)

(a) 0.637 F
m

(b) 0.333 F
m

(c) 0.707 F
m

(d) 0.500 F
m

(e) 1.571 F
m




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Question value 8 points
(4) You are driving your car in a large, open parking lot after the zombie apocalypse occurs. You are escaping from a large
pack, but there is still one zombie left on the hood of your car as you drive away. To get rid of it you turn sharply to the left
(following a roughly circular arc), causing the zombie to skid off the right side of your hood. Which of the trajectories
below best characterizes the paths of your car (solid line) and the zombie (dashed line)? (Each is a top-down view of the
trajectories, with the moment the zombie leaves the hood marked by a dot.)


(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)






Question value 8 points
(5) The figure at right shows three different conical pendulums, each constructed using
a cord of length L. Rank from greatest to least the speeds v for each mass, when
they are spun in a circle with the indicated cone angle.

(a) v
A
= v
B
> v
C

(b) v
B
> v
A
= v
C

(c) v
A
= v
B
= v
C

(d) v
A
= v
C
> v
B
(e) v
C
> v
B
= v
A












BONUS Question value 2 points
(6) The final exam for this course will be held during Period Four (Tuesday December 11, 8:0010:50 am).
What is the deadline for notifying us that you have a conflict on December 11?

(a) Monday, November 12
(b) Tuesday December 11 at 7:59 am

(c) Tuesday, December 11 at 10:51 am
(d) Friday, December 14 at 4:59 pm
(e) I thought we didnt have a final exam in this course.