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Physics Exit Exam Review PDF
Physics Exit Exam Review PDF
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. A truck moves 70 m east, then moves 120 m west, and finally moves east again a distance of 90 m. If east is
chosen as the positive direction, what is the truck's resultant displacement?
a. 40 m
b. - 40 m
c. 280 m
d. -280 m
____ 2. An object moves 20 m east in 30 s and then returns to its starting point taking an additional 50 s. If west is
chosen as the positive direction, what is the average speed of the object?
a. 0.50 m/s
b. -0.50 m/s
c. 0.73 m/s
d. 0 m/s
____ 3. A cheetah can run at approximately 100 km/hr and a gazelle at 80.0 km/hr. If both animals are running at full
speed, with the gazelle 70.0 m ahead, how long before the cheetah catches its prey?
a. 12.6 s
b. 25.2 s
c. 6.30 s
d. 10.7 s
____ 4. A cheetah can maintain its maximum speed of 100 km/hr for 30.0 seconds. What minimum distance must a
gazelle running 80.0 km/hr be ahead of the cheetah to escape?
a. 100 m
b. 167 m
c. 70.0 m
d. 83.0 m
____ 5. A railroad train travels forward along a straight track at 80.0 m/s for 1 000 m and then travels at 50.0 m/s for
the next 1 000 m. What is the average velocity?
a. 65.0 m/s
b. 61.5 m/s
c. 63.7 m/s
d. 70.0 m/s
____ 6. A ball is thrown vertically upwards at 19.6 m/s. For its complete trip (up and back down to the starting
position), its average velocity is:
a. 19.6 m/s.
b. 9.80 m/s.
c. 4.90 m/s.
d. 20.1 m/s.
____ 7. A 50-g ball traveling at 25.0 m/s is bounced off a brick wall and rebounds at 22.0 m/s. A high-speed camera
records this event. If the ball is in contact with the wall for 3.50 ms, what is the average acceleration of the
ball during this time interval?
a. 13 400 m/s2
b. 6 720 m/s2
c. 857 m/s2
d. 20 m/s2
down the lane without slipping at a linear speed of 4.0 m/s, what is its angular speed?
a. 0.80 rad/s
b. 10 rad/s
c. 0.050 rad/s
d. 40 rad/s
e. 4 rad/s
____ 55. A majorette takes two batons and fastens them together in the middle at right angles to make an "x" shape.
Each baton was 0.80 m long and each ball on the end is 0.20 kg. (Ignore the mass of the rods.) What is the
moment of inertia if the arrangement is spun around an axis through the center perpendicular to both rods?
a. 0.064 kgm2
b. 0.096 kgm2
c. 0.13 kgm2
d. 0.32 kgm2
e. 0.46 kgm2
____ 56. A ventilation fan with a moment of inertia of 0.034 kgm2 has a net torque of 0.11 Nm applied to it. If it starts
from rest, what angular momentum will it have 8.0 s later?
a. 0.88 kgm2/s
a. 12%
b. 2.8%
c. 1.1%
d. 0.86%
____ 68. Suppose the ends of a 20-m-long steel beam are rigidly clamped at 0C to prevent expansion. The rail has a
cross-sectional area of 30 cm2. What force does the beam exert when it is heated to 40C? (steel = 1.1
10 5/C, Ysteel = 2.0 1011 N/m2).
a. 2.6 105 N
b. 5.6 104 N
c. 1.3 103 N
d. 6.5 102 N
____ 69. If it takes 4.0 N to stretch a spring 6.0 cm and if the spring is then cut in half, what force does it take to stretch
one of the halves 3.0 cm?
a. 2.0 N
b. 4.0 N
c. 8.0 N
d. 16 N
____ 70. A 0.20-kg block rests on a frictionless level surface and is attached to a horizontally aligned spring with a
spring constant of 40 N/m. The block is initially displaced 4.0 cm from the equilibrium point and then
released to set up a simple harmonic motion. What is the speed of the block when it passes through the
equilibrium point?
a. 2.1 m/s
b. 1.6 m/s
c. 1.1 m/s
d. 0.57 m/s
e. 0.42 m/s
C)
a. 5.1 10 18 N
b. 9.0 10 18 N
c. 1.4 10 17 N
d. 2.3 10 17 N
e. 6.6 10 16 N
____ 87. A current-carrying wire of length 50 cm is positioned perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field. If the current
is 10.0 A and it is determined that there is a resultant force of 3.0 N on the wire due to the interaction of the
current and field, what is the magnetic field strength?
a. 0.60 T
b. 1.5 T
c. 1.8 10-3 T
d. 6.7 10-3 T
e. 2.1 10-2 T
____ 88. A circular loop carrying a current of 1.0 A is oriented in a magnetic field of 0.35 T. The loop has an area of
0.24 m2 and is mounted on an axis, perpendicular to the magnetic field, which allows the loop to rotate. If the
plane of the loop is oriented parallel to the field, what torque is created by the interaction of the loop current
and the field?
a. 5.8 Nm
b. 0.68 Nm
c. 0.084 Nm
d. 0.017 Nm
e. 0.0093 Nm
____ 89. A proton, which moves perpendicular to a magnetic field of 1.2 T in a circular path of radius 0.080 m, has
what speed? (qp = 1.6 10 19 C and mp = 1.67 10 27 kg)
MULTIPLE CHOICE