1. A vehicle weighing 1.3 tonne leaves skid marks 23 meters long. After 15 meters, it hit pedestrians.

The
coefficient of friction is .7. What was vehicle initial speed at the start of the skid and at impact?

2. A startled armadillo leaps upward, rising 0.521 m in the first 0.204 s.

(a) What is its initial speed as it leaves the ground? (b) What is its speed at the height of 0.521 m?

(c) How much higher does it go?

3. A baseball was launched from 1.5 m above the ground. The ball was caught at a position 4.5 m above
the ground with a speed of 28 m/s moving at an angle of 30 degrees below horizontal. Find:

a) initial velocity b) time of flight c) range

4. A certain truck can slow at a maximum rate of 4.6 m/s2 in an emergency. When traveling in this truck
at a constant speed of 19 m/s the driver spots a large hole in the road 48.2 m in from of his position. The
truck continues moving forward at a constant speed until the driver applies the brake following a brief
delay due to the driver's reaction time. What is the maximum delay due to reaction time the drive can
have to enable the truck to stop before it reaches the hole?

5. A baseball is hit at a height of 1.1 m with an unknown initial velocity at 38 degrees above the
horizontal. It just clears a barrier of height 36.1 m at a horizontal distance of 63.0 m. Find the initial
speed.

6. Landing with a speed of 90 m/s in the x direction a jet come to rest at 1 km. Assuming the jet slows
down with constant acceleration, find the magnitude of its acceleration. Is there anyway someone could
break this down step by step?

7. A soccer player kicks a ball straight up into the air at 6 m/s per second. Ignore air friction.

1. What is the height of the ball at its highest point

2.What is the ball's acceleration at its highest point

3. Calculate the maximum height reached by the ball

8. After landing safely on the target, the cat tries another projectile apparatus. This time the cat is shot
out of a cannon over a 30 m high wall. The cat is launched at an angle of 55 degrees and can be assumed
to be at ground level during launch. With what speed (in km/h) does it have to be launched to make it
approximately 5 m over the wall if the wall is 250 m from the cannon?

9. A vessel contains 50 cc of mercury at 40C and heated 70C. How much amount of mercury will
overflow?

10. A person is stranded and sitting 45 m above the ground on the ledge of the cliff. If a safety rope is
launched upward at an angle of 50 degrees above the horizontal at a distance of 60 m away, what is the
initial velocity of the rope so that it reaches the stranded person?

11. Light of wavelength 497.0 nm appears to have a wavelength of 500.2 nm when it reaches earth from
a distant star. Find the velocity of the star if the speed of light is 3 x 10^8m/s.
12. Imagine that the Earth's size shrunk by a factor of 8.10 so that now its radius is 786 km instead of
6370 km. However, Earth's mass has remained the same at 5.98 x 10^{24}kg. If your mass is 76.1 kg,
then calculate your weight before and after Earth's shrinkage in Newtons and pounds.

13. An ice skater is gliding horizontally across the ice with an initial velocity of +6.73 m/s. The coefficient
of kinetic friction between the ice and the skate blades is 0.0825, and air resistance is negligible. How
much time elapses before her velocity is reduced to +2.79 m/s?

14. A physics professor did daredevil stunts in his sparetime. His last stunt was an attempt to jump
across a river on a motorcycle. The takeoff ramp was inclined at 53.0", the river was 40.0 m wide and
the far bank was 15.0 m lower than the top of the ramp. The river itself was 100 m below the ramp. You
can ignore air resistance. What should his speed have been at the top of the ramp to have just made it
to the edge of the far bank?

15. A motorist with an expired tag is traveling at 10.0 m/s down a street, and a policeman on a
motorcycle, taking another 5.00 s to finish his donut, gives chase at an acceleration of 2.00 m/s^2. Find

a) the time required to catch the car and

b) the distance the trooper travels while overtaking the motorist.

16. On a windless day, a bird can fly at a constant 10 m/s. It flies 10 km east and then home again. How
much time does the round trip take?

17. You throw a ball straight up with an initial velocity of 16.2 m/s. It passes a tree branch on the way up
at a height of 6.70 m. How much additional time (in s) will pass before the ball passes the tree branch on
the way back down?

18. A galaxy cluster in Ursa Major has a recessional velocity of 15,000 km/s. Using the best estimate for
Hubble's constant, find the distance to the galaxy cluster.

19. You decide to have hot dogs for dinner. In the grocery store, you find that buns come only in
packages of 12, whereas the wieners come in packages of 8. How can your purchases lead to having no
buns or wieners left over?

20. Calculate (to the nearest 0.1 u) the formula mass of these compounds.

(a) Carbon dioxide, CO_2 (b) Methane, CH_4 (c) Sodium phosphate, Na_3PO_4

21. What is the energy range (in joules) of photons of wavelength 420 nm to 740 nm?

22. A 400 kg dragster accelerates from rest to a final speed of 110 m/s in 400 m (about a quarter of a
mile) and encounters an average frictional force of 1200 N. What is its average power output in watts
and horsepower if this takes 7.30 s?

23. Two cars are racing. Car one has a head start of 300m and an acceleration of 5m/s^2. If they both
start from rest and the track is 2000m from the start position of car two, what must car two's
acceleration be in order to catch car one?

24. A simple pendulum on earth has a period of 1.00 s where the acceleration due to gravity is g = 9.81
m/s^2. The pendulum is then taken to Neptune, where the acceleration due to gravity is 1.14g.
(a) Would its period increase, decrease, or stay the same? i) increase ii) decrease iii) stay the same

(b) Calculate the period of the pendulum on Neptune. S

25. A skater with an initial speed of 8.40 m/s stops propelling himself and begins to coast across the ice,
eventually coming to rest. Air resistance is negligible.

(a) The coefficient of kinetic friction between the ice and the skate blades is 0.100. Find the deceleration
caused by kinetic friction.

(b) How far will the skater travel before coming to rest?

26. A 9.00 mW helium-neon laser emits a visible laser beam with a wavelength of 638 nm. How many
photons are emitted per second?

27. A boy runs straight off the end of a diving platform at a speed of 4 m/s. The platform is 8 m above
the surface of the water.

(a) Calculate the boy's speed when he hits the water. m/s

(b) How much time is required for the boy to reach the water? s

(c) How far horizontally will the boy travel before he hits the water? (Neglect any effects due to air
resistance.) m

28. Why is it advised to wear the seat belt while driving a vehicle? and what is the concept behind seat
belt?

29. The normal human eye can detect colors whose wavelengths range from 380 nm to about

a) 650 nm. b) 600 nm. c) 550 nm. d) 700 nm.

30. When opening a hinged door, the handle is usually on the side of the door farthest from the hinges.
Rank the difficulty of opening the door if you were to push or pull on the following locations on the
door:

a) as close to the hinges as possible b) the center of the door c) the edge farthest from the hinges

31. In a physics experiment, a ball is released from rest, and it falls toward the ground. The timer was
not paying attention but estimates that it took 1.5 s for the ball to fall the last 32 m.

a) Calculate the velocity of the ball when it is 32 m above the ground.

b) Calculate the total displacement of the ball.

32. A hot-air balloon is rising straight up with a speed of 3.44 m/s. A ballast bag is released from rest
relative to the balloon when it is 3.59 m above the ground. How much time elapses before the ballast
bag hits the ground?

33. A 19.3-g mass of gold in the form of a cube is 1.00 cm long on each side (somewhat smaller than a
sugar cube). What would be the length of the sides of a cube having twice this mass of gold?
34. A 0.104 kg rock is attached to a 1.92 m long string and swung in a horizontal circle at a speed of 27.9
m/s. Find the tension in the string. Neglect the effect of gravity.

35. A 92 cm long, 1.2 mm diameter steel guitar string must be tightened to a tension of 1700 N by
turning the tuning screws. By how much is the string stretched?

36. What is the velocity of a 0.360 kg billiard ball if its wavelength is 7.40 cm (large enough for it to
interfere with other billiard balls)?

37. Which subshell (for example, 1s) is designated by each set of quantum numbers below?

a. n=2,l=0, b. n=4,l=3, c. n=5,l=0, d. n=3,l=1

38. Which subshell (for example, 1s) is designated by each set of quantum numbers below?

a. n=2,l=0, b. n=4,l=1, c. n=5,l=3, d. n=3,l=0

39. The metal forming the cathode used in a certain Photoelectric Effect experiment has a work function
of 4.00 eV. What is the maximum speed of the electrons that are liberated by photons possessing a
frequency of 3.0 x 10^{15} Hz? In this case, the photoelectrons are non-relativistic, so one can use the
Newtonian form of the kinetic energy in this calculation, namely, KE = 1/2 meV^2

40. A stone is dropped from the top of a cliff. The splash it makes when striking the water below is heard
6.0 s later. Use 340 m/s for the speed of sound. How high is the cliff?

41. The froghopper, Philaenus spumarius holds the world record for insect jumps. When leaping at an
angle of 58.0° above the horizontal, some of the tiny critters have reached a maximum height of
57.7 cm above the level ground.

a) What was the takeoff speed for such a leap?

b) What horizontal distance did the froghopper cover for this world-record leap?

42. Answer to: When you double the number of windings in a solenoid keeping all other parameters
(radius, length and current) fixed, the magnetic field at the center of the solenoid will

a) double. b) triple. c) quadruple. d) be reduced to one-fourth as much. e) be reduced to half as much.

43. The distance between a camera lens and the detector in a particular camera is 6.7 cm. If this lens is
focused on an object that is very far away, what is the focal length of the lens?

44. On the Moon, the acceleration due to gravity is 1.6 m/s^2 and there is no atmospheric drag. During
Apollo 14, Alan Shepherd hit a golf ball on the Moon. If he hit the ball at an angle of 20 degrees with an
initial velocity of 35 m/s, find the total time the ball was above the ground. Assume it landed at the
same height as it was hit.

45. Discuss the types of energy transformations that are involved in the following devices or events. (For
example, for (a) striking a match transforms the chemical energy in the match head into thermal (heat)
and radiant (light) energy).

a. striking a match b. windmill c. microphone d. flashlight

e. water behind a dam flowing past a turbine to generate electricity

46. If you drop two objects with different masses, how can they hit the ground at the same time?

47. The nature of ions knocked out from hot surfaces is

(a) Protons (b) Electrons (c) Neutrons (d) Nuclei

48. In the nucleus of 11Na23, the number of protons, neutrons and electrons are

(a) 11, 12, 0 (b) 23, 12, 11 (c) 12, 11, 0 (d) 23, 11, 12

49. Find the energy, the frequency and the momentum of an X-ray photon of wavelength 0.10 nm.

50. Spinning neutron star is known as [{Blank}].