GPHY101A Exercise/Concept Check 1

General Physics 1 04 Aug 2020

Instruction: Answer the following questions provided below. Place and submit your answers to your respective outputs in
either written or typewritten format. Submission will be on 13 August 2020*.
Part 1: Essential Mathematical Relations Review (this is optional – bonus if answered correctly) (150 points each)
1. Algebra:
a. Consider a body projected upward with an initial velocity 𝑣0, the height reached after t seconds is ℎ =
1
𝑣0𝑡 − 2 𝑔𝑡 2. (where 𝑔 = 9.8 𝑚/𝑠2 ). How long will it take before it reached the ground? What algebraic
formulation must we use to arrive at an answer? Hint 1: You will have two possible values of t. Hint 2:
Suppose we place the values ℎ = 78.4 m and 𝑣0 = 49 𝑚/𝑠. What will be the possible value of t?
b. Translate the following statements into system of equations (Hint: set k as the proportionality constants):
i. The mass m of copper block is proportional to its volume V.
ii. The current I through a given wire is directly proportional to the voltage applied across the wire.
iii. The net force F is proportional to the acceleration a imparted to the body.
iv. The kinetic energy K is proportional to the half a square of the speed v.
v. The gravitational force Fg is inversely proportional to the square of distance r.
c. Plot (illustrate the table of values and the graph) the function of 𝑦 = 4𝑥 − 2 for the range of x as an odd
interval from 13 to 21 where:
i. 𝑥2
1
ii. 𝑥
2
iii. 3𝑥
iv. log 𝑥
2. Geometry:
a. Can we find the mass of the silver which is deposited if the density of silver is 10.5 g/cm3? Anticipate that
the geometry of the container is cylindrical. Why? Why not? How?
b. If we have a spherical shell with an outer diameter of 1.0 m is made if certain alloy and a specific gravity
of 10.0. When placed in water it is will be submerged. Can we determine the thickness of it? Why? Why
not? How?
c. Air is blown into a spherical balloon so that, when its radius is 7.28 cm, its radius is increasing at the rate
0.900 cm/s. (a) Can we express the rate at which the volume of the balloon is increasing? (b) If this volume
flow rate of air entering the balloon is constant, can we arrive at the rate in which it will the radius keep on
increasing up to is 13.0 cm? (c) Explain physically why the answer to part (b) is larger or smaller than
0.9 cm/s, if it is different.
3. Trigonometry:
a. A malfunction fountain of water can be found at the center of a pool (circular). You walked around it and
its circumference to be m. Next, you stand at the edge of the pool and uses a protractor to gauge the
angle of elevation of the top of the fountain to be °. How high is the fountain? (Use your birth month
as the circumference, and the angle as MM x DD). What can you observe with the values of its height based
on the numbers set? Compare this result with your classmates.
b. A water fountain is at the center of a circular pool same as above. You walked around the pool and measures
its circumference C. Next, you stood at the edge of the pool and uses a protractor to measure the angle of
elevation f of his sightline to the top of the water jet. From this, how can we obtain the height of the
fountain?
4. Integral Calculus:
a. Refer to your birthday: A rod extending between 𝑥 = 0 and 𝑥 = 7.28 𝑐𝑚 has uniform cross-sectional area
𝐴 = 𝑀𝑀 cm2 (referring to month). Its density increases steadily between its ends from 𝑀𝑀. 𝐷𝐷 g/cm3 to
8.4 g/cm3. (a) Can we identify the constants B and C required in the expression 𝜌 = 𝐵 + 𝐶𝑥 to describe the
variable density? Why? Why not? Explain.
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b. Let x be the temperature at any instant. From Newton’s law of cooling: 𝑑𝑥/𝑑𝑡 = −𝑘(𝑥 − 30). How many
lines of operation can be performed for dt to be evaluated?
5. Differential Calculus:
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a. If 𝑥 = 3𝑡2 − 2𝑡2 + 4. What are the differentiation rules that can be apply to find 𝑥′ = 𝑑𝑥/𝑑𝑡?
b. If 𝑦 = 𝑎𝑥3 + 𝑏𝑥2 + 𝑐𝑥 + 𝑑. (Where a, b, c, and d are just constants). What are the differentiation rules that
can be apply to find 𝑦′ = 𝑑𝑦/𝑑𝑥?
3 −2
c. If 𝑥 = − 7𝑡 + 6 𝑡 2. What are the differentiation rules that can be apply to find 𝑥′ = 𝑑𝑥/𝑑𝑡?
𝑡

Part 2: Conversion of units (50 points each)

1. Why measuring your weight in terms of kilogram wrong? Explain and justify your answer?
2. Why is it impossible/possible for the following units to be converted in terms of meters?
a. 25 kilogram
b. 3.5 x 106 m/s
c. 2.0 𝑐 ∙ 𝑠
𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎
d. 16
𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ

Part 3: Significant figures and Errors (100 points each)
1. Three PUBG players each fire four bullets at a target. Player A’s four bullets hit at points 10 cm above, 10 cm
below, 10 cm to the left, and 10 cm to the right of the center of the target. All four of Player B’s bullets hit within
1 cm of a point 20 cm from the center, and Player C’s four arrows all hit within 1 cm of the center. The spectator
says that one of the players is precise but not accurate, another player is accurate but not precise, and the third player
is both accurate and precise. Which description goes with which player? Is there an error made on the judgement
of the spectator? Explain your reasoning.
2. In a DLSAU parking lot, the number of ordinary cars is larger than the number of utility vehicles by 94.7%. The
difference between the number of cars and the number of UVs is 18. Find the number of UVs in the lot. Is the
number of UV is large enough to be justified? Explain.
3. Suppose you are caught by lockdown in your vacation house. You purchased a chocolate bars for your parents.
Eating just one square each day, you made large bar last for one and one-third months (of the quarantine period).
How many bars will constitute a 131 days’ supply to you? You had 60 large bars, would it last for the 131 days?
Explain.
Part 4: Estimates (100 points each)
1. Can we calculate the amount your height increases per year from birth to puberty with reference to the total number
of cells you have in your body? If yes, what calculations can we perform to make a rough estimate? If no, why it is
impossible for us to have an estimate value for this? Explain and justify your answer.
2. In relation to COVID-19 as of 28 July 2020, we have 82,020 confirmed cases. Knowing the rate number of
confirmed cases per day from the first case of last February Can we estimate a projected number of confirmed cases
by the end of the September? If yes, what calculations or estimates can we make? If no, how can other sectors have
a projected number of cases prior to the date of the announcement? Explain and justify your answer.
3. Out of boredom, you thought to calculate the number of food you consumed based on the average weight of poop
you secrete (with 0.2 kg per day) and your mass rate from March – July 2020 (45 kg – 49 kg). IS it possible for you
to arrive with an estimate? Why? Why not? Explain and justify your answer.

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