AET 215 Propulsion 1

Prelim Exam

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Test I. Multiple Choices: Encircle the letter which corresponds to the correct answer.
(Choose the best answers)

1. What type of energy is stored energy?

a. Electrical energy
b. Kinetic energy
c. Potential energy
d. Nuclear energy

2. The 'Law of ________ of Energy' says that energy is never created or destroyed, it just changes states.
a. Induction
b. Reduction
c. Conservation
d. Production

3. What is the difference between potential and kinetic energy?

a. Kinetic: Position; Potential: Motion
b. Potential: Position; Kinetic: Motion
c. Potential & Kinetic = Position
d. Kinetic & Potential = Motion

4. How much potential energy will a 75kg person have 100m above the ground (with gravity)?
a. 9800 J
b. 73500 J
c. 7500 J
d. 735 J

5. Which object will have the most kinetic energy?

a. Small object moving slowly
b. Large object moving quickly
c. Small object moving quickly
d. Large object moving slowly

6. Calculate the kinetic energy of a 125 kg barbell moving at 4.5 m/s.

a. 562.5 J
b. 2531.25 J
c. 1265.63 J
d. 281.25 J

7. Which point (WXYZ) has the potential energy (PE)?

a. Z
b. X
c. Y
d. W

8. Which point would have the highest kinetic energy (KE)?

a. Z
b. X
c. Y
d. W

9. What does conservation of energy mean?

a. Energy converts between potential and kinetic (if not lost due to friction).
b. Kinetic energy carries the potential.
c. Everything is lost to friction or air resistance so nothing is saved.
d. Potential saves the kinetic energy.

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10. When is kinetic energy transferred from one object to another?
a. When the first object will crash with the second object.
b. When both objects are force-crashed by a person.
c. When the objects dodge each other.
d. Both options are right.

11. As a pendulum swings from its highest to lowest position, what happens to its kinetic and potential energy?
a. Both the potential energy and kinetic energy decrease.
b. The potential energy decreases while the kinetic energy increases.
c. The kinetic energy decreases while the potential energy increases.
d. Bothe the potential energy and kinetic energy increase.

12. Which would have the greatest gravitational potential energy?

a. A 4lb rat on a school desk.
b. A 45lb dog in an oak tree.
c. A 14-pound platypus on a swing.
d. A 45lb child on a bike.

13. What is Newton's First Law known as? The Law of____.
a. Friction
b. Mass
c. Inertia
d. Gravity

14. Which has more Inertia?

a. Truck
b. Ant
c. A cat
d. A skateboard

15. What two factors do you use to describe a force?

a. speed and mass
b. motion and direction
c. strength and direction
d. distance and time

16. After a cannonball is fired into frictionless space, the amount of force needed to keep it going equals_________________.
a. twice the force with which it was fired
b. the same amount of force with which it was fired
c. 1/2 the force with which it was fired
d. zero, since no force is requires to keep it moving.

17. An object following a straight-line path at a constant speed_____________.

a. has zero acceleration
b. has no forces acting on it
c. has a net force acting in the direction of motion
d. none of these.

18. Which one needs a greater net force to move, a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of iron?
a. feathers
b. iron
c. same
d. depends on their friction

19. What is Newton's First Law?

a. F=ma
b. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
c. An object at rest stays at rest, an object in motion stays in motion.
d. Friction

20. What is Newton's second law of motion?

a. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The statement means that in every interaction, there is a pair of forces
acting on the two interacting objects
b. The acceleration of an object as produced by a net force is directly proportional to the magnitude of the net force, in the same
direction as the net force, and inversely proportional to the mass of the object.
c. An object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion with the same speed and direction unless acted upon by
unbalanced force.
d. none of these.
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21. What's the formula for Newton's second law of motion (Force)?
a. F= M-A
b. F= A/M
c. F= M x A
d. F= A + M

22. If you use the same force to push a truck and push a car which one will have more acceleration and why?
a. The truck because it has more mass
b. The car because it has less mass
c. The truck
d. the car

23. Mike's car, which weighs 1,000 kg, is out of gas. Mike is trying to push the car to a gas station, and he makes the car go 0.05
m/s/s. Using Newton's Second Law, you can compute how much force Mike is applying to the car
(F= M x A).
a. 50 newtons
b. 100 newtons
c. 20 newtons
d. 5 newtons

24. What is the acceleration of an object traveling at a constant velocity?

a. 10 m/s^2
b. 20 m/s^2
c. 0 m/s^2
d. 220 m/s^2

25. What is a Balanced Force? Two objects where...

a. They both have equal force
b. One has more force than the other
c. Both have no force
d. One has more gravity than the other

26. Why would one ball accelerate more than the other when pushed with the same amount of force?
a. Different weights
b. Different forces
c. Different masses
d. Different sizes

27. "If we apply a ___________ to an object, its __________________ will change and it will ______________."
a. force, accelerate, gravity
b. accelerate, inertia, gravity
c. force, velocity, accelerate
d. velocity, gravity, inertia

28. What is the 3rd Law of Motion?

a. A body at rest will stay at rest, and a body in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an external force.
b. The force acting on an object is equal to the mass of that object times its acceleration.
c. The principle that 2 particles attract each other with forces directly proportional to the product of their masses divided
by the square root of the distance between them.
d. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

29. What does the 3rd Law cause guns to do?

a. Fire a bullet
b. Make a sound
c. Recoil after firing
d. Load a magazine

30. What can a force do?

a. Change direction, speed, stop, and move an object
b. Throw an object
c. Use the force
d. Change the mass & velocity

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31. What Newton’s law motion explain a turbofan engine exerts a force on the air entering the inlet duct, causing it to accelerate
out the fan duct and the tailpipe and the air accelerating to the rear is the action, and the force inside the engine that makes it
happen is the reaction (thrust)?
a. 1st
b. 2nd
c. 3rd
d. 4th

32. Theoretically, how does an airplane fly?

a. High pressure presses up against the low pressure on the bottom of the wing.
b. Gravity creates an equal and opposite reaction, because it isn't that strong.
c. Airplanes have jet blasters beneath the wing.
d. No money no flight.

33. What happens if I blow in between the two ping pong balls?
a. They repel
b. Nothing
c. They attract
d. Fly away

34. To generate lift, a blade is angled so the _________ pressure air moves under the blade.
a. high
b. low
c. not enough information
d. None of the above

35. Why is the top of an airplane wing curved?

a. To create an area of low pressure above the wing.
b. To create an area of high pressure above the wing.
c. To create equal pressure above and below the wing.
d. To make the wing look really cool.

Test II: TRUE or FALSE

TRUE 1. Key to Bernoulli's principle is that the total pressure of the airflow remains the same while static pressure varies due to
negotiation of the curvature of a venturi or wing.
TRUE 2. During combustion, the addition of fuel to burn with the air increases the pressure and there is a corresponding increase in
volume.
FALSE 3. During exhaust, there is a increase in the pressure and temperature of the gas with an additional increase in volume.
FALSE 4. For the work, power, or torque to exist, there has to be a nature that initiates the process.
TRUE 5. Work is accomplished only when an object is displaced some distance against a resistive force.
TRUE 6. Friction and gravity are both examples of a force.
TRUE 7. The SI unit for force is the Netwon.
TRUE 8. When the net force is zero, the forces on an object are balanced.
FALSE 9. The average horse could lift a weight of 550 lb, one foot off the ground, in two second.
FALSE 10. The units of work were pound inches and the units of torque were inch pounds.

Test III: PROBLEM SOLVING.

1. What power would be needed, and also horsepower, to raise the GE-90 turbofan engine into position to install it on a
Boeing 777-300 airplane? The engine weighs 19 000 lb, and it must be lifted four ft in 180 seconds? (answer in HP unit)

2. How much work is accomplished when a tow tractor is hooked up to a tow bar and a Boeing 737-800 airplane weighing
130 000 lbs is pushed 80 ft into the hangar? The force on the tow bar is 5 000 lbs.

“LET YOUR DREAMS TAKE FLIGHT”

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