9/13/2020 Midterm quiz 2

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Question 1 Kaitlin uses a bat to hit a thrown baseball. She knocks the ball back in the direction from which it came in a partially
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a. The ball was moving faster after it was hit.

b. The ball was moving at essentially the same speed before and after the hit.

c. There is insufficient information to answer this problem.

d. The ball was moving faster before it was hit.

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Question 3 A billiard ball collides in an elastic head-on collision with a second stationary identical ball. After the collision
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c. comes to rest

d. has one half its initial velocity

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Question 4 If the momentum of an object is tripled, its kinetic energy will change by what factor?
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b. nine

c. zero

d. three

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Question 5 6.5 Conservative Versus Nonconservative Forces and Conservation of Energy

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Marked out of A girl and her bicycle have a total mass of 40.0 kg. At the top of the hill her speed is 5.0 m/s, and her speed doubles
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as she rides down the hill. The hill is 12.0 m high and 100 m long. How much kinetic energy and potential energy is
lost to friction?

Select one:
a. 3920 J

b. 2000 J

c. 2420 J

d. 3200 J

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Marked out of Popeye, of mass 70 kg, has just downed a can of spinach. He accelerates quickly and stops Bluto, of mass 700 kg
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a. 100 m/s
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Marked out of A 1200-kg automobile moving at 25 m/s has the brakes applied with a deceleration of 5.0 m/s2. How far does the
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d. 39 m

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Question 8 According to Kepler's second law, Halley's Comet circles the Sun in an elliptical path with the Sun at one focus of
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a. the Earth

b. The comet itself passes through the other focus.

c. nothing

d. The tail of the comet stays at the other ellipse.

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Question 9 Ann the Astronaut weighs 60 kg. She is space walking outside the space shuttle and pushes a 350-kg satellite away
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a. 8.3 m/s

b. 0.1 m/s

c. 4.1 m/s

d. 585.7 m/s

e. 287 m/s

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Question 10 A valid unit for momentum is which of the following?

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c. kg⋅m/s

d. kg/m2

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