NAIS Final Exam

2020-2021 Semester 2

Subject: AP PHYSICS 2
Teacher: Mr. Ferrandiz

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SHORT ANSWER: /70
TOTAL SCORE: /100
MULTIPLE CHOICE (3 points each)

1. As a rock sinks deeper and deeper into water of constant density, what happens to the
buoyant force on it?
A) It increases.
B) It remains constant.
C) It decreases.
D) It may increase or decrease depending on the shape of the rock.

2. Salt water has a greater density than fresh water. A boat floats in both fresh water and
in salt water. Where is the buoyant force greater on the boat?
A) Salt water
B) Fresh water
C) The buoyant force is the same in both.
D) It cannot be determined without knowing the boats’ densities.

3. An ideal fluid flows at 12 m/s in a horizontal pipe. If the pipe narrows to half its original
radius, what is the flow speed in the narrower section?
A) 6 m/s B) 12 m/s C) 24 m/s D) 48 m/s

4. A hydraulic lift is used to lift a car. The small piston has an area of 5 cm 2 and the large
piston has an area of 25 cm2. If a driver applies a force of 30 N to the small piston, what
is the weight of the car the large piston can support?
A) 30 N B) 150 N C) 300 N D) 1500 N

5. An open bottle is filled with a liquid which is flowing out trough a spigot located at the
distance 0.5m below the surface of the liquid. What is the approximate velocity of the
liquid leaving the bottle?
A) 0.5 m/s B) 2.0 m/s C) 3.1 m/s D) 4.4 m/s
6. An ice cube of mass m and specific heat ci is initially at temperature T1, where T1 < 273 K.
If L is the latent heat of fusion of water, and the specific heat of water is cw, how much
energy is required to convert the ice cube to water at temperature T2, where 273 K < T2
< 373 K?

(A) m[ci (273 - T1) + L + cw (373 - T2)] (B) m[ci (273 - T1) + L + cw (T2 - 273)]
(C) ci (273 - T1) + cw (T2 - 273) (D) mL + cw (T2 - T1 )

7. Which of the following is a characteristic of an adiabatic process?

(A) ΔU = 0
(B) W = 0
(C) Q = 0
(D) ΔV = 0

8. A Carnot engine takes 5,000 J of heat from a reservoir at 600 K , does some work, and releases
some heat into a second reservoir at 200 K . What is the efficiency of the engine?
(E) 33%
(F) 67%
(G) 99%
(H) 200%

9. When we touch a piece of metal and a piece of wood that are placed in the same room, the
piece of metal feels much colder than the piece of wood. This happens because of the difference
in:
(A) Specific heat
(B) Temperature
(C) Density
(D) Thermal conductivity

10. A sample of ideal gas has an internal energy U is compressed to one-half of its original
volume while the temperature stays the same. What is the new internal energy of the
ideal gas in terms of U?
(A) U (B) 1/2U (C) 1/4U (D) 2U
SHORT ANSWER

1.A block of wood floats in water, with 2/3 of it submerged. The wood is then placed in oil, and
9/10 of it is submerged. Find the density of the wood, and of the oil. (6 points)

2. Three objects of identical mass attached to strings are suspended in a large tank of liquid, as
shown above.
(a) Must all three strings have the same tension? (3 points)
____ Yes ____ No
Justify your answer.

Object A has a volume of 1.0 x 10-5 m3 and a density of 1300 kg m3. The tension in the string to
which object A is attached is 0.0098 N.
(b) Calculate the buoyant force on object A. (3 points)

(c) Calculate the density of the liquid. (3 points)

(d) Some of the liquid is now drained from the tank until only half of the volume of object A is
submerged. Would the tension in the string to which object A is attached increase, decrease, or
remain the same?
____ Increase ____ Decrease ____ Remain the same
Justify your answer. (3 points)

3. A 20 m high dam is used to create a large lake. The lake is filled to a depth of 16 m as shown
above. The density of water is 1000kg/m3.

(a) Calculate the absolute pressure at the bottom of the lake next to the dam. (4 points)

A release valve is opened 5.0 m above the base of the dam, and water exits horizontally from
the valve.

(b) Use Bernoulli’s equation to calculate the initial speed of the water as it exits the valve. (5 points)
(c) Suppose that the atmospheric pressure in the vicinity of the dam increased. How would this
affect the initial speed of the water as it exits the valve?

___It would increase. ____It would decrease. ____It would remain the same. Justify your
answer. (3 points)

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4. An underground pipe carries water of density 1000 kg/m to a fountain at ground level, as
shown above. At point A, 0.50 m below ground level, the pipe has a cross-sectional area of 1.0 x
10-4 m2 . At ground level, the pipe has a cross-sectional area of 0.50 x 10 -4 m2 . The water leaves
the pipe at point B at a speed of 8.2 m/s.
(a) Calculate the speed of the water in the pipe at point A. (4 points)

(b) Calculate the absolute water pressure in the pipe at point A. (4 points)

(c) Calculate the maximum height above the ground that the water reaches upon leaving the
pipe vertically at ground level, assuming air resistance is negligible. (2 points)
5. Some cookware has a stainless steel interior (α = 17.3 * 10-6 K-1) and a copper bottom (α =
17.0 * 10-6 K-1) for better heat distribution. Suppose a 21-cm-diameter pot of this type is
heated to 610 °C on a stove. If the initial temperature of the pot was 22 °C, what is the
difference in diameter change for the copper and the steel? (6 points)

6. The ceramic coffee cup in the figure below, with m = 116 g and c = 1090 J/(kg°C), is initially at
room temperature (24.0 °C). If 225 g of 80.3 °C coffee and 12.2 g of 5.00 °C cream are added to
the cup, what is the equilibrium temperature of the system? Assume that no thermal energy is
exchanged with the surroundings and that the specific heat capacities of coffee and cream are
the same as that of water (4186 J/(kg°C)). (6 points)
7. The diagram above of pressure P versus volume V shows the expansion of 2.0 moles of a
monatomic ideal gas from state A to state B. As shown in the diagram, P A =PB =600N/m2, VA
=3.0m3 , and VB =9.0m3.

1. i. Calculate the work done by the gas as it expands. (4 points)

ii. Calculate the change in internal energy of the gas as it expands. (4 points)

iii. Calculate the heat added to or removed from the gas during this expansion. (4
points)

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2. The pressure is then reduced to 200 N/m without changing the volume as the gas is
taken from state B to state C. Label state C on the diagram and draw a line or curve to
represent the process from state B to state C. (2 points)

3. The gas is then compressed isothermally back to state A.

i. Draw a line or curve on the diagram to represent this process. (2 points)
ii. Is heat added to or removed from the gas during this isothermal compression?
_______added to _______removed from. Justify your answer. (2 points)