MIDTERM EXAM

Physics for Engineers

GENERAL REMINDERS AND INSTRUCTIONS
1. Make sure you have stable internet connection (may it
be wifi or data).
2. Prepare clean bond papers, pens and calculator.
3. During the exam, make sure you turn your camera on
while your audio is muted throughout the duration of
the exam.
4. The questions will be flashed in the screen one by one
with the corresponding time limit for that question.
GENERAL REMINDERS AND INSTRUCTIONS
5. If by accident, you manage to disconnect from the meet due
to loss of internet connection or power interruption, make
sure to come back quickly. Any question that my have been
flashed while you are out will not be reposted.
6. Box your final answer then write your name and signature
below it.
7. After the exam, you have 5 minutes to take a clear photo of
your solutions.
8. You have another 5 minutes to submit it to my Facebook
Messenger account, Toper Man.
DEDUCTIONS
1. For every 5 minutes late in submission, 2 points will be
deducted.
2. For every instruction not followed, 1 point will be
deducted.
EXAM PROPER
 (10 minutes)
1. You found a treasure map and it said: Start at the well,
go 100 𝑚 straight south, then 30 𝑚 , 40° north of west,
then 25 𝑚 straight east and finally 45 𝑚 , 75° south of
east. How far from the well (in feet) and in what direction
is the hidden treasure?
 (10 minutes)
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A golf ball hits with an initial velocity of 25 at an angle of
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30° with the horizontal.
2. Find the vertical and horizontal components of the
ball’s initial velocity.
3. Determine the maximum height reached by the ball.
4. Determine the time of flight.
5. How far will the ball reach horizontally?
 (20 minutes)
6. A boy standing on a diving board and tosses a stone
into a swimming pool. The stone is thrown from a height
𝑚
of 2.5 𝑚 above the water surface with a velocity of 4
𝑠
at an angle of 60° above the horizontal. As the stone
strikes the water surface, it immediately slows down to
exactly half the speed it had when it struck the water
and maintains that speed while in the water. After the
stone enters the water, it moves in a straight line in the
direction of the velocity it had when it struck the water.
If the pool is 3 𝑚 deep, how much time elapses between
when the stone is thrown and when it strikes the bottom
of the pool?
 (15 minutes)
7. Test reveal that a normal drives takes about
0.75 𝑠 before he or she can react to a situation
to avoid collision. It takes about 3 𝑠 for a driver
having 0.1% alcohol in his system to do the
same. If such drivers are traveling on a straight
𝑓𝑡
road at 44 and their cars can decelerate at
𝑠
𝑓𝑡
2 2,determine the shortest stopping distance for
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each from the moment they see pedestrians?
 (5 minutes)
An astronaut weighs 931 𝑁 here on Earth.
8. What is his mass on Earth?
9. What is his mass on the surface of the moon?
10. What is his weight on the surface of the moon?
(The acceleration due to gravity on the surface
𝑚
of the moon is 1.62 2).
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