SPH3U – Exam Review

A – TOPIC LIST
MEASUREMENT & SAFETY
·SI units, scientific notation, metric conversions, significant digits, precision &
accuracy, experimental error
·lab safety practices, lab safety symbols
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KINEMATICS – IN ONE DIMENSION
· position, displacement, distance, speed, velocity (constant, average,
instantaneous), acceleration
· linear vs non-linear, uniform vs non-uniform motion
· graphing and graph analysis of d-t, v-t and a-t plots
· acceleration due to gravity “g”, terminal velocity
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DYNAMICS – FORCE
· force, fundamental forces, types of forces
· force from springs/elastics, gravity (not universal gravity), normal,
friction (static, kinetic)
· Newton’s 3 laws of motion
DYNAMICS – ENERGY
· work, energy, types of energy, power, efficiency
· kinetic, gravitational potential, elastic/spring potential energy
· thermal energy, heat (conduction, convection, radiation),
temperature (not specific heat capacity problems)
· renewable and non-renewable energy resources
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ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM – STATIC & CURRENT
 electrostatics, charge, elementary charge, three methods of charging
 electric force field diagrams, magnetic force diagrams
Lenz Law diagrams, Three Right Hand Rule Diagrams
 current electricity, Ohm’s Law, Kirchhoff’s Laws & circuit analysis,
electrical power
 magnetism, domain theory, types of magnetic materials
 magnetic force field diagrams & magnetic induction diagrams
 Oersted’s discovery, the motor principle, Faraday’s discovery & Lenz’s
Law
Transformers
Wavs & Sound
 Longitudinal & Transverse Waves
 universal wave equation, period and frequency
 Sound, speed of sound, Doppler Effect, Echoes, Sonic Booms
 Resonance, Harmonics, Open & Closed Air columns, beats, string

B – Practice Problems
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00) Scrappy Doo drives a 2000 kg Mercedes Benz sports-car down the highway. It has an initial speed of 162 km/h and he drives for 1 minute before a police
car signals him to stop and he hits the brakes, stopping in 3.6 seconds. While braking the car experiences a great deal of friction between the tires and the
road, and there is an average drag force of 2 000 N.
A) Determine how far he travels before she uses the brakes. B) Determine the coefficient of friction.

01) Scooby Doo drives his 2500 kg car on a 20 oC day. He accelerates East with an acceleration of 2 g’s or 19.6 m/s 2 for 3 s. The drag force on the car averages
12250 N.
A) Determine his final velocity. B) Determine the coefficient of friction.

02) Optimus Prime moves North at Mach 0.09 (30.69 m/s) on a 15 oC day. He passes a pedestrian and hits the brakes for 20 m. The mass of the vehicle is 10
tonnes and the coefficient of friction is 0.97. Ignore drag force. Determine his final velocity.

) Winnie the Pooh is pushing a 100 kg sled full of honey jars forward with 1 725 N. Piglet helps by pulling the sled with 600 N. The coefficient of friction is
0.25. How long will it take for them to accelerate the sled from rest to 5 m/s?

04) Dora tosses her 5 kg backpack from a height of 30 m at some unknown angle. If drag is negligible and is there is essentially no heat loss then determine the
impact velocity of the backpack when it strikes the ground (impact velocity is never zero). Try again but this time with a heat loss of 735 J.

05) Barbie launches a 40 g Ken doll forward and upwards using a sling shot of stiffness 1 000 N/m which has been stretched 50 cm. atop 20 m high cliff. The
Ken doll lands safely on a 5 m tall apple tree. If heat loss is negligible then determine velocity when it reaches the tree.. Try again but this time with a heat
loss of 10 J.

) Strawberry Shortcake throws a 100 g blue berry muffin eastwards and upwards into the air from an initial height of 75 cm with an initial speed of 29.4 m/s.
A short time later the muffin is caught by Huckleberry Pie at a height of 1.25 m. How fast was it moving when Huck caught it? Try again but with a heat
loss of ?? J due to an overall efficiency of 80%.

07) The Cat in the Hat launches a 10 g toy dart straight up with a toy spring gun of spring constant 1000 N/m which is compressed 20 cm. The dart is launched
form a height of 1.00 m. Determine the height at which it has a speed of 19.6 m/s. Do it again if the efficiency of the flight is drag opposes the motion of
the dart with an average force of 0.1 g’s.

08) Princess Fiona kicks a boulder with enough force to lift 10 tonnes. Her foot resembles a rectangle of dimensions 10 cm by 25 cm. Determine the pressure of
the kick on the boulder. Determine the absolute pressures on the boulder and convert to atm’s.

19) What is difference between green and dirty energy resources? What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy resources? Soda pop
cans are recycled – does this make them renewable energy resources? How does recycling soda pop cans reduce energy use?
09) Grumpy Bear constructed the following circuit. Determine the total resistance of the circuit, the current and power at the battery. Include formulas and
show steps. For extra credit determine how much will it cost to run the circuit for 8 hours/day for a thirty days per month for one year at 10¢/kWh?
120 V 1000 Ω 2000 Ω

30 000 Ω

40 000 Ω

10) Braveheart Lion constructed the following circuit. Determine the total resistance of the circuit, the current and power at the battery. Include formulas and
show steps. For extra credit determine how much will it cost to run the circuit for 16 hours/day for 5 days per week for 52 weeks at 15¢/kWh?
240 V 500 Ω 400 Ω

1566.7 Ω
10 000 Ω

20 000 Ω

11) Puss in Boots constructed the following circuit. Determine the total resistance of the circuit, the current and power at the battery. Include formulas and
show steps. How much will it cost to run the circuit 8 hours per day, for a 90 quarter at 12¢/kWh?
9V 1Ω

50 Ω

60 Ω

70 Ω

12) Shrek needs to a transformer that produces 36 000 V that can be connected to the household circuit which has 120 V. If the 120 V household primary coil
has 240 turns and draws 10 A of current then determine the turns and current of the secondary coil.

13) Donkey needs to a transformer that produces 5 V that can be connected to the household circuit which has 120 V. If the 120 V household primary coil has
2400 turns and draws 10 mA of current then determine the turns and current of the secondary coil.

14) Frogger observes 8 water waves pass by the bow of a boat in 40 s. The boat is 10 m long and equal to two wavelengths in length. Determine the speed of
the waves.

15) Pac-Man plays a bass guitar in a 30oC room. Pac-Man plays an physics 256 Hz note 1st harmonic or 0st overtone. What is the speed of sound and
wavelength of the 256 Hz note? What would the frequency of the 3rd harmonic be? What would the wavelength of the 5th overtone be?

16) Pac-Woman plays a guitar in a 15oC room. Pac-Woman plays an A-note string of frequency 440 Hz which is in its 2nd harmonic or 1st overtone. What is the
speed of sound and wavelength of the A-note? What would the frequency of the 4 th harmonic be? What would the wavelength of the 7th overtone be?

17) A child is standing on a spinning Merry-Go-Round which has a rope net to hold onto. An adult is pushing the Merry-Go-Round. Provide a Free Body
Diagram and then examples of all 3 of Newton’s 3 Laws in this scenario.

18) Below are two waves on a collision course. Draw the mid collision of the waves.
 SPH3U – Exam Review Partial Solutions
00) Scrappy Doo drives a 2000 kg Mercedes Benz sports-car down the highway. It has an initial speed of 162 km/h and he drives for 1 minute before a police
car signals him to stop and he hits the brakes, stopping in 3.6 seconds. While braking the car experiences a great deal of friction between the tires and the
road, and there is an average drag force of 2 000 N. A) Determine how far he travels before she uses the brakes. B) Determine the coefficient of friction.

02) Optimus Prime moves North at Mach 0.09 on a 15 oC day. He passes a pedestrian and hits the brakes for 20 m. The mass of the vehicle is 10 tonnes and the
coefficient of friction is 0.97. Determine his final velocity.

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04) Barbie launches a 40 g Ken doll forward and upwards using a sling shot of stiffness 1 000 N/m which has been stretched 50 cm. atop 20 m high cliff. The
Ken doll lands safely on a 5 m tall apple tree. If heat loss is negligible then determine velocity when it reaches the tree.. Try again but with an %efficiency
of 80%.

) Winnie the Pooh is pushing a 100 kg sled full of honey jars forward with 1 725 N. Piglet helps by pulling the sled with 600 N. The coefficient of friction is
0.25. How long will it take for them to accelerate the sled from rest to 5 m/s?
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08) Grumpy Bear constructed the following circuit. Determine the total resistance of the circuit, the current and power at the battery. Include formulas and
show steps. For extra credit determine how much will it cost to run the circuit for 8 hours/day for a thirty days per month for one year at 10¢/kWh?
120 V 1000 Ω 2000 Ω

30 000 Ω

40 000 Ω

# V (V) I (A) R (Ω)

0 120 0.00596 20 143

1 5.96 0.00596 1 000

2 11.9 0.00596 2 000

P 102.1 0.00596 17 143

3 102.1 0.00340 30 000

4 102.1 0.00255 40 000

12) Shrek needs to a transformer that produces 36 000 V that can be connected to the household circuit which has 120 V. If the 120 V household primary coil
has 240 turns and draws 10 A of current then determine the turns and current of the secondary coil.

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14) Frogger observes 8 water waves pass by the bow of a boat in 40 s. The boat is 10 m long and equal to two wavelengths in length. Determine the speed of
the waves.
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16) Pac-Woman plays a guitar in a 15oC room. Pac-Woman plays an A-note string of frequency 440 Hz which is in its 2nd harmonic or 1st overtone. What is the
speed of sound and wavelength of the A-note? What would the frequency of the 4 th harmonic be? What would the wavelength of the 7th overtone be?

2nd harmonic

4th harmonic

7th overtone