APSC 111 Midterm #1

October 11th, 2018 6:30pm to 9:30pm

Question Booklet

Name:________________________________ Student Number:_________________

Instructions

• This examination is three hours in length. However, it is designed to be completed in two hours. All
students will have the full three hours, if they want to use it.
• This exam contains 8 multiple choice questions worth 1 mark each and 3 long answer questions
worth 5 marks each.
• Be very careful when entering your name and student number on the Answer Booklet. Use pen or a
dark pencil and write very clearly.
• Written answers to the long problems should be in ink. If you choose to write your answers in
pencil, please make sure that your writing is clear and dark. Do not erase mistakes, simply cross
them out, as the scanner picks up what has been erased and can make what is written over top
illegible.
• As per Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science rules, only Casio 991 calculators may be used.
• Formula sheets are included at the end of this question paper. They may be detached. No other aids
are permitted.
• Please hand in this Question Booklet and the Answer Booklet in separate piles, as indicated by the
proctors. Make sure your name and student number appear on this page and on the cover of the
Answer Booklet.
• DO NOT INSERT ANYTHING INTO THE ANSWER BOOKLET. This includes formula sheets. Hand in
your formula sheets with this Question Booklet. If a page comes loose from the Crowdmark
booklet, simply place it back where it should have been in the booklet and hand the booklet in; it
should not be stapled to the booklet. The QR code will identify which paper it belongs with.
• For the Multiple Choice questions, please fill in the appropriate bubbles on the answer sheet at the
end of the Answer Booklet. Also circle them in this Question Booklet.
• For the Long Answer problems, marks will be awarded for the steps towards the solution, not just
the for the final results, so be sure to show all of your work in the Answer Booklet.
• To receive full marks for questions, the final answers must be specified in the most appropriate
units.

Attempt all questions.

There is no penalty for incorrect multiple choice answers. Choose the ‘best’ answer.

Note: If the instructor is unavailable in the examination room, and if doubt exists as to the interpretation
of any question, the candidate is urged to submit a clear statement of any assumptions made in the
Answer Booklet.
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Part I: Multiple Choice

Enter responses onto the answer sheet at the end of the Answer Booklet.
Indicate answer here as well.

1. A block slides down an incline, starting from rest. If the total time it takes to reach the
end of the incline is T, how much time has elapsed when it is halfway down the incline?
a. 0.5 T
b. < 0.5 T
c. > 0.5 T
d. More information is needed.

2. Two stones are thrown simultaneously, one straight upward from the base of a cliff and
the other straight downward from the top of the cliff. The height of the cliff is 5.70 m.
The stones are thrown with the same speed of 8.95 m/s. Find the location (above the base
of the cliff) of the point where the stones cross paths.
a. 4.65 m
b. 3.17 m
c. 2.85 m
d. 2.35 m
e. 1.57 m

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3. During football practice, a football is kicked with a speed of 22 m/s at an angle

of 60.0° relative to the positive x direction. At that instant, an observer rides
past the football in a car that moves with a constant speed of 11 m/s in the
positive x direction. Determine the initial velocity of the ball relative to the
observer in the car.
a. 19 m/s in the +y direction
b. 11 m/s in the +y direction
c. 19 m/s at 60° to the +x direction
d. 33 m/s at 60° to the +x direction
e. 17 m/s at 60° to the +x direction

4. Consider a point on a bicycle wheel as the wheel turns about a fixed axis, neither
speeding up nor slowing down. Compare the linear and angular accelerations of the point.
a. Both are zero.
b. Only the angular acceleration is zero.
c. Only the linear acceleration is zero.
d. Neither is zero.

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5. Three wheels are connected as shown, each driving the next wheel with no slipping
where they meet. Wheel A (with radius 5 cm) is rotating at a constant angular velocity of
15 rad/s. Wheel A causes wheel B (with radius 10 cm) to rotate, which in turn causes
wheel C to rotate. Through what angle does wheel C (with radius 15 cm) rotate in 5
seconds?

a. 5 rad
b. 25 rad
c. 50 rad
d. 150 rad
e. 450 rad

6. A 4-kg block is connected by means of a massless rope to a 2-kg block as shown in the
figure.

If the 4-kg block is to begin sliding, which statement regarding the coefficient of static
friction between the 4-kg block and the surface is true?
a. The coefficient of friction must be zero.
b. The coefficient of friction must be greater than 2.
c. The coefficient of friction must be less than 2 but may be greater than 1.
d. The coefficient of friction must be less than 1 but may be greater than 0.5.
e. The coefficient of friction must be less than 0.5 but may be greater than zero.

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7. Two blocks rest on a horizontal frictionless surface as shown. The coefficient of static
friction between the top and bottom blocks is 0.6. When a 30-N force is applied to the
bottom block the blocks move together.

What is the force of static friction between the top and bottom blocks?
a. zero Newtons
b. 10 N
c. 20 N
d. 25 N
e. 30 N

8. A cat sits on a chair in an elevator that is moving up but slowing down at a rate of 1.0 m/s2.
The chair has a mass of 5.0-kg but the cat’s mass is unknown. The force of the elevator on
the chair with the cat on top is 100 N up. Determine the mass of the cat.
a. 3.3 kg
b. 2.4 kg
c. 6.4 kg
d. 4.3 kg
e. 5.0 kg

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Part II: Long Answer Questions

Write your solutions in the spaces indicated in the Answer
Booklet.

1. An electric ceiling fan is rotating about a fixed axis with an initial angular velocity of
0.300 rev/s. The angular acceleration is 0.910 rev/s2. Both the angular velocity and
angular acceleration are directed clockwise. The electric ceiling fan blades form a
circle of diameter 0.770 m. After 0.200 seconds
a. how many revolutions has the blade turned?
b. what is the magnitude of the fan's angular velocity?
c. what is the magnitude of the linear acceleration of a point on the tip of the
blade?

2. A person canoeing towards shore throws a first aid package to a hiker at the top of a
4.00 m cliff at the water’s edge. The package is released from the canoeist hand 1.5m
above the water. The canoe is moving towards the cliff at vcw = 8.00 m/s at the
moment of release. The package is released with a speed of vpc = 12.0 m/s relative to
the canoe.

a. If the package is moving horizontally as it reaches the cliff edge what is the
initial velocity of the package in the vertical direction?
b. What is the horizontal velocity of the package with respect to the canoe at the
moment of release?
c. What is the horizontal distance d between the top of the cliff and the package
at the moment of release?

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3. Block A of mass 10.0 kg sits on the floor with block B of mass 2.00 kg sitting on top
of it, as shown in the figure below. The coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.15 between
all surfaces. You pull on a rope attached to block A inclined at 30 degrees above the
horizontal resulting in a tension T= 50 N. This causes blocks A and B to move with
respect to each other and with respect to the floor but not lift off the floor.

a. Draw a free body of block B.

b. Draw a free body diagram of block A.
c. Find the acceleration of block B.
d. Find the acceleration of block A.

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 APSC 111 Formula Sheet

√
−b± b2 −4ac ~ = Ax ı̂ + Ay ̂ + Az k̂
ax2 + bx + c = 0 =⇒ x = 2a A
~·B
A ~ = AB cos θ = Ax Bx + Ay By + Az Bz ~ × B|
|A ~ = AB sin θ

~×B
A ~ = (Ay Bz − Az By ) ı̂ + (Az Bx − Ax Bz ) ̂ + (Ax By − Ay Bx ) k̂

sin(a ± b) = sin a cos b ± cos a sin b cos(a ± b) = cos a cos b ∓ sin a sin b

A/ sin α = B/ sin β = C/ sin γ C 2 = A2 + B 2 − 2AB cos θ

sin2 θ + cos2 θ = 1 cos 2θ = 1 − 2 sin2 θ = 2 cos2 θ − 1 = cos2 θ − sin2 θ

g = 9.8 m/s2 s = rθ, ω = dθ/dt = v/r, α = dω/dt = at /r

~v = ~vo + ~at , (constant ~a) ω = ω◦ + αt , (constant α)

1
y − y◦ = v◦y t + 2 ay t 2 , (constant ay ) θ − θ◦ = ω◦ t + 12 αt2 , (constant α)

vy2 − v◦y
2 = 2a (y − y ),
y ◦ (constant ay ) ω 2 − ω◦2 = 2α(θ − θ◦ ) , (constant α)

y − y◦ = 21 (vy + v◦y )t (constant ay ) θ − θ◦ = 12 (ω◦ + ω)t, (constant α)

at = αr = dv/dt (tangential acceleration) ar = v 2 /r = ω 2 r (radial acceleration)

~a = ~ar + ~at (total acceleration) ~AB = V

V ~AC + V
~CB (relative velocity)
P ~
F = m~a = d~ p/dt, (~p = momentum)

F~12 = −F~21 (Third Law) F = −kx (Hooke’s Law)

Kinetic Friction: fk = µk N Static Friction: 0 ≤ fs ≤ µs N

W = F~ · d~`; W = F ∆x (constant force) Power: P = dW/dt = F~ · ~v Pav = F~ · ~vav

R

Torque: τ = |~r × F~ | = rF sin θ;

R P
W = τ dθ; W = τ ∆θ (constant torque) τ = Iα

Wnet = ∆K = Kf − Ki ; K = 12 mv 2 Wnc = ∆K + ∆U = (Kf − Ki ) + (Uf − Ui )

Wspring = − 21 k(x2f − x2i ); Wgrav = −mg(yf − yi ) Uspring = 21 kx2 ; Ugrav = mgy

Momentum: P~ =
P~
Fext = dP~ /dt Collisions: P~i = P~f ; u1 − u2 = v2 − v1 (elastic).
P
mi~vi ,

Impulse: J~ = F~AV ∆t = ∆~
P P P P
p xcm = mi xi / mi ; ~rcm = mi~ri / mi

Moment of Inertia: I = ni=1 mi ri2 = r2 dm Parallel Axis Theorem: I = Icom + M h2

P R

xcm = θR, vcm = ωR, acm = αR (rolling) KE = 12 Icom ω 2 + 21 M vcm

2 (general) or 1
2 Iω
2 fixed axis
P~ P
For Equilibrium: F = 0, ~τ = 0

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