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PHY13 Diagnostic Exam Reviewer
PHY13 Diagnostic Exam Reviewer
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Arvin the Ant travels 30 cm eastward, then 25 cm northward, and finally 15 cm westward. What is Arvin's
direction of displacement with respect to his original position?
a. 59 N of E
b. 29 N of E
c. 29 N of W
d. 77 N of E
2. An astronaut applies a force of 500 N to an asteroid, and it accelerates at 7.00 m/s2. What is the asteroid's
mass?
a. 71 kg
b. 135 kg
c. 441 kg
d. 3 500 kg
3. A European sports car dealer claims that his product will accelerate at a constant rate from rest to a speed of
100 km/hr in 8.00 s. What is the speed after the first 5.00 s of acceleration? (Hint: First convert the speed to
m/s.)
a. 34.7 m/s
b. 44.4 m/s
c. 28.7 m/s
d. 17.4 m/s
4. A ventilation fan has blades 0.25 m long rotating at 20 rpm. What is the centripetal acceleration of a point on
the outer tip of a blade?
a. 1.1 m/s2
b. 0.87 m/s2
c. 0.55 m/s2
d. 0.23 m/s2
5. What centripetal force does an 80-kg passenger experience when seated 12 m from the center of a Ferris
wheel whose angular speed is 0.50 rad/s?
a. 484 N
b. 720 N
c. 914 N
d. 240 N
6. If the mass of Mars is 0.107 times that of Earth, and its radius is 0.530 that of Earth, estimate the gravitational
acceleration g at the surface of Mars. (gearth = 9.80 m/s2)
a. 2.20 m/s2
b. 3.73 m/s2
c. 4.20 m/s2
d. 5.50 m/s2
7. If two vertical ropes are used to support a 20-N weight, the tension in each rope must be ____.
a. 20 N
c. 10 N
b. 40 N
d. 30 N
8. If k = 0.1, the force required to push a 20-N sled up a 40 incline with constant speed is approximately ____.
a. 26.1 N
c. 15.3 N
b. 14.4 N
d. 31.1 N
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____ 17. A 0.12-m-radius grinding wheel takes 5.5 s to speed up from 2.0 rad/s to 11.0 rad/s. What is the wheel's
average angular acceleration?
a. 9.6 rad/s2
b. 4.8 rad/s2
c. 1.6 rad/s2
d. 0.33 rad/s2
____ 18. How large a force is necessary to stretch a 2.0-mm-diameter steel wire (Y = 2.0 1011 N/m2) by 1.0%?
a. 3.1 103 N
b. 6.3 103 N
c. 9.4 103 N
d. 1.3 104 N
____ 19. A 15 000-N car on a hydraulic lift rests on a cylinder with a piston of radius 0.20 m. If a connecting cylinder
with a piston of 0.040-m radius is driven by compressed air, what force must be applied to this smaller piston
in order to lift the car?
a. 600 N
b. 1 500 N
c. 3 000 N
d. 15 000 N
____ 20. A block of wood has density 0.50 g/cm3 and mass 1 500 g. It floats in a container of oil (the oil's density is
0.75 g/cm3). What volume of oil does the wood displace?
a. 3 000 cm3
b. 2 000 cm3
c. 1 500 cm3
d. 1 000 cm3
____ 21. An ideal fluid, of density 0.85 103 kg/m3, flows at 0.25 kg/s through a pipe of radius 0.010 m. What is the
fluid speed?
a. 0.85 m/s
b. 1.3 m/s
c. 3.0 m/s
d. 0.94 m/s
____ 22. At what temperature is the same numerical value obtained in Celsius and Fahrenheit?
a. 40
b. 0
c. 40
d. 72
____ 23. A long steel beam has a length of twenty-five meters on a cold day when the temperature is 0C. What is the
length of the beam on a hot day when T = 40C? (steel= 1.1 105/C)
a. 25.000 44 m
c.
25.011 m
b. 25.004 4 m
d.
25.044 m
____ 24. Iced tea is made by adding ice to 1.8 kg of hot tea, initially at 80C. How many kg of ice, initially at 0C, are
required to bring the mixture to 10C? (Lf = 3.33 x 105 J/kg, cw = 4 186 J/kgC)
a. 1.8 kg
c. 1.4 kg
b. 1.6 kg
d. 1.2 kg
____ 25. A traveling wave train has wavelength 0.50 m, speed 20 m/s. Find the wave frequency.
a. 0.025 Hz
b. 20 Hz
c. 40 Hz
d. 10 Hz
____ 26. Waves propagate at 8.0 m/s along a stretched string. The end of the string is vibrated up and down once every
1.5 s. What is the wavelength of the waves that travel along the string?
a. 3.0 m
b. 12 m
c. 6.0 m
d. 5.3 m
____ 27. A 500-Hz whistle is moved toward a listener at a speed of 10.0 m/s. At the same time, the listener moves at a
speed of 20.0 m/s in a direction away from the whistle. What is the apparent frequency heard by the listener?
(The speed of sound is 340 m/s.)
a. 473 Hz
b. 485 Hz
c. 533 Hz
d. 547 Hz
____ 28. If a guitar string has a fundamental frequency of 500 Hz, what is the frequency of its second overtone?
a. 250 Hz
b. 750 Hz
c. 1 000 Hz
d. 1 500 Hz
____ 29. The two ends of a 3.0- resistor are connected to a 9.0-V battery. What is the total power delivered by the
battery to the circuit?
a. 3.0 W
b. 27 W
c. 0.33 W
d. 0.11 W
____ 30. Two resistors of values 6.0 and 12.0 are connected in parallel. This combination in turn is hooked in series
with a 4.0- resistor. What is the overall resistance of this combination?
a. 0.50
b. 2.0
c. 8.0
d. 22.0
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