MIDTERM PROBLEM SET

PHYSICS 13E

1. A square field measuring 100.0 m by 100.0 m has an area of 1.00 hectare. An acre has
an area of 43,600 ft2. If a country lot has an area of 12.0 acres, what is the area in
hectares?

2. The following conversions occur frequently in physics and are very useful. (a) Use 1 mi = 5280 ft
and 1 h = 3600 s to convert 60 mph to units of ft/s. (b) The acceleration of a freely falling object is
32 ft/s2.Use 1 ft = 30.48 cm to express this acceleration in units of m/s 2. (c) The density of water is
1.0 g/cm3. Convert this density to units of kg/m3.

3. Find the magnitude and direction of the vector represented by the following pairs of components:
(a) Ax = -8.60 cm, Ay = 5.20 cm; (b) Ax = -9.70 m, Ay = -2.45 m; (c) Ax = 7.75 km, Ay = -2.70 km.

4. Two workers pull horizontally on a heavy box, but one pulls twice as hard as the other. The larger
pull is directed at 25.0° west of north, and the resultant of these two pulls is 460.0 N directly
northward. Use vector components to find the magnitude of each of these pulls and the direction
of the smaller pull.

5. At Enormous State University (ESU), the football team records its plays using vector
displacements, with the origin taken to be the position of the ball before the play starts. In a certain
pass play, the receiver starts at +1.0î – 5.0ĵ where the units are yards, î is to the right, and ĵ is
downfield. Subsequent displacements of the receiver are + 9.0î (in motion before the snap), +
11.0ĵ (breaks downfield), – 6.0î + 4.0ĵ (zigs), and + 12.0î + 18.0ĵ (zags). Meanwhile, the
quarterback has dropped straight back to a position – 7.0ĵ. How far and in which direction must the
quarterback throw the ball? (Like the coach, you will be well advised to diagram the situation
before solving it numerically.)
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6. You are given vectors A  5.0iˆ  6.5 ˆj and B  3.5iˆ  7.0 ˆj . A third vector C lies in the xy-plane.
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Vector C is perpendicular to vector A andthe scalar product of C with B is 15.0. From this
information, find the components of vector C .

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