PHYC 121 SECOND

QUARTER EXAM
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A 0.50-m radius automobile tire accelerates from rest at a constant 3 rad/s2. What is the centripetal
acceleration of a point on the outer edge of the tire after 6 s?
Select one:
a. 90.0 m/s2
b. 9.0 m/s2
c. 9.4 m/s2
d. 16.2 m/s2
e. 162 m/s2 CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: 162 m/s2
9.4 Angular Momentum and Kepler's Second Law of Planetary Motion
Consider the use of the terms "rotation" and "revolution". In physics:
Select one:
a. the words are used interchangeably but "rotation" is the preferred word.
b. the words have different meaning. CorrectCorrect
c. the words are used interchangeably.
d. "rotation" is the correct word, and "revolution" should not be used.
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The correct answer is: the words have different meaning.
A relatively new medical device that uses ultrasonics is referred to by the acronym CUSA. What
does the letter A stand for?
Select one:
a. accumulator
b. array
c. aspirator CorrectCorrect
d. audible
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The correct answer is: aspirator
An object consists of a rod (of length 3.0 m and negligible moment of inertia) to which four small 2.0-
kg masses are attached, one at each end and one at each point on the rod 1.0 m from each end.
(The masses are one meter apart.) The moment of inertia of this object about an axis perpendicular
to the rod and through one of the end masses:
Select one:
a. is 12 kg·m2.
b. cannot be uniquely determined until it is stated which inner mass the axis goes through.
c. is 28 kg·m2. CorrectCorrect
d. is 4 kg·m2.
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The correct answer is: is 28 kg·m2.
An avalanche of ice and snow of mass 1,900 kg slides a vertical distance of 170 m down a
mountainside. If the temperature of the ice, snow, mountain and surrounding air are all at 0°C, what
is the change in entropy of the universe?

Select one:
a. 5,797 J/K
b. 23,190 J/K
c. 11,595 J/K CorrectCorrect
d. 1,183 J/K
e. 3865 J/K
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The correct answer is: 11,595 J/K
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A sound wave in air has a frequency of 510 Hz and a wavelength of 0.66 m. What is the air
temperature?
Select one:
a. 1°C
b. 5.3°C
c. 0°C
d. 111°C
e. 9°C CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: 9°C
Which of the following best describes a sound level of intensity 1 W/m2?
Select one:
a. like a whisper
b. normal conversation
c. about that of a power mower
d. extremely loud CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: extremely loud
13.2 Amplitude and Intensity of a Sound Wave
If the intensity of a sound is increased by a factor of 1000, how is the decibel level changed? The
new decibel level will be:
Select one:
a. three units greater.
b. ten times greater.
c. thirty times greater. CorrectCorrect
d. twenty units greater.
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The correct answer is: thirty times greater.
12.3 Examples of Waves
A 2.0-m long piano string of mass 40 g is under a tension of 338 N. Find the speed with which a
wave travels on this string.
Select one:
a. 260 m/s
b. 520 m/s
c. 1040 m/s
d. 130 m/s CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: 130 m/s
A rotating flywheel can be used as a method to store energy. If it has 2.0 × 106 J of kinetic energy
when rotating at 350 rad/s, and if a frictional torque of 4.0 Nm acts on the system, in what interval of
time would the flywheel come to rest?
Select one:
a. 47.6 min CorrectCorrect
b. 32.7 min
c. 2 860 min
d. 190 min
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The correct answer is: 47.6 min
A 16 000-N car on a hydraulic lift rests on a cylinder with a piston of radius 0.10 m. If a connecting
cylinder with a piston of 0.050-m radius is driven by compressed air, what force must be applied to
this smaller piston in order to lift the car?
Select one:
a. 16 000 N
b. 4 500 N
c. 4 000 N CorrectCorrect
d. 3 900 N
e. 64 N
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The correct answer is: 4 000 N
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Material 1 has Young's modulus Y1 and density ρ1, and material 2 has Young's modulus Y2 and
density ρ2. If Y1 is 30% more than Y2 and ρ1 is 30% less than ρ2, which material has the higher
speed of sound and how much higher is it?
Select one:
a. Material 1 has a speed of sound more than 35% higher than material 2. CorrectCorrect
b. Material 2 has a speed of sound more than 80% higher than material 1.
c. Material 1 has a speed of sound 30% higher than material 2.
d. Material 2 has a speed of sound 30% higher than material 1.
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The correct answer is: Material 1 has a speed of sound more than 35% higher than material 2.
14.6 Heat Conduction
Dmitri places one end of a copper rod in a heat reservoir and the other end in a heat sink. By what
factor is the rate of heat flow changed when the temperature difference between the reservoir and
sink is doubled?
Select one:
a. 1/2
b. 2.0 CorrectCorrect
c. 1/4
d. 4.0
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The correct answer is: 2.0
In an isovolumetric process by an ideal gas, the system's heat gain is equivalent to a change in:
Select one:
a. volume.
b. internal energy. CorrectCorrect
c. temperature.
d. pressure.
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The correct answer is: internal energy.
Wave #1 has frequency f1 and wavelength λ1. Wave #2 has frequency f2 = 6 f1 and wavelength λ2
= 2λ1. How does the speed v2 of wave #2 compare with the speed v1 of wave #1?
Select one:
a. v2 = v1/6
b. v2 = 1.5v1
c. v2 = 6v1
d. v2 = 12v1 CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: v2 = 12v1
A bucket filled with water has a mass of 23 kg and is attached to a rope, which in turn, is wound
around a 0.080-m radius cylinder at the top of a well. What torque does the weight of water and
bucket produce on the cylinder if the cylinder is not permitted to rotate? (g = 9.8 m/s2)
Select one:
a. 18 N·m CorrectCorrect
b. 225 N·m
c. 36 N·m
d. 2 N·m
e. 288 N·m
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The correct answer is: 18 N·m
Quadrupling the distance between sound source and a listener will change the intensity, as detected
by the listener, by what factor?
Select one:
a. 0.25
b. 1/16 CorrectCorrect
c. 2.0
d. 16
e. 4
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The correct answer is: 1/16
If one-fourth of the members of a symphony orchestra are absent because of head colds, thus
reducing the overall intensity of sound by 25%, what will be the reduction in the decibel level?
Select one:
a. 15.2 dB
b. 13.9 dB
c. 14.0 dB
d. 2.9 dB
e. 1.2 dB CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: 1.2 dB
13.5 Reflection and Scattering of Sound
13.6 The Doppler Effect
A bat, flying at 3.00 m/s toward a wall, emits a chirp at 50.0 kHz. If the wall reflects this sound pulse,
what is the frequency of the echo received by the bat? (vsound = 340 m/s)
Select one:
a. 51.5 kHz
b. 40.8 kHz
c. 50.9 kHz CorrectCorrect
d. 51.2 kHz
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The correct answer is: 50.9 kHz
Two identical springs, each with spring constant k, are attached in parallel to a mass, which is then
set into simple harmonic motion. What would be the spring constant of a single spring which would
result in the same frequency of oscillation as the parallel springs?
Select one:
a. k/2
b. 2k CorrectCorrect
c.
d. k
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The correct answer is: 2k
14.4 Phases of Matter and Phase Changes
A 20-kg piece of aluminum (which has a specific heat of 900 J/kg · °C) is warmed so that its
temperature increases by 5.0°C. How much heat was transferred into it?
Select one:
a. 9.0 × 104 J CorrectCorrect
b. 4.5 × 104 J
c. 2.0 × 105 J
d. 1.4 × 105 J
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The correct answer is: 9.0 × 104 J
For a wave on the ocean, the amplitude is:
Select one:
a. how far the wave goes up on the beach.
b. the distance between crests.
c. one half the height difference between a crest and a trough. CorrectCorrect
d. the height difference between a crest and a trough.
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The correct answer is: one half the height difference between a crest and a trough.
14.5 Thermal Expansion
A brass cube, 10 cm on a side, is raised in temperature by 150°C. The coefficient of volume
expansion of brass is 57 × 10−6/°C. By what percentage does volume increase?
Select one:
a. 1.1%
b. 2.8%
c. 0.86% CorrectCorrect
d. 12%
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The correct answer is: 0.86%
If two adjacent frequencies of an organ pipe closed at one end are 515 Hz and 625 Hz, what is the
length of the organ pipe? (vsound = 340 m/s)
Select one:
a. 1.2 m
b. 0.8 m
c. 3.1 m
d. 1.5 m CorrectCorrect
e. 1.0 m
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The correct answer is: 1.5 m
120 g of liquid nitrogen at its boiling point of 77 K is stirred into a beaker containing 520 g of 15°C
water. If the nitrogen leaves the solution as soon as it turns to gas, how much water freezes? The
heat of vaporization of nitrogen is 48 cal/g and that of water is 80 cal/g.
Select one:
a. 80 g
b. 40 g
c. 20 g
d. none CorrectCorrect
e. 10 g
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The correct answer is: none
As a gust of wind blows across a field of grain, a wave can be seen to move across the field as the
tops of the plants sway back and forth. This wave is a:
Select one:
a. polarized wave.
b. interference of waves.
c. transverse wave.
d. longitudinal wave. CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: longitudinal wave.
An earthquake emits both P-waves and S-waves that travel at different speeds through the Earth. A
P-wave travels at 8,000 m/s and an S-wave at 5,000 m/s. If P-waves are received at a seismic
station 59.9 s before an S-wave arrives, how far is the station from the earthquake center?

Select one:
a. 400 km
b. 184 km
c. 1,597 km
d. 1,797 km
e. 799 km CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: 799 km
A tetherball is attached to a pole with a 2.0-m rope. It is circling at 0.20 rev/s. As the rope wraps
around the pole, it shortens. How long is the rope when the ball is moving at 6.0 m/s?
Select one:
a. 1.2 m
b. 1.0 m
c. 0.83 m CorrectCorrect
d. 1.8 m
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The correct answer is: 0.83 m
A tuning fork is sounded above a resonating tube (one end closed), which resonates at a length of
0.2 m and again at 1 m. What is the frequency of the fork when the speed of sound is taken to be
340 m/s?
Select one:
a. 425 Hz
b. 283 Hz CorrectCorrect
c. 340 Hz
d. 408 Hz
e. 1,700 Hz
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The correct answer is: 283 Hz
A container is filled with water and the pressure at the container bottom is P. If the container is
instead filled with oil having specific gravity 0.80, what new bottom pressure results?
Select one:
a. the same pressure P
b. a pressure > P
c. This is unable to be determined with the information given.
d. a pressure < P CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: a pressure < P
A hoop with mass, M, and radius, R, rolls along a level surface without slipping with a linear speed,
v. What is the ratio of rotational to linear kinetic energy? (For a hoop, I = MR2.)
Select one:
a. 1/4
b. 1/2
c. 1/1 CorrectCorrect
d. 2/5
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The correct answer is: 1/1
A large stone is resting on the bottom of the swimming pool. The normal force of the bottom of the
pool on the stone is equal to the:
Select one:
a. difference between the weight of the stone and the weight of the displaced water. CorrectCorrect
b. weight of the stone.
c. weight of the water displaced.
d. sum of the weight of the stone and the weight of the displaced water.
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The correct answer is: difference between the weight of the stone and the weight of the displaced
water.
A turntable has a moment of inertia of 3.00 × 10−2 kg·m2 and spins freely on a frictionless bearing
at 25.0 rev/min. A 0.600-kg ball of putty is dropped vertically onto the turntable and sticks at a point
0.100 m from the center. What is the new rate of rotation of the system?
Select one:
a. 22.7 rev/min
b. 33.3 rev/min
c. 20.8 rev/min CorrectCorrect
d. 27.2 rev/min
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The correct answer is: 20.8 rev/min
A 2-m long piano string of mass 10 g is under a tension of 322 N. Find the speed with which a wave
travels on this string.

Select one:
a. 359 m/s
b. 508 m/s
c. 80 m/s
d. 254 m/s CorrectCorrect
e. 127 m/s
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The correct answer is: 254 m/s
A 45-g cube of ice, initially at 0.0°C, is dropped into 220 g of water in an 80-g aluminum container,
both initially at 25°C. What is the final equilibrium temperature? (Specific heat for aluminum is 900
J/kg⋅°C, the specific heat of water is 4 186 J/kg⋅°C, and Lf = 3.33 × 105 J/kg.)

Select one:
a. 16.6°C
b. 4.15°C
c. 8.3°C CorrectCorrect
d. 12.45°C
e. 14.5°C
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The correct answer is: 8.3°C
An 80-kg man is one fourth of the way up a 10-m ladder that is resting against a smooth, frictionless
wall. If the ladder has a mass of 30 kg and it makes an angle of 60° with the ground, find the force of
friction of the ground on the foot of the ladder.
Select one:
a. 2.0 × 102 N CorrectCorrect
b. 1.7 × 102 N
c. 50 N
d. 7.8 × 102 N
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The correct answer is: 2.0 × 102 N
A windowpane is half a centimeter thick and has an area of 0.7 m2. The temperature difference
between the inside and outside surfaces of the pane is 15 °C. What is the rate of heat flow through
this window? (Thermal conductivity for glass is 0.84 J/s⋅m⋅°C.)

Select one:
a. 1,400 J/s
b. 1,800 J/s CorrectCorrect
c. 2,100 J/s
d. 1,180 J/s
e. 3,600 J/s
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The correct answer is: 1,800 J/s
A bucket of water with total mass 22 kg is attached to a rope, which in turn is wound around a 0.04-
m radius cylinder at the top of a well. The bucket is raised to the top of the well and released. The
bucket is moving with a speed of 7.0 m/s upon hitting the water surface in the well. What is the
angular speed of the cylinder at this instant?
Select one:
a. 62 rad/s
b. 494 rad/s
c. 44 rad/s
d. 138 rad/s
e. 175 rad/s CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: 175 rad/s
A baseball pitcher loosens up his pitching arm. He tosses a 0.15-kg ball using only the rotation of his
forearm, 0.26 m in length, to accelerate the ball. If the ball starts at rest and is released with a speed
of 23 m/s in a time of 0.4 s, what torque is applied to the ball while being held by the pitcher's hand
to produce the angular acceleration?
Select one:
a. 22.4 N·m
b. 33.2 N·m
c. 3.3 N·m
d. 2.2 N·m CorrectCorrect
e. 221.2 N·m
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The correct answer is: 2.2 N·m
A ventilation fan with a moment of inertia of 0.034 kg·m2 has a net torque of 0.11 Nm applied to it. If
it starts from rest, what kinetic energy will it have 8.0 s later?
Select one:
a. 22.8 J
b. 25.9 J
c. 1.09 J
d. 11.4 J CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: 11.4 J
14.4 Phases of Matter and Phase Changes
If a 2100-kg car was moving at 30 m/s, what would be its kinetic energy expressed in the unusual
(for kinetic energy) units of calories? (1 cal = 4.186 J)
Select one:
a. 2.3 × 105 CorrectCorrect
b. 3.8 × 106
c. 3.0 × 104
d. 1.1 × 105
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The correct answer is: 2.3 × 105
The kinetic energy of the bob on a simple pendulum swinging in simple harmonic motion has its
maximum value when the displacement from equilibrium is at what point in its swing?
Select one:
a. equal the amplitude
b. zero displacement CorrectCorrect
c. 1/4 the amplitude
d. 1/2 the amplitude
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The correct answer is: zero displacement
11.3 Harmonic Motion and Energy
To double the total energy of a simple harmonic oscillator, by what factor should the amplitude
change?
Select one:
a. 4
b. 2
c. CorrectCorrect
d.
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The correct answer is:
Quintupling the power output from a speaker emitting a single frequency will result in what increase
in loudness?
Select one:
a. 1 dB
b. 6 dB
c. 2 dB
d. 16.1 dB
e. 7.0 dB CorrectCorrect
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The correct answer is: 7.0 dB
I take 1.1 kg of ice and dump it into 1.0 kg of water and, when equilibrium is reached, I have 2.1 kg
of ice at 0°C. The water was originally at 0°C. The specific heat of water = 1.00 kcal/kg⋅°C, the
specific heat of ice = 0.50 kcal/kg⋅°C, and the latent heat of fusion of water is 80 kcal/kg. The original
temperature of the ice was:
Select one:
a. -145°C. CorrectCorrect
b. The whole experiment is impossible.
c. 145°C.
d. one or two degrees below 0°C.
e. -73°C.
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The correct answer is: -145°C.
A solid sphere of mass 2.5 kg and radius 0.12 m starts from rest at the top of a ramp inclined 15°
and rolls to the bottom. The upper end of the ramp is 1.0 m higher than the lower end. What is the
linear speed of the sphere when it reaches the bottom of the ramp? (Note: I = 0.4MR2 for a solid
sphere, and g = 9.8 m/s2.)
Select one:
a. 3.7 m/s CorrectCorrect
b. 14.0 m/s
c. 4.4 m/s
d. 2.6 m/s
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The correct answer is: 3.7 m/s
A bucket of water with total mass 28 kg is attached to a rope, which in turn is wound around a 0.04
m radius cylinder at the top of a well. A crank with a turning radius of 0.20 m is attached to the end of
the cylinder and the moment of inertia of cylinder and crank is 0.11 kg×m2. If the bucket is raised to
the top of the well and released, what is the acceleration of the bucket as it falls toward the bottom of
the well? (Assume rope's mass is negligible, that cylinder turns on frictionless bearings and that g =
9.8 m/s2.)
Select one:
a. 7.8 m/s2
b. 2.0 m/s2
c. 2.8 m/s2 CorrectCorrect
d. 7.0 m/s2
e. 9.8 m/s2
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The correct answer is: 2.8 m/s
14.5 Thermal Expansion
A steel wire, 100 m long at 10°C, has a coefficient of linear expansion of 11 × 10−6/°C. Give its
change in length as the temperature changes from 10°C to 45°C.
Select one:
a. 12 cm
b. 5.8 cm
c. 3.8 cm CorrectCorrect
d. 0.65 cm
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The correct answer is: 3.8 cm
The air in a pipe resonates at 110 Hz and 330 Hz, one of these resonances being the fundamental.
If the pipe is open at both ends, how many resonances are between the two given ones, and if the
pipe is closed at one end, how many resonances are between the two given ones?
Select one:
a. open: 1; closed: 0 CorrectCorrect
b. open: 3; closed: 0
c. open: 2; closed: 0
d. open: 0; closed: 2
e. open: 0; closed: 1
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The correct answer is: open: 1; closed: 0
11.3 Harmonic Motion and Energy
A mass of 0.40 kg, hanging from a spring with a spring constant of 160 N/m, is set into an up-and-
down simple harmonic motion. What is the speed of the mass when moving through a point at 0.05
m displacement? The starting displacement of the mass is 0.10 m from its equilibrium position.
Select one:
a. 1.7 m/s CorrectCorrect
b. zero
c. 1.4 m/s
d. 1.2 m/s
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The correct answer is: 1.7 m/s