 Question 1

A car is traveling at 50 km/hr on a road such that the coefficient of friction between its
tires and the road is 0.70.  The minimum turning radius of the car is 

Selected 364
Answer: m
 Question 2
How much water in m3 will escape per hour from an open-top tank through an opening 5
cm in diameter that is 5m below the water level in the tank.
Selected 0.019
Answer: m3
 Question 3
The following are consequences of the Continuity Equation EXCEPT

Selected water
Answer: pressure
 Question 4
Which of the following is a statement of Pascal's law?

Selected Pressure applied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted undiminished to every

Answer: portion of the fluid and to the walls of the container.
 Question 5
If C = [10 m, 30°] and D = [25 m, 130°], what is the direction of the sum of these two
vectors?
Selected 107
Answer: °

 Question 6
A ball at the end of a 50 cm string is being whirled in a vertical circle. At what critical
velocity  will the string begin to slack at the top of the ball’s path?

Selected 2.21
Answer: m/s
 Question 7
A rock is suspended from a gram-calibrated spring scale, which reads 120 grams when
the rock is in air and 90 grams when it is in water. What is the density of the rock?

Selected 3.0
Answer: g/cm3
 Question 8
Which of the following is a definition of power? 

Selected Power is the rate of change of

Answer: energy.
 Question 9
 Calculate the minimum power of a cyclist who can increase his kinetic energy from an
initial value of 480 J to a final value of 2430 J by travelling 26 m in 4.0 s.

Selected 488
Answer: watts
 Question 10
A 100g object is suspended from a spring whose force constant is 50N/m. What is the
period of oscillation of the system?

Selected 14.05
Answer: s
 Question 11
If C = [10 m, 30°] and D = [25 m, 130°], what is the magnitude of the sum of these two
vectors?
Selected 1
Answer: 5
 Question 12
A 1200kg elevator is supported by a cable in which the maximum safe tension is 14kN.
What is the greatest upward acceleration of the elevator?

Selected 21.47
Answer: m/s2
 Question 13
A 4.0-kg particle is moving horizontally with a speed of 5.0 m/s when it strikes a vertical
wall. The particle rebounds with a speed of 3.0 m/s. What is the magnitude of the impulse
delivered to the particle?

Selected 24
Answer: Ns
 Question 14
Find the moment of inertia of a solid sphere of mass 10 kg and radius 0.4 m about an
axis tangent to the sphere. (ICG = 0.4 MR2)
Selected 3.2 kg-
Answer: m2
 Question 15
A projectile is thrown from the top of a building with an initial velocity of 30 m/s in the
horizontal direction. If the top of the building is 30 m above the ground, how fast will the
projectile be moving just before it strikes the ground?

Selected 35
Answer: m/s
 Question 16
A horizontal meter stick supported at the 50-cm mark has a mass of 0.60 kg hanging
from it at the 15-cm mark and a 0.40 kg mass hanging from it at the 70-cm mark.
Determine the position on the meter stick at which one would hang a third mass of 0.50
 kg to keep the meter stick balanced.

Selected 58 c
Answer: m
 Question 17
A 40-N block slides down a board with constant speed when the angle of elevation is
30°.  Which of the following is not true for this situation?
Selected Fk = 20
Answer: N
 Question 18
A cable has a cross-sectional area of 5 cm2. It will break if subjected to a tensile stress
greater than 1 x 108 Pa. How much force must be applied to the cable in order to break
it? 
Selected 5x
Answer: 108 N
 Question 19
Given two concurrent forces: F1= 150kN 30° N of E and F2= 280kN 70° S
of W. Calculate the magnitude and direction of the resultant.
Selected 188.11 kN; 79.71° S of E
Answer:

 Question 20
The position coordinate of a particle which is confined to move along a straight line is
given by s=2t3 -24t +6 where s is measured in meters from a convenient origin and
where t is in seconds.  Which of the following gives the time required for the particle to
reach a velocity of 72 m/s?
Selected 4
Answer: sec
 Question 21
Car A has a mass of 1000 kg and a speed of 30 m/s.  Car B has a mass of 2000 kg and a speed of
15 m/s. The kinetic energy of car A is
Selected twice that of
Answer: car B.
 Question 22
Which of the following is true about the x-component of a projectile?
Selected Velocity is
Answer: constant.
 Question 23
A submarine weighing 550 kN has 3 people on board weighing 70kg each. The submarine
has a volume of 70 m3 and will be submerged in fluid of S.G.=1.2.  Find the minimum
weight of the ballast required to bring the submarine down the fluid. Neglect hydrostatic
pressure. (Use g=9.8 m/s2.)
Selected 271142
Answer: N
 Question 24
A large tank holding oil 5 meters deep breaks, opening a hole at the bottom. What is the
speed of the oil emerging from the hole? 

Selected 7
Answer: m/s
 Question 25
If a road is banked, at what banking angle Θ can the car make the turn without
depending on friction?

Selected tan-
Answer: 1
(v2/gr)
 Question 26
You want to throw a ball straight up into the air so that it reaches a height of 4.5 m above
the ground. Ignore any effects of air resistance.  If the ball leaves your hand at a height
of 1.2 m above the ground, how fast do you need to throw it?
Selected 9.4
Answer: m/s
 Question 27
A torque can be exerted on a body with a fixed axis of rotation

Selected by any force perpendicular to but not pointing directly

Answer: toward or away.
 Question 28
A flywheel 6 ft in diameter accelerates from rest at a constant rate of 4 rpm/sec.
Compute the angular velocity on the rim of the flywheel after 10 sec. 

Selected 4.2
Answer: rad/sec
 Question 29
How long should a pendulum be if it is to have a period of one second at a place on Earth
where the acceleration due to gravity is 9.81m/s2?
Selected 0.248
Answer: m
 Question 30
A ball is kicked into the air from the surface of a playing field. If friction is negligible, the
ball will follow a path that is 

Selected parabo
Answer: lic