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Kiara S. Esguerra
September 2019

1. Express 1, 230, 000, 000 kg in scientific notation (Ans: 1.23 × 109 )

2. How many significant figures does the answer to the operation 10.500*3.125
+ 1.056? (Ans: 4)
3. Express 1 × 10−3 kilometers (103 ) in micrometers (10−6 ) (Ans: 1 × 10−5 )

4. You undergo two displacements: 10 m East, and 20 m West. What dis-

placement must you undergo for you to go back to the origin? (Ans: 10
m West)
5. Is weight a scalar or a vector? (Ans: Vector)

(For questions 6-8)

6. How would you express vector A (blue) in unit vector notation? (Ans:
−4î + 4ĵ)

7. How would you express vector B (red) in unit vector notation? (Ans:
2î − 5ĵ)
8. What is the angle between vectors A and B? (Ans: 156.8◦ )

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 ~ = 3î − 2ĵ + k̂ and B
9. Given two vectors A ~ = −3î + 3ĵ − 5k̂. What is the
angle between these vectors if their vector product A = 7î + 12ĵ + 3k̂?
(Ans: 35.4◦ )
10. A jet accelerates down a runway at 3.25 m/s2 for 25.0 s before it takes
off. Determine the distance travelled before takeoff. (Ans: 1016 m)
11. A train with a constant velocity of +15.6 m/s approaches a small town.
The operator applies the brake, reducing the train’s velocity to +11.4 m/s.
If the average acceleration of the train during braking is –1.67m/s2 , for
what elapsed time does the operator apply the brake? (Ans: 2.51 s)

12. Evan Ungar from Canada set the highest vertical jump Guinness World
Record at 63.5 inches. Determine the takeoff speed (in m/s) needed to
make this record (1 in = 2.54 cm) (Ans: 5.6 m/s)
13. A ball rolls off a roof that slopes downward at an angle of 26◦ . The edge of
the roof is 20.0 m above the ground, and the snowball has a speed of 9.00
m/s as it rolls off the roof. Ignore air resistance. What are the x- and y-
components of the initial velocity respectively (in m/s)? (Ans: 8.09 m/s,
-3.95 m/s)
14. Based on the previous question, how far from the edge of the house will
the ball strike the ground? (Ans: 13.4 m)

15. While you are walking with a velocity of 0.5 m/s facing north, a student
walking at the opposite lane with a velocity of 0.3 m/s passes you. What
is the student’s velocity relative to you? What is your velocity relative to
the student? (Ans: -0.8 m/s, 0.8 m/s)

16. A box rests on a frozen pond, which serves as a frictionless horizontal

surface. If a fisherman applies a horizontal force with magnitude 50.0 N
to the box and produces an acceleration of magnitude 3.0m/s2 , what is
the mass of the box? (Ans: 16.7 kg)
17. World-class sprinters can accelerate out of the starting blocks with an
acceleration that is nearly horizontal and has magnitude 15m/s2 . How
much horizontal force must a 45-kg sprinter exert on the starting blocks
to produce this acceleration? Which body exerts the force that propels
the sprinter: the blocks or the sprinter herself? (Ans: 680 N, blocks)
18. If the blocks weigh 450 N, what is their acceleration caused by the sprinter?
(Ans: -14.8 m/s2 )

19. Dave is riding his skateboard and pushes off the ground with his foot.
This causes him to accelerate at a rate of 4 m/s2 . Dave weighs 589 N.
How strong was his push off the ground? (Ans: 240 N)

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20. A 3.00 kg rocket burns fuel which exerts an upward force which has a
magnitude of 900 N on the rocket. What is the net force on the rocket?
(Ans: 870.6 N)
21. Based on the previous question, what is the rocket’s acceleration? (Ans:
290.2 m/s2 )