PHYSICS 204

Quiz I
TIME: 60 minutes
July 7th, 2011
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1. A copper wire of length 2.0 m, cross sectional area 7.1  106 m2 and Young’s
modulus 11  1010 N/m2 has a 200-kg load hung on it. What is its increase in length?
(g = 9.8 m/s2)

a. 0.50 mm
b. 1.0 mm
c. 2.5 mm
d. 5.0 mm

2. When water freezes, it expands about nine percent. What would be the pressure
increase inside your automobile engine block if the water in there froze? (The bulk
modulus of ice is 2.0  109 Pa, and 1 atm = 1.0  105 Pa.)

a. 18 atm
b. 270 atm
c. 1 800 atm
d. 1080 atm

3. 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

4. A ping-pong ball has an average density of 0.0840 g/cm3 and a diameter of 3.80 cm.
What force would be required to keep the ball completely submerged under water?

a. 1.000 N
b. 0.258 N
c. 0.516 N
d. 0.788 N

5. The flow rate of blood through the average human aorta, of radius 1.0 cm, is about 90
cm3/s. What is the speed of the blood flow through the aorta?

a. 14 cm/s
b. 32 cm/s
c. 37 cm/s
d. 29 cm/s

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6. Water pressurized to 3  105 Pa is flowing at 5.0 m/s in a pipe which contracts to 1/3
of its former area. What is the speed of the water after the contraction? (Density of
water = 1 × 103 kg/m3.)

a. 15 m/s
b. 10 m/s
c. 0.15 m/s
d. 1.5 m/s

7. A fluid has a density of 1 040 kg/m3. If it rises to a height of 1.8 cm in a 1.0-mm

diameter capillary tube, what is the surface tension of the liquid? Assume a contact
angle of zero. [You can use: h = 2cos/(gr)]

a. 0.056 N/m
b. 0.046 N/m
c. 0.092 N/m
d. 0.11 N/m

8. Which of the following characterizes the net force on a particle falling through a fluid
at its terminal speed?

a. It is at a maximum
b. It is upwards
c. It is downwards
d. It is zero

9. Carbon dioxide forms into a solid (dry ice) at approximately 157F. What
temperature in degrees Celsius does this correspond to?

a. 157°C
b. 93C
c. 105C
d. 121C

10. The observation that materials expand in size with an increase in temperature can be
applied to what proportion of existing substances?

a. 100%
b. most
c. few
d. none

11. A pipe of length 10.0 m increases in length by 1.5 cm when its temperature is
increased by 90F. What is its coefficient of linear expansion?

a. 30 × 10-6/°C
b. 17 × 10-6/°C
c. 13 × 10-6/C
d. 23 × 10-6/C

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12. A pressure of 1.0  107 mm of Hg is achieved in a vacuum system. How many gas
molecules are present per liter volume if the temperature is 293 K? (760 mm of Hg =
1 atm, R = 0.082 1 Latm/molK, and NA = 6.02  1023)

a. 16  1018
b. 4.7  1016
c. 3.3  1012
d. 3.4  109

13. A spherical air bubble originating from a scuba diver at a depth of 18.0 m has a
diameter of 1.0 cm. What will the bubble’s diameter be when it reaches the surface?
(Assume constant temperature.)

a. 0.7 cm
b. 1.0 cm
c. 1.4 cm
d. 1.7 cm

14. For an ideal gas of a given mass, if the pressure remains the same and the volume
increases:

a. the average kinetic energy of the molecules decreases.

b. the average kinetic energy of the molecules stays the same.
c. the average kinetic energy of the molecules increases.
d. Nothing can be determined about the molecular kinetic energy.

15. Evaporation cools the liquid that is left behind because the molecules that leave the
liquid during evaporation:

a. have kinetic energy.

b. have greater than average speed.
c. have broken the bonds that held them in the liquid.
d. create vapor pressure.

16. The internal energy of a monatomic ideal gas is equal to which of the following?

a. (3/2)PV
b. (3/2)nT/V
c. 3 T/P
d. none of the above

17. Of the following systems, which contains the most heat?

a. 100 kg of water at 80 °C
b. 250 kg of water at 40 °C
c. 600 kg of ice at 0 °C
d. Systems do not contain heat.

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18. A piece of copper of mass 100 g is being drilled through with a 1/2" electric drill. The
drill operates at 40.0 W and takes 30.0 s to bore through the copper. If all the energy
from the drill heats the copper, find the copper’s increase in temperature. ccopper = 387
J/kg°C.

a. 40.6 °C
b. 34.7 °C
c. 31.0 °C
d. 27.3 °C

19. Find the final equilibrium temperature when 10.0 g of milk at 10.0°C is added to 160
g of coffee at 90.0°C. (Assume the specific heats of coffee and milk are the same as
water and neglect the heat capacity of the container.) cwater = 1.00 cal/g·°C = 4186
J/kg·°C

a. 85.3 °C
b. 77.7 °C
c. 71.4 °C
d. 66.7 °C

20. 125 g of dry ice (solid CO2) is dropped into a beaker containing 500 g of 66°C water.
The dry ice converts directly to gas, leaving the solution. When the dry ice is gone,
the final temperature of the water is 29C. What is the heat of vaporization of solid
CO2? (cwater = 1.00 cal/g°C)

a. 37 cal/g
b. 74 cal/g
c. 111 cal/g
d. 148 cal/g

21. The surfaces of a Dewar flask are silvered for the purpose of minimizing heat transfer
by what process?

a. conduction
b. radiation
c. convection
d. vaporization

22. Carbon dioxide and water molecules in the atmosphere will absorb:

a. infrared light.
b. visible light.
c. ultraviolet light.
d. radio waves.