PHYC-2121-2012S General Physics 1

Week 20: Quarterly Exam

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Which of the following best describes a sound level of intensity 1 W/m 2?

Select one:
a. extremely loud
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b. about that of a power mower

c. like a whisper

d. normal conversation
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Area on a P-V diagram has units associated with:

Select one:
a. momentum.
b. energy.
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c. temperature.

d. change in temperature.
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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. 5.3°C
b. 111°C
c. 0°C
d. 9°C
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e. 1°C
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Quadrupling the distance between sound source and a listener will change the intensity, as detected by the
listener, by what factor?
Select one:
a. 4
b. 1/16
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c. 0.25
d. 2.0

e. 16
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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
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b. 3.0 × 104
c. 3.8 × 106

d. 1.1 × 105
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Two hoops or rings (I = MR2) are centered, lying on a turntable. The smaller ring has radius = 0.050 m;
the larger has radius = 0.10 m. Both have a mass of 6.0 kg. What is the total moment of inertia as the
turntable spins? Ignore the mass of the turntable.
Select one:
a. 0.075 kg·m2
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b. 0.038 kg·m2
c. 0.030 kg·m2

d. 0.0075 kg·m2
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14.5 Thermal Expansion

Suppose the ends of a 20-m long steel beam are rigidly clamped at 0°C to prevent expansion. The rail has
a cross-sectional area of 15 cm2. What force does the beam exert when it is heated to 40°C? (αsteel =
1.1 × 10−5/C°, Ysteel = 2.0 × 1011 N/m2)
Select one:
a. 5.6 × 104 N
b. 1.3 × 105 N
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c. 6.5 × 102 N
d. 2.6 × 105 N
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1.9 kilogram of water at 1.00 atm at the boiling point of 100°C is heated until all the water vaporizes.
What is its change in entropy? (For water, Lv = 2.26 × 106 J/kg)
Select one:
a. 3,837 J/K
b. 15,729 J/K
c. 5,756 J/K
d. 11,512 J/K
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e. 23,024 J/K
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A buzzer with frequency f0 is thrown straight upwards. On the buzzer's trip down, what is the frequency
behavior heard by an observer below?
Select one:
a. The frequency is a decreasing one less than f0.
b. The frequency is a constant one greater than f0.
c. The frequency is an increasing one greater than f0.
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d. The frequency heard is still f0.

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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. 138 rad/s
b. 44 rad/s
c. 175 rad/s
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d. 494 rad/s

e. 62 rad/s
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An ice cube with a small solid steel sphere frozen inside floats in a glass of water filled to the brim. What
happens to the level of water in the glass as a result of the ice melting?
Select one:
a. It depends on air pressure, thus the answer is indeterminate.
b. It stays the same.
c. It goes up, overflowing.
d. It goes down.
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Bar One has a Young's modulus that is bigger than that of Bar Two. This indicates Bar One:
Select one:
a. has a greater cross-sectional area than Bar Two.
b. is longer than Bar Two.
c. is made of material that is different from Bar Two.
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d. has a greater elastic limit than Bar Two.

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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
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b. 2.0 × 105 J
c. 4.5 × 104 J

d. 1.4 × 105 J
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If a nonzero torque is applied to an object, that object will experience:

Select one:
a. a constant angular speed.
b. an increasing moment of inertia.
c. a constant moment of inertia.
d. an angular acceleration.
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It takes 3.0 minutes to fill a gas tank with 40 liters of gasoline. If the pump nozzle is 2.0 cm in radius,
what is the average speed of the gasoline as it leaves the nozzle? (1 000 liters = one cubic meter)
Select one:
a. 13 m/s
b. 0.2 m/s
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c. 1.2 m/s
d. 10.6 m/s

e. 1.8 m/s
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11.2 Examples of Simple Harmonic Motion

A pendulum on the Earth has a period T. The acceleration due to gravity on Mars is less than that on the
Earth, and the acceleration due to gravity on the Moon is even less. Where would the period of an
identical pendulum be the least?
Select one:
a. on the Moon
b. The period of a pendulum would be the same on the Earth, Moon, and Mars since the period depends
on the pendulum's length which is the same for identical pendula.
c. on the Earth
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d. on Mars
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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 30% higher than material 2.
b. Material 2 has a speed of sound 30% higher than material 1.
c. Material 2 has a speed of sound more than 80% higher than material 1.
d. Material 1 has a speed of sound more than 35% higher than material 2.
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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. 2.8%
b. 0.86%
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c. 12%

d. 1.1%
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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. 0.65 cm
b. 3.8 cm
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c. 12 cm

d. 5.8 cm
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Suppose a power plant uses a Carnot engine to generate electricity, using the atmosphere at 300 K as the
low-temperature reservoir. Suppose the power plant produces 1 × 106 J of electricity with the hot reservoir
at 500 K during Day One and then produces 1 × 106 J of electricity with the hot reservoir at 600 K during
Day Two. The thermal pollution was:
Select one:
a. the same on both days.
b. greatest on Day Two.
c. zero on both days.
d. greatest on Day One.
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The lower A on a piano has a frequency of 29.5 Hz. If the tension in the 4-m-long string is 301 N and one-
half wavelength occupies the string, what is the mass of the string?
Select one:
a. 22 g
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b. 11 g
c. 9 g
d. 43 g

e. 740 g
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How deep under the surface of a lake would the pressure be double that at the surface? (1 atm =
1.01 × 105 Pa)
Select one:
a. 9.80 m
b. 1.00 m
c. 10.3 m
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d. 32.2 m
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I stretch a rubber band and "plunk" it to make it vibrate in its fundamental frequency. I then stretch it to
five times its length and make it vibrate in the fundamental frequency once again. The rubber band is
made so that quintupling its length quintuples the tension and reduces the mass per unit length by a factor
of 5. The new frequency will be related to the old by a factor of:
Select one:
a. 25.
b. 2.2.
c. 1/5
d. 5.
e. 1.
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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. 2.6 m/s
b. 3.7 m/s
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c. 14.0 m/s

d. 4.4 m/s
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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. 2.8 m/s2
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b. 7.0 m/s2
c. 7.8 m/s2
d. 9.8 m/s2

e. 2.0 m/s2
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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. 283 Hz
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b. 408 Hz
c. 425 Hz
d. 340 Hz

e. 1,700 Hz
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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. 1,797 km
b. 184 km
c. 1,597 km
d. 799 km
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e. 400 km
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The wave-related quantity algebraically equivalent to 1/f is:

Select one:
a. A
b. ω
c. T
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d. λ
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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 = 1.5v1
b. v2 = v1/6
c. v2 = 6v1
d. v2 = 12v1
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A mass of 0.4 kg, attached to a spring with a spring constant of 60 N/m, is set into simple harmonic
motion. What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the mass when at its maximum displacement of 0.2
m from the equilibrium position?

Select one:
a. zero
b. 7.5 m/s2
c. 60 m/s2
d. 30 m/s2
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e. 15 m/s2
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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. 4.15°C
b. 8.3°C
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c. 14.5°C
d. 16.6°C
e. 12.45°C
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A non-uniform rod of length L and mass M is pivoted about one end. The moment of inertia of this rod
about its pivoted end is . Attached to the rod is a mass M at its midpoint and at the end opposite the

pivot is another mass 2M. What is the moment of inertia of this configuration about the pivot?
Select one:
a.

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b. None of the above answers is correct.

c.

d.

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A 0.3-kg object is attached to a spring with spring constant k = 10 N/m and moves with simple harmonic
motion over a horizontal frictionless surface. At the instant that it is displaced from equilibrium by −0.058
m, what is its acceleration?

Select one:
a. 0.2 m/s2
b. 1,740 m/s2
c. 1.9 m/s2
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d. −174 m/s2

e. 0.6 m/s2
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For a wave on the ocean, the amplitude is:

Select one:
a. the distance between crests.
b. one half the height difference between a crest and a trough.
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c. how far the wave goes up on the beach.

d. the height difference between a crest and a trough.

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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.)
Select one:
a. 1 080 atm
b. 270 atm
c. 18 atm
d. 1 800 atm
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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. 4.0
b. 1/4
c. 2.0
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d. 1/2
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Two vibrating tuning forks, held side by side, will create a beat frequency of what value if the individual
frequencies of the two forks are 324 Hz and 308 Hz, respectively?
Select one:
a. 632 Hz
b. 292 Hz
c. 316.0 Hz
d. 308 Hz
e. 16 Hz
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An ideal fluid, of density 0.90 × 103 kg/m3, flows at 5.0 m/s through a level pipe with radius of 0.5 cm.
The pressure in the fluid is 1.3 × 105 N/m2. This pipe connects to a second level pipe, with radius of
1.6 cm. Find the speed of flow in the second pipe.
Select one:
a. 51.2 m/s
b. 1.56 m/s
c. 16 m/s
d. 5.1 m/s
e. 0.49 m/s
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A source of sound has an intensity I1 and when its sound level is measured at a fixed distance the value
found is 70 dB. The source then has its intensity increased to I2 and when its sound level is measured at
the same distance the value found is 96 dB. What is the ratio I2/I1?
Select one:
a. 600
b. 400
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c. 26

d. 14
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11.2 Examples of Simple Harmonic Motion

If it takes 8.0 N to stretch a spring 6.0 cm, and if the spring is then cut in half, what force does it take to
stretch one of the halves 3.0 cm?
Select one:
a. 8.0 N
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b. 16 N
c. 2.0 N

d. 4.0 N
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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. 4 500 N
b. 16 000 N
c. 4 000 N
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d. 3 900 N

e. 64 N
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When a sine wave is used to represent a sound wave, the crest corresponds to:
Select one:
a. region of low elasticity.
b. condensation.
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c. rarefaction.

d. point where molecules vibrate at a right angle to the direction of wave travel.
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Of the following heat engines, which has the highest efficiency?

Select one:
a. Hero's engine
b. a Carnot engine
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c. a car's gasoline engine

d. a truck's diesel engine

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When an object is moving in simple harmonic motion, which of the following is at a minimum when the
displacement from equilibrium is zero?
Select one:
a. the total mechanical energy
b. the magnitude of the acceleration
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c. the magnitude of the velocity

d. the kinetic energy

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Which type of heating causes sunburn?

Select one:
a. convection
b. all of the above
c. radiation
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d. conduction
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Tasha has mass 20 kg and wants to use a 4.0-m board of mass 12 kg as a seesaw. Her friends are busy, so
Tasha seesaws by herself by putting the support at the system's center of gravity when she sits on one end
of the board. How far is she from the support point?
Select one:
a. 1.5 m
b. 0.33 m
c. 0.66 m
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d. 3.67 m

e. 3.34 m
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13.3 Standing Sound Waves

A tuning fork is sounded above an adjustable length resonating tube (one end closed), which resonates at
a length of 0.250 m and again at 0.750 m. If the tube length were extended further, at what point will the
tuning fork again create a resonance condition?
Select one:
a. 1.75 m
b. 1.00 m
c. 1.25 m
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d. 1.50 m
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A Ferris wheel, rotating initially at an angular speed of 0.16 rad/s, accelerates over a 8.0-s interval at a
rate of 0.040 rad/s2. What is its angular speed after this 8.0-s interval?
Select one:
a. 0.24 rad/s
b. 0.48 rad/s
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c. 0.32 rad/s
d. 0.05 rad/s

e. 1.6 rad/s
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13.3 Standing Sound Waves

What is the lowest frequency that will resonate in an organ pipe 1.00 m in length, closed at one end? The
speed of sound in air is 340 m/s.
Select one:
a. 85.0 Hz
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b. 42.5 Hz
c. 680 Hz

d. 170 Hz
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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. 50 N
b. 7.8 × 102 N
c. 1.7 × 102 N
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d. 2.0 × 102 N (correct answer)