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FINAL EXAMINATION
Course: General Physics I
Time: 90 minutes Term: 3 – Academic year: 2018 – 2019
Lecturer(s): Phan Bach Thang, PhD
Student name: Student ID:
(Notes: Neither books nor laptops, phones allowed)

PART 1: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. A crane lifts a set of steel girders to the upper floor of a construction site. What type of
energy do the girders contain when they stop at the upper floor?
A. kinetic energy
B. thermal energy
C. potential energy
D. spring energy

2. Which of the following configurations has the largest angular momentum for a given R
and p?

A. B. C. D.

3. A solid sphere of mass M and radius R rolls without slipping along a table at speed v.
What is its kinetic energy?
A. Mv2/2 B. 7Mv2/10

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C.Mv2/5 D.3Mv2/2
4. A homogeneous solid cylinder with radius R rolls without
slipping on a horizontal plane under the effect of traction at
center of a roller. The total torque act on the cylinder about its
axis through its center is:
A. Ff.R B. Ff.R + F.R
C. F.R D. Ff.R - F.R

5. What happens to the kinetic energy of a moving object if the net work done is negative?
A. The kinetic energy increases
B. The kinetic energy decreases
C. The kinetic energy remains the same
D. The kinetic energy is zero

6. An ideal gas is taken from state 1 to state 2 If the process 1-2 is

adiabatic, what is a true statement about the change in
temperature and heat transferred during 1-2?
A. ΔT > 0, Q > 0 B. ΔT < 0, Q = 0
C. ΔT = 0, Q = 0 D. ΔT > 0, Q < 0

7. Under typical conditions air acts like an ideal gas, with PV = nRT. If some air is held at
constant volume, while the temperature increases, its pressure:
A. increases B. decreases
C. does not change D. There’s not sufficient information to tell.

8. If an object floats, the volume of displaced water is equal to the volume of

A. the entire object.

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B. the portion of the object that is above water.

C. the portion of the object that is submerged.
D. exactly half of the object.

9. An ideal gas is taken through a closed path

1→2→3→4→1. What is the net work done by the
gas?
A. 6PV B. 9PV
C. -9PV D.- 6PV

10. A two-dimensional collision occurs as shown below.

Which vector below most closely represents the new velocity of P?

A. A B.B C.C D.D E.E

11. Which mechanism of heat transfer is involved in drying blanket in the sunshine?
A. Convection B. Conduction
C. Radiation D. Induction

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12. A Carnot engine operates between two temperatures 600 K and 900 K. What is the
efficiency of the engine?
A. 50% B. 80%
C. 10% D. 33%

13. A uniform wooden board of mass 10 M is held up by a nail hammered into a wall. A
block of mass M rests L/2 away from the pivot. Another block of a certain mass is hung a
distance L/3. The system is in static equilibrium . What is the measure of the mass labeled
"?" ?
A) M /2 B. M/3 C.3M/2 D. 2M. E. M

14. Two points, A and B, are on a disk that rotates about an axis. Point A is two times as far
from the axis as point B. If the speed of point B is v, then what is the speed of point A?
Av B.4v C. v /2 D. v/√2 E. √2 v

Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Answer

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PART II: PROBLEMS:

15. A 4.0 kg object is moving to the right at 4.0 m/s. It collides in a perfectly inelastic collision
with a 8.0 kg object moving to the left at 2.0 m/s. What is the total kinetic energy after the
collision?
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16. An ideal monatomic gas is taken through the cycle

shown in the below figure. The process 3 to 1 is an
isothermal process, the process 2 to 3 is an adiabatic
process. With T1 = 600 K, T2 = 400 K. Determine the
efficiency of the cycle.

Note: Cv = 3⁄2 R, Cv = 5⁄2 R (monatomic gas)

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17. A rope light, inelastic, squeezed through pulleys homogeneous

circular disc of mass m = 1 kg. Two top tether two objects m1 = 2 kg and m
m2 = 1 kg. Determine the acceleration of the object and string tension?
Skip drag torque at the pulley shaft. Take g=10m/s2.
m1

m2
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Head Department Instructor

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