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PHYSICS 1A
Midterm Exam

Test I: Identification. (1 pt. each)

____________________ 1. What year did Sir Isaac Newton enroll in Cambridge University?
____________________ 2. Sir Isaac Newton was elected to what position in the Royal Society
in 1703?
____________________ 3. Who knighted Sir Isaac Newton in 1705?
____________________ 4. What is the name of Sir Isaac Newton’s mother?
____________________ 5. What year did Sir Isaac Newton publish his most important work?
____________________ 6. When was Sir Isaac Newton born?
_____________________7. How old was Sir Isaac Newton when his father died?
____________________ 8. What year was Sir Isaac Newton appointed as warden of the Royal
Mint in London?
____________________ 9. What year did he leave Cambridge because of the great plague?
____________________10. The whole new type of Mathematics that Sir Isaac Newton invented,
which is now known as Calculus.

Test II. True or False. (1 pt. each)

_____________________1. The Resultant Force is computed by taking the square root of the
sum of its x and y components.
_____________________2. We need to solve for the acceleration of a free falling body.
_____________________3. We need to add the magnitude of two forces moving in opposite
directions to get the total net force.
_____________________4. Temperature is a vector quantity.
_____________________5. Velocity is a vector quantity.
_____________________6. Acceleration in simple harmonic motion is always towards its
midpoint.
_____________________7. A body is said to be in simple harmonic motion if its acceleration is
directly proportional to its displacement in magnitude at any given
time.
_____________________8.Air resistance is a major factor why objects with different mass falls
with different velocity.
_____________________9. A pendulum is a good example of simple harmonic motion.
_____________________10. The center of oscillation is called the mean.
Test III. Problem Solving: (5 pts. each)

1. What is the Resultant force of two forces, one lays on the x-axis with a
magnitude of 30N and another 35 degrees from the x-axis with a magnitude
of 50N.
2. Given: F1 = 40N @ 120 degrees and F2= 60N @ 50 degrees. Determine the
direction of the Resultant force.
3. Rex is waiting at a stoplight. When it finally turns green, Ben accelerated from
rest at a rate of a 6.00 m/s2  for a time of 5.10 seconds. Determine the
displacement of Ben's car during this time period.
4. The boy drops the ball from a roof of the house which takes 3 seconds to hit
the ground. Calculate the velocity before the ball crashes to the ground.
5. A 15 kg object moving to the west with an acceleration of 10m/s 2. What is the
net force acting on an object?
6. A car travelling at 20m/s skids to a stop after 2.5s. Determine the skidding
distance of the car.