REVISION FINAL

SET 2 (C8 – 11): 5 QUESTION, 60 MARKS

1. a) Define torque of a system and state its unit. [2 marks]

b) A rod of weight 400 N is hinged to a wall and is kept at 40° with

the vertical by a horizontal cable attached at three-quarter of its
length. A load of 500 N is hanged at the end of the rod.

i. Sketch the free body diagram of the rod. [2 marks]

i. What will be the tension of the cable? [3 marks]

[783.16 N]
ii. Calculate the horizontal dan vertical force at the hinge. [3 marks]
[900 N, 783.16 N]

iii. Determine the reaction force at the hinge. [2 marks]

[1193.04 N]
2. a) State two (2) conditions of dynamic motion. [2 marks]

b) A wheel (radius = 0.20 m) is mounted on a frictionless, horizontal

axis. A light cord wrapped around the wheel supports a 0.50 kg
object, as shown in Figure 1. When released from the rest the
object falls with a downward acceleration of 5.0 m/s2.

Figure 1

i. Sketch the free body diagram for the wheel and the object. [2 marks]

ii. What is the moment of inertia of the wheel? [4 marks]

[1.92 ×10-2 kg m2]
c) A primitive yo-yo is made by wrapping a string several times [4 marks]
around a solid cylinder with mass M and radius R. The end of the
string stationary while releasing the cylinder with no initial
motion. The string unwinds but does not slip or stretch as the
cylinder drops rotates. Use energy considerations to find the speed
v of the centre of mass of the solid cylinder after it has dropped a
distance 0.65 m.
[𝟐. 𝟗𝟐 𝒎 𝒔−𝟏 ]
3. a) Figure 2(a) shows a graph of displacement, y versus time, t and
Figure 2(b) shows a graph of displacement, y versus distance, x of
a progressive wave.

Figure 2(a)

Figure 2(b)
From the graphs, find

i. the angular frequency. [2 marks]

[𝟎. 𝟓𝝅 𝒓𝒂𝒅 𝒔 ]
−𝟏

ii. the wave numbers. [2 marks]

[40𝝅 𝒎 ]−𝟏
 iii. the wave propagation velocity. [2 marks]
[1.25 × 𝟏𝟎−𝟐 𝒎 𝒔−𝟏 ]

iv. the displacement equation of the progressive wave if the wave [1 mark]
moves to the left.
[𝒚(𝒙, 𝒕) = 𝟎. 𝟎𝟐 𝒔𝒊𝒏 (𝟒𝟎𝝅𝒙 + 𝟎. 𝟓𝝅𝒕)]

c) Figure 3 shows a simple pendulum is released from rest at position

A and oscillates without damping. It takes 4.8 s to complete two
oscillations.

Figure 3

i. Write the restoring force equation for the pendulum. [1 mark]

[mg sin 𝜃]
ii. Determine the length of the string. [2 marks]
[1.43 m]

iii. Determine the period of oscillation if the length of the string [2 marks]
increased to 2 m.
[2.84 s]
4. a) Figure 4 shows a loudspeaker S emitting sound wave of frequency
205 Hz in front of a closed pipe P. The length of the pipe is 2 m, and
its open end is at position x = 0 m. The air column resonates at fifth
harmonics.

Figure 4

i. Sketch the stationary wave pattern formed in the air column at its [2 marks]
fifth harmonics. Label all the nodes and antinodes at their
respective positions.

ii. Determine the positions of the nodes and antinodes for this [2 marks]
harmonic.
[antinodes: 0 m, 0.8 m, 1.6 m]
[nodes: 0.4 m, 1.2 m, 2.0 m]
b) A bat is hunting for a moth at night. Before the bat starts hunting,
it tries to locate a moth by emitting sound pulses at stationary and
detecting the echo. The frequency emitted by the bat is 10 MHz.
Assuming the temperature is 23°C.

i. Determine the speed of sound during that night. [2 marks]

[𝟑𝟒𝟒. 𝟔𝟔 𝒎 𝒔 −𝟏
]

ii. If the frequency of the returning echo is 10.25 MHz, what is the [3 marks]
velocity of the moth?
[8.4 𝒎 𝒔−𝟏]

c) The bellow of a territorial bull hippopotamus has been measured [3 marks]

at 115 dB above the threshold of hearing. What is the sound
intensity?
[0.32 𝑾 𝒎−𝟐 ]
5. a) State the Snell’s Law of Refraction. [1 mark]

b) A submarine is 120 m from the shore and 150 m below water

surface sends a laser beam and strikes a tall building 50 m from
the ground.

i. What is the refracted angle of the laser beam? [3 marks]

[56.19°]

ii. How far is the building from the shore? [2 marks]

[75 m]
c) A concave mirror has a radius of 30 cm. An object 9 cm high forms
an enlarged image at 20 cm from the mirror.

i. Calculate the position of the image. [3 marks]

[60 cm]

ii. Calculate the height of the image. [2 marks]

[-27 cm]

iii. state the characteristics of the image. [1 mark]