Solution Manual for Study guide for Single Variable Calculus: Concepts and Contexts

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Section 6.6: Application to Physics and Engineering

1. A force of 20 pounds stretches a spring foot beyond its natural length. Find the work done in
stretching the spring 1 foot.
a. 20 ft-lb e.
ft-lb
b. f.
ft-lb ft-lb
c. g.
ft-lb ft-lb
d. h.
ft-lb ft-lb

ANS: D

2. A spring stretches 1 foot beyond its natural position under a force of 100 points. How much work in
foot-pounds is done in stretching it 3 feet beyond its natural position?
a. 600 e. 100
b. 30 f. 900
c. 1500 g. 150
d. 450 h. 300
ANS: D

3. A rope 100 feet long weighing 2 pounds per foot hangs over the edge of a building 100 feet tall. How
much work in foot-pounds is done in pulling the rope to the top of the building?
a. 7500 e. 10,000
b. 5000 f. 750
c. 1000 g. 1250
d. 500 h. 12,500
ANS: E

4. Find the work (in ft-lb) done in raising 500 lb of ore from a mine that is 1000 ft deep. Assume that the
cable used to raise the ore weighs 2 lb/ft.
a. e. 106
b. f.
c. g.
d. h.

ANS: F

5. A right circular cylinder tank of height 1 foot and radius 1 foot is full of water. Taking the density of
water to be a nice round 60 pounds per cubic foot, how much work in foot-pounds is required to pump
all of the water up and over the top of the tank?
a. 8 e. 5
b. 24 f. 4
c. 16 g. 30
d. 6 h. 18
ANS: G
 6. Find the center of mass of the linear system .
a. e.

b. f.

c. 6 g.
d. h.

ANS: A

7. Find the center of mass of the linear system

a. 9 e.

b. f.

c. g.

d. 0 h. 18
ANS: B

8. Find the center of mass of the system

a. e.

b. f.

c. g.

d. h.

ANS: A

9. Find the x-coordinate of the centroid of the region bounded by the graphs and the
x-axis.
a. 8 e. 4
b. f.

c. g.

d. h.

ANS: F

10. Find the y-coordinate of the centroid of the region bounded by the curves
a. 0.85 e. 0.75
 b. 0.70 f. 0.55
c. 0.60 g. 0.80
d. 0.50 h. 0.65
ANS: C

11. Find the x-coordinate x at the centroid of the region bounded by the x-axis and the lines

a. e.

b. f.

c. g.

d. h.

ANS: A

12. An aquarium 1 foot high, 1 foot wide, and 2 feet long is filled with water. For simplicity, take the
density of water to be 60 lb/ft3 . Find the hydrostatic force in pound on one of the 1 foot by 2 foot sides
of the aquarium.
a. 336 e. 60
b. 30 f. 120
c. 168 g. 28
d. 240 h. 12
ANS: E

13. A gate in an irrigation canal is in the form of a trapezoid 3 feet wide at the bottom, 5 feet wide at the
top, with height equal to 2 feet. It is placed vertically in the canal with the water extending to its top.
For simplicity, take the density of water to be 60 lb/ft3. Find the hydrostatic force in pounds on the
gate.
a. 360 e. 400
b. 380 f. 460
c. 440 g. 500
d. 420 h. 480
ANS: C

14. A right circular cylinder tank of height 1 foot and radius 1 foot is full of water. Taking the density of
water to be a nice round 60 pounds per cubic foot, find the hydrostatic force in pounds on the side of
the tank.
a. 30 e. 30
b. 60 f. 120
c. 240 g. 60
d. 240 h. 120
ANS: G

15. A swimming pool 24 feet long and 15 feet wide has a bottom that is an inclined plane, the shallow end
having a depth of 3 feet, and the deep end 10 feet. The pool is filled with water. For simplicity, take
the density of water to be 60 lb/ft3. Find the hydrostatic force in pounds on the bottom of the pool.
a. 145,750 e. 146,500
b. 146,250 f. 147,500
 c. 147,000 g. 146,750
d. 147,250 h. 146,000
ANS: B

16. If ft-lb of work is needed to stretch a spring a length ft beyond its natural length, find the spring
constant.

ANS:
30 lb/ft

17. A force of 8 dynes is required to stretch a spring from its natural length of 10 cm to a length of 15 cm.
How much work is done

(a) in stretching the spring to a length of 25 cm?

(b) in stretching the spring from a length of 20 cm to a length of 25 cm?

ANS:
(a) 180 dynes-cm
(b) 100 dynes-cm

18. A force of 10 pounds is required to stretch a spring from its natural length of 8 inches to a length of 10
inches. How much work is done in stretching the spring to a length of 12 inches?

ANS:
40 lb-inches

19. How much work is done to bring a load of ore to the surface if a miner uses a cable weighing 2 lb/ft to
haul a 100 lb bucket of ore up a mine shaft 800 feet deep?

ANS:
720,000 ft-lb

20. A 100-foot length of steel chain weighing 5 lb/ft is dangling from the drum of a winch.

(a) How much work is required to wind the chain onto the drum?

(b) How much work is required to wind the first 30 feet of chain onto the drum?

ANS:
(a) 25,000 ft-lb
(b) 12,750 ft-lb

21. A hemispherical tank with radius 8 feet is filled with water to a depth of 6 feet. Find the work required
to empty the tank by pumping the water to the top of the tank.

ANS:
900 ft-lbs, where w is the weight of 1 ft3 of water, in lbs.

22. Suppose a hemispherical tank with radius 10 feet is filled with liquid whose density is 62 pounds per
cubic foot. Find the work required to pump all the liquid out through the top of the tank.
 ANS:
155,000 ft-lbs

23. A tank 5 feet long has cross-sections n the shape of a parabola (where x and y
are in feet). Suppose that the tank is filled to a depth of 3 feet with liquid weighing 15 lb/ft3. How
much work is required to empty the tank by pumping the liquid over the edge of the tank?

ANS:
ft-lb

24. The tank in the figure below is full of water with a density 62.5 lb/ft3.

How much work is required to empty the tank by pumping water to a point 4 feet above the top of the
tank?

ANS:

25. Find the total hydraulic force on a dam in the shape of an equilateral triangle with one vertex pointing
down, if the side of the triangle is 100 feet and the water is even with the top.

ANS:
7,812,500 lb

26. A flat plate of negligible thickness is in the shape of a right triangle with base 5 ft and height 10 ft. The
plate is submerged in a tank of water. Find the force on the face of the plate under the following
conditions: (Use 62.4 lb/ft3 as the density of water.)

(a) The plate is submerged horizontally so that it rests flat on the bottom of the tank at a depth of
14 ft.

(b) The plate is submerged vertically, base edge up and base at a depth of 3 ft.

ANS:
(a) 21,840 lb
(b) 9880 lb

27. A swimming pool 5 m wide, 10 m long, and 3 m deep is filled with seawater of density 1030 kg/m3 to
a depth of 2.5 m. Find

(a) the hydrostatic pressure at the bottom of the pool.

 (b) the hydrostatic force on the bottom.

(c) the hydrostatic force on one end of the pool.

ANS:
(a) 25.2 kPa
(b) 1.26 N
(c) 1.58 N

28. A tank contains water. The end of the tank is vertical and has the shape below. Find the hydrostatic
force against the end of the tank.

ANS:

(metric units assumed)

29. A tank contains water. The end of the tank is vertical and has the shape below. Find the hydrostatic
force against the end of the tank.

ANS:
1.23 N

30. A tank contains water. The end of the tank is vertical and has the shape below. Find the hydrostatic
force against the end of the tank.

ANS:
N
31. Two people weighing 100 lb and 180 lb are at opposite ends of a seesaw 14 ft long. Where should the
point of support be placed so that the seesaw will balance?

ANS:
The point of support should be 9 feet from the 100 lb person.

32. Calculate the center of mass of a lamina with the given density and shape:

ANS:
(a)

b)

(c)

33. Find the centroid of the region bounded by

ANS:
(x, y) =

34. Find the center of mass of the lamina of uniform density bounded by and x-axis.

ANS:
Center of mass (0, )

35. Determine the centroid of the region bounded by the equation in the first quadrant
between x = 1 and x = 4.

ANS:
(2.65, 2.41)

36. City B (population 4,000) is 10 miles north of City A (population 6,000), and City C (population
5,000) is 30 miles east of City B. Where is the best place to locate a super market serving the people in
these cities?
Solution Manual for Study guide for Single Variable Calculus: Concepts and Contexts

ANS:
Let City A be at (0, 0) , City B at (0, 10) and City C at (30, 10)

x= ,y=

37. Find the centroid of the region bounded by .

ANS:

38. Find the centroid of the region bounded by .

ANS:

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