National University – Ho Chi Minh City MIDTERM EXAM OF PHYSICS A1 –SAMPLE 1

University of Technology Closed book exam – Duration: 90 min

Department of Engineering Physics
Student’s name: Student ID:

A) MCQ ANSWER SHEET :

Choose for each question only one correct answer and darken corresponding circle in the following answer sheet.

A B C D A B C D A B C D
1 O O O O 6 O O O O 11 O O O O
2 O O O O 7 O O O O 12 O O O O
3 O O O O 8 O O O O 13 O O O O
4 O O O O 9 O O O O 14 O O O O
5 O O O O 10 O O O O 15 O O O O

1. A boy wants to throw a water balloon from a roof 5. A car travels around a banked racing track curve as
deck at a height of 3m from the street and hit the far side shown below. The curve has a radius of curvature of R;
of the street. He throws the ball at 5 m/s at an angle of the car is moving into the page.
45° to the horizontal.
If vboy = 0, what is the maximum height, h, reached by
the balloon above the street?
A. h = 5.9 m B. h = 5.1 m
C. h = 3.6 m D. h = 4.6 m

2. In previous case, when the boy gets a running start the

maximum height reached by the balloon Suppose there is no friction between the wheels and the
A. increases. B. decreases road. What speed of the car, vice, ensures that it does not
C. stays the same. D. No correct answer slide up or down the roadway? D

3. The inertia of a body tends to cause the body to:

A. speed up B. slow down
C. move straight constantly
D. resist any change in its motion

4. A projectile is shot out at 45° with respect to the

horizon with an initial velocity of Vx = Vy = Vxy. When
is the earliest time, t, that the velocity vector makes an 6. The dimension of energy is:
angle of 30° with respect to the horizontal? A. ML2/T2 B. L2/TM
A. t = Vxy (1 - sin30°) / g C. TM/L2 D. ML/T2
B. t = Vxy tan 30° / g
C. t = Vxy (1 - tan 30°) / g 7. If a certain car, going with speed v1, rounds a
D. t = Vxy / (g tan 30°) level curve with a radius R1, it is just on the
limit of skidding. If its speed is now doubled, the
radius of the tightest curve on the same road
that it can round without skidding is:
A. 2R1 B. 4R1 C. R1/2 D. R1/4
9. A solid, spherical mass m = 10 kg, has radius R =
0.2 meters. What is the moment of inertia I of the
sphere about an axis which is tangent to the surface
of the sphere?
A. I = 0.21 kg m2 B. I = 0.71 kg m2
C. I = 0.75 kg m 2
D. I = 0.56 kg m2
10. Two masses, m1 and m2, m1 >
m2, are suspended by a massless rope
over a pulley (disk) of mass mP and
radius rP. At time t = 0, the masses are
released from rest.
The tensions T1 (in the segment of
rope attached to m1) and T2 (in the
segment of rope attached to m2) are
related by
A. T1 = T2 B. T1 > T2 C. T1 < T2
11. A boat is able to move through still water at
10m/s. It makes a round trip to a town 3.0 km
upstream. If the river flows at 5m/s, the time
required for this round trip is:
A. 600 s B. 150 s
C. 800 s D. No correct answer
D. it will fall back to Earth when its fuel is used up
13. Two blocks with masses m and M are pushed
along a horizontal frictionless surface by a
horizontal applied force F as shown.
The magnitude of the force of either of these blocks
on the other is:
A. mF/(m +M) B. mF/M
C. mF/(M − m) D. MF/(M + m)
14. The work done by gravity during the ascent of a
projectile:
A. is positive
B. is negative
C. is zero
D. depends for its sign on the direction of the y axis
15. A box with mass M = 10 kg is pulled across a
floor by a rope. There is friction between the box
and the floor. Consider an interval during which its
velocity increases from 2 m/s to 3 m/s.

12. If a satellite moves above Earth’s atmosphere in

How much work is done on the box by the net
a circular orbit with constant speed, then:
force?
A. its acceleration and velocity are always in the
A. 0 J B. 15 J C. 25 J D. 65 J
same direction
B. its acceleration is toward the Earth
C. the net force on it is zero
B. PROBLEMS:

1. A block is released from rest at point P and slides along the

frictionless track shown. Calculate the speed of the block at point Q.

2. Two masses, m1 and m2, m1 > m2, are suspended by a massless rope over
a pulley (disk) of mass mP and radius rP. At time t = 0, the masses are
released from rest.
a) Demonstrate the free body diagram and the motion equation of the
system.
b) Calculate the acceleration of m1 and the angular acceleration of the
pulley.
c) Calculate the work W done on the pulley for the period t = 0 to t = t1.

3. A block of mass 7 kg is placed on top of a block of mass 10 kg, which in turn sits on a frictionless horizontal
surface, as shown in the figure. A force F = 20 N is applied to the 10 kg block, and the 7 kg block is held in place by a
string attached to the wall. There is static friction ( µ s=0.1) between the blocks, which keeps the lower block from
moving.

a) Demonstrate the free body diagram and the motion equation of the system.
b) Calculate the acceleration of the block 10 kg.
c) Calculate the tension T.