Problem Set 5

PHY131H1F Summer 2024

These review questions will not be marked. They are solely for your benefit to understand the
course better and to practice for midterm and final exam preparation. The solutions will be
posted in a separate file.
Instructions
Most questions are end-of-chapter “Questions” or “Problems” from “College Physics: Explore
and Apply”, by Etkina, Planinsic, and Van Heuvelen, 2nd Edition, ©2019 by Pearson Education,
where the first number is the chapter, and the decimal is either the Question number with a Q in
front, or the Problem number with a P in front. For example, if it says “Etkina 3.Q16”, it means
Chapter 3, Question 16.

Question 1. Etkina 6.Q10

Question 2. Etkina 6.Q12, first part of question.
Question 3. Etkina 6.Q12, second part of question.
Question 4. Etkina 6.Q14
Question 5. Etkina 6.P4
Question 6. Etkina 6.P18 Part(a)
Question 7. Etkina 6.P18 Part(b)
Question 8. Etkina 6.P36
Question 9. Etkina 6.P38
Question 10. Etkina 6.P54
Question 11. Etkina 6.P58 [Find the speed of the two vehicles when locked together just after
the collision.]
Question 12. Etkina 6.P58 [Find the angle, θ, between the final velocity vector and the East
direction, measured South of East.]
Question 13. Etkina 6.P68
Question 14. [From Fall 2022 Test 2, Written Problem]
A 920 kg sports car collides into the rear end of a 2300 kg truck stopped at a red light. The
vehicles lock together, the brakes are locked, and the two vehicles skid forward 2.8 m before
stopping. The police officer, estimating the coefficient of kinetic friction between tires and road
to be 0.80, calculates the speed of the sports car at impact. What was that speed?

Question 15. [From Fall 2021 Test 2]

A tennis ball is thrown straight upward, and, when it is momentarily at rest at the top of its path,
it is hit by a tennis racket which is moving sideways. Just before the collision, the speed of the
tennis racket is 61 m/s. Just after the collision, the tennis ball is moving sideways at 56 m/s.
What is the speed of the racket after hitting the ball? [Assume the mass of the tennis racket is
0.31 kg, and the mass of the tennis ball is 0.056 kg.]
10 m/s
11 m/s
51 m/s
59 m/s
340 m/s

Question 16. [From Fall 2021 Test 2]

An A 0.056 kg tennis ball is dropped from rest, a
height of 1.3 m above the surface of a bathroom
scale. It bounces off the scale and returns to a final
height of 1.1 m above the surface of the scale
before stopping again. The scale measures the
upward normal force on the tennis ball in Newtons,
as shown in the plot. What is Δt, the duration of the
collision of the tennis ball with the scale?

0.00060 s
0.030 s
0.072 s
0.076 s
0.052 s