APPB Final Exam December 14, 2011

(1-9=1pt) 1. Why do roller coasters begin with a really high hill and then continue with smaller hills, loops and turns? 2. What makes your marble move on your ramp? Is there anything pulling your marble? 3. Where will you find the greatest amount of Potential Energy? 4. Where will you find the greatest amount of Kinetic Energy? 5. Will the roller coaster store anymore potential energy during the ride? If so, where? 6. Will the roller coaster run out of energy? 7. What is the velocity of the cart? 8. How can you compare your velocity with that of other roller coasters? 9. Your cart jumps the track and travels from Arlington to Houston in 3 hours and 19 minutes. If the average speed for the cart was 88.5 km/h, how much distance did it cover? (10-15=5pts)
10. Your cart travels along a straight section of the track. A velocity vs time graph illustrating its motion is graphed to the right. Indicate every time t for which the cart is at rest. 11. Indicate every time interval for which the speed (magnitude of velocity) of the cart is increasing.
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v (m/s)

12. What is the acceleration from a b? 13. What is the acceleration from b c? 14. What is the acceleration from c d?
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t (s)
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15. What is the displacement after 7.0 s?

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d a

16. (10pts) You are standing on top of a Six Flags coaster that

Velocity Time Graph

is 85.0 m tall. You toss your marble straight up with an initial velocity of 27.5 m/s. (a) How high

APPB Final Exam December 14, 2011 does the marble travel? It goes up and then falls down to the ground below. (b) How much time is it in the air?

17. (5pts) Your cart travels south for 2.5 km and then east for 3.8 km. What is the magnitude of
your resultant displacement?

18. (6pts)The cart runs straight off of your track. It is traveling at a speed of 104.5 m/s when if
leaves the track. If the track is _____m high, how far horizontally does the car travel before it smashes into the ground below?

19. (12pts) The cart has a velocity of ______ at an angle of ______r to the horizontal. Neglecting air
friction, what is the horizontal range of the shot?

20. (25pts) Sitting on a track that is _____cm above the deck is a spring that has a spring constant of
k = 455 N/m. The spring is compressed a distance of 13.5 cm with a _____ kg cart. (a) What is the kinetic energy stored in the spring? (b) When the cart is released, what is the velocity of the ball? (c) When the cart rolls off the track, how much time does it take till it hits the desk? (d) How far does the track travel horizontally from the edge of the table before it hits the desk? (e) What is the kinetic energy of the cart just before it hits the desk?

21. (3pts)A ____ kg cart traveling at ______m/s is caught in the middle of the second loop. If the
cart takes 0.0498 seconds to come to a stop in the loop, what average force was exerted on the ball?