CONFIDENTIAL AS/SEP 2011/PHY094/093

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FINAL EXAMINATION
COURSE
COURSE CODE
EXAMINATION
TIME
FOUNDATION PHYSICS l/PHYSICS I
PHY094/093
SEPTEMBER 2011
3 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1. This question paper consists of ten (10) Questions ONLY.
2. Answer ALL questions in the Answer Booklet. Start each answer on a new page.
3. Do not bring any material into the examination room unless permission is given by the
invigilator.
4. Please check to make sure that this examination pack consists of:
i) the Question Paper
ii) a one - page Appendix
iii) an Answer Booklet - provided by the Faculty
DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO
This examination paper consists of 6 printed pages
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QUESTION 1
a) A light-year is the distance light travels in one year at a speed of 2.998 x 10
8
m/s.
i) How many meters are there in 1.00 light-year? (Taking 1 year = 365 days)
(2 marks)
ii) It is estimated that the distance to galaxy Milky-Way is about 10 million light-years.
How long does it take to travel to the galaxy? Give your answer in years.
(3 marks)
b
) The sum of two vectors is given as R = 5. 00Jc-2. 00j). If one of the vectors is
A = 1.00jc - 5. 00j), find the magnitude and direction of the other vector, B.
(5 marks)
QUESTION 2
A ball is thrown vertically upward with a speed of 25.0 m/s.
a) How high does it rise?
(3 marks)
b) How long does it take to reach its highest point?
(2 marks)
c) How long does the ball take to hit the ground (the starting point) after it reaches its
highest points? Show your calculations clearly.
(3 marks)
d) What is its velocity when it returns to the level from which it started?
(2 marks)
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QUESTION 3
Figure 1 shows a block (mass m
A
) on a smooth horizontal surface, connected by a thin cord
that passes over a pulley to a second block (m
B
) which hangs vertically.
/77A
^
/77B
Figure 1
a) Draw a free-body diagram for each block, showing the force of gravity on each, the force
(tension) exerted by the cord, and any normal force.
(2 marks)
b) With the help of Newton's second law, find the expression for the acceleration of the
system and the tension in terms of m
A
, m
B
and g. Ignore friction and the masses of the
pulley and cord.
(3 marks)
c) If /77
A
= 13.0 kg and m
B
= 5.0 kg, determine the acceleration of each block.
(2 marks)
d) If initially m
A
is at rest 1.250 m from the edge of the table, how long does it take to reach
the edge of the table if the system is allowed to move freely?
(3 marks)
QUESTION 4
A cooling fan is turned off when it is running at 850 rev/min. It turns 1350 revolutions before it
comes to a stop.
a) What was the fan's angular acceleration, assumed constant?
b) How long did it take for the fan to come to a complete stop?
c) How many revolutions would it take in 50 s?
(5 marks)
(3 marks)
(2 marks)
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QUESTION 5
A 1.50 x 10
3
kg car accelerates uniformly from rest to 10.0 m/s in 3.0 s. Find
a) the work done on the car in this time interval
(3 marks)
b) the instantaneous power delivered by the engine at r = 2.0 s
(7 marks)
QUESTION 6
a) A 60.0 g object is attached to a horizontal spring with a force constant of 12.0 N/m and
released from rest with amplitude of 25.0 cm. If the surface is frictionless, what is the
velocity of the object when it is halfway to the equilibrium position?
(5 marks)
b) An announcement in a school is made through a speaker on a wall. The first student
listens to it 2.00 m from the speaker with the intensity of 4.60 * 10"
6
W/m
2
.
i) Find the intensity heard by the second student who is 6.20 m from the speaker.
(3 marks)
ii) Find the power output of the speaker's sound.
(2 marks)
QUESTION 7
a) State Archimedes' Principle.
(2 marks)
b) An air mattress which is 6.5 m long, 3.75 m wide, and 0.20 m thick, has a mass of
0.22 kg. The mattress floats in fresh water.
i) Calculate the buoyant force of the air mattress.
(3 marks)
ii) What is the maximum mass it can support in fresh water?
(5 marks)
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QUESTION 8
A pendulum consists of a large weight suspended by a steel wire that is 0.9500 m long.
[Coefficient of linear expansion for the wire is 12.00 x 10"
6
K"
1
]
a) If the temperature increases, does the period of the pendulum increases, decreases or
stay the same? Explain.
(2 marks)
b) Calculate the change in length of the pendulum if the temperature increase is 150.0 C.
(3marks)
c) Calculate the period of the pendulum before and after the temperature increase.
[Taking g = 9.81 m/s
2
at the location of the pendulum.]
(5 marks)
QUESTION 9
a) A 135 g lead ball at a temperature of 64.2 C is placed in a light calorimeter containing
122 g of water at 20.5 C. Find the equilibrium temperature of the system.
[c
Pb
= 128 J/kg K, c^er = 4186 J/kg K]
(5 marks)
b) How much heat is needed to melt 37.40 kg of silver that is initially at 23.0 C?
[c
S
ii
V
er = 230 J/kg K, U guv*: = 0.88 J/kg]
(2 marks)
c) How much heat must be absorbed by ice of mass m = 850 g at -1 5 C to change it to
liquid at 16 C?
[c
ice
= 2220 J/kg K, c
water
= 4186 J/kg K, L
r
,
wa
,
e
r= 4186 J/kg K]
(3 marks)
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QUESTION 10
a)
b)
A basketball player does 2.43 x 10
5
J of work during her time in the game, and
evaporates 0.110 kg of water. Assuming the latent heat of water is 2.26 x 10
6
J/kg for
the perspiration, determine the change in the player's internal energy.
(4 marks)
An ideal gas is slowly compressed at a constant pressure of 2.0 atm from 10.0 L to
2.0 L as shown in Figure 2. Heat is then added to the gas, holding the volume constant,
and the pressure and temperature are allowed to rise (line DA) until the temperature
reaches its original value (7
A
= f
B
).
Isothermal
0 4
6 8 10 V( L)
Figure 2
i) Convert 2.0 L and 10.0L to cubic meters.
ii) Convert 2.0 atm to N/m
2
.
iii) Calculate the total work done by the gas in the process BDA.
(2 marks)
(1 mark)
(3 marks)
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CONFIDENTIAL APPENDIX 1 AS/SEP 2011 /PHY094/093
FORMULAS
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0
+at P =
x - x
0
= vj + at
2
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2
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) v = a4A
2
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2
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V + V
o T
P
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B
= pVg
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0
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0
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0-0=cot + -at
2
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2 \g
ca
2
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2
+2a(0-0
o
) Q = mcA0
0) = Q = mL
2
W=F.d AU=Q-W
W = AK W = PAV
K = - mv
2
2
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