PHYS 101-2

Final Exam Practice

A 0.2-kg baseball is moving at 5 m/s when it is hit by a bat, causing it to reverse
direction and have a speed of -15 m/s. What is the impulse given to the ball?
0.4 kgm/s
0.2 kgm/s
4 kgm/s
2 kgm/s

A 0.2-kg baseball is moving at 5 m/s when it is hit by a bat, causing it to reverse

direction and have a speed of -15 m/s. What is the change in the magnitude of the
momentum of the ball?
0.2 kgm/s
0.4 kgm/s
2 kgm/s
4 kgm/s

A 0.2-kg baseball is moving at 5 m/s when it is hit by a bat, causing it to reverse

direction and have a speed of -15 m/s. If the interaction bat-ball last for 0.01 s, what is
the magnitude of the interaction force?
0.4 kN
0.1 kN
2 kN
1 kN

A 0.2-kg rubber ball is thrown down onto the floor. The balls speed just before impact is
-5 m/s, and just after is 3 m/s. If the ball is in contact with the floor for 0.02 s, what is
the magnitude of the average force applied by the floor on the ball?
20 N
40 N
60 N
80 N

Two billiard balls of identical mass collide head-on and rebound in a perfectly elastic
collision. If the initial velocities of the balls are v1=5.0 m/s and v2=-10.0 m/s, what are
the velocities of the balls after the collision? Assume that friction and rotation are not
important.
v1=5.0 m/s and v2=-10.0 m/s
v1=-5.0 m/s and v2=10.0 m/s
v1=10.0 m/s and v2=-5.0 m/s
v1=-10.0 m/s and v2=5.0 m/s

Two snowballs with masses of 0.3 and 0.7 kg, respectively, are thrown in such a manner
that they meet head-on and combine to form a single mass. The magnitude of initial
speed for each is 10 m/s. What is the speed of the 1 kg combined mass immediately
after collision?
6 m/s
4 m/s
10 m/s
8 m/s

A ball collides in an inelastic head-on collision with a second identical ball. What is the
kinetic energy of the system after the collision compared to that before collision?
larger than
the same as
smaller than
Not possible to say with the given information

A steel bar, 75 m long at 10C, has a coefficient of linear expansion of 11 10-6 K-1. Give
its change in length as the temperature changes from 10C to 45C.
1.8 cm
0.65 cm
12 cm
2.9 cm

A piece of aluminum of 10 kg (which has a specific heat of 900 J/kgK) is warmed so that
its temperature increases by 5 C. How much heat was transferred into it?
9.0 103 J
4.5 102 J
2.3 105 J
4.5 104 J

Heat flow occurs between two bodies in thermal contact when they differ in what
property?
specific heat
mass
temperature
density

Which best describes the relationship between two systems in thermal equilibrium?
masses are equal
volumes are equal
zero velocity
no net energy is exchanged

An ice cube of 10 g is at -5 C. How much heat (energy) is required to melt it? The heat
of fusion of ice is 334 kJ/kg. The cice = 2.0 kJ/kg K and the cwater = 4.2 kJ/kg K.
3.44 kJ
7.64 kJ
4.80 kJ
None of the above

A windowpane of 0.25 cm thick has an area of 4.00 m2. The temperature difference
between the inside and outside surfaces of the pane is 30.0 C. What is the rate of heat
flow through this window? (Thermal conductivity for glass is 0.85 J/smC).
10.2 kJ/s
4.08 kJ/s
40.8 kJ/s
None of the above

A metal wire of length 1 m, cross sectional area 4 10-6 m2 and Youngs modulus 1.96
1010 Pa has a load of 200 kg hung on it. What is its increase in length? (g = 9.8 m/s2)

0.50 cm
1.00 cm
2.50 cm
None of the above

An object of 2.0 cm in size is at 4 cm in front of a convergent lens with a focal length of

2.5.0 cm. The lens magnification is:
1.5 X
1.0 X
2.6 X
None of the above

An object of 2.0 cm in size is at 4 cm in front of a convergent lens with a focal length of

2.5.0 cm. The image is:
Real, inverted and larger than the object
Real, inverted and smaller than the object
Virtual, inverted and larger than the object
Virtual, straight and smaller than the object

Calculate the magnitude of the force on the qA charge. ke=8.99x109 Nm2/C2

4.50 x105 N
404 N
8.08 N
None of the above

Calculate the current in resistor 3 (I3)

0.75 A
1.00 A
2.50 A
5.00 A

Calculate the potential difference in

resistor 2 (V2)
0.75 V
1.00 V
2.50 V
5.00 V

Calculate the power in resistor 4 (P4)

0.75 W
1.00 W
2.50 W
5.00 W

Which of these is a list of strong bonds.

Ionic, covalent, polar.
Metallic, covalent, polar.
Ionic, metallic, hydrogen bridge.
Ionic, covalent, metallic.

Which of these are properties of ionic solids.

Good electric conductors, brittle materials.

Good electric conductors, ductile materials.
Poor electric conductors, ductile materials.
Poor electric conductors, brittle materials.