A large stone is resting on the bottom of the swimming pool.
The normal force of the bottom of the pool
on the stone is equal to the:
Select one:
a. weight of the water displaced.
b. sum of the weight of the stone and the weight of the displaced water.
c. difference between the weight of the stone and the weight of the displaced water.
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d. weight of the stone.
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The Greenland ice sheet can be one km thick. Estimate the pressure underneath the ice. (The density of
ice is 918 kg/m3.)
Select one:
a. 2.5 × 106 Pa (25 atm)
b. 4.5 × 106 Pa (45 atm)
c. 9.0 × 105 Pa (9 atm)
d. 9.0 × 106 Pa (90 atm)
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13.5 Reflection and Scattering of Sound
13.6 The Doppler Effect
The Doppler shift of ultrasonic waves can measure the speed of blood in an artery. If the frequency of the
stationary source is 100 kHz and the reflected sound has a Doppler shift of 300 Hz, what is the blood flow
speed? (The speed of sound inside the body is 1500 m/s.)
Select one:
a. 2.2 m/s
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b. 1.5 m/s
c. 1.0 m/s
d. 3.3 m/s
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Which type of heating causes sunburn?
Select one:
a. conduction
b. all of the above
c. radiation
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d. convection
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If the distance between a point sound source and a dB detector is increased by a factor of 5, what will be
the reduction in intensity level?
Select one:
a. 5 dB
b. 14 dB
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c. 26 dB
d. 0.20 dB
e. 0.04 dB
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The air in a pipe resonates at 110 Hz and 330 Hz, one of these resonances being the fundamental. If the
pipe is open at both ends, how many resonances are between the two given ones, and if the pipe is closed
at one end, how many resonances are between the two given ones?
Select one:
a. open: 3; closed: 0
b. open: 1; closed: 0
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c. open: 2; closed: 0
d. open: 0; closed: 1
e. open: 0; closed: 2
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For a wave on the ocean, the amplitude is:
Select one:
a. one half the height difference between a crest and a trough.
b. the height difference between a crest and a trough.
c. how far the wave goes up on the beach.
d. the distance between crests.
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In an isovolumetric process by an ideal gas, the system's heat gain is equivalent to a change in:
Select one:
a. pressure.
b. internal energy.
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c. volume.
d. temperature.
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A 0.40-m radius automobile tire accelerates from rest at a constant 2.0 rad/s 2. What is the centripetal
acceleration of a point on the outer edge of the tire after 5.0 s?
Select one:
a. 4.0 m/s2
b. 44 m/s2
c. 400 m/s2
d. 40 m/s2
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A 45-g cube of ice, initially at 0.0°C, is dropped into 220 g of water in an 80-g aluminum container, both
initially at 25°C. What is the final equilibrium temperature? (Specific heat for aluminum is 900 J/kg⋅°C,
the specific heat of water is 4 186 J/kg⋅°C, and Lf = 3.33 × 105 J/kg.)
Select one:
a. 14.5°C
b. 4.15°C
c. 8.3°C
d. 12.45°C
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e. 16.6°C
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13.2 Amplitude and Intensity of a Sound Wave
A very loud train whistle has an acoustic power output of 80 W. If the sound energy spreads out
spherically, what is the intensity level in dB at a distance of 100 meters from the train? (I0 = 10−12 W/m2)
Select one:
a. 92.8 dB
b. 95.0 dB
c. 88.0 dB
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d. 78.3 dB
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Two cars, one in front of the other, are traveling down the highway at 27 m/s. The car behind sounds its
horn, which has a frequency of 515 Hz. What is the frequency heard by the driver of the lead car? (vsound =
340 m/s)
Select one:
a. 559 Hz
b. 604 Hz
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c. 515 Hz
d. 439 Hz
e. 477 Hz
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A relatively new medical device that uses ultrasonics is referred to by the acronym CUSA. What does the
letter A stand for?
Select one:
a. array
b. audible
c. aspirator
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d. accumulator
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A ceiling fan is turned on and reaches an angular speed of 60 rev/min in 10 s. It is then turned off and
coasts to a stop in 20 s. In the one minute of rotation, through how many revolutions did the fan turn?
Select one:
a. 60
b. 300
c. 30
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d. 40
e. 80
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I take 1.1 kg of ice and dump it into 1.0 kg of water and, when equilibrium is reached, I have 2.1 kg of ice
at 0°C. The water was originally at 0°C. The specific heat of water = 1.00 kcal/kg⋅°C, the specific heat of
ice = 0.50 kcal/kg⋅°C, and the latent heat of fusion of water is 80 kcal/kg. The original temperature of the
ice was:
Select one:
a. -73°C.
b. 145°C.
c. one or two degrees below 0°C.
d. The whole experiment is impossible.
e. -145°C.
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A 3.0-kg mass is placed at (3.0, 4.0) m, and a 6.0-kg mass is placed at (3.0, −4.0) m. What is the moment
of inertia of this system of masses about the x axis?
Select one:
a. 81 kg·m2
b. 225 kg·m2
c. 27 kg·m2
d. 36 kg·m2
e. 144 kg·m2
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120 g of liquid nitrogen at its boiling point of 77 K is stirred into a beaker containing 520 g of 15°C
water. If the nitrogen leaves the solution as soon as it turns to gas, how much water freezes? The heat of
vaporization of nitrogen is 48 cal/g and that of water is 80 cal/g.
Select one:
a. none
b. 80 g
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c. 20 g
d. 40 g
e. 10 g
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Bar One has a Young's modulus that is bigger than that of Bar Two. This indicates Bar One:
Select one:
a. has a greater cross-sectional area than Bar Two.
b. is made of material that is different from Bar Two.
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c. has a greater elastic limit than Bar Two.
d. is longer than Bar Two.
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11.2 Examples of Simple Harmonic Motion
An object moving in simple harmonic motion has an amplitude of 0.020 m and a maximum acceleration
of 20 m/s2. What is the frequency of the system?
Select one:
a. 0.40 Hz
b. 32 Hz
c. 5.0 Hz
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d. 10.1 Hz
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A solid sphere of radius R is placed on an incline that makes an angle with the horizontal. The
sphere rolls down the incline without slipping. What is its acceleration?
Select one:
a.
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b.
c.
d.
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In cloud formation, water vapor turns into water droplets which get bigger and bigger until it rains. This
will cause the temperature of the air in the clouds to:
Select one:
a. will not affect the temperature of the air in the clouds.
b. get warmer.
c. There is no air in clouds.
d. get cooler.
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A windowpane is half a centimeter thick and has an area of 0.7 m 2. The temperature difference between
the inside and outside surfaces of the pane is 15 °C. What is the rate of heat flow through this window?
(Thermal conductivity for glass is 0.84 J/s⋅m⋅°C.)
Select one:
a. 2,100 J/s
b. 3,600 J/s
c. 1,800 J/s
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d. 1,180 J/s
e. 1,400 J/s
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A 0.12-m radius grinding wheel takes 2.1 s to speed up from 2.0 rad/s to 11.0 rad/s. What is the wheel's
average angular acceleration?
Select one:
a. 4.3 rad/s2
b. 9.6 rad/s2
c. 1.6 rad/s2
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d. 0.33 rad/s2
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A piece of aluminum has density 2.70 g/cm3 and mass 778 g. The aluminum is submerged in a container
of oil of density 0.650 g/cm3. A spring balance is attached with string to the piece of aluminum. What
reading will the balance register in grams (g) for the submerged metal?
Select one:
a. 1 025 g
b. 965 g
c. 187 g
d. 591 g
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e. 2 454 g
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Which of the first units given below can be units for angular acceleration while the second units can be
units for angular velocity?
Select one:
a. rev/min2, m/s
b. rad/s, rad/s2
c. rad/s2, deg/hour
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d. deg/hour, rev/minute
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12.6 Reflection
Two water waves meet at the same point, one having a displacement above equilibrium of 60 cm and the
other having a displacement above equilibrium of 40 cm. At this moment, what is the resulting
displacement above equilibrium?
Select one:
a. 70 cm
b. 100 cm
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c. 140 cm
d. Information about the amplitudes needs to be given to find an answer.
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A bucket of water with total mass 21.0 kg is attached to a rope, which in turn is wound around a 0.050-m
radius cylinder, with crank, at the top of a well. The moment of inertia of the cylinder and crank is 0.21
kg m2. The bucket is raised to the top of the well and released to fall back into the well. What is the
kinetic energy of the cylinder and crank at the instant the bucket is moving with a speed of 5.0 m/s?
Select one:
a. 263 J
b. 1 050 J
c. 10 000 J
d. 441 J
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13.1 Sound Is a Longitudinal Wave
How far away is a lightning strike if you hear the thunderclap 2.00 s after you see the lightning bolt
strike? (vsound = 340 m/s, vlight = 3 × 108 m/s)
Select one:
a. 680 m
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b. 113 m
c. 1020 m
d. 340 m
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When heating 2 kg of ice from -40°C, 2 kg of water from 20°C to 50°C, and 2 kg of steam from 100°C to
125°C, which requires the most energy?
Select one:
a. the water
b. the ice
c. All three take the same amount.
d. The steam, it's obvious since it is the hottest.
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A mass of 0.4 kg, attached to a spring with a spring constant of 60 N/m, is set into simple harmonic
motion. What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the mass when at its maximum displacement of 0.2
m from the equilibrium position?
Select one:
a. 60 m/s2
b. 7.5 m/s2
c. 15 m/s2
d. 30 m/s2
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e. zero
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13.5 Reflection and Scattering of Sound
13.6 The Doppler Effect
A bat, flying at 3.00 m/s toward a wall, emits a chirp at 50.0 kHz. If the wall reflects this sound pulse,
what is the frequency of the echo received by the bat? (vsound = 340 m/s)
Select one:
a. 50.9 kHz
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b. 40.8 kHz
c. 51.5 kHz
d. 51.2 kHz
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A majorette takes two batons and fastens them together in the middle at right angles to make an "x"
shape. Each baton was 0.70 m long and each ball on the end is 0.10 kg. (Ignore the mass of the rods.)
What is the moment of inertia if the arrangement is spun around an axis through the center perpendicular
to both rods?
Select one:
a. 0.012 kg·m2
b. 0.025 kg·m2
c. 0.070 kg·m2
d. 0.049 kg·m2
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e. 0.007 kg·m2
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As a gust of wind blows across a field of grain, a wave can be seen to move across the field as the tops of
the plants sway back and forth. This wave is a:
Select one:
a. polarized wave.
b. longitudinal wave.
c. transverse wave.
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d. interference of waves.
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A 16 000-N car on a hydraulic lift rests on a cylinder with a piston of radius 0.10 m. If a connecting
cylinder with a piston of 0.050-m radius is driven by compressed air, what force must be applied to this
smaller piston in order to lift the car?
Select one:
a. 4 000 N
b. 16 000 N
c. 4 500 N
d. 3 900 N
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e. 64 N
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An ideal fluid, of density 0.90 × 103 kg/m3, flows at 5.0 m/s through a level pipe with radius of 0.5 cm.
The pressure in the fluid is 1.3 × 105 N/m2. This pipe connects to a second level pipe, with radius of
1.6 cm. Find the speed of flow in the second pipe.
Select one:
a. 5.1 m/s
b. 51.2 m/s
c. 0.49 m/s
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d. 1.56 m/s
e. 16 m/s
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Suppose a power plant uses a Carnot engine to generate electricity, using the atmosphere at 300 K as the
low-temperature reservoir. Suppose the power plant produces 1 × 106 J of electricity with the hot reservoir
at 500 K during Day One and then produces 1 × 106 J of electricity with the hot reservoir at 600 K during
Day Two. The thermal pollution was:
Select one:
a. greatest on Day Two.
b. greatest on Day One.
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c. zero on both days.
d. the same on both days.
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13.2 Amplitude and Intensity of a Sound Wave
If the intensity of a sound is increased by a factor of 1000, how is the decibel level changed? The new
decibel level will be:
Select one:
a. twenty units greater.
b. three units greater.
c. thirty times greater.
d. ten times greater.
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It takes 3.0 minutes to fill a gas tank with 40 liters of gasoline. If the pump nozzle is 2.0 cm in radius,
what is the average speed of the gasoline as it leaves the nozzle? (1 000 liters = one cubic meter)
Select one:
a. 1.2 m/s
b. 13 m/s
c. 10.6 m/s
d. 1.8 m/s
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e. 0.2 m/s
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A 0.50-m radius automobile tire accelerates from rest at a constant 3 rad/s 2. What is the centripetal
acceleration of a point on the outer edge of the tire after 6 s?
Select one:
a. 90.0 m/s2
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b. 16.2 m/s2
c. 9.0 m/s2
d. 162 m/s2
e. 9.4 m/s2
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12.3 Examples of Waves
A 2.0-m long piano string of mass 40 g is under a tension of 338 N. Find the speed with which a wave
travels on this string.
Select one:
a. 1040 m/s
b. 260 m/s
c. 520 m/s
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d. 130 m/s
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If a heat engine has an efficiency of 10% and its power output is 570 W, what is the rate of heat input
from the combustion phase?
Select one:
a. 57 W
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b. 5,700 W
c. 5,600 W
d. 5,500 W
e. 5,800 W
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Material 1 has Young's modulus Y1 and density ρ1, and material 2 has Young's modulus Y2 and density ρ2.
If Y1 is 30% more than Y2 and ρ1 is 30% less than ρ2, which material has the higher speed of sound and
how much higher is it?
Select one:
a. Material 1 has a speed of sound 30% higher than material 2.
b. Material 2 has a speed of sound 30% higher than material 1.
c. Material 2 has a speed of sound more than 80% higher than material 1.
d. Material 1 has a speed of sound more than 35% higher than material 2.
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An object consists of a rod (of length 3.0 m and negligible moment of inertia) to which four small 2.0-kg
masses are attached, one at each end and one at each point on the rod 1.0 m from each end. (The masses
are one meter apart.) The moment of inertia of this object about an axis perpendicular to the rod and
through one of the end masses:
Select one:
a. is 4 kg·m2.
b. cannot be uniquely determined until it is stated which inner mass the axis goes through.
c. is 12 kg·m2.
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d. is 28 kg·m2.
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Think of Bernoulli's equation as it pertains to an ideal fluid flowing through a horizontal pipe. Imagine
that you take measurements along the pipe in the direction of fluid flow. What happens to the sum of the
pressure and energy per unit volume?
Select one:
a. It decreases as the pipe diameter increases.
b. It increases as the pipe diameter increases.
c. No choices above are valid.
d. It remains constant as the pipe diameter increases.
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A mass on a spring vibrates in simple harmonic motion at a frequency of 4.5 Hz and an amplitude of 8.6
cm. If the mass of the object is 0.3 kg, what is the spring constant?
Select one:
a. 8 N/m
b. 516 N/m
c. 799 N/m
d. 240 N/m
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e. 28 N/m
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14.8 Heat Flow by Radiation
At high noon, the Sun delivers 900 W to each square meter of a blacktop road. What is the equilibrium
temperature of the asphalt, assuming its emissivity e = 1? (σ = 5.67 × 10−8 W/m2×K4) .
Select one:
a. 91°C
b. 82°C
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c. 75°C
d. 99°C
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A bucket of water with total mass 22 kg is attached to a rope, which in turn is wound around a 0.04-m
radius cylinder at the top of a well. The bucket is raised to the top of the well and released. The bucket is
moving with a speed of 7.0 m/s upon hitting the water surface in the well. What is the angular speed of
the cylinder at this instant?
Select one:
a. 138 rad/s
b. 494 rad/s
c. 62 rad/s
d. 44 rad/s
e. 175 rad/s
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14.4 Phases of Matter and Phase Changes
A hot (70°C) lump of metal has a mass of 250 g and a specific heat of 0.25 cal/g·°C. John drops the metal
into a 500-g calorimeter containing 40 g of water at 20°C. The calorimeter is constructed of a material
that has a specific heat of 0.10 cal/ g·°C. When equilibrium is reached, what will be the final temperature?
(cwater = 1.00 cal/g·°C.)
Select one:
a. 40°C
b. 114°C
c. 72°C
d. 37°C
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A ventilation fan with a moment of inertia of 0.034 kg·m 2 has a net torque of 0.11 N m applied to it.
If it starts from rest, what kinetic energy will it have 8.0 s later?
Select one:
a. 11.4 J
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b. 25.9 J
c. 1.09 J
d. 22.8 J
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A wave on a string has a wavelength of 0.90 m at a frequency of 600 Hz. If a new wave at a frequency of
300 Hz is established in this same string under the same tension, what is the new wavelength?
Select one:
a. 1.8 m
b. 0.45 m
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c. 0.30 m
d. 2.7 m
