PHYS 241 Practice Problems for Ex#3 Name___________________________________

TRUE/FALSE.

1) For angular momentum to be conserved, the net force must be zero.

2) The gravitational force that the Sun exerts on Earth is much larger than the gravitational force that Earth
exerts on the Sun.

3) An object in motion with constant speed along a straight line can never have nonzero angular momentum.

4) It is possible to have a net torque even when the net force is zero.

5) All parts of a wheel rotating about a fixed axis must have the same tangential acceleration.

6) If you cross a vector with itself, the resultant will be a unit vector.

7) The time rate of change of the total angular momentum of a system of particles equals the resultant
external torque on the system.

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

8) Two equal forces are applied to a door at the doorknob. The first force is applied perpendicular to the
door; the second force is applied at 30° to the plane of the door. Which force exerts the greater torque?
A) both exert equal non-zero torques
B) both exert zero torques
C) the second applied at an angle
D) the first applied perpendicular to the door
E) additional information is needed

9) A disk and a hoop of the same mass and radius are released at the same time at the top of an inclined
plane and roll without slipping. Which object reaches the bottom of the incline first?
A) The disk
B) The hoop
C) Both reach the bottom at the same time.
D) It depends on the angle of inclination.
E) It depends on the length of the inclined surface.

10) Two planets having equal masses are in circular orbit around a star. Planet A has a smaller orbital radius
than planet B. Which statement is true?
A) Planet A has more kinetic energy, less potential energy, and less mechanical energy (potential plus
kinetic) than planet B.
B) Planet A has more kinetic energy, less potential energy, and more mechanical energy (potential plus
kinetic) than planet B.
C) Planet A and planet B have the same amount of mechanical energy (potential plus kinetic).
D) Planet A has more kinetic energy, more potential energy, and more mechanical energy (potential plus
kinetic) than planet B.

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11) A satellite of mass m has an orbital period T when it is in a circular orbit of radius R around the earth. If
the satellite instead had mass 4m, its orbital period would be
A) T. B) T/2. C) T/4. D) 2 T. E) 4 T.

12) For the vectors shown in the figure, find the magnitude and direction of B × A , assuming that the
quantities shown are accurate to two significant figures.

A) 31, directed into the plane

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13) A force of F = 3.00 Ni + -2.00 Nj acts at a location r = 1.00 mi + 2.00 mj on an object. What is the torque
that this force applies about an axis through the origin perpendicular to the xy plane?
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A) -3.00 N·m k B) 5.00 N·m k C) 7.00 N·m k D) -8.00 N·m k E) -1.00 N·m k

14) Two moons orbit a planet in nearly circular orbits. Moon A has orbital radius r , and moon B has orbital
radius 4r . Moon A takes 20 days to complete one orbit. How long does it take moon B to complete an
orbit?
A) 40 d B) 320 d C) 80 d D) 20 d E) 160 d

15) How long does it take for a rotating object to speed up from 15.0 to 33.3 rad/s if it has an angular
acceleration of 3.45 rad/s2 ?
A) 5.30 s B) 63.1 s C) 9.57 s D) 10.6 s E) 4.35 s

16) A man is holding an 8.00-kg vacuum cleaner at arm's length, a distance of 0.550 m from his shoulder.
What is the torque on the shoulder joint if the arm is held at 30.0° below the horizontal?
A) 2.20 Nm B) 4.40 Nm C) 12.6 Nm D) 21.6 Nm E) 37.4 Nm

17) A figure skater rotating at 5.00 rad/s with arms extended has a moment of inertia of 2.25 kg·m 2 . If the arms
are pulled in so the moment of inertia decreases to 1.80 kg·m2 , what is the final angular speed?
A) 2.25 rad/s B) 0.810 rad/s C) 6.25 rad/s D) 1.76 rad/s E) 4.60 rad/s

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18) The figure shows two wires that are tied to a 710 g mass that revolves in a horizontal circle at a constant
speed of 7.5 m/s. What is the tension in the upper wire?

A) 41 N B) 27 N C) 34 N D) 20 N

19) In the figure, two blocks, of masses 2.00 kg and 3.00 kg, are connected by a light string that passes over a
frictionless pulley of moment of inertia 0.00400 kg · m2 and radius 5.00 cm. The coefficient of friction for
the tabletop is 0.300. The blocks are released from rest. Using energy methods, find the speed of the upper
block just as it has moved 0.600 m.

A) 5.44 m/s B) 1.40 m/s C) 1.22 m/s D) 3.19 m/s E) 1.95 m/s

20) In a lab experiment, a student brings up the rotational speed of a rotational motion apparatus to 30.0 rpm.
She then allows the apparatus to slow down on its own, and counts 240 revolutions before the apparatus
comes to a stop. The moment of inertia of the flywheel is 0.0850 kg·m2 . What is the retarding torque on the
flywheel?
A) 0.000278 Nm
B) 0.159 Nm
C) 0.0425 Nm
D) 0.0787Nm
E) 0.0000136 Nm

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WRITTEN PROBLEMS: Must show your work otherwise no credits will be given.

21) When a 2.75-kg fan, having blades 18.5 cm long, is turned off, its angular speed decreases uniformly from
10.0 rad/s to 6.30 rad/s in 5.00 s.
(a) What is the magnitude of the angular acceleration of the fan?
(b) Through what angle (in degrees) does it turn while it is slowing down during the 5.00 s?
(c) If its angular acceleration does not change, how long after it is turned off does it take the fan to stop.

FIGURE 8-5

22) A solid disk with diameter 2.00 meters and mass 4.0 kg freely rotates about a vertical axis at 36. rpm. A
0.50 kg hunk of bubblegum is dropped onto the disk and sticks to the disk at a distance d = 80. cm from the
axis of rotation, as shown in Fig. 8-5.
(a) What was the moment of inertia before the gum fell?
(b) What was the moment of inertia after the gum stuck?
(c) What is the angular velocity after the gum fell onto the disk?

23) A satellite of mass 500 kg orbits the Earth with a period of 6000 s. The Earth has a mass of 5.98 x 1024 kg.
(a) Calculate the magnitude of the Earth's gravitational force on the satellite. (b) Determine the altitude of
the satellite above the Earth's surface.

24) A uniform solid sphere of mass 1.5 kg and diameter 30.0 cm starts from rest and rolls without slipping
down a 35° incline that is 7.0 m long.
(a) Calculate the linear speed of the center of the sphere when it reaches the bottom of the incline.
(b) Determine the angular speed of the sphere about its center at the bottom of the incline.
(c) Through what angle (in radians) does this sphere turn as it rolls down the incline?
(d) Does the linear speed in (a) depend on the radius or mass of the sphere? Does the angular speed in (b)
depend on the radius or mass of the sphere?