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This document contains a series of practice questions related to physics concepts, including momentum, acceleration, force, and oscillation. The questions cover a range of scenarios involving calculations for mass, velocity, impulse, buoyant force, and more. It serves as a comprehensive exercise set for understanding fundamental physics principles.

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This document contains a series of practice questions related to physics concepts, including momentum, acceleration, force, and oscillation. The questions cover a range of scenarios involving calculations for mass, velocity, impulse, buoyant force, and more. It serves as a comprehensive exercise set for understanding fundamental physics principles.

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MODULE 2-PHYSICS Practice questions

1). Calculate the momentum of a 0.145 Kg baseball being thrown at a speed of


40m/s
2). A bicycle has momentum of 25Kg.m/s and a velocity of 2.5m/s. what is the
bicycle’s mass?
3). An 8000 Kg truck starts off from the rest and reaches the velocity of 18.0 m/s in
6.00 seconds.
What is the trucks acceleration and how much momentum does it have after it has
reached this final velocity?
4). Little Tammy lines up to tackle (unsuccessfully) to prove the law of conservation
of momentum. Tammy’s mass is 34 Kg and Jackson’s 54 Kg. Jackson is running at a
speed of 3.0 m/s. What must be Tammy’s minimum velocity to stop Jacksons
forward momentum?
5). In a collision, 25.0Kg mass moving at 3.0m/s transfers all of its momentum to a
5.0Kg mass. What is the velocity of 5.00Kg mass after the collision?
6). Your brother’s mass in 55 Kg and he has a 2 Kg Skateboard. What is the
combined momentum of your brother and his skateboard if they are going 8.50 m/s?
7). A 5.0 Kg mass moving with a vector of 8.0 m/s east has an impulse applied to it
which causes its velocity to change to 20.0 m/s east. Calculate the impulse

8). How long would it take for a net upward force of 100N to increase a speed of a
50Kg object from 100m/s to 150m/s?
9). A 1.0 Kg ball travelling at4.0 m/s strikes a wall and bounces strike back at2.0 m/s.
Find change in momentum
10). A cube with the side length of 2.0 m floating halfway submerged in a fluid with
the density of 500 Kg/m3. Determine the buoyant force in the object.
11). A 10 ft3object weighing 700 lbs is placed in pure water. Will the object float?
If the object sinks, what is its measurable weight in the submerged condition? If the
object floats, how many cubic feet of its volume is below the water line?
12). A speed boat increases its velocity from 20m/s to 30m/s in a distance of 200m .
Find: Magnitude of its acceleration, the time taken to travel the distance.
13). A racing car reaches a velocity of 40m/s. at this instant it begins an uniform
deceleration using parachute to come to rest5 seconds later.
Find: The deceleration of the car and how far the car travel after the deceleration
started
14). A runner, initially travelling at 8m/s, accelerates at an uniform rate of 3m/s 2 for a
distance if 10 m. How much time required to cover this distance?
15). A tennis ball with the velocity of 10m/s hits a wall perpendicularly. After striking
the wall, the ball rebounds in the opposite direction with the velocity of 8.0m/s. If the
ball is contact with the wall for 0.012s calculate the magnitude of the deceleration.
16). A driver in a car travelling at a speed of 60 mi/hr sees a deer in the middle of the
road 100 m away. What is the minimum constant deceleration that is necessary for a
car to stop?
17). Julie is walking around a track at a 2m/s for some exercise. She then decides to
start jogging so she accelerates at a rate of 0.5m/s2for 3s. How far did Julie travel
from the time she started to accelerate to the end of the 3 seconds?
18). A rocket accelerate at a rate of 16.4m/s2 for a distance of 50m. what is the
velocity at the end of 50 m?
19). A race car can accelerate at 8.9m/s2; If the car starts from 10m/s, after 2.1
seconds how fast is it going?
20). Calculate the magnitude of the resultant vector using Pythagoras theorem.

21).
22). A helicopter provides a lift of 250KN when the blades are tilted at 15 0from the
vertical. Calculate the horizontal and vertical components of the lift force

23). A car accelerates uniformly from rest to a speed of 150 km h–1 in 6.2 s.Calculate
the magnitude of the acceleration of the car in m s–2.
24). A cyclist travels a distance of 20 m at a constant speed then decelerates to a
traffic light 5 m ahead. The whole journey takes 3.5 s. Calculate the average speed
of the cyclist.
25)
26). A science museum designed an experiment to show the fall of a feather in a
vertical glass vacuum tube. The time of fall from rest is 0.5s. Find the length of the
glass tube?

27). A motorcycle stunt rider moving horizontally takes off from a point 1.25m above
the ground, landing 10 m away as shown. What was the speed at take-off?

28). A round steel bar of 0.05m2area subjected to a tensile force of 500N. Calculate
the tensile stress?

29). An aluminium alloy bar of rectangular section 75mm* 20mm, 800mm long
stretched by an axial load of 150KN. Calculate the stress in the bar.
30). The density of a substance is 2.5 g/cm³. Calculate its specific gravity relative to
water.
31). A liquid has a specific gravity of 0.8. Determine its density in kg/m³ if the density
of water is 1000 kg/m³.
32). The barometer shown contains mercury (Hg density=13.59g/cm3 ). If the local
atmospheric pressure is 100KPa and g=9.81m/s2. Determine the height of the
mercury column L in mmHg and inHg.

33). What would the centripetal force be if a 10-pound weight was moving in a 3ft
radius circular path at a velocity of 500 fps?

34). A 0.500-kg mass suspended from a spring oscillates with a period of 1.50 s.
How much mass must be added to the object to change the period to 2.00 s?

35). A mass of 500 Kg is hung on a spring and causes it to have a period of 1.5 s.
What is the spring constant of this spring?

36). 1.0 Kg mass attached to one end of a spring complete one oscillation every 2.0
s. Find the spring constant.

37). A block whose mass m is 5Kg is fastened to a spring having spring constant K is
2000N/m. The block is pulled a distance x=8cm from its equilibrium position at x=0
on a frictionless surface and released from rest at t=0.

Determine the period of oscillation and the frequency.

38). A spring with spring constant K=80Kg/s2is suspended with a mass. In order to
stretch the spring by 4 cms what mass is required?

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