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How Things Work (Bloomfield)
Chapter 1 Test Problems for 5th ed.

Section 1.1 – Skating

1. Suppose you have two cars, and the larger one is twice as massive as the smaller one. If you and a friend push on them so that their accelerations are equal, how must the forces applied to the cars compare?
A) The force on the larger car is equal to that on the smaller car
B) The force on the larger car is ½ that on the smaller car.
C) The force on the larger car is twice that on the smaller car.
D) The force on the larger car is more than three times that on the smaller car.
ANS: C                       DIFF: E    

2. Which of the following devices on a car can be used to cause the car to accelerate?
A) The gas pedal
B) The brake pedal
C) The steering wheel
D) All the above        
ANS: D           DIFF: E

3. The acceleration of an object is equal to
A) the rate of change of its position
B) the rate of change of its velocity
C) the rate of change of its speed only
D) the time an object has been in motion
ANS: B           DIFF: E 

4. Suppose you are at a stop light and realize that an important antique physics textbook sale ends in five minutes. Naturally, you start off very rapidly. To you, some papers on the dashboard fly straight backwards. To an observer on the ground they
A) remained where they were.
B) moved forward rapidly.
C) moved backwards rapidly.
D) fell straight down.
ANS: A                       DIFF: E

5. The SI units of acceleration are
A) m/s
B) kgm/s2
C) m/s2
D) kg m2/s2     
ANS: C                       DIFF: E


6. Suppose you have a car traveling down the road at constant speed and not changing direction. It is experiencing gravity, wind resistance and frictional forces from the road. What can be said about the car’s acceleration?
A) It is accelerating because there are forces acting on it.
B) It accelerating because the motor is running, propelling the car forward.
C) It is not accelerating because gravity holds it down.
D) It is not accelerating because it has constant velocity.
ANS: D           DIFF: M

7. Suppose you are driving north and suddenly hit your brakes to avoid a dog in the road. As you come to a stop your acceleration is directed
A) North
B) South
C) Nowhere because acceleration is a scalar
D) Downwards          
ANS: B           DIFF: M

8. If you are backing up but slowing down, your acceleration is directed
A) backwards
B) nowhere
C) forwards
D) to the left
ANS: C           DIFF: M         

9. Under what conditions are the values of average speed and the magnitude of the average velocity equal?
A) When moving in a straight line
B) When moving in a straight line and not turning around
C) When moving in a circular path
D) When walking around the perimeter of a rectangle
ANS: B           DIFF: M

10. You are making a round trip from City A to City B and back to City A again at constant speed. At what point in the trip is your average speed equal to three times the magnitude of your average velocity? 
ANS: Since velocity = change in position divided by time interval and average speed = total distance divided by time interval we need to find a point in the trip where the distance traveled is equal to three times the object’s change in position. Here it is useful to break the trip into four equal parts. We can see that halfway between the two cities on the way back to city A, three parts distance have been covered but the difference in position is only one part. Hence it is at the midway point on the return where the average speed is three times the average velocity.
DIFF: H

11. A frequent flyer is suing an airline. She claims that during landing, the plane’s rapid acceleration caused a suitcase on a luggage rack in front of her to fly backwards and hit her. Using any of Newton’s laws of motion, please support or refute the passenger’s claim.
ANS: Here I would use Newton’s first law of motion. The plane is accelerating backwards when landing. The book indeed has inertia, so Newton’s first law suggests that the book would tend to remain in a constant state of motion, so it would tend to slip forward (relative to the plane), not backward. Hence the passenger’s claim is refuted. DIFF: M

12. A friend states Newton’s First Law of Motion as “An object will move in a straight line unless acted upon by a force” Please evaluate the scientific merit of his statement.     
            ANS: the friend is almost right but has left out some very important loopholes. First off, it is a non-zero net force that causes acceleration, not necessarily any lone force. Also, a non-zero net force will make an object accelerate, meaning it will speed up, slow down or curve – not just curve as the friend suggests. The object could accelerate in a straight line.
DIFF: H

13. You walk in a given direction for 20 m during the first 5 seconds of a trip and then   15 m during the next 2 seconds. Your average speed is equal to
A) 8 m/s         
B) 2 m/s
C) 5 m/s
D) –5 m/s       
ANS: C           DIFF: M

14. To cause a 25 kg object to experience an acceleration of 2 m/s2 the net force that needs to be applied to the object is
A) 10 N 
B) 5 N
C) 50 N
D) 100 N        
ANS: C           DIFF: E

15. A net force of 8 N is applied to a 2 kg object. The object’s acceleration is
A) 4 m/s2
B) 8 m/s2
C) 16 m/s2
D) 2 m/s2
ANS: A           DIFF: E

16. An object experiences a net force of 20 N and has an acceleration of 4 m/s2. The object’s mass must be
A) 20 kg
B) 5 kg
C) 80 kg
D) 2 kg
ANS: B           DIFF: E
17. At a speed of 12 m/sec how far can you travel in one minute?
A)12 m
B) 72 m
C) 60 m
D) 720 m
ANS: D           DIFF: E

18. Consider a 6 kg box of holiday candy on a horizontal surface such as a table. There is a 10N applied force to the right and a 7 N frictional force to the left. Suppose the block moves 3 m to the right across the table, to its impending doom of hungry guests.
A) Please calculate the work done by the 10 N force.
ANS: W = Fd = (10)(3) = 30J

B) What is the work done by the 7 N frictional force?
ANS: W = Fd = (-7)(3) = -21J
DIFF: H

19. Is it possible for the magnitude of an object’s average velocity to be greater than its average speed? How about average speed being greater than the magnitude of the average velocity? Please explain. 

ANS: The magnitude of the average velocity for an object may be less than its average speed but not the other way around. One can look at the definition of the two quantities involved for an explanation. Average speed is distance divided by time and average velocity is displacement (finishing position minus initial position) divided by time. Since the time intervals are the same for both quantities the question boils down to comparing net displacement to distance traveled. If an object changes direction the difference in its position will be less than the distance traveled but under no circumstances can the finishing point minus starting point ever be greater than the distance traveled.
DIFF: M

20. Suppose an ice skater is moving on the surface of a frozen lake at constant velocity. What is true about the external (outside) forces acting on the skater?
            A) There are none.
            B) There could be some but they all cancel out.
            C) Gravity can be ignored.
            D) The all are perfectly horizontal.
ANS: B                       DIFF: E

21. The value of the average velocity for any round trip is equal to
            A) Total distance traveled divided by total trip time.
            B) The final acceleration multiplied by trip time
            C) Zero.
            D) The person’s speed halfway through the path.
ANS: C                       DIFF: E

22. Suppose that the night before your big physics exam you stayed up late watching stand – up physics comedians. Sides sore from having laughed too hard you come to class and are in the middle of the test when you get stuck. You are doing a calculation problem and know the answer must have units of velocity and are searching for a possible formula. Which of the following formulae would work for the problem?
            A) acceleration x time
            B) acceleration / time
           C) velocity squared x distance
            D) mass / volume
ANS: A                       DIFF: M

23. The neighborhood joker comes up to you and is really on a roll this morning. After several “good ones” they then say “OK so you’re taking physics, right? Here’s one – if the acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 then why isn’t everything accelerating? HAHAHA”. Being a dedicated student you give this question some real thought and come up with a reasonable response. You might say
            A) All things really do accelerate but we accelerate with them so we can’t tell.
            B) Gravity acts only on things that are not touching a surface.
C) Gravity is just part of the story and it is the total net external force that determines acceleration.
D) Most objects have too much inertia for us to see them accelerate under the influence of gravity. 
ANS: C                       DIFF: M

24. You are in your car at a stop light and start off really quickly. As you accelerate several items fall off the dashboard and on to the floor. Please explain why your car is a non – inertial reference frame. 
ANS: An inertial reference frame is one where Newton’s Laws work perfectly. Imagining the car to be a reference frame and riding along with it, when it accelerates there seems to be something that pulled the objects off the dash. Such behavior invalidates Newton’s first law of motion locally unless we add this “force” in the discussion. Answers will vary here. 
DIFF: H

25. A friend is casually talking with you about physics concepts and brings up the following claim. They say that average speed for a trip is total distance divided by total time, which is true.  Then they say that if the trip consists of a person traveling at two different speeds for two different times then you can get the average speed by just finding the average speeds for the two parts of the trip and then take their average. Is their claim true? Please explain.
ANS: Their claim is not true because unless the times for the two parts of the trip are equal, the part taking the longer time will count more for the average.
DIFF: H

Section 1.2 – Falling Balls


26. Your class is rather unhappy with the instructor, and they pitch in and decide to fund a sabbatical for him to go to Mars. Unbeknownst to the students the following semester, the instructor has made long distance course arrangements so the “show can go on”. The instructor begins talking about mass, weight and related things. He correctly makes which following statement:
A) his mass is still essentially unchanged but his weight is less than on earth.
B) his weight is still essentially unchanged but his mass is less than on earth.
C) neither his weight nor his mass have changed much.
D) his weight and mass have both changed significantly.
ANS: A           DIFF: E

27. Suppose you are a football player and you kick a ball for a field goal. Ignoring air resistance, the ball’s horizontal velocity
A) changes throughout the path due to gravitational acceleration
B) is zero at the top of the path
C) is maximum at the top of the path
D) remains constant throughout the path
ANS: D           DIFF: E

28. A child throws a ball perfectly horizontally at the same time a dirt clod falls off it at the same height above the ground. The clod falls vertically downward. Ignoring air resistance, the time when the clod hits the ground will 
A) be equal to the time the ball hits the ground
B) be earlier than when the ball hits
C) be later than when the ball hits
D) not depend upon how high it started falling from
ANS: A           DIFF: E

29. Your weight and mass are different in that
A) your weight is measured in kg but not your mass
B) your mass depends upon local gravity but your weight does not.
C) your weight depends upon local gravity but your mass does not.
D) being weightless means that you have to lose mass.
ANS: C           DIFF: E

30. Suppose a tree branch falls down to the ground with constant acceleration and takes 2 seconds to hit the ground. Which of the following statements regarding the path of the branch is true?
A) It covers the same distance during the first second as it does during the last second.
B) It covers more distance during the last second.
C) It covers less distance during the last second.
D) Its acceleration is increasing during the time it falls
ANS: B           DIFF: M

31. Suppose you go from the earth to a planet where the acceleration of gravity is 2.5 m/s2. On the new planet your weight will be about
A) be ¼ its value on Earth
B) quadruple
C) double
D) the sane as
ANS: A           DIFF: M

32. Suppose you go from the earth to a planet where the acceleration of gravity is 3 m/s2. On the new planet your mass will
A) be 1/3 its value on Earth
B) be 9 times its value on Earth
C) be 3/10 its value on Earth
D) not change
ANS: D           DIFF: M

33. A projectile is thrown directly upward and caught again. At the top of its path
A) it stops accelerating 
B) its vertical velocity is zero
C) its horizontal velocity changes 
D) its acceleration changes 
ANS: B           DIFF: M

34. Suppose you throw a ball downwards with a certain initial speed from a certain height h above the ground, and someone else throws a ball directly upward at the same speed, so the two balls collide. Will the two balls collide in the middle of the path (h/2), above the middle or below? Please explain.
ANS: The ball on top is speeding up while the bottom ball is slowing down. Hence, the ball on top will have covered a greater distance and so they will meet below the midpoint h/2.
DIFF: H

35. Suppose you are on another planet and you want to measure its acceleration of gravity so you drop an object from rest. It hits the ground, traveling a distance of 0.8 m in 0.5 second and then bounces back up and stops exactly where it started from.

a. Please calculate the acceleration of gravity on this planet.
ANS: d = ½ g t2 so 0.8 = ½ g (0.5)2 and 1.6 = 0.25 g, giving g = 6.4 m/sec2

b. Taking downward to be positive, how does the ball’s average speed compare to the magnitude of its average velocity on the way down?
ANS: On the way down the average speed and average velocity are numerically equal because the distance traveled from the starting point is the same as the change in position.

c. Taking the beginning of the motion as the time the ball was dropped, how does its average speed compare to the magnitude of its average velocity on the way up?
ANS: On the way up, the average speed and average velocity are not equal because the ball has stopped and turned around. In fact the average speed will be some positive number while the average velocity is approaching zero when it returns to the point it started from, because the ball’s change in position will be zero.

d.  With what speed did the ball hit the ground?
ANS: v = gt = 6.4 m/sec2  x 0.5 sec = 3.2 m/sec

e. When distance is divided by time the result is 1.6 m/sec. Please explain why this result does not agree with the answer in (D).
ANS: This is because d/t gives us the average speed (over the entire downward part of the trip) but the equation used in (D) gives us the final speed (at the end of the downward part of the trip). Another way you could look at it is that over the entire trip the ball was accelerating so it covered the first half of its trip in a longer time interval than it did the second. Hence it had to be moving faster at the end.
 DIFF: H

36. When someone throws a football, what should the launch angle be (ignoring air resistance) so that it travels a maximum distance? 
ANS: Without air resistance, the launch angle that gives maximum range is 45 degrees.
DIFF: E    

37. Suppose your instructor staggers into class after an all – night physics textbook sampling party and states Newton’s second law as “If an object experiences a force then it will accelerate. If there are no forces acting on it then it will stand still.” Please give three examples (from class, real life or made up) which expose mistakes on his part and briefly explain how they show his inaccuracies.
ANS (Answers will vary):
1) An object has to experience a non-zero net external force to accelerate. For example look at a book sitting on a desk. There is a force acting on it (gravity) but it is not accelerating because there is another force (the normal force) canceling it out.
2) Consider a car traveling down the road at constant velocity. Although it is moving and definitely not standing still, there is a zero net force on it because it is not accelerating.
3) The entire issue of mass has been left out of the picture, and Newton’s second law clearly says that F = m a. Consider a 10 kg crate on a level frictionless surface with a force of 10 N on it. The way the second law was presented the simple example can’t even be solved!!
DIFF: M

38.       You throw brick straight up. Ignoring air resistance, after it leaves your hand it will experience
A) only the downward force of its weight, both before and after it reaches its maximum height.
B) both an upward force, and the downward force of its weight after it rises. The upward force will gradually diminish to zero at the ball's maximum height, after which the ball will experience only the
downward force of its weight.
C) an upward force as it rises. This upward force will gradually diminish to zero at the ball's maximum height, after which the ball will experience only the downward force of its weight.
D) the upward force of its weight as it rises. Once the ball reaches its maximum height, it will begin to experience the downward force of its weight.
ANS: A                       DIFF: M

39. If you have a mass of 80 kg and are in a planet where the acceleration of gravity is 5 m/s2, your weight on the planet is
A) 400 N
B) 4000 N
C) 16 N
D) 80 N
ANS: C           DIFF: E

40. A gymnast jumps upward with an initial speed of 10 m/s. She is in the air for a total time of
A) 1 second
B) 5 seconds
C) 2 seconds
D) 10 seconds
ANS: C           DIFF: M

41. The maximum height above the ground for a the gymnast jumping straight upward with an initial speed of 10 m/s is
A) 5 m
B) 10 m
C) 2 m
D) 15 m
ANS: A           DIFF: M

42. A car starts from rest and accelerates at 4 m/s2. How much time will it take the car to reach a speed of 20 m/s?
A) 5 s
B) 10 s
C) 4 s
D) 8 s
ANS: A           DIFF: M

43. Suppose you are a football player and you kick a ball for a field goal. Including air resistance, the ball’s horizontal velocity
A) changes throughout the path due to gravitational acceleration
B) is zero at the top of the path
C) decreases throughout the path
D) increases throughout the path
ANS: C           DIFF: E

44. Suppose an object is traveling at terminal velocity, so it is falling through air but not accelerating. How does the force of air resistance compare to its weight?
A)    The two forces are equal and opposite.
B)    The two forces are equal.
C)     Air resistance is greater than the ball’s weight.
D)    Air resistance is less than the ball’s weight.
ANS: A           DIFF: E

45. Suppose you drop an object out of the window of a building and wait for it to hit the ground. How does the halfway point in distance compare to the halfway point in time? Please explain.
ANS: The object is accelerating downwards, and is therefore speeding up. As a result, it will take less time to cover the second half of the distance than it did the first. So when the object has traveled half the distance, it has taken more than half the travel time. 
DIFF: M

46. Suppose a 2 kg object is falling through the air and accelerating downwards at 8 m/s2. Taking g = 10 m/s2 What is the magnitude and direction of the force of air resistance on it?
A)    2N downward
B)    2N upward
C)    1N downward
D)    1N upward
ANS: B           DIFF: M

47. Suppose you throw a ball upwards with a certain initial speed from a certain height h above the ground, and you wait for it to go up, stop and come back down to the same (initial) position.  Including air resistance, how will its speed hitting the ground on the way back down compare to its launch speed? Please explain.
ANS: Its speed hitting the ground on the way back down will be less than its launch speed. This can be explained many ways, but one way to look at it is that, because of air resistance the ball will not go as high as it would have otherwise. Then, on the way down air resistances acts again. Both effects act together to reduce the speed of the ball on impact.
DIFF: H

48. In our calculations of motion, we have ignored certain aspects of the object and its environment. Please briefly discuss three such aspects, and what kind of differences they make.  
ANS: One aspect is air resistance, or drag. This causes the speed of an object in free fall to be slightly smaller than we assume it to be. A second aspect we ignore is the variation of gravitational acceleration with height above the ground. This would cause the acceleration of gravity g to be a variable and not constant, which would considerably complicate our calculations. A third aspect we ignore is the rotation of the earth, which causes slight variations to the motion of falling objects.
DIFF: H

Section 1.3 - Ramps


49. Suppose you weigh 986 N. How much force does the Earth exert on you, if any?
A) it cannot be determined
B) 986 N
C) 98.6N
D) none
ANS: B           DIFF: E

50. You are riding a bicycle into a strong head wind, but manage to keep moving in a straight line at a constant speed. The net force on you is
A) 0
B) in the direction of your motion
C) in the direction tie wind is pushing you (backwards)
D) downward due to your weight
ANS : A          DIFF: E

51. In order to do a positive amount of work you must
A) exert a force and move in the direction of the force
B) exert a force and just move
C) exert a force or move
D) change an object’s position
ANS: A           DIFF: E

52. Driving down the road, you hit an insect. How does the force your car exerts on the insect compare to the force the insect exerts on the car?
A) The force the car exerts on the insect is less.
B) The force the insect exerts on the car is less.
C) The two forces are equal in magnitude.
D) The insect exerts no force on the car
ANS: C           DIFF: E

53. Suppose your car is on a 5% grade, meaning that for every 100 m you travel along the road you raise or lower only 5 m in elevation. If your car weighs 1500 kg, what is the component of its weight parallel to the road?
A) 15000 N    
B) 1500 N
C) 7500 N
D) 750 N
ANS: D           DIFF: M

54. Suppose you are helping take groceries inside your house and you carry a heavy bag from the car to the house, keeping the bag at a constant level and walking at a constant speed. During your trip the work you do on the bag is
A) positive
B) 0
C) negative
D) equal to its potential energy
ANS: B           DIFF: M

55. Suppose you push horizontally on the wall of a building. For you to do work on the wall, which of the following need to happen?
A) the wall moves away from you
B) the wall lifts up
C) the wall moves sideways
D)  b and c
ANS: A           DIFF: M

56. Suppose Larissa throws a ball up in the air and it comes back down to the same place she threw it from. Ignoring times when the ball is in contact with her hand, and ignoring air resistance (friction with the air), identify the point(s) of
a. Maximum and minimum potential energy.
ANS: Here the points of maximum and minimum height are the points of maximum and minimum potential energy, respectively. This is because potential energy depends on height and increases with increasing height.

b. Maximum and minimum kinetic energy.
ANS: The maximum kinetic energy occurs at the point where the ball is moving fastest, namely right after it leaves Larissa’s hand and right before she catches it. The minimum kinetic energy will occur when the ball is moving slowest – right at the top of the path where it instantaneously stops.

c. Maximum and minimum total mechanical energy.
ANS: Since friction or other dissipative forces are acting, the total mechanical energy will be conserved and hence constant everywhere.

d. Please briefly describe the energy transformation taking place as the ball rises in the air, and also when it is falling back to earth.
ANS: As the ball rises, its kinetic energy is being converted into potential energy such that their sum is constant. On the way back down the opposite conversion is happening but still the total mechanical energy is constant.
DIFF: H

57. Suppose you do some work on an object. Think of two ways you can tell work has been done on the object just by observing the object.
ANS: One way to tell is to look at the height of the object. If it is at a new elevation then the work went into changing its potential energy. Another way to tell is to look at the speed of the object. If it sped up or slowed down then the work went into changing its kinetic energy.
DIFF: M/H

58. You are riding on a flat train car and are climbing up the side of a hay stack. You are half way up the stack and are maintaining a steady height. You and the stack are moving steadily along the straight tracks at constant speed. The net force on you is
A) downhill—toward the bottom of the front of the stack.
B) zero.
C) uphill—behind you.
D) horizontal—parallel to the tracks.
ANS: B           DIFF: M

59. You push on a box with a horizontal force of 20 N and the box moves a distance of 8 m. The amount of work you have done on the box is
A) 160 J
B) 320 J
C) 20J
D) 0
ANS: A           DIFF: E

60. Suppose you do 1000 J of work on a 5 kg object, and all the work went into lifting it above the ground. How high above the ground will the object be when all the work has been done?
A) 100 m
B) 5 m
C) 20 m
D) 1 m
ANS: C           DIFF: M

61. What is the potential energy of a 40 kg box that is 6m above the ground?
A) 240 J
B) 2400 J
C) 6 J
D) 60 J
ANS: B           DIFF: E

62. Suppose you push a 50 kg box 10 m up a frictionless incline that has a 10% grade. What is the change in potential energy for the box?
A) 500 J
B) 5000 J
C) 250 J
D) 2500 J
ANS:A            DIFF: H

63. In order to do a negative amount of work you must
A) exert a force and move in the direction of the force
B) exert a force and move opposite to the direction of the force.
C) exert a force or move
D) change an object’s position
ANS: B           DIFF: E

64. Please briefly discuss two situations where no work is done by a force.
One is where there is no distance the force acts through and another is where the force and motion are perpendicular. 
DIFF: E

65. Suppose you use a ramp to lift a 200 kg object. You raise it 2 m above the ground and did 5000 J of work. Assuming that gravity and friction could be the only forces you had to work against, was there any friction, and if so ho much work did you have to do against it?  
Yes there was friction because the work without friction is equal to mgh which is in this case 4000J. Since I did 5000J of work there had to be 1000J which went against friction.
DIFF: M

66. Your friend and you are at the mall shopping. She stops, grabs your arm and exclaims that she is worried about her physics test she took last Friday because she ignored the work done by (or against) the normal force when an object slides across a surface. What would you (correctly) reply to her?
ANS: I would say (correctly) that the normal force is always normal (perpendicular) the  surface the object is in contact with and for sliding there is not any motion perpendicular to the surface. Therefore no work can be done by or against the normal force.   
DIFF: M

67. Your friend and you are at the mall shopping. She stops, grabs your arm and exclaims that she is worried about her physics test she took last Friday because she ignored the work done by (or against) the normal force when a person is being lifted in an elevator. What would you (correctly) reply to her?
ANS: I would say (correctly) that the normal force is always normal (perpendicular) the  surface the object is in contact with and in this case the normal force indeed did work on the person. I would also tell her that I hoped she did well on her other questions.  
DIFF: H

68. In physics we often make approximations. We say, for example that when you push against a stationary wall, no work is done. Thinking about details of the system is this true? Please explain.
ANS: No this is not strictly true. The human hand is elastic and (although to a much less extent) so is the wall.  Therefore there really is some work done in pushing against a wall because there is a distance that the forces act through.  

DIFF: M/H

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