Option : Boiler Making and Welding+Electrotechnique+Mechatronics (BMW+ELT+MCT)

CA
Course Title: Physics 1 year 1
Lecturer : TCHOFFO Date: ____ Hall: ________Duration: 3 hrs
Instructions : Answer all questions
QUESTIONS ( 30 marks)
1. If an object has negative velocity and negative acceleration, is it slowing down or speeding
up?
(a) slowing down (b) speeding up
2. If the acceleration as a function of time is given by a(t) = At, and if x = v = 0 at t = 0,
what is x(t)?
𝐴𝑡2 𝐴𝑡2 𝐴𝑡3 𝐴𝑡3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 6 2 6

3. Under what condition is the average velocity (which is defined to be the total displacement
divided by the time) equal to the average of the initial and final velocities, (𝑣𝑖 + 𝑣𝑓 )/2?
(a) The acceleration must be constant.
(b) It is true for other motions besides constant acceleration, but not for all possible
motions. (c) It is true for all possible motions
4. Two cars, with initial speeds of 2𝑣 and 𝑣, lock their brakes and skid to a stop. Assume
that the deceleration while skidding is independent of the speed. The ratio of the distances
traveled is
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 8 (e) 16
5. You start from rest and accelerate with a given constant acceleration for a given distance.
If you repeat the process with twice the acceleration, then the time required to travel the
same distance
(a) remains the same (b) is doubled (c) is halved
(d) increases by a factor of √ 2 (e) decreases by a factor of √ 2
6. A car travels with constant speed 𝑣0 on a highway. At the instant it passes a stationary
police motorcycle, the motorcycle accelerates with constant acceleration and gives chase.
What is the speed of the motorcycle when it catches up to the car (in an adjacent lane on

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the highway)? Hint: Draw the v vs. t plots on top of each other.
(a) 𝑣0 (b) 3𝑣0 /2 (c) 2𝑣0 (d) 3𝑣0 (e) 4𝑣0
7. You start from rest and accelerate to a given final speed 𝑣0 after a time T. Your acceleration
need not be constant, but assume that it is always positive or zero. If d is the total distance
you travel, then the range of possible d values is
(a) d = 𝑣0 T/2 (b) 0 < d < 𝑣0 T𝑣0 /2 (c) 𝑣0 T/2 < d < T (d) 0 < d < 𝑣0 T (e) 0 < d < ∞
8. You are driving a car that has a maximum acceleration of a. The magnitude of the maxi-
mum deceleration is also a. What is the maximum distance that you can travel in time T,
assuming that you begin and end at rest?
(a) 2a𝑇 2 (b) a𝑇 2 (c) a𝑇 2 /2 (d) a𝑇 2 /4 (e) a𝑇 2 /8
9. A golf club strikes a ball and sends it sailing through the air. Which of the following
choices best describes the sizes of the position, speed, and acceleration of the ball at a
moment in the middle of the strike? (“Medium” means a non-tiny and non-huge quantity,
on an everyday scale.)
(a) x is tiny, v is medium, a is medium (b) x is tiny, v is medium, a is huge
(c) x is tiny, v is huge, a is huge (d) x is medium, v is medium, a is medium
(e) x is medium, v is medium, a is huge
10. Which of the following answers is the best estimate for the time it takes an object dropped
from rest to fall a vertical mile (about 1600 m)? Ignore air resistance, as usual.
(a) 5 s (b) 10 s (c) 20 s (d) 1 min (e) 5 min
11. You throw a ball upward. After half of the time to the highest point, the ball has covered
(a) half the distance to the top (b) more than half the distance
(c) less than half the distance (d) It depends on how fast you throw the ball.
12. A ball is dropped, and then another ball is dropped from the same spot one second later.
As time goes on while the balls are falling, the distance between them (ignoring air resistance,
as usual)
(a) decreases (b) remains the same
(c) increases and approaches a limiting value (d) increases steadily
13. You throw a ball straight upward with initial speed v0. How long does it take to return to
your hand?
(a) 𝑣02 /2g (b) 𝑣02 /g (c) 𝑣0 /2g (d) 𝑣0 /g (e) 2𝑣0 /g
14. Ball 1 has mass m and is fired directly upward with speed v. Ball 2 has mass 2m and is
fired directly upward with speed 2v. The ratio of the maximum height of Ball 2 to the
maximum height of Ball 1 is
2
(a) 1 (b) √2 (c) 2 (d) 4 (e) 8
15) A bullet is fired horizontally from a gun, and another bullet is simultaneously dropped
from the same height. Which bullet hits the ground first? (Ignore air resistance, the curvature
of the earth, etc.)
(a) the fired bullet (b) the dropped bullet (c) They hit the ground at the same time.
16) A projectile is fired at an angle θ with respect to level ground. Is there a point in the motion
where the velocity is perpendicular to the acceleration?
Yes No
17) A projectile is fired at an angle θ with respect to level ground. Does there exist a θ such
that the maximum height attained equals the total horizontal distance traveled?
Yes No
18) Is the following reasoning correct? If the launch angle θ of a projectile is increased (while
keeping v0 the same), then the initial vy velocity component increases, so the time in the air
increases, so the total horizontal distance traveled increases.
Yes No
19) A ball is thrown at an angle θ with speed v0. A second ball is simultaneously thrown
straight upward from the point on the ground directly below the top of the first ball’s parabolic
motion. How fast should this second ball be thrown if you want it to collide with the first ball?
(a) v0/2 (b) v0/√2 (c) v0 (d) v0 cos θ (e) v0 sin θ
20) A wall has height h and is a distance ℓ away. You wish to throw a ball over the wall with
a trajectory such that the ball barely clears the wall at the top of its parabolic motion. What
initial speed is required?
(a) √2gh (b) √4gh (c) √gℓ2/2h (d) √2gh + gℓ2/2h (e) √4gh + gℓ2/2h
21) Two balls are thrown with the same speed v0 from the top of a cliff. The angles of their
initial velocities are θ above and below the horizontal, as shown in Fig. 3.3. How much farther
along the ground does the top ball hit than the bottom ball? Hint: The two trajectories have a
part in common. No calculations necessary!
(a) 2𝑣02 /g
(b) 2𝑣02 sin θ/g (c) 2𝑣02 cos θ/g
(d) 2𝑣02 sin θ cos θ/g (e) 2𝑣02 sin2θ cos2 θ/g
22) A racecar travels in a horizontal circle at constant speed around a circular banked track. A
side view is shown in Fig. 3.4. (The triangle is a cross-sectional slice of the track; the car is
heading into the page at the instant shown.) The direction of the racecar’s acceleration is

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(a) horizontal rightward (b) horizontal leftward
(c) downward along the plane
(d) upward perpendicular to the plane
(e) The acceleration is zero.

23) Which one of the following statements is not true for uniform (constant speed) circular
motion?
(a) v is perpendicular to r. (b) v is perpendicular to a.
(c) v has magnitude Rω and points in the r direction.
(d) a has magnitude v2 /R and points in the negative r direction.
(e) a has magnitude ω2 R and points in the negative r direction.
24) A car travels around a horizontal circular track, not at constant speed. The acceleration
vectors at five different points are shown in Fig. 3.5 (the four nonzero vectors have equal
length). At which of these points is the car’s speed the largest?
25) .A bead is given an initial velocity and then circles indefinitely around a frictionless vertical
hoop. Only one of the vectors in Fig. is a possible acceleration vector at the given point. Which
one?

26) A pendulum is released from rest at an angle of 45◦ with respect to the vertical, as shown
below. Which vector shows the direction of the initial acceleration?

Gravitation
What do aching feet, a falling apple, and the orbit of the Moon have in common? Each is caused
by the gravitational force. Our feet are strained by supporting our weight—the force of Earth’s
gravity on us. An apple falls from a tree because of the same force acting a few meters above
Earth’s surface. And the Moon orbits Earth because gravity is able to supply the necessary
centripetal force at a distance of hundreds of millions of meters. In fact, the same force causes

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planets to orbit the Sun, stars to orbit the center of the galaxy, and galaxies to cluster together.
Gravity is another example of underlying simplicity in nature. It is the weakest of the four basic
forces found in nature, and in some ways the least understood. It is a force that acts at a distance,
without physical contact, and is expressed by a formula that is valid everywhere in the universe,
for masses and distances that vary from the tiny to the immense. What do aching feet, a falling
apple, and the orbit of the Moon have in common? Each is caused
by the gravitational force. Our feet are strained by supporting our weight—the force of Earth’s
gravity on us. An apple falls from a tree because of the same force acting a few meters above
Earth’s surface. And the Moon orbits Earth because gravity is able to supply the necessary
centripetal force at a distance of hundreds of millions of meters. In fact, the same force causes
planets to orbit the Sun, stars to orbit the center of the galaxy, and galaxies to cluster together.
Gravity is another example of underlying simplicity in nature. It is the weakest of the four basic
forces found in nature, and in some ways the least understood. It is a force that acts at a distance,
without physical contact, and is expressed by a formula that is valid everywhere in the universe,
for masses and distances that vary from the tiny to the immense.

Q:1 Two astronauts are floating in gravitational free space after

Q:2 Two spheres of masses m and M are situated in air and the gravitational force between
them
is F. The space around the masses is now filled with a liquid of specific gravity 3. The
gravitational force will now be
(A) 3F (B) F (C) F/3 (D) F/9
Q:3 Who among the following first gave the experimental velocity of G?
(A) Cavendish (B) Copernicus (C) Brook Taylor (D) none of these
Q:4 If the distance between the earth and the sun were half its present value, the number of
day in a year would have been
(A) 64.5 (B) 129 (C) 182.5 (D) 730