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Instructor: Dr. K. Foyle
Class: Physics 1BB3, Modern Physics for the Life Sciences
FIRST MIDTERM EXAMINATION
DATE: Feb. 6th, 2014
TIME: 7pm
PLACE: T29 101 & 105
DURATION OF EXAMINATION: 2 hours
This examination paper includes 17 pages and 17 questions. You
are responsible for ensuring that your copy of the paper is
complete. Bring any discrepancy to the attention of your
invigilator.
Special Instructions:
Answer multiple-choice questions (questions 1 to 16) on the
provided examination answer sheet.
Answer the written answer question (question 17) directly on
this copy.
Return both your examination answer sheet and this copy at
the end of the examination, after verifying your name and student
number are written on both.
A calculator can be used if necessary.
A formula sheet is provided on the back of this page.
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Mark:
Multiple-choice questions (#1-16):

/85

Written answer questions (#17):

/15

Total:

/100

---------DO NOT WRITE ABOVE THIS LINE-----------FORMULA SHEET

v2
a=
R
(t) = 0 + t
1
(t) = 0 + 0 t + t 2
2
= F r sin

I = mi ri2
i

1
E k rotation = I 2
2
L = mv r sin
L = I

Moment of inertia of a solid disk or solid cylinder about its


center: I=(1/2)MR2
cylinder about its center: I=MR2
Moment of inertia of a hollow
Moment of inertia of a sphere about an axis through its center:
I=(2/5)MR2
Moment of inertia of a rod about one of its ends: I=(1/3)ML2
g=9.81 m.s-2
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Part 1: Multiple-choice questions (questions 1 to 16)


Answer these questions on the provided examination answer
sheet. (Make sure you write your name and student number on
the answer sheet!).
For questions with a numerical answer, if your answer does not
match any of the provided answers, pick the one with the closest
value.
Questions 1 to 9 are completely independent questions.
Questions 10 to 16 are part of a problem, but still mostly
independent from one another.
Question 1. You are driving at a constant speed of 39.0 m/s along
a circular trajectory with radius 29.0 m. What is your
acceleration?
ABCDE-

52.4 m/s2
1.34 m/s2
21.6 m/s2
0.7444 m/s2
8.45 m/s2

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Question 2. Which one of the following statements


concerning the moment of inertia I is false?
A- I may be expressed in units of kg.m2.
B- I depends on the angular acceleration of the object as it
rotates.
C- I depends on the location of the rotation axis relative to
the particles that make up the object.
D- I depends on the orientation of the rotation axis relative
to the particles that make up the object.
E- Of the particles that make up an object, the particle with
the smallest mass may contribute the greatest amount
to I.

Question 3. A high diver in midair pulls her legs inward


toward her chest in order to rotate faster. Doing so changes
which of these quantities: her angular momentum L , her
rotational inertia, I , and her rotational kinetic energy K ?
r ot

ABCDE-

only
I only
only
K
L and I only
I and K
only
L

r ot

r ot

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Question 4. A 2kg disk having a radius of 20cm is pivoted at a


point on its circumference by a thin nail. The disk is pulled back
so that its center of mass is at the same level as the nail. With
what angular velocity must the disk be launched so that the center
of mass of the disk will just reach a point vertically above the
nail?
A0 rad/s
B20.3 rad/s
C15.4 rad/s
D12.8 rad/s
E8.1 rad/s
nal!

ini)al!

!
!
CM!

Nail!

Question 5. A 20 kg wooden beam 3.0 m long is tapered such


that the center of mass is located nearer one end. Two women
are carrying the beam horizontally, one woman at each end. If
one is supporting 50% more weight than the other, how far
from the lighter end of the beam is the center of mass located?
ABCDE-

2.0 m
1.5 m
1.8 m
1.3 m
None of the above

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Question 6: A boy is whirling a stone around his head by


means of a string. The string makes one complete revolution
every second, and the tension in the string is FT. The boy then
speeds up the stone, keeping the radius of the circle unchanged,
so that the string makes two complete revolutions every second.
What happens to the tension in the string?
ABCDE-

The tension is unchanged.


The tension reduces to half its original value.
The tension increases to twice its original value.
The tension increases to four times its original value.
The tension reduces to one-fourth of its original value.

Question 7. If an object in circular motion increases its angular


velocity from 250 rpm to 500 rpm in 5 seconds, the tangential
acceleration of a point of the object at 6 cm from its center of
rotation is approximately
A- 0.3 m/s2
B- 0.8 m/s2
C- 1.5 m/s2
D- 3 m/s2
E- 6 m/s2

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Question 8. Consider two masses, each of 2 kg at the ends of a


light rod of length L with the axis of rotation through the center
of rod. The rod is doubled in length and the mass on the left
side is halved. Where can an additional mass of 2 kg be placed
on the rod in order to keep the rod balanced on its center?
ABCDE-

At far left
At the far right
At L/4 from the left
At L/2 from the left
At L/3 from the right

Question 9. A hockey stick, 2.00 m long and 1.2


kg, is rested up against a wall. The torque about
the pivot point caused by the sticks weight is 5.0
Nm. What is the torque about the pivot point
caused by the force of the wall on the top of the
stick? (Assume that this stick is in static
equilibrium)

Pivot Point

A1.0 Nm
B3.0 Nm
C5.0 Nm
D10. Nm
ENeed to know the angle between the hockey stick
and the vertical.

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Read the following carefully before answering questions 10 to


16. Those questions are all independent, except for question 15
(you will need to answer several previous questions correctly to
answer question 15).
A yoyo is a toy consisting of a flattened spool around which a
string can be wrapped. If a yoyo is released without initial
velocity, with the end of the string kept in a fixed position, the
downward speed of the yoyo starts by increasing and but then it
ends up decreasing. In the following series of questions (10 to
16), we try to understand why.
We will consider a yoyo made of two identical solid disks (each
with mass M1 = 0.050 kg and radius R1 = 0.075 m), joined by a
concentric solid cylindrical shaft (mass M2 = 0.0050 kg, radius R2
= 0.010 m), as shown in Fig. 1. A string with negligible mass is
wrapped around the yoyo, a shown in Fig. 2 and 3. Initially, the
length of string wrapped around the yoyo is L = 0.85 m. The
string is attached to the yoyo at one end (so that the wrapped up
part of the string cannot slip around the shaft) and its other end is
kept in a fixed position as the yoyo falls (Fig. 3).

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Figure 1

Question 10: The moment of inertia of the yoyo with respect to a


horizontal axis passing through its center of mass (this axis is
indicated by a dashed line in Fig. 1 above) is:
A-

I = 2.5 10-7 kg.m2

B-

I = 1.4 10-4 kg.m2

C-

I = 2.8 10-4 kg.m2

D-

I = 5.3 10-4 kg.m2

E-

I = 5.6 10-4 kg.m2

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Figure 2

Question 11: Which of the following statements correctly applies


to the yoyo during its fall (see Fig. 2 above for the orientation of
the wrapped up string with respect to the yoyo, and consider that
a counterclockwise rotation is positive, as indicated in the figure):
ABCDE-

The net force exerted on the yoyo is zero.


The net torque exerted on the yoyo is zero.
The net torque exerted on the yoyo is negative.
The net torque exerted on the yoyo is positive.
The angular momentum of the yoyo is conserved.

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Question 12: During its fall, the mechanical energy of the yoyo is
conserved. Why?
ABecause the net torque exerted on the yoyo is zero.
BBecause the net force exerted on the yoyo is zero.
CBecause all the forces exerted on the yoyo are
conservative.
DBecause, although at least one force applied to the
yoyo is not conservative, it does no work.
EBecause none of the forces exerted on the yoyo does
any work.

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Figure 3

Question 13: If the zero for gravitational potential energy is


chosen at z=0 (that is when the yoyo is at its lowest point, as
indicated in Fig. 3 above), what is the value of the mechanical
energy of the yoyo during its fall?
ABCDEquestion.

0J
0.46 J
0.88 J
1.8 J
One would need more information to answer this

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Question 14: If the thickness of the layer of wound-up string is d


(see Fig. 2 on page 6), what is the relationship between the
angular velocity of the yoyo () and its downward speed (v)? (If
you find it hard to answer this question, try considering how
much string is unwound during one rotation of the yoyo, and how
that length of string is related to the downward speed and angular
velocity of the yoyo).
A-

v=R1.

B-

v=(R1+d).

C-

v=R2.

D-

v=(R2+d).

E-

v=(R1+R2).

Question 15: When the yoyo is halfway through its fall, at z=L/2,
the thickness of the layer of wound-up string is d = 0.030 m, but
at z=0 it has decreased to d = 0.000 m. Making use of this
information, calculate the downward speed of the yoyo at z=L/2
and z=0 (these speeds will be noted v1 and v2, according to the
notation in Fig. 3).
ABCDE-

v1 = 3.1 m/s and v2= 1.8 m/s


v1= 2.5 m/s and v2= 0.78 m/s
v1= 2.5 m/s and v2= 0.62 m/s
v1= 1.8 m/s and v2=0.78 m/s
v1= 1.8 m/s and v2=0.62 m/s
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Question 16: What happens to the linear and rotational


components of the kinetic energy of the yoyo as it falls from
z=L/2 to z=0?
A- Both the linear kinetic energy and rotational kinetic energy
of the yoyo decrease.
B- Both the linear kinetic energy and rotational kinetic energy
of the yoyo increase, but the linear kinetic energy increases more
than the rotational kinetic energy.
C- Both the linear kinetic energy and rotational kinetic energy
of the yoyo increase, but the rotational kinetic energy increases
more than the linear kinetic energy.
D- The linear kinetic energy of the yoyo increases while its
rotational kinetic energy decreases.
E- The linear kinetic energy of the yoyo decreases while its
rotational kinetic energy increases.

--------------End of Part 1: Multiple-Choice Questions----------

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Part 2: Written answer question (question 17)


Answer this question directly on your examination copy,
explaining clearly and concisely how you arrived to the answer.
Question 17. A hollow, vertical cylindrical drum of radius R =
2.45 m is rotated with angular velocity about its central axis, as
shown in the figure below. A smaller cylinder (with mass M =
80.0 kg) rotates around on its inner wall. The smaller cylinder is
NOT in anyway attached to the cylindrical drum.

a. Draw a free-body diagram of the mass, labeling all the forces


acting on it, and write a list of what the labels mean.
b. What angular velocity (in radians/second) would be required
to make the normal force pressing against the mass be twice the
magnitude of its own weight?
c. At the value of obtained in (b), what is the minimum
coefficient of static friction, S, necessary to keep the mass
suspended on the inner wall of the cylinder as it rotates?

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----------End of Part 2: Written Answer Question----------

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