UCSB Physics 3, Fall 2016

Midterm Exam
Practice
TR 8:00-9:15 Lecture
INSTRUCTIONS:
On your Scantron form, WRITE your name and perm
number and BUBBLE in your perm number.
There are 12 equally weighted multiple-choice questions on this
exam. For each multiple-choice question, bubble in the one best
answer on your Scantron form and circle the one best answer on
your exam book as a record of your answers.
Please use a #2 pencil ONLY. There is a pencil sharpener at the
front of the lecture hall.
This is an open notes exam. Calculators are OK, but mobile
devices of any kind are forbidden.
If you have any questions during the exam, please ask the
instructor.
At the end of the exam, hand in your Scantron only. You may
keep this exam book.

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There are seven (7) conceptual questions and five (5) problems. For each question or problem, choose the one alternative
that best completes the statement or answers the question. For each question, bubble in your answer on your Scantron
form AND record any work you do in your blue book.
1)

Four traveling waves are described by the following equations, where all quantities are measured
in SI units and y represents the displacement.
I: y = 0.12 cos(3x - 21t)
II: y = 0.15 sin(6x + 42t)
III: y = 0.13 cos(6x + 21t)
IV: y = -0.27 sin(3x - 42t)
Which of these waves have the same period?
A) I and III, and also II and IV
B) I and II, and also III and IV
C) I and IV, and also II and III
D) All of them have the same period.
E) They all have different periods.

2)

You are generating traveling waves on a stretched string by wiggling one end. If you suddenly
begin to wiggle more rapidly without appreciably affecting the tension, you will cause the waves to
move down the string
A) slower than before.
B) faster than before.
C) at the same speed as before.

3)

A tube open at one end and closed at the other end produces sound having a fundamental
frequency of 350 Hz. If you now open the closed end, the fundamental frequency becomes
A) 87.5 Hz.
B) 700 Hz.
C) 175 Hz.
D) 1400 Hz.
E) 350 Hz.

4)

When two point charges are a distance d part, the electric force that each one feels from the other
has magnitude F. In order to make this force twice as strong, the distance would have to be
changed to
A) d/2.
B) 2d.
C) d/ 2.
D) 2d.
E) d/4.

5)

Two long straight parallel lines, #1 and #2, carry uniform positive linear charge densities. The
charge density on line #2 is twice as great as the charge density on line #1. The locus of points
where the electric field due to these lines is zero is
A) along a line between the lines closer to line #2 than line #1.
B) along a line between the lines closer to line #1 than line #2.
C) at a point midway between the lines.
D) along a line perpendicular to lines #1 and #2.

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6) The figure shows three electric charges labeled

Q 1, Q 2, Q 3, and some electric field lines in the

region surrounding the charges. What are the signs of the three charges?

A)

Q 1 is negative, Q 2 is positive, Q 3 is negative.

B) Q 1 is positive, Q 2 is negative, Q 3 is positive.
C) Q 1 is positive, Q 2 is positive, Q 3 is negative.
D) All three charges are negative.
E) All three charges are positive.
7)

Two large, flat, horizontally oriented plates are parallel to each other, a distance d apart. Half way
between the two plates the electric field has magnitude E. If the separation of the plates is reduced
to d/2 what is the magnitude of the electric field half way between the plates?
A) E/2
B) 0
C) 4E
D) 2E
E) E

8)

A transverse wave is traveling on a string stretched along the horizontal x-axis. The equation for
the vertical displacement y of the string is given by y = 0.0020 cos[ (15x - 52t)], where all
quantities are in SI units. The maximum speed of a particle of the string is closest to
A) 0.64 m/s.
B) 0.74 m/s.
C) 0.33 m/s.
D) 0.53 m/s.
E) 0.43 m/s.

9)

Two in-phase loudspeakers that emit sound with the same frequency are placed along a wall and
are separated by a distance of 5.00 m. A person is standing 12.0 m away from the wall, equidistant
from the loudspeakers. When the person moves 1.00 m parallel to the wall, she experiences
destructive interference for the first time. What is the frequency of the sound? The speed of sound
in air is 343 m/s.
A) 512 Hz
B) 674 Hz
C) 211 Hz
D) 256 Hz
E) 422 Hz

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10) The point charge at the bottom of the figure

is Q = +17 nC, and the curve is a circular arc. What is

the magnitude of the force on the charge Q due to the other point charges shown?
(k = 1/4 0 = 8.99 109 N m2/C2)

A)
11)

1.9 10-4 N

B) 1.6

10-4 N

C)

2.3 10-4 N

D)

1.2 10-4 N

A point charge Q = -500 nC and two unknown point charges, q1 and q2, are placed as shown in
the figure. The electric field at the origin O, due to charges Q, q1 and q2, is equal to zero. The
charge q1 is closest to

A)

76 nC.

B) 130

nC.

C)

-76 nC.

D)

-130 nC.

E) 150

nC.

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12) A hollow conducting spherical shell has radii

of 0.80 m and 1.20 m, as shown in the figure. The

sphere carries a net excess charge of -500 nC. A point charge of +300 nC is present at the center.
(k = 1/4 0 = 8.99 109 N m2/C) The radial component of the electric field at a point that is 0.60
m from the center is closest to

A)

zero.

B) -5000

N/C.
C) +7500 N/C.
D) -7500 N/C.
E) +5000 N/C.