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Answer: The CHANGE in POSITION, which is NOT necessarily the distance gone.
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Answer: An object which was moving in the negative direction would slow down if its acceleration
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2) Eric watches a jet powered truck during an "air-show." It accelerates from rest to 134 mls in
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8) A car traveling 16.7m/s accelerates at the rate of 4.0 m/s2. How much time is required for the car to
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11) An airplane increases its speed from 100.0 mls to 160 mIs, at the average rate of 15 m/s . How
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12) A car traveling 20.0 mls is able to stop in a distance d. Assuming e same braking force, what
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13) A jet fighter plane is launched from a catapult on "an aircraft carrier. It reaches a speed of 42 mls
at the end of the catapult, and this requires 2,0 s. Assuming the acceleration is constant, what is the
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15) An astronaut on a strange new planet finds that she can jump up to a maximum height of
27.meters when her initial upward speed is 6.0 m/s. What is the magnitude of the acceleration of
gravity on the planet? (hint: find a. but it isn't 9.80m/s2 - that is on Earth at sea level.)
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18) Can an object have increasing speed while its acceleration 1~~ecreasJng?
A) No, this is impossible because of the way in which acceleration is defined.
B) Yes and an example would be an object falling in the absence of air friction.
C) No if accele.r.at"on is decreasin the bjecLwilLbe.slowing..dQ
es and an example would be an object released from rest in the presence of air friction
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20) A ball is released moving straight up at 15. m/s. At some time later it is falling downward at
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(a) how long does it take the car to stop under these conditions?
(b) how far does the car travel during this time?
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34) Under what condition is average velocity equal to the average of the object's initial and final
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39) A bullet moving at 244. m/s strikes a tree and penetrates a distance of 8.34 mm before stopping.
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1 ) Which physical unit is the 51 acceleration of gravity?
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Answer: C
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2) When a ball is thrown straight up, which of the following is zero at its highest point?
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Answer: C (Acceleration is always 9.8m/s downward!)
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3) An object is thrown vertically and accelerates downward at +9.80 m/s (downwar:.d is positive and
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Answer: B
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7) The "acceleration of gravity" is 9.8 m/s2 everywhere on the surface of the Earth .
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8) A skydiver jumps from a high-flying plane. When she reaches terminal velocity. her velocity
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13) A ball is thrown straight up and returns to its starting point in 8.0 seconds under an acceleration
due to gravity. Which of the following is true? 0 tJ 4 t.;.
A) It took less time to rise than to fall. t/. ~
B) T.co are rise and fall ti es we e to know the mass of the ball. C( _ -4 e-. I til.
g It took the m~tlme to rise as it took to fall. (.'1 4>t.(.IO/'2. .
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Answer: C C7
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14) Contrast Aristotle's predictions concerning free-falling bodies with Galileo's predictions.
Answer: Aristotle said heavier bodies fall faster than light bodies; so if the two were dropped at the
same time, the heavier body would strike the ground sooner. Galileo observed that the motion was
independent of the body's mass provided air friction was not significant.
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15) When an object is released from rest and falls in the absence of friction, which of the following is
true concerning its motion?
A) Its velocity is constant. ~ aLl.de~1~
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C) Both its acceleration and its velocity are constant. No '""1.1••.• 'N. J. ~ ••
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Answer: E
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17) Consider a heavy object which is thrown straight up, reaches its highest point, and then falls back
down to the ground. During what parts of the trajectory was it in "FREEFALL"? (assume here that air
friction is negligible)
Answer: During its ntire travel d ring which gravity was the only significant influence on it (it "freely
fell" moving up, movi own, and at its motionless highest point).
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19) A can, after having been given a kick, moves up along a smooth hill of ice. It will
A) have a varying acceleration along the hill.
B) have the same acceleration, both up the hill and down the hill.
C) have a constant acceleration up the hill, but a different constant acceleration when it comes
back down the hill.
D) travel at constant velocity.
Answer: B
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16) Which physical unit is a fps acceleration?
A) -120 mils
B)40 km,SW
C) 9.8 m/s2
D) 186,000 mi
E) 32ft/s2
Answer: E
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25) A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly at 3 m/s2• A second car starts from rest 6.0s later
at the same point and accelerates uniformly at 5 m/s2. How long does it take the second car to
overtake the first car?
A) 24.0 s
B) 12.2 s
C) 35.0 s
D) 18.9 s
E) 22.7 s
Answer: E
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6) A toy rocket is launched upward with a net acceleration of 10m/s2 for 3.0 s. It then slows at the rate
of 10 m/s2 until it reaches its maximum altitude. How high does it go?
A) 90m
B) 30m
C) 15m
D) 60m
E) 45m
Answer: D
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29) In a test carried out by a car manufacturer, a test driver is asked to put on his brakes when a
warning light is suddenly flashed on in the roadway ahead. When traveling 25 m/s the driver is able to
stop in 98 m, and when traveling 10 m/s he is able to stop in 32.5 m. Assuming the driver's reaction
time is the same in each case, and that the rate of deceleration when the brakes are applied is
independent of speed, determine:
(a) the driver's reaction time.
(b) the driver's deceleration.
Answer: A
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30) A car slows uniformly and comes to a stop after 10.0 s. The car's average velocity during
acceleration was 50 km/h. What was the car's acceleration while slowing down?
A) 10 km/h-s
B) 5 km/h-s
C) 9.8 m/s2
0) 8 km/h-s
E) 4 km/h-s
Answer: A
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18) A skydiver jumps from a high-flying plane. When she reaches terminal velocity, her acceleration
A) is essentially zero.
B) is approximately 9.8 m/s2 downward.
C) is in the upward direction.
0) is approximately 9.8 m/s2 upward.
Answer: A
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