DIAGNOSTIC EXAM WITH ANSWERS

1. An object moves 20 m east in 30 s and then returns to its starting point taking an additional 50s. If west is chosen as
thepositive direction, what is the average speed of the object?
0.5m/s

2. Two resistors of values 6.0 and 12.0 ohm are connected in parallel. This combination in turn is hooked in series with a 4.0-
ohm resistor and a 24-V battery. What is the current in the 6-ohm resistor? Show all Work.
2.0A

3. A ball is rolled horizontally off a table with an initial speed of 0.24 m/s. A stopwatch measures the ball's trajectory time from
table to the floor to be 0.30 s. What is the height of the table? (g = 9.8 m/s2 and air resistance is negligible)
h= 0.441m

4. A firefighter, 50 m. away from a burning building, directs a stream of water from ground level through a fire hose at an angle
of 30 degrees above the horizontal. If the speed of the stream of water as it leaves the hose is 40.0 m/s, at what height will th
water stream strike the building?
18.656 m

5. Tripling both the tension in a guitar string and its mass per unit length will result in changing the wave speed in the string by
what factor?
1.00 (no change)

6. Twenty grams of a solid at 70C is placed in 100 grams of a fluid at 20C. Thermal equilibrium is reached at 30C. The specific
heat of the solid:
Is more than that of the fluid.

7. A truck moves 70 m east, then moves 120 m west, and finally moves east again a distance of 90 m. If east is chosen as the
positive direction, what is the truck's resultant displacement?
40m

8. A resistor is connected to a battery with negligible internal resistance. If you replace the resistor with one that has twice the
resistance, by what factor does the power dissipated in the circuit change?
0.50

9. In one-dimensional motion, the average speed of an object that moves from one place to another and then back to its
original place has which of the following properties?
positive

10. If the momentum of an object is tripled, its kinetic energy will change by what factor? (Assume the mass of the object
remains the same.)
9times

11. A golf ball hits a wall and bounces back at 3/4 the original speed. What part of the original kinetic energy of the ball did it
lose in the collision?
it lost 7/16th part of original kinetic energy / 44%

12. Calculate the linear speed due to the Earth's rotation for a person at the equator of the Earth. The radius of the Earth is
6.40x10^6 m.
465.42 m/s

13. Tasha has a mass of 20 kg and wants to use a 4.0 m board of mass 10 kg as a seesaw. Her friends are busy, so Tasha
seesaws by herself by putting the support at the system's center of gravity when she sits on one end of the board. How far is
she from the support point?
0.67m

14. A cart is given an initial velocity of 5.0 m/s and experiences a constant acceleration of 2.0 m/s2. What is the magnitude of
the cart's displacement during the first 6.0 seconds of its motion?
66m

15. An Earth satellite is orbiting at a distance from the Earth's surface equal to one Earth radius. At this location, the
acceleration due to gravity is what factor times the value of g at the Earth's surface?
0.25 or 1/4

16. A ping-pong ball has an average density of 0.0840g/cm3 and a diameter of 3.80 cm. What force would berequired to keep
the ball completely submerged underwater?
0.258 N

17. If a glass of water is on a table with a piece of paper under it, it is relatively easy to pull the paper out without disturbing the
glass very much if the pull is done very quickly. This is because, with a quick pull
Δp on the glass will be less since Δt is less

18. As a basketball player starts to jump for a rebound, he begins to move upward faster and faster until he leaves the floor.
During this time that he is in contact with the floor, the force of the floor on his shoes is:
Bigger than his weight

19. As I slide a box at constant speed up a frictionless slope, pulling parallel to the slope, the tension in the rope will be:
Less than the weight of the box

20. A flute behaves like a tube open at both ends. If its length is 65.3 cm. and the speed of sound is 340 m/s, what is its
fundamental frequency in Hz?
260.336 Hz

21. Arvin the Ant is on a picnic table. He travels 30 cm eastward, then 25 cm northward, and finally 15 cm westward. What is
the magnitude of Arvin’s net displacement?
29.154 cm

22. Replacing a wire resistor with another of the same material and length but with three times the diameter will have the
effect of changing the resistance by what factor?
R=1/9

23. An ideal fluid flows through a pipe made of two sections with diameters of 1.0 and 3.0 inches, respectively. The speed of
the fluid flows through the 3.0-inch section will be what factor times that through the 1.0-inch section?
1/9

24. A rectangular steel plate with dimensions of 30 cm x 25 cm isheated from 20 degrees C to 220 degrees C. What is its
change inarea? (Coefficient of linear expansion for steel is 11 x10-6 /C.)
3.3 cm2

25. A figure skater on ice with arms extended, spins at the rate of 2.5 rev/s. After he draws his arms in, he spins at 6.0 rev/s. By
what factor does the skater’s kinetic energy change when he draws his arms in?
2.4

26. A block of mass 5.00 kg rests on a horizontal surface where the coefficient of kinetic friction between the two is 0.200. A
string attached to the block is pulled horizontally, resulting in a 2.00 m/s2 acceleration by the block. Find the tension in the
string.
T = 19.8 N

27. Two ropes are attached to a 40-kg object. The first rope applies a force of 25 N and the second, 40 N. If the two ropes are
perpendicular to each other, what is the resultant acceleration of the object?
1.2 m/s^2

28. A 70 kg man is standing in a 20 kg boat. The man steps to theright thinking he is stepping out onto the dock. However,
thefollowing will actually happen (ignore the friction of the water orair on the boat or the man):
The man only moves a short distance to the right while the boatmoves a larger distance to the left
29. you stand by the railroad tracks as a train passes by you hear a 1000 Hz frequency when the train approaches which
changes to 800 Hz as it goes away. How fat is the train moving? the speed of sound in air is 340 m/s.
37.8 m/s

30. Resistors of values 8.0 ?, 12.0 ?, and 24.0 ? are connected in series across a battery with a small internal resistance. Which
resistor dissipates the greatest power?
24 Ω