douglas (jed3339) – Practice Midterm 01 – yao – (54790) 1

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Multiple-choice questions may continue on Suppose a telescope has a perfect objective
the next column or page – find all choices mirror and its resolution is limited only by
before answering. diffraction. When viewing with light with a
wavelength of 400 nm, what is the smallest
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What happens to the speed and the wave- objects separated by 1.0 km on Mars from the
length of the light as it crosses the boundary Earth at a time when the Earth-Mars distance
in going from air into water? is 80 million kilometers?
Speed Wavelength
1. 390 m
1. Remains the same Remains the same
2. 39 km
2. Increases Remains the same
3. 3.9 km
3. Decreases Increases
4. 0.39 m
4. Increases Decreases
5. 39 m
5. Remains the same Decreases
6. 3.9 m
6. Decreases Decreases
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Alice is farsighted and cannot see objects
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clearly that are closer to her eyes than
Two spheres, fastened to “pucks”, are rid-
ing on a frictionless airtrack. Sphere 1 is 80.0 cm. What is the refractive power of
the contact lenses that will enable her to com-
charged with 3 nC, and sphere 2 is charged
fortably see objects at a distance of 25.0 cm
with 12 nC. Both objects have the same mass.
from her eyes?
1 nC is equal to 1 × 10−9 C.
As they repel,
1. +2.75 diopters
1. they do not accelerate at all, but rather
2. −2.75 diopters
separate at constant velocity.

2. sphere 1 accelerates 16 times as fast as 3. −7.00 diopters

sphere 2.
4. −5.25 diopters
3. sphere 2 accelerates 4 times as fast as
sphere 1. 5. +5.25 diopters

6. +7.00 diopters
4. they have the same magnitude of acceler-
ation.
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5. sphere 1 accelerates 4 times as fast as John’s face is 20 cm in front of a concave
sphere 2. shaving mirror. If he observes his image to
be twice as big and upright, what is the focal
6. sphere 2 accelerates 16 times as fast as length of the mirror?
sphere 1.
1. −10 cm
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on a screen behind the grating?
2. +10 cm
1. m = 5
3. +40 cm
2. m = 2
4. +30 cm
3. m = 7
5. −30 cm
4. m = 4
6. −40 cm
5. m = 6
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The thin composite lens has |R1 | = R and 6. m = 3
R
|R2| = , as shown in the figure.
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R1 The figure shows the path of a beam of light

through several layers of different indices of
refraction.
R2
n1 n2
θ1 n = 1.55
The lens has focal length
n1
1. f = R. n = 1.40
n2 − n1
n1
2. f = R. n = 1.20
2 (n1 − n2 )
n1
3. f = R.
4 (n1 − n2 ) θ2
n = 1.10
n2
4. f = R.
2 (n2 − n1 )
n1 If θ1 = 34 ◦ , what is the angle θ2 of the
5. f = R.
4 (n2 − n1 ) emerging beam?
n2 1. 42.9554
6. f = R.
n1 − n2 2. 59.9957
n1 3. 59.0061
7. f = R.
n1 − n2 4. 40.8
n1 5. 48.8615
8. f = R.
2 (n2 − n1 ) 6. 47.7946
n2 7. 55.04
9. f = R.
n2 − n1 8. 51.9947
n2 9. 51.0653
10. f = R.
2 (n1 − n2 ) 10. 45.8278
007 10.0 points Answer in units of ◦ .
Monochromatic light of wavelength 500 nm
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that has 4500 slits per cm. What is the What is the minimum incident angle θ1 in
highest order maximum that can be observed order to have total internal reflection at the
surface between the n = 1.2 medium and the
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n = 1.1 medium? 6. 60 cm, 30 cm, 90 cm
1. 44.6864
2. 39.4363 012 10.0 points
3. 45.2087 Two charges attract each other with a force
4. 42.6111 2.5 N. What will be the force if the distance
5. 42.1355 between them is reduced to one fifth of its
6. 41.4718 original value?
7. 40.5647
8. 46.3595 1. 0.5 N
9. 43.8131
10. 38.3978 2. 0.1 N
Answer in units of ◦ .
3. 10 N
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Charges q1 and q2 are on the x axis, with q1 4. 62.5 N
at x = a and q2 at x = 2a. For the net force
on another charge at the origin to be zero, it 5. 12.5 N
must be true that:
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1. q2 = 4q1 Two point charges, 8 × 10−9 C and
−2 × 10−9 C are separated by d = 4 m. The
2. q2 = −4q1 magnitude of the electric field midway be-
tween them is (use 9 × 109 N · m2 /C2 for the
3. q2 = −2q1 electrostatic constant):

4. q2 = −q1 /4 1. 3.6 × 10−8 N/C

5. q2 = 2q1 2. 13.5 N/C

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An object O and its real, inverted image I
formed by a certain lens are separated by a
distance d = 90 cm. The image size is half the
object size, and the lens sits somewhere on the
line between the image and its object. What
are the object distance to the lens, the image
distance to the lens, and the focal length of
the lens, respectively?
1. 60 cm, 30 cm, 20 cm
2. 60 cm, 30 cm, 30 cm
3. 30 cm, 60 cm, 20 cm
4. 9 × 109 N/C
5. 1.35 × 105 N/C
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A 360-nm thick oil film floats on the surface
of a pool of water. The indices of refraction
of the oil and the water are 1.50 and 1.33,
respectively. When the surface of the oil is
illuminated from above at normal incidence
with white light, what is the wavelength in
the visible light spectrum that is most weakly
reflected?

4. 30 cm, 60 cm, 30 cm 1. 520 nm

5. 30 cm, 60 cm, 90 cm 2. 560 nm

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3. 620 nm

4. 600 nm

5. 540 nm

6. 580 nm

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Lenses #1 and #2 are two convergent lenses
that have the same focal length f . An object
4
is placed at a distance s1 = f to the left of
3
lens #1.
Determine s′2 , i.e., the final image location
for the two-lens combination measured with
respect to lens #2.
#1 #2

s1 d=f

1. s′2 = 2 f
3
2. s′2 = f
4
2
3. s′2 = f
5
1
4. s′2 = f
4
5. s′2 = 4 f
1
6. s′2 = f
5
1
7. s′2 = f
2
2
8. s′2 = f
3
3
9. s′2 = f
2
5
10. s′2 = f
2