There are 20 multiple choice questions.

Select the most suitable answer for each

question and mark the answer in the answer sheet.
g = 10 ms-2

01.

Sum of the mass of a cyclist and the bicycle is 70 kg. Cyclist rides the bicycle along a
horizontal pathway with 30 ms-1 velocity. Horizontal force exerted forward by the cyclist
is 20 N.
After traveling 30 s with constant velocity , it stopped due to brakes after 15 s. Assume that
during the whole journey wheels rotated without slipping and friction is negligible.

(a) Find the constant deceleration force exerted by brakes.

(b) Draw a rough graph to represent the variation of velocity (v) with time (t) during 45 s of the
journey.
(c) Copy this diagram to your answer sheet and label the forces exerted on front and rare
wheels of the bicycle when traveling with constant velocity.
(d) Calculate the velocity of A and B points when it is with constant velocity.
(e) Find the number of rotations of the wheel during 45 s. Radius of the wheel is 35 cm.

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02.

Following diagram shows a water wheel rotated by water by using water of a reservoir.
When water falls at a rate of 3 m3 min-1 on the blades of
the wheel, it starts to rotate.
(a) When water moves from top point of the wheel to the
bottom point of the wheel, what is the change of
potential energy per second?
(b) What are the reasons for the efficiency not being
100% ?
(c) If efficiency of this wheel is 70%, what is the energy
output of the wheel?
(d) Energy requirement for Sri Lanka per one year is 10 GWh. How many such wheels are
needed to satisfy the above requirement? ( Assume that efficiency is 70% rate of water
flowing throughout the year is constant)

03.

There are two trolleys of mass 100 g and 200 g on a horizontal pathway without friction. As
shown by the figure trolley with 200 g mass is attached to a spring of spring constant
1000 Nm-1.100 g mass trolley travel with 50 cm/s velocity and collide with 200 g mass trolley
and connected to it.

(a) What type of collision is this?

(b) What are the quantities conserved in this collision?
(c) What is the common velocity of the system after collision between two trolleys?
(d) Find the kinetic energy of the system before and after the collision.
(e) What is the maximum compression of the spring after the objects become rest after the
collisions? What is the assumption you made to do this calculation.

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04.

State two necessities to be valid the Archimedes principle.

The diagram shows a ship floating on sea which has a uniform
cross sectional area of 10 m3. A canon fixed on the ship is 450C
inclined to the horizontal. Ship is submerged 5 m in the sea.
1
The canon can release bullets with 500 2 ms
relative to the land.
(density of water is 1000 kgm-3 ).
(a) What is the mass of the ship with canon?
(b) A bullet of mass 1000 kg was taken from outside and entered in to the gun and projected.
Calculate the recoil velocity of the ship.
(c) If this firing took place for 0.02 s
(1) What is the horizontal extra force exerted on the ship?
(2) What is the vertical extra force exerted on the ship?
(3) If recoil displacement is 5 m, calculate the resistive force exerted on the ship by
the water.
(4) Calculate the extra depth submerged by the ship due to the vertical force exerted
on the ship?
(5) Calculate the horizontal displacement of the ship during the time when bullet is in
air.

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