SI UNITS CONVERSION

1. Convert 4.0 cm to m. 9. Convert 4.0 pm to μm.

2. Convert 4.0 Mm to dam. 10. Convert 4.0 mm to cm.
3. Convert 40 mm to m. 11. Convert 40 mm to km.
4. Convert 40 m to mm. 12. Convert 40 Gm to dam.
5. Convert 0.4 km to m. 13. Convert 0.4 hm to cm.
6. Convert 0.4 m to km. 14. Convert 0.4 km to dm.
7. Convert 40.0 m to dm. 15. Convert 40.0 nm to mm.
8. Convert 400.0 km to Tm. 16. Convert 400.0 nm to dm.

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
1. You’re throwing a pizza party for 15 people and figure that each person will eat 4 slices. You call up the pizza place
and learn that each pizza will cost you $14.78 and it will be cut into 12 slices. How much is the pizza going to cost
you? You only have $70. Will you have enough money?

2. In my chemistry class, 28 students are each given 3 pens. If there are 8 pens in one package, priced at $1.88 per
package, what is the total cost of giving away pens?

SIGNIFICANT FIGURES
Indicate how many significant figures there are in each of the following measured values.
246.32 1.008 700000
107.854 0.00340 350.670
100.3 14.600 1.0000
0.678 0.0001 320001

Calculate the answers to the appropriate number of significant figures.

32.567 + 135.0 + 1.4567 = 6.47 x 64.5 =
246.24 + 238.278 + 98.3 = 43.678 x 64.1 =
658.0 + 23.5478 + 1345.29 = 1.678 / 0.42 =
23.7 x 3.8 = 28.367 / 3.74 =
45.76 x 0.25 = 4278 / 1.006 =
81.04 x 0.010 =

SCIENTIFIC NOTATION
Write each in scientific notation.
1) 0.000006 5) 6.7 9) 48900
2) 5400000 6) 0.0000002 10) 0.0000009
3) 60 7) 2000000 11) 0.63 × 101
4) 0.009 8) 71 × 103 12) 33 × 10−3

Write each in standard form

1) 2.66 × 104 5) 9.5 × 107 9) 7.5 × 10−5
2) 1.5 × 10−2 6) 1.71 × 107 10) 4 × 100
3) 7.75 × 10−1 7) 0.9 × 10−3 11) 8.4 × 105
4) 8.3 × 107 8) 38 × 102 12) 4 × 10−5

SCALARS AND VECTORS

State whether the following are examples of vector or scalar quantities:
1. A distance of 2 m 4. 55 s
2. A force of 35 N acting 30o W of N 5. 4 m·s-1
3. A velocity of 3 m·s-1 on a bearing of 115o 6. 165 m North

Find the resultant of the following forces and draw the diagram.
1. 2 N right; 7 N right
2. 4 N right; 12 N left
3. 12 N left; 16 N left
4. 3 N right; 6 N left; 15 N right; 8 N left
5. 16 N left; 2 4 N right; 13 N left
LINEAR KINEMATICS

CONSTANT ACCELERATION
1. A rally car accelerates from 10 m/s to 58 m/s in 8 seconds as it moves along a straight road. Given that the
acceleration is constant, what is the acceleration of the car?

2. A bus traveling along a straight road accelerates at 2 m/s 2, for 4 seconds, covering a distance of 44 meters. After
the 4 seconds what velocity is the bus traveling at?

3. A rowing boat crosses the finish line at 12 m/s and carries on in a straight line. If it immediately decelerates at 4
m/s2 until it comes to rest, how far past the finish line will the rowing boat come to a stop?

4. During the middle of an 800 meter race an athlete running at 6.8 m/s constantly accelerates, along part of the
straight, to 8 m/s in order to get in a better position for the final lap. Given this took 2 seconds, what distance did the
athlete cover in this time?
5. A lift at the ground floor rises vertically from rest with constant acceleration of 0.6 m/s 2. If it passes the first floor at
1.8 m/s, how high is the first floor?

6. An object falls from a high building and hits the ground in 9.0 seconds. Ignoring air resistance, what is the distance
that it fell?

7. An object falls from the Transco Tower in Houston and takes 15 seconds to reach the ground.
A. What is its velocity at impact if air resistance is ignored?
B. How tall is the building?
C. What is its acceleration at 2s?
D. What is its acceleration at 5s?
E. If the Transco Tower were actually 3,000 meters tall, how long would an object take to free-fall off of the top
of the building? (Ignoring air resistance)

PROJECTILE MOTION
1. A ball is kicked at an angle of 35° with the ground.
a) What should be the initial velocity of the ball so that it hits a target that is 30 meters away at a height of 1.8 meters?
b) What is the time for the ball to reach the target?

2. A ball kicked from ground level at an initial velocity of 60 m/s and an angle reaches a horizontal distance of 200
meters.
a) What is the size of angle?
b) What is time of flight of the ball?

3. A projectile starting from ground hits a target on the ground located at a distance of 1000 meters after 40 seconds.
a) What is the size of the angle?
b) At what initial velocity was the projectile launched?

HOOKE’S LAW
1. What is the elastic force a spring will exert if it has k =175N/m and is stretched 30cm?
2. How far must a spring (spring constant = 35N/m) be pulled in order to exert a force of 63N?
3. How far will a spring with rest length 82cm and spring constant 0.50N/m be if it is stretched until it exerts 0.25N?
4. A spring has a rest length of 1.30m. When a 20kg mass is hung on it, it stretches to 3.60m. What is its spring
constant?

UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION

1. A stone is attached to a string 1.00m long, and is twirled in a circle at a rate of 15 revolutions in 20 seconds.
Calculate the centripetal acceleration acting on the stone.

2. A phonograph record 60.0cm in diameter rotates 33 1/3 times per minute.

a) What is its period?
b) Calculate the speed of a point on its rim in m/s.
c) What is the centripetal acceleration of a point on it rim?
3. An object is moving with uniform circular motion, at a speed of 5.00 m/s. The centripetal acceleration that is acting
on it is 20.0 m/s2.
a) Calculate the radius of its orbit.
b) Calculate it period.

WORK, POWER, ENERGY

1. Calculate the potential energy of a rock with a mass of 55 kg while sitting on a cliff that is 27 m high.
2. What distance is a book from the floor if the book contains 196 Joules of potential energy and has a mass of 5 kg?
3. An automobile is sitting on a hill which is 20 m higher than ground level. Find the mass of the automobile if it
contains 362,600 J of potential energy.
4. Calculate the work done by applying a 125 N force to the right on a 65.0 kg sled to displace the sled 3.50 m right?
5. What is the power of a crane that does 5.80 x 104 J of work in 2.80 s?
6. A sailor pulls a boat along a dock using a rope at an angle of 60.0º with the horizontal. How much work does the
sailor do if he exerts a force of 255 N on the rope and pulls the boat 3.00 m?
7. A student who weighs 500 Newtons climbed the stairs from the first floor to the third floor, 15 meters above, in 20
seconds.
a. How much work did she do?
b. What was her power?
8. You serve a volleyball with a mass of 2.1 kg. The ball leaves your hand with a speed of 30 m/s. Calculate the kinetic
energy.
9. Two objects were lifted by a machine. One object had a mass of 2 kilograms, and was lifted at a speed of 2 m/sec.
The other had a mass of 4 kilograms and was lifted at a rate of 3 m/sec.
a. Which object had more kinetic energy while it was being lifted?
b. Which object had more potential energy when it was lifted to a distance of 10 meters?

Momentum and Impulse

1. A wrecking ball, weighing 3000N, hits a house at a velocity of 15kph. What is its momentum?

2. A 60 kg mass is on a frictionless surface. A constant force pushes the mass for 5 seconds until the mass reaches a
velocity of 5 m/s. What is the impulse acting on the mass?

3. Two cars, one twice as heavy as the other, move down a hill at the same speed. Compared to that of the lighter car,
the momentum of the heavier car is ___________ as much.

3. For a constant force, if the duration of impact upon an object is doubled, how is the impulse affected? How is the
resulting change in momentum affected?

4. If the time of impact in a collision is extended by four times, by how much is the force of impact altered?

Density and Pressure

1. A football player is tackled by another player and lands with the combined weight of both players on his knee. If the
combined weight of the players is 2400 N and the player’s knee measures 0.1 m by 0.1 m, how much pressure is
exerted on the turf when the player lands on his knee?

2. A forestry worker accidentally strikes a pipe with the end of a pickaxe while trying to dig a hole. If the pickaxe strikes
with a force of 2000 N and the end of the pickaxe measures 0.02 m by 0.01 m, how much pressure is exerted on the
pipe by the pickaxe?

3. A skateboarder lands on all four wheels after riding a railing. If the skateboarder has a weight of 900 N and the area
on the bottom of a single wheel is 0.0001 m 2 , what pressure does the skateboard put on the ground?

4. A student measures the mass of an 8 cm 3 block of brown sugar to be 12.9 g. What is the density of the brown
sugar?

5. A machine shop worker records the mass of an aluminum cube as 176g. If one side of the cube measures 4 cm,
what is the density of the aluminum?

6. Calculate the volume of a liquid with a density of 2.5d/mL and a volume of 15 mL.