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UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA FINAL EXAMINATION

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MECHANICS II AND THERMAL PHYSICS PHY210 APRIL 2009 3 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES 1. This question paper consists of two (2) parts: PART A (20 Questions) PART B (7 Questions) 2. Answer ALL questions from all two (2) parts. i) Answer PART A in the Objective Answer Sheet. ii) Answer PART B in the Answer Booklet. Start each answer on a new page. Do not bring any material into the examination room unless permission is given by the invigilator. Please check to make sure that this examination pack consists of: i) ii) iii) the Question Paper an Answer Booklet - provided by the Faculty an Objective Answer Sheet - provided by the Faculty

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PART A

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A figure skater is spinning on frictionless ice with her arms fully extended horizontally. She then drops her arms to her sides. Which of the following correctly describes her rotational kinetic energy as her arms fall? A. B. C. D. Remains constant Decreases Increases Decreases and increases

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3.

In linear motion, the moment of inertia of a rotating body is analogous to A. B C. D. mass. weight. volume. linear momentum.

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A 2.0 x 103 kg car travels at a constant speed of 12 m/s around a circular curve of radius 30 m. As the car goes around the curve, the centripetal force is A. B. C. D. 9.6 kN 9.6x10 3 kN - 9.6 kN -9.6x103kN

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A person steps onto a spring scale in the bathroom, and the spring compresses by 0.57 cm. The spring constant is 1100 N/cm. What is the mass of the person? A. B. C. D. 30.00 kg 57.00 kg 77.00 kg 64.00 kg

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Wave motion in a medium transfers A. B. C. D. neither mass nor energy. mass. both mass and energy. energy only.

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A wave traveling at 5 x 104 m/s has wavelength of 25 m. What is the frequency of the wave? A. B. C. D. 1.25x10 6 Hz 5.00x10" 4 Hz 2.00x10 3 Hz 2.00x10 4 Hz

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In Simple Harmonic Motion, the velocity is minimum at A. B. C. D. maximum acceleration. minimum acceleration. maximum displacement. maximum stored energy.

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The intensity of one sound is 5 times the intensity of the second. What is the difference in the intensity level? Assume that the second intensity is 1 W/m2. ( I 0 = 1 x10" 12 W/m 2 ) A. B. C. D. 0.7 dB 5.0 dB 7.0 Db 10.0 dB

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The pressure due to a fluid depends on the following, except A. B. C. D. its density. its mass. the depth of the fluid. the acceleration due to gravity.

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Airplanes are able to fly because of A. B. C. D. Archimedes's principle. Bernoulli's principle. Pascal's law. Stokes's law.

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A 200 N object floats with three-fourths of its volume beneath the surface of the water. What is the buoyant force on the object? A. B. C. D. 50 N 150 N 200 N 267 N

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When heat is absorbed A. B. C. D. molecules move more slowly. molecules move more rapidly. there is no change in molecular motion. temperature remains unchanged.

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The heat needed to change 1 g of ice at 0 C to 1 g of water at 0 C is a way of defining A. B. C. D. latent heat of fusion of water. internal heat content of water. specific heat capacity of water. latent heat of vaporization of water.

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15. A 5000 W heater is used to heat water. How long will it take to heat 20 kg of water from 20 C to 100 C? (c* = 4200 J/kg C) A. B. C. D. 16. 2 minutes. 12 minutes. 22 minutes. 32 minutes.

If the pressure acting on an ideal gas at constant temperature is tripled, its volume is A. B. C. D. reduced to one-third. increased by a factor of three. increased by a factor of two. reduced to one-half.

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If 10 moles of a gas has a gauge pressure of 2 atm and a temperature of 200 K, what is its volume? (R = 8.31 J/mol K, 1 atm = 1.013 x 105 Pa)

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0.055 m 3 0.082 m 3 5533 m 3 8315 m 3

Carnot cycle consists of i) ii) iii) iv) A. B. C. D. Isothermal expansion. Adiabatic expansion. Isothermal compression. Adiabatic compression. i and ii ii and iv ii and iii i, ii, iii and iv

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An ideal or Carnot heat pump is used to heat a house to a temperature of T H = 21 C. How much work must be done by the pump to deliver QH = 3350 J of heat into the house when the outdoor temperature T c is 0 C? A. B. C. D. 240 J -258 J 0J 24 J

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Isochoric process is one that occurs at constant A. B. C. D. temperature. volume. pressure. time.

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QUESTION 1 a) A 150 N hungry monkey in Figure 2 walks out on a 6 m long beam in an attempt to retrieve some goodies hanging at the end of a beam. The beam is uniform weighs 200 N and the goodies weigh 80 N. i) Draw the free body diagram. (1 mark) ii) When the monkey is at x = 1.00 m, find the tension in the wire BC. (3 marks) iii) If the wire BC can withstand a maximum tension of 900 N, what is the maximum distance the monkey can walk before the wire breaks? (2 marks)

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A grinding wheel is a uniform cylinder with a diameter of 17 cm and a mass of 0.58 kg rotates at 40 rev/s. Calculate i) ii) its moment of inertia about its center, and the rotational kinetic energy. (4 marks)

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QUESTION 2 a) An object with a mass of 0.5 kg is undergoing simple harmonic motion on the end of a horizontal spring with a spring constant k = 400 N/m. When the object is 0.012 m from its equilibrium position, it is observed to have a speed of 0.3 m/s. Calculate: i) ii) iii) the amplitude of the motion, the maximum speed attained by the object during its motion, and the total energy of the object at any point of its motion. (7 marks) b) A man enters a tall tower, needing to know its height. He notes that a long pendulum extends from the ceiling almost to the floor and the period is 12 s. How tall is the tower? (3 marks)

QUESTION 3 a) A train sounds its horn as it approaches an intersection. The horn can be heard at a level of 50 dB by an observer 10 km away. i) ii) What is the average power generated by the horn? What intensity level of the horn's sound is observed by someone waiting at an intersection 50 m from the train?

Treat the horn as a point source and neglect any absorption of sound by the air. (I 0 = 1 x 1 0 " 1 2 W/m 2 ) (8 marks) b) You are standing still. What frequency do you detect if a fire engine whose siren emits at 1550 Hz moves at a speed of 32 m/s toward you? (Speed of sound in air = 343 m/s) (2 marks)

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QUESTION 4 a) A metal cube 5.00 cm on each side has a mass of 300 g is hung with string in air. Calculate the tension of the string if the object is fully submerged in a liquid that has a density of 1200 kg/m3. (acceleration due to gravity = 9.8 mis2) (3 marks) The diameter of the main water pipe that supplies water to a double storey house is 4.00 cm. It supplies water at a rate of 500 cm3/s. However, the diameter of the pipe is reduce to 2.00 cm in the bathroom upstairs. Determine i) ii) the speed of the water flowing in the main pipe. the water pressure difference between the pipe in the bathroom and the main pipe. The height of the bathroom is 5 m above ground and the speed of the water flowing in the water pipe in the bathroom is 1.59 m/s. (p w = 1000 kg/m3) (7 marks)

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QUESTION 5 a) Give the definition and equation of specific heat. (2 marks) b) An ice cube is taken from the freezer at -8.5 C and placed in a 95 g aluminum calorimeter filled with 310 g of water at room temperature of 20.0 C. The final situation is observed to be all water at 17.0 C. What is the mass of the ice cube? (given q = 2100 J/kg C, ca, = 900 J/kg C, c* = 4200 J/kg C, Lf = 3.3 x 105 J/kg) (5 marks) c) A refrigerator door is 150 cm high, 80 cm wide and 6 cm thick. If the coefficient of conductivity is 2.093 x 10"3 J/cm.s. C, and the inner and outer surfaces are at 0 C and 30 C respectively. What is the heat loss by conduction through this door in 1 minute? (3 marks)

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QUESTION 6 a) The volume of a fixed mass of helium gas at 546 K and pressure 114 cmHg is 2.667 x 10"3 m3. Assume that the gas behaves as an ideal gas. Determine the volume of the helium gas at STP. (1 atm = 76 cmHg) (4 marks) A vessel contains hydrogen gas at 300 K. Assume that the gas behaves like an ideal gas. Determine (R = 8.31 J/mol K, molar mass = 0.002 kg/mol, NA = 6.022 x 1023 mol"1) i) ii) the rms speed of the gas molecules, and the mass of each molecule. (6 marks)

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QUESTION 7 a) Sketch a P-V diagram of the following process. i) ii) iii) Isobaric process Isochoric process Isothermal process (3 marks) b) What is the coefficient of performance of an ideal heat pump that extracts heat from 6 C air outside and deposits heat inside your house at 24 C? (3 marks) If the heat pump in b) operates on 1200 W of electrical power, what is the maximum heat it can deliver into your house each hour? (4 marks)

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