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 Question 1

At what speed will a car round a 52-m-radius curve, banked at a 45° angle, if no friction is required
between the road and tires to prevent the car from slipping?
Selected Answer: 23 m/s
 Question 2

If a planet has a radius 20% greater than that of the Earth but has the same
mass as the Earth, what is the acceleration due to gravity at its surface?
Selected Answer: 6.8 m/s2
 Question 3

The escape speed from the surface of the Earth is 11.2 km/s. Estimate the escape
speed for a spacecraft from the surface of the Moon. The Moon has a mass 1/81
that of Earth and a radius 0.25 that of Earth.
Selected Answer: 2.5 km/s
 Question 4

An object of mass 0.50 kg is transported to the surface of Planet X where the


object's weight is measured to be 20 N. The radius of the planet is 4.0 x 106 m.
What is the mass of Planet X?
Selected Answer: 9.6 x 1024 kg
 Question 5

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 6.40
x 106 m.
Selected Answer: 465 m/s
 Question 6

Geosynchronous satellites orbit the Earth at a distance of 42 000 km from the


Earth's center. Their angular speed at this height is the same as the rotation rate
of the Earth, so they appear stationary at certain locations in the sky. What is the
force acting on a 1 500-kg satellite at this height?
Selected Answer: 333 N
 Question 7

A 0.30-m-radius automobile tire turns at a rate of 120 rpm. What is the


centripetal acceleration of a point on the outer edge of the tire?
Selected Answer: 47.4 m/s2
 Question 8

If a planet has 3 times the radius of the Earth, but has the same density as the
Earth, what is the gravitational acceleration at the surface of the planet?
Selected Answer: 3.27 m/s2
 Question 9

At what angle (relative to the horizontal) should a curve 52 m in radius be


banked if no friction is required to prevent the car from slipping when traveling at
12 m/s?
Selected Answer: 16o
 Question 10

The Earth is 93 million miles (mi) from the Sun and its period of revolution is 1
year = 3.15 x 107 s. What is the acceleration of the Earth in its orbit about the
Sun?
Selected Answer: 3.7 x10-6 mi/s2
 Question 11

Somewhere between the Earth and the Moon is a point where the gravitational
attraction of the Earth is canceled by the gravitational pull of the Moon. The mass
of the Moon is 1/81 that of the Earth. How far from the center of the Earth is this
point?

Selected Answer: 9/10 the way to the Moon


 Question 12

An object when orbiting the Earth at a height of three Earth radii from the center
of the Earth has a weight of 1.00 N. What is the object's mass?
Selected Answer: 0.92 kg
 Question 13

A 0.400-kg object is swung in a circular path and in a vertical plane on a 0.500-


m-length string. If the angular speed at the bottom is 8.00 rad/s, what is the
tension in the string when the object is at the bottom of the circle?
Selected Answer: 16.7 N
 Question 14

A careful photographic survey of Jupiter's moon Io by the spacecraft Voyager


1 showed active volcanoes spewing liquid sulfur to heights of 70 km above the
surface of this moon. If the value of g on Io is 2.0 m/s2, estimate the speed with
which the liquid sulfur left the volcano.
Selected Answer: 530 m/s
 Question 15

A 0.150-m-radius grinding wheel, starting at rest, develops an angular speed of


12.0 rad/s in a time interval of 4.00 s. What is the centripetal acceleration of a
point 0.100 m from the center when the wheel is moving at an angular speed
of 1.91 rev/s?
Selected Answer: 14.4 m/s2
 Question 16

If the mass of Mars is 0.107 times that of Earth, and its radius is 0.530 that of
Earth, estimate the gravitational acceleration g at the surface of Mars.
Selected Answer: 3.73 m/s2
 Question 17

A satellite is in a circular orbit about the Earth at a distance of one Earth radius
above the surface. What is the speed of the satellite?
Selected Answer: 5600 m/s
 Question 18

A ventilation fan has blades 0.25 m long rotating at 20 rpm. What is the
centripetal acceleration of a point on the outer tip of a blade?
Selected Answer: 1.1 m/s2
 Question 19

A 1 500-kg car rounds an unbanked curve with a radius of 52 m at a speed of 12


m/s. What minimum coefficient of friction must exist between the road and tires
to prevent the car from slipping?
Selected Answer: 0.28
 Question 20

An Earth satellite is orbiting at a distance from the Earth's surface equal to one
Earth radius (4 000 miles). At this location, the acceleration due to gravity is
what factor times the value of g at the Earth's surface?
Selected Answer: 1/4
 Question 21

An airplane in a wide sweeping "outside" loop can create zero gees inside the
aircraft cabin. What must be the radius of curvature of the flight path for an
aircraft moving at 150 m/s to create a condition of "weightlessness" inside the
aircraft?
Selected Answer: 2300 m
 Question 22

The distance from the center of a Ferris wheel to a passenger seat is 12 m. What
centripetal acceleration does a passenger experience when the wheel's angular
speed is 4.78 rpm?
Selected Answer: 3.0 m/s2
 Question 23

Calculate the linear speed due to the Earth's rotation for a person at a point on its surface located at
40o N latitude. The radius of the Earth is 6.40 x 106 m.
Selected Answer: 357 m/s
 Question 24

A cylindrical space colony 8 km in diameter and 30 km long has been proposed as


living quarters for future space explorers. Such a habitat would have cities, land
and lakes on the inside surface and air and clouds in the center. All this would be
held in place by the rotation of the cylinder about the long axis. How fast would
such a cylinder have to rotate to produce a 1-g gravitational field at the walls of
the cylinder?
Selected Answer: 0.477 rev/s
 Question 25

A 0.30-kg rock is swung in a circular path and in a vertical plane on a 0.25-m-


length string. At the top of the path, the frequency is 1.91 rev/s. What is the
tension in the string at that point?
Selected Answer: 7.9 N

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