UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Applied Physics - School of Electrical & Information Engineering

ENGINEERING PHYSICS
QUIZ 2 [ week 5 ]
Time: 20 minutes Marks: /20
Name .....................................................................................

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ( 12 MARKS ) ANSWERS

1. With non linear optical techniques they can now produce fempto-second laser pulses.
The prefix fempto represents …
A. 10-9, C. 10-15,
B. 10-12, D. 10-18.

2. Which statement below is FALSE?

A. Y = FLo/A∆L C. B = FVo/A∆V,
B. S = Fh/A∆x, D. One of the above statements is wrong.

3. Pat is a health conscious student who works out on exercise machines at the gym 3 nights a week. During exercise
on one particular machine Pat exerts a force that raises a mass m a vertical distance h at constant velocity. How much
work does Pat do in this process?
A. zero,
B. -mgh,
C. +mgh,
D. since the weight acts downwards and the movement is upwards, the total work is +2mgh.

4. Which statement below is FALSE?

A. i = j x k, C. r x p = -(p x r),
B. FB = qB x v, D. τ = r x F.

5. Tensile stress is defined as:

A. ∆L/L where L is the length,
B. F/L where F is the tension force and L is the length,
C. Y(∆L) where Y is Youngs modulus and L is length,
D. F/A where F is the tension force and A is the cross-sectional area.

6. In mechanical equilibrium, an object must have,

A. constant acceleration,
B. no forces acting on it,
C. no translational or rotational acceleration,
D. none of the above.

7. What is the buoyancy force of a fluid upon an object that sinks in the fluid?
A. zero,
B. an upward force equal in magnitude to that of the weight of the object,
C. an upward force equal in magnitude to the magnitude of the weight of a quantity of fluid equal
to the objects volume.

8. A Tae Kwon Do black belt executes a swift knife hand chop and breaks 2 cement roofing tiles. The magnitude is
the same for the …
A. force on both the tiles and the black belts hand,
B. impulse on both the tiles and the hand,
C. time of impact on both the tiles and the hand,
D. all of the above.

9. If a uniform, heavy cable is suspended from one end, the cable is most likely to break from its own weight at a
point
A. near its top end where it is suspended,
B. near its bottom end,
C. near the middle,
D. anywhere along its length.
10. You are coming in to land your Kendell’s Airlines aircraft at Adelaide airport and hit a seagull flying in the
opposite direction square in the middle of the pilot’s front window. Without all the gruesome details, the bird sadly
was deceased and the window remained intact. We then know that,
A. the force of the bird on the glass was bigger than the force of the glass on the bird,
B. the force of the bird on the glass was the same as the force of the glass on the bird,
C. the force of the bird on the glass was less than the force of the glass on the bird,
D. the aircraft didn’t slow down as it hit the bird.

11. The quantum numbers l, m& ms describe

A. parts of the atom.
B. the energy of photons emitted from atoms.
C. angular momentum.
D. all the possible energy states of an electron.

12. Different isotopes of an element contain,

A. the same number of neutrons but different number of electrons.
B. the same number of electrons but different number of protons.
C. the same number of protons but different number of neutrons.
D. the same number of nucleons.

QUESTIONS & PROBLEMS ( 10 marks possible)

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P + ρv 2 + ρgh = constant
Question 1 (4 marks) 2
Use Bernoulli’s Principle to explain qualitatively how an airplane wing develops an upward lift. When landing, do
airplanes head into or with the wind? Explain your answer.

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Problem 1 (3 marks)
An average person (mass 70kg) rock climbing slips from a ledge, hangs in free air from a slim nylon rope with a
length of 20m, a cross sectional area of 1.00cm2, and a Young’s modulus of 1.0 x 1010 N/m2. What is the increase in
length of the rope from its un-stressed form?

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Problem 2 (3 marks)
A 6.00 kg bowling ball moves at 3.00 m/s down a bowling lane. How fast must a 27 g golf ball move so that the two
balls have the same kinetic energy?

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