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UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

University Examinations: June 2007
PHY1010W
BSc(Eng.)
05 June 2007
Time: 2 hours
FULL MARKS: 50
AVAILABLE MARKS: 60
Internal Examiners: Dr MR Nchodu, Mr G Leigh and Mr TS Volkwyn

External Examiner: Professor T Doyle (University of KwaZulu Natal)
Instructions:
Write your STUDENT NUMBER in the block below, and then put your STUDENT
NUMBER on the top of each page. Do not tear out any pages from the question paper.
Answer ALL questions in Section A.

Answer ONE question in Section B.
This paper has 8 pages. Check your copy now!
An additional information sheet is also supplied.
Write your answers for Section A on this question paper.
Write your answers for Section B in the answer book supplied.
Explain your work carefully so that your reasoning can be followed. Marks will be
awarded for sketches (pictorial representation) and free-body diagrams where
applicable.
STUDENT NUMBER:
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Section A
Answer ALL questions in this section.
Question 1 (5 marks)
r
A 2.00 kg object is subjected to three forces that give it an acceleration a = 8.00 m/s 2 i + 6.00 m/s 2 j. If
r
r
two of the three forces are F1 = (30.0 N ) i + (16.0 N ) j and F2 = (12.0 N ) i + (8.0 N ) j , find the third
force.
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A battleship simultaneously fires two shells at enemy ships. The shells are fired from the same type of gun,
so they each have the same initial speed, but one gun is trained higher than the other. If the shells follow
the parabolic trajectories shown, which ship (A or B) gets hit first? Justify your answer. At what angles
should the shells be fired in order to reverse the order in which the ships get hit?
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A 10 kg crate is placed on a horizontal conveyor belt. The materials are such that s = 0.5 and k = 0.3.
(a) Draw a free-body diagram showing all the forces on the crate if the conveyer belt runs at constant
speed.
(b) Draw a free-body diagram showing all the forces on the crate if the conveyer belt is speeding up.
(c) What is the maximum acceleration that the belt can have without the crate slipping?
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An object whose moment of inertia is 4.0 kg m2 experiences the torque
shown in the figure.
(a) Draw a graph of the objects angular acceleration as a function
of time for the first 3 seconds.
(b) What is the objects angular velocity at t = 3.0 s? Assume it
starts from rest.
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A small ball of mass 0.10 kg at the end of a string that
passes through a tube is swung in a circle, as
illustrated in the figure. When the string is pulled
r2
r1
downward through the tube, the angular speed of the
v1
v2
ball increases.
(a) Is this increase in speed caused by a torque
due to the pulling force? If not, what causes
the increase in the speed of the ball?
(b) If the ball is initially swung in a circle with a
radius of 0.30 m at a speed of 2.8 m/s, what
will be its tangential speed if the string is
pulled down far enough to reduce the radius of
the circle to 0.15 m?
(c) Calculate the tension in the string if the ball is kept moving in a circle with a radius of 0.15 m.
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A 20 kg wooden ball hangs from a 2.0 m long wire. The maximum tension the wire can withstand without
breaking is 400 N. A 1.0 kg projectile travelling horizontally hits and embeds itself in the wooden ball.
Immediately after the impact, the speed of the block with the embedded bullet is 5.0 m/s.
(a) What is the speed of the bullet before the impact?
(b) Determine if the wire will break because of this impact.
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Section B
Answer only ONE question in this section.
A 1.5 kg wooden block travelling at 4.5 m/s starts up an inclined plane which makes an angle of 30 to the
horizontal. The coefficient of kinetic friction for the block and the plane is 0.2.
(a) Determine how long the block will take to move up the slope before it stops.
(b) How far up the slope does the block go before returning down the slope?
(c) Calculate the time the block takes to reach the bottom of the slope from its highest position?
(d) Sketch v-t and a-t graphs for the motion of the block.

A 500 g block is released from rest 1.0 m away from the bottom of a frictionless, 30 ramp. The block
slides down the ramp and bounces off a rubber block at the bottom. After the collision the block slides back
up the ramp. The figure shows the force during the collision.
(a) Draw a motion diagram of the block from the time of release until it stops up the ramp after the
collision.
(b) After the block bounces, how long will it take to slide up the ramp and how far does it slide back up
the ramp?
(c) Find the work done by the impulsive force on the block. Explain the meaning of the minus sign.

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UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN

Internal Examiners: Dr MR Nchodu, Mr G Leigh and Mr TS Volkwyn

Answer ALL questions in Section A.

Question 5 (10 marks)

Question 6 (10 marks)

Question 8 (20 marks)

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