Mid-Year Examination 2015

Year 11 Physics

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Name: _____________________________________________________

Physics Teacher (circle): Ms Best Ms Panjwani

Time: 120 minutes + 10 minutes reading time

Instructions to candidates

1. You will have 10 minutes to read the paper. You must not write in your question booklets or use a
calculator during this reading time but you may make notes on the scribbling paper provided.

2. Marks may be deducted if you do not clearly show all steps in the solution of problems, if you give
answers with an inappropriate number of significant figures or with incorrect units or no units
provided.

3. Use only black or blue pens for all work other than graphs and diagrams, for which you may use a
sharp dark pencil.

4. Blank pages at the end of the paper may be used for extra working.

YOU SHOULD HAVE A SEPARATE FORMULA SHEET ON YOUR DESK – IF NOT PROVIDED, ASK!!!!
QUESTION 1

An ice hockey player hits a puck.

(a) Calculate the momentum of the puck if it has a mass of 0.17 kg and a velocity of 19 m.s -1.

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(b) Using proportionalities, calculate the momentum of the puck if it is hit with double the velocity.
Clearly state the relationship used to determine your answer.

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(c) Another identical puck is hit so that it has a momentum of 4.25 kg.m.s-1. Calculate its velocity.

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QUESTION 2

A shot-put of mass 4.00 kg is held 1.95 m above the ground.

(a) Determine the gravitational potential energy of the shot-put.

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(b) If the shot-put is thrown horizontally at 6.00 m.s-1, calculate its kinetic energy when it is first thrown.

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(c) What is the total kinetic energy of the shot-put just before it strikes the ground? Give a reason for your
answer.

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(d) Using your answer from (c), calculate the speed of the shot-put just before it strikes the ground.

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QUESTION 3

Below is a graph of the change in a car’s velocity as it accelerates from a set of traffic lights. The car has a
mass of 1.20 x 103 kg.

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(a) Convert the speed of 10.0 m.s-1 to kilometres per hour.

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(b) Calculate the magnitude of the acceleration of this car in m.s-2.

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(c) State Newton’s Second Law in words.

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(d) Using Newton’s Second Law, calculate the magnitude of the force that was needed to accelerate the
car.

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 (d) Determine the magnitude of the change in momentum of the car over this 15 second period.

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QUESTION 4

(a) State Newton’s Third Law of Motion.

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(b) A stone falls down towards the Earth due to gravity.

(i) Draw two labelled vectors representing the action and reaction forces in this situation (2)

(ii) Explain why the Earth does not appear to move upwards.

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QUESTION 5

A 55 kg crate travels along on a moving conveyor belt in an airport baggage area.

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(a) Calculate the weight of the crate.

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(b) Hence, state the magnitude of the normal force acting on the crate.

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(c) If the coefficient of static friction between the belt and the crate is 0.4, calculate the maximum static
friction that could act on the crate.

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(d) If the crate travels on the belt at a constant velocity of 1.4 m.s-1, what is the net force acting on it?
Give a reason for your answer.

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(e) Complete the free-body diagram above by drawing and clearly labelling the remaining forces acting
on the crate.
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(f) A factory worker changes the settings on the conveyor belt so that it suddenly accelerates at 3 m.s -2
for 1.8 seconds. Calculate the final velocity of the crate.

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QUESTION 6

(a) While moving house, the two people lift a couch of mass 90 kg by 0.5 m. Calculate the work done on
the couch.

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(b) Once they have put the couch down, the two people push it around the room; one with a force of 70
N North and the other with a force of 20 N East. Calculate the magnitude and direction of the net
force acting on the couch. Draw a vector diagram to support your answer.

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QUESTION 7

A ball is shot into the air from the ground at with an initial velocity of 20.0 m.s-1 at an angle of 41.00 above
the horizontal.

(a) Draw a labelled vector diagram showing the horizontal and vertical components of the launch
velocity.

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(b) Calculate both the horizontal and vertical components of the initial velocity.

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(c) State the shape of the flight path of the ball.

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(d) Show that the time taken for the ball to reach maximum height is 1.34 s.

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(e) State the ball’s total time of flight.

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(f) Calculate the maximum height reached by the ball.

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(g) Calculate the range of the ball.

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(h) State the range of launch angles that would result in the ball travelling further than the distance
calculated in part (g).

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(i) State the vertical component of the ball’s velocity at the top of the flight path.

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(j) Explain why the horizontal component of the ball’s velocity remains constant throughout its flight.

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QUESTION 8

A car of mass 1000 kg travelling east along a road at 15 ms-1 collides with a van of mass 3000 kg travelling
in the opposite direction. They both come to rest after the collision.

(a) State the total final momentum of the system after the collision. Give a reason for your answer.

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(b) State the total initial momentum of the system before the collision. Give a reason for your answer.

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(c) Calculate the magnitude of the initial velocity of the van.

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(d) Cars are manufactured with safety features that are designed to reduce the force of impact during
a front-on collision.

Explain how a crumple zone reduces the force applied on the front of the vehicle during a collision.

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QUESTION 9

Galileo is said to have dropped various objects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and observed the time that
it took them to fall to the ground. A group of Physics students decided to recreate this experiment under
different conditions. They used a video camera to analyse the motion of the falling objects.

(a) Firstly, the students dropped a 58 g tennis ball and a 160 g hockey ball from the same height within
a vacuum chamber. State what you would expect them to have observed.

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(b) When the students dropped the same balls from the top of a tall building, they noticed that the
tennis ball eventually stopped accelerating and fell at constant speed. Explain why this occurred.

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QUESTION 10

Year 11 students rolled a marble down a ramp. A wooden block was used to stop the marble and vary the
distance that it could roll. The time that the marble took to cover each distance was measured using a stop
watch.

Distance Time t (s) Average Time Squared

0.200 1.21 1.17 1.24

(a) State the independent variable in this experiment.

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(b) Explain what is meant by the term precision and comment on the precision of the measurements
taken for the distance of 0.500 m.

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(c) Complete the table above by calculating the average time and the time squared to the appropriate
number of significant figures.
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(d) Construct a graph of the results on the next page, plotting values of distance (d) on the y-axis
against average time squared (t2) on the x-axis. Draw a line of best fit.
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(e) Determine the slope of the line of best fit (include units in your answer).

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(f) State a piece of evidence from the graph that suggests that the data was affected by random error.

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(g) Use your graph to find the distance rolled by a marble down the ramp if the time measured is 1.5
seconds. Show this interpolation of your graph.

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END OF EXAMINATION PAPER

Kinematics and Projectile Motion

𝑣0 + 𝑣 1
𝑠⃗ = 𝑣⃗0 𝑡 + 𝑎⃗𝑡 2
𝑣̅ = 2
2
𝑣⃗⃗−𝑣⃗⃗0
𝑣𝐻 = vcosθ 𝑣⃗ = 𝑣⃗0 + 𝑎⃗𝑡 or 𝑎⃗ =
𝑡

𝑣𝑣 = vsinθ 𝑣 2 = 𝑣0 2 + 2𝑎𝑠

Forces and Newton’s Laws

𝐹⃗ = 𝑚𝑎⃗ (Note: 𝐹𝑤𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 = 𝑚𝑔)

𝐹𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ≤ 𝜇𝑠 𝐹𝑁

𝐹𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 = 𝜇𝑘 𝐹𝑁

Momentum and Energy

𝑝⃗ = 𝑚𝑣⃗ 𝑊 = 𝐹𝑠

𝛥𝑝⃗ = 𝑝⃗𝑓 − 𝑝⃗𝑖 1

Constants

Acceleration due to gravity = 9.81 m.s-2