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Part A
Answer all questions in this part.
Directions (1 - 35): For each statement or question, choose the word or expression that, of those given, best
completes the statement or answers the question. Some questions may require the use of the 2006 Edition
Reference Tables for Physical Setting/Physics. Record your answers on your separate answer sheet.
1 Which quantities are scalar?
(1) speed and work
(2) velocity and force
(3) distance and acceleration
(4) momentum and power
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2. | 2 A 3.00-kilogram mass is thrown vertically upward
with an initial speed of 9.80 meters per second.
What is the maximum height this object will
reach? [Neglect friction.]
(1) 1.00 m (3) 9.80 m
(2) 4.90 m (4) 19.6 m
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3. | 3 An airplane traveling north at 220. meters per
second encounters a 50.0-meters-per-second
crosswind from west to east, as represented in
the diagram below.
What is the resultant speed of the plane?
(1) 170. m/s (3) 226 m/s
(2) 214 m/s (4) 270. m/s
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4. | 4 A 160.-kilogram space vehicle is traveling along a
straight line at a constant speed of 800. meters
per second. The magnitude of the net force on
the space vehicle is
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5. | 5 A student throws a 5.0-newton ball straight up.
What is the net force on the ball at its maximum
height?
(1) 0.0 N (3) 5.0 N, down
(2) 5.0 N, up (4) 9.8 N, down
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6. | 6 A vertical spring has a spring constant of
100. newtons per meter. When an object is
attached to the bottom of the spring, the spring
changes from its unstretched length of 0.50 meter
to a length of 0.65 meter. The magnitude of the
weight of the attached object is
(1) 1.1 N (3) 50. N
(2) 15 N (4) 65 N
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7. | 7 A 1.5-kilogram cart initially moves at 2.0 meters
per second. It is brought to rest by a constant net
force in 0.30 second. What is the magnitude of
the net force?
(1) 0.40 N (3) 10. N
(2) 0.90 N (4) 15 N
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8. | 8 Which characteristic of a light wave must increase
as the light wave passes from glass into air?
(1) amplitude (3) period
(2) frequency (4) wavelength
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9. | 9 As a 5.0 × 102-newton basketball player jumps
from the floor up toward the basket, the
magnitude of the force of her feet on the floor is
1.0 × 103 newtons. As she jumps, the magnitude
of the force of the floor on her feet is
(1) 5.0 × 102 N (3) 1.5 × 103 N
(2) 1.0 × 103 N (4) 5.0 × 105 N
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10. | 10 A 0.0600-kilogram ball traveling at 60.0 meters
per second hits a concrete wall. What speed
must a 0.0100-kilogram bullet have in order to
hit the wall with the same magnitude of
momentum as the ball?
(1) 3.60 m/s (3) 360. m/s
(2) 6.00 m/s (4) 600. m/s
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11. | 11 The Hubble telescope’s orbit is 5.6 × 105 meters
above Earth’s surface. The telescope has a mass
of 1.1 × 104 kilograms. Earth exerts a gravitational
force of 9.1 × 104 newtons on the telescope. The
magnitude of Earth’s gravitational field strength
at this location is
(1) 1.5 × 10−20 N/kg (3) 8.3 N/kg
(2) 0.12 N/kg (4) 9.8 N/kg
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12. | 12 When two point charges are a distance d apart,
the magnitude of the electrostatic force between
them is F. If the distance between the point
charges is increased to 3d, the magnitude of the
electrostatic force between the two charges will be
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13. | 13 A radio operating at 3.0 volts and a constant
temperature draws a current of 1.8 × 10−4 ampere.
What is the resistance of the radio circuit?
(1) 1.7 × 104 Ω (3) 5.4 × 10−4 Ω
(2) 3.0 × 101 Ω (4) 6.0 × 10−5 Ω
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14. | 14 Which energy transformation occurs in an
operating electric motor?
(1) electrical → mechanical
(2) mechanical → electrical
(3) chemical → electrical
(4) electrical → chemical
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15. | 15 A block slides across a rough, horizontal tabletop.
As the block comes to rest, there is an increase in
the block-tabletop system’s
(1) gravitational potential energy
(2) elastic potential energy
(3) kinetic energy
(4) internal (thermal) energy
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