Name: AP Physics Semester 1 Review 2017 Date: Class:

Unit 1: Units, Conversions and Algebra:

Units:

Abbreviation Full name Measures Fundamental Unit?

mL No
kilogram Yes
m length
N Yes and No.
time
centimeter
grams

Convert the following to fundamental units: (Remember King Henry?)

1. 560 cm = 5. 0.723 kg =
2. 1500 g = 6. 2.5 years =
3. 65 months = 7. 54 g =
4. 8546 km =
Algebra: Solve the following equations for the stated variable.
∆𝑑 10.
8. 𝑣 = for t
𝑡 𝑣𝑥 −𝑣0
9. a2+b2=c2 for b 11. 𝑎 = for vo
𝑡

Unit 2: Horizontal Motion and Graphing

Horizontal Motion (1-Dimensional Motion) (Chapter 1, 2)

12. Is the relationship between acceleration and velocity linear or something else? Prove with a formula.
13. Is the relationship between acceleration and distance linear or something else? Prove with a formula.
14. If a dolphin is travels 2.5 m in 5 minutes, what is the dolphin’s average velocity?
15. A runner is running 7 km/hr, how far will the runner travel in 26 minutes?
16. A sports car accelerates at a constant rate from rest to a speed of 36.4 m/s in 11.0 s.
a. What is the acceleration of the car?
b. What is the displacement of the car in this time interval?
17. A sports car accelerates from 36.7 m/s to 26.4 m/s over 5.67 m. What is the acceleration of the car?
18. A bicycle is traveling 4.1 m/s when it accelerates 0.5 m/s2 for 10 s. What is the displacement of the bicycle?
19. A baseball is initially at rest on a T-stand. You hit the baseball with bat, accelerating the ball at 200 m/s2 in
0.0535 s.
a. What is the baseball’s final velocity?
b. How far does the baseball travel in that time?
Graphing:

20. On the displacement graph to the right:

a. What is the velocity for interval A?
b. During which interval is the object at rest?
c. What is the total displacement?
d. What is the displacement in interval B?
21. What is the unit for velocity or speed?
22. Can displacement ever be larger than distance?
a. On a circular track, what is the farthest possible
displacement?
b. How would you find total distance traveled around the track?

23. On the velocity graph to the right:

a. What is the velocity at 6.0 s?
b. What is the acceleration between 2.0 and 8.0s?
c. What is the displacement between 4.0 and 6.0s?

Unit 3: Vector Addition, Free Fall and Projectile Motion

Vector Addition: What is the magnitude, direction, and components of the resultant,

24. 5 m/s N and 10 m/s S 27. 2 m W and 4 m S

25. 6 m S and 9 m S 28. 14 m E, 2 m E, 9 m N, 10 m W

26. 25 m/s E and 25 m/s W 29. 24 N West,15 N East, 54 N North and 11 N North

30. What are 2 ways that a vector can be changed?

31. Define a scalar and how does it differ from a vector?
32. Describe how to add 3 vectors together
a. How would you find the magnitude of the resultant vector?
b. How would you find the direction of the resultant vector?
33. How do you know if a question is referring to a relative velocity?
34. If you are moving at 3 m/s to the north, and a bicycle is moving 10 m/s to the north, what is your relative velocity from
the point of view of the bicycle?

Free Fall

35. What are the 3 First Principles (fundamental concepts or rules) of free fall?
36. If a penny is dropped from 15m high, when will the penny hit the ground?
37. If a book free falls for 4.5s, how far did it fall?
38. An object, initially at rest, falls from a height of 14.5 m.
a. How long does it take to hit the ground?
b. What is the object’s velocity right before it hits the ground?
39. An object is thrown straight up with an initial velocity. When the object is 6 m above the ground, it has a velocity of 22
m/s. On the way down, when it is 6 m above the ground, what is the object’s speed?
40. An object is thrown straight up at 50 m/s. How long does it take to fall back down to its original height?
 41. An object is thrown straight down with an initial velocity of 12 m/s from a height of 110. m.
a. How long does it take to hit the ground?
b. What is the final velocity of the object, right before hitting the ground?
c. After the object leaves whatever threw it, describe the object acceleration until it hits the ground.

Projectile Motion: (Chapter 3)

42. What are the 3 First Principles (fundamental concepts or rules) that are used to solve projectile motion problems? or
How is projectile motion different from free fall?
43. Given a height and an initial velocity, how can you find the time it takes for an object to hit the ground?
44. When you are asked to find the highest point given an initial velocity, how will you solve the problem?
45. If given horizontal displacement and an initial velocity, how you will solve the problem?
46. A plane is traveling horizontally at 375 m/s with an altitude of 6.3 km when it drops a package.
a. How far away horizontally does the package land from the point when the plane releases the package?
b. What is the final vertical velocity just before the package hits the ground?
c. What is the package’s final HORIZONTAL velocity as it hits the ground?
47. A rifle is fired horizontally and travels 175 m. The rifle barrel is 2.34 m from the ground. What speed must the bullet
have been travelling at to reach that distance?
48. A punter in a football game kicks a ball from the goal line at 30.0o from the horizontal at 25.0 m/s.
a. What is the hang time of the punt? In other words, how long does the football take to land back on the ground?
b. How far down the field does the ball land?
49. Know how to add and subtract vectors

Unit 4: Newton’s 3 Laws of Physics (Chapter 4)

50. Which Newtonian Law of Motion deals with 2 objects interacting?

51. Which Newtonian Law of Motion is about inertia?
a. What is the ONLY force that can change an object’s motion?
b. Describe situations where there is NO net external force?
52. Which Newtonian Law of Motion describes the relationship between force, acceleration, and mass?
53. How do we calculate the net acceleration of the system?
54. What are 2 very important properties of the net acceleration?
55. If a rock on the moon weighs 30 N and a different rock on Earth weighs 30 N, which rock has more mass? Why?
56. What is the equation that tells us the relationship between weight and mass?
57. What is mass measured in? And what is weight measured in?
58. When an object reaches terminal velocity, what does that mean in terms of the forces acting on the object?
a. Is the object still falling?
59. Newton’s 3rd Law is complicated. Describe 2 situations and identify at least 1 force pair that obeys Newton’s 3rd Law.
60. How can we calculate the Normal Force and the Tension Force?
61. Can the floor apply the force static friction and the force of kinetic friction at the same time? Justify.
62. What are the formulas for kinetic and static friction?
63. How do we test if a force is enough to move an object when static friction is present?
64. Know how to calculate net force, net acceleration, mass, and internal forces.
65. Know how to solve for all different forces through dedicated equations or net force.

Force Calculations: Draw your free body diagram, then solve. (Chapter 5)

66. A 15 kg box sitting on the floor has a 42 N force applied to the right. What is the acceleration? Assume no friction
67. A 45 N box sitting on the floor has a 16 N force applied up.
a. What is the net force acting on the object?
b. What is the acceleration?
c. What must the normal force be equal to?
 68. A 5.6 kg box slides left with a constant velocity when a 23 N force is applied. Which friction is it and what is its
coefficient?
69. A 5.2 kg box is accelerating to the right at 2.3m/s2. If the coefficient of kinetic friction is 0.42 and of static friction is
0.50, what is the applied force?

70. A 56.5 kg box is at rest on the floor. A force of 30 N is applied to the right.
a. If μs = 0.1, does the box move?
b. What is the magnitude of static friction?
71. A drag race car can accelerate at 55.56 m/s2 (0 to 100 mph in 0.8 s).
a. What is the force of the race car that acts on the driver if he weighs 786 N?
b. What would happen if the seat had a maximum normal force of 4000N?
c. How far would the race car have traveled in that 0.8 seconds?
72. Another box is at rest on the floor. This one weighs 654 N. A force of 100 N is applied at 30°.
a. If μs = 0.12, does it move this time?
b. If μk = 0.09, what is the net acceleration on the box?
c. Another box is at rest on the floor. This one weighs 654 N. A force of 100 N is applied at 30°.
73. An object is being held off the ground by a crane on the right and 4 constructions with a rope on the left. The
construction workers are directly horizontal with the object, while the crane’s rope is at 52° above the horizontal. If the
object is 423 kg, what are the tensions on both ropes?
74. A 13 N cart is initially at rest on a horizontal track on a table. A 200. g mass is attached to the cart by a massless string
placed over a pulley.
a. What is the net force?
b. What is the net acceleration?
c. What is the acceleration of the cart?
d. What is the force of tension on the string?
e. What would µs have to equal for the cart to remain at rest?
f. If the cart was replaced with a block of wood with the same mass but µk = 0.05, what would be the net
acceleration of the system?
75. An 800.-kg elevator has a box that weighs 120. N inside. The counter weight for the elevator is 600.-kg. If the elevator
was allowed to free fall…
a. What is the net force?
b. What is the net acceleration?
c. What is the force of tension on the massless cable?
76. Two boxes are placed side-by-side, with a small 1.00 kg Box1 on the left and a 20.0 kg Box2 on the right. Assuming no
friction,
a. How much force would be needed to accelerate the system at 2.0 m/s2?
b. What would be the observed acceleration if 11 N was applied on the 1.00 kg box?
c. Given b), what would is the force of Box2 on Box1?
d. If the 11 N was applied on the 20.0 kg box, what would the force of Box1 on Box2? (HINT: Not the same as
part C)

Unit 5: Work Power Energy (Chapter 10)

77. What are the SI unit for work and power?

78. What is the difference between work and worknet?
79. What are the conditions for work to be done on an object? (HINT: the equation)
80. When can work be negative?
81. Which energy can be negative?
82. Know how to solve for Work using Power
83. Know how to solve for mass, acceleration or distance using: Work = m anet d
84. Know how to solve for work or net work
14. 8.22 x 10-3 m/s
15. 3.0 x 103 m/s
16a) 3.31 m/s2
16b) 200. m
17) -57.3 m/s2
18) +66. m
19a) 10.7 m/s
19b) 0.286 m
20a) +5 m/s
20b) C
20C) 0
20d) +250 m
23a) +4 m/s
23b) +0.5 m/s2
23c) +7 m
28) 6m E, 9m N; 10.8 m, 56.3°
29) 9 N West, 65 N North, 65.6N, 97.9°
34) 7 m/s South
36) 1.75 s
37) 99.3 m
38a) 1.72 s
38b) 16.87 m/s
39) 22 m/s
40) 10.2 s
41a) 3.35 s
41b) 44.9 m/s
44c) Constant, -9.81 m/s2
42) Horizontal velocity is constant (vx = vx0) ; acceleration is only on the y-axis and it is the acceleration due to gravity; x
and y never mix.
46a) 1.34 x 104 m
46b) -351.6 m/s
46c) 375 m/s
47) 253 m/s
48a) 2.55 s
48b) 55.2 m
66) 2.8 m/s2
67a) 0 N
67b) 0 m/s2
67c) 19 N
68) fk = +23 N; μk = 0.419
69) fnet = +11.96 N  fk = -21.425 N  fapp = +33.39 N
70a) No, max fs = 55.4N
70b) 30 N
71a) 4451 N
71b) Driver will break through the seat
71c) 17.78 m
72a) yes, max fs = 72.48 N while fapp = 86.6 N
72b) 0.48 m/s2
73) FTcrane = 5266 N; FTcrew = 3242 N
74a) 1.962 N
74b) 1.286 m/s2
74c) 1.286 m/s2
74d) 1.70 N
74e) μs = 0.131
74f) fnet = fk + fapp fk = 0.65  0.99 m/s2
75a) 2082 N
75b) 1.47 m/s2
75c) 6770.55 N
76a) 42 N
76b) 0.524 m/s2
76c) 10.48 N
75d) 0.52 N