Practice Problems for Physics 111 Common Exam 3, Fall 2024

Chapters 8, 9, 10

1. A 3.0-kg ball with an initial velocity of (4i + 3j) m/s collides with a wall and rebounds with a
velocity of (–4i + 3j) m/s. What is the impulse exerted on the ball by the wall?

2. An 80-g particle moving with an initial speed of 50 m/s in the positive x direction strikes and
sticks to a 60-g particle moving 50 m/s in the positive y direction. What is the magnitude of the
velocity of the composite system after the collision?

3.A merry-go-round rotates from rest with an angular acceleration of 1.56 rad/s2. How long does it
take to rotate through the first 2 rev?

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4.A wheel, with radius R = 0.5 m, initially has an angular velocity of 2.5 rev/s, and is slowing down
at a rate of 2 rad/s2. By the time it stops spinning about its center, what distance will a point on
the outer rim have traveled?

5.A solid ball of mass of 0.25 kg rolls without slipping 4 m down an incline that makes an angle
of 250 a with a horizontal. If it starts from rest, what is its kinetic energy at the bottom of the
incline ?

6.A basketball is rolling without slipping along a horizontal surface with total kinetic energy 20 J.
How much energy (in Joules) is due to the rotational kinetic energy of the ball about its center of
mass? Basketballs are hollow shells. (I = 2/3 mr2.)

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7. A hollow, spherical shell with mass 2.00 kg rolls without slipping down a 38.0° slope. Find
the acceleration, the friction force, and the minimum coefficient of static friction needed to
prevent slipping.

8. A 10-kilogram bicycle wheel is rotating at 60 rev/min. It is essentially a thin hoop with a radius
of 0.5 meters and a rotational inertia I = mr2. How much work must be done to bring it to a
stop?

9. You throw a ball with a mass of 0.40 kg against a brick wall. It is moving horizontally to the
left at 30 m/s when it hits the wall; it rebounds horizontally to the right at 20 m/s. Find the
impulse of the net external force on the ball during its collision with the wall.

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10. In the previous problem, if the ball is in contact with the wall for 0.010 s, find the average
horizontal force that the wall exerts on the ball during the impact.

11. Two small spheres, each with mass 0.0200 kg, are connected by a light 1.60 m long rod. The
spheres rotate about an axis that is perpendicular to the rod at its center. What is the angular
speed in rad/s of the spheres if the total kinetic energy is 1.28 J?

12. The mass of Sun is 2.0 x 1030 kg and the mass of Earth is 6.0 x 1024 kg. If the distance between
Sun and Earth is 1.50 x 108 km, the center of mass of the Sun-Earth system is located at the
following distance from the center of the Sun (use the system of coordinates with the origin at
the center of the Sun, and the Earth lies on the x-axis):

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13. A playground merry-go-round has a radius of 3.0 m and a rotational inertia of 600 kg × m2 . It
is initially spinning at 0.80 rad/s when a 20-kg child crawls from the center to the rim. When
the child reaches the rim the angular velocity of the merry-go-round is:

14. A system consists of three particles with masses m1 = m2 = 1.0 kg and m3 = 2.0 kg. located as
shown in Figure. Find the coordinates of the center of mass of the system.

15. One force acting on a machine part is 𝐹⃗ = (−5.00𝑁)𝑖̂ + (4.00𝑁)𝐽̂. The vector from the origin
to the point where the force is applied is s 𝑟⃗ = (−0.450𝑚)𝑖̂ + (0.150𝑚)𝐽̂. (a) In a sketch,
show 𝑟⃗, 𝐹⃗ and the origin. (b) Use the right-hand rule to determine the direction of the torque.
(c) Calculate the vector torque for an axis at the origin produced by this force. Verify that the
direction of the torque is the same as you obtained in part (b).

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16. In order to find the speed of a fast bullet, it is fired into a 4.0 kg wooden block on a horizontal
surface. The bullet gets stuck in the block which starts moving with the speed of Vf=2.5 m/s.
Find the original speed of the bullet Vi if its mass is 7.54 gram.

17. A 6 kg particle with velocity v = -2i + 5j is at x = 30 m, y = 45 m. What is the angular momentum

18. A wheel is rotating freely at angular speed 900 rev/min on a shaft whose rotational inertia is
negligible. A second wheel, initially at rest and with three times the rotational inertia of the
first, is suddenly coupled to the same shaft. What is the angular speed of the resultant
combination of the shaft and two wheels?

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19. At t = 0 the current to a dc electric motor is reversed, resulting in an angular displacement of
the motor shaft given by θ(t) = (250 rad/s)t – (20.0 rad/s2)t2 – (1.50 rad/s3 )t3. (a) At what
time is the angular velocity of the motor shaft zero? (b) Calculate the angular acceleration at
the instant that the motor shaft has zero angular velocity. (c) How many revolutions does the
motor shaft turn through between the time when the current is reversed and the instant when
the angular velocity is zero? (d) How fast was the motor shaft rotating at t = 0, when the current
was reversed? (e) Calculate the average angular velocity for the time period from t = 0 to the
time calculated in part (a).

Answer Key

1. –24i N.s
2. 36 m/s
3. 4 s
4. 31 m
5. 4 J
6. 8
7. 3.62 m/s2, 4.83 N, 0.313
8. 49.35 J
9. 20 N.s
10. 2000 N
11. 10
12. 450 km
13. 0.61 rad/s
14. xcm=0.75 m, ycm= 1.0 m
15. 𝝉
⃗⃗ = (−𝟏. 𝟎𝟓)𝒌 ̂
16. 1330
17. 1440k
18. 225 rev/min
19. (a) 4.23s; (b) -78.1rad/s2; (c) 586rad= 93.3 rev; (d) 250 rad/s; (e) 138 rad/s