AP Physics 1 Unit 7 Progress Check A

A group of students must conduct an experiment to determine how the location of an applied force on a classroom door affects the rotational motion of the door. The rotational inertia of the door about its hinges is known. The initial angular velocity of the door is zero. Which of the following lists what measuring devices the students need and the measurements they should take to collect the necessary data to test the relationship between a torque exerted on the door and the change in angular velocity of that object about the hinges of the door? Justify your selection.

A group of students must conduct an experiment to determine how the location of an applied force on a classroom door affects the rotational motion of the door. The rotational inertia of the door about its hinges is known. The initial angular velocity of the door is zero. The students must determine how to test the relationship between a torque exerted on the door and the change in the angular velocity of the door. All frictional forces are considered to be negligible. How should the experiment be conducted to test the relationship between the torque exerted on the door and the change in the door's angular velocity in a way that minimizes experimental uncertainty?

A group of students must conduct an experiment to determine how the location of an applied force on a classroom door affects the rotational motion of the door. The rotational inertia of the door about its hinges is known. The initial angular velocity of the door is zero. The students conduct the experiment and gather data about the net torque exerted on the door and angular acceleration of the door for several trials. They create a graph of the door's angular acceleration as a function of the net torque and sketch a best-fit line through the data. How can the students analyze the data to determine the rotational inertia of the door about its hinges?

A point on the edge of a disk rotates around the center of the disk with an initial angular velocity of 3rad/s clockwise. The graph shows the point's angular acceleration as a function of time. The positive direction is considered to be counterclockwise. All frictional forces are considered to be negligible.

A point on the edge of a disk rotates around the center of the disk with an initial angular velocity of 3rad/s clockwise. The graph shows the point's angular acceleration as a function of time. The positive direction is considered to be counterclockwise. All frictional forces are considered to be negligible. Which of the following graphs qualitatively represents the angular velocity ω of the point on the disk as a function of time t between 0s to 2s?

A point on the edge of a disk rotates around the center of the disk with an initial angular velocity of 3rad/s clockwise. The graph shows the point's angular acceleration as a function of time. The positive direction is considered to be counterclockwise. All frictional forces are considered to be negligible. What is the angular displacement of the point after 10s?

A uniform rod is at rest on a horizontal surface. A student may launch a sphere of clay toward the rod along one of the three paths shown in the figure. Path X and path Z are directed toward the center of mass of the rod. In each case, the sphere of clay is launched with the same linear speed and sticks to the rod. In each case, the time of collision between the sphere of clay and the rod is time t0. A pivot is fixed to the end of the rod, representing the point at which the rod or clay-rod system may rotate. Frictional forces are considered to be negligible. A sphere of clay travels toward the rod along path Z. A student must predict what will happen to the linear momentum and the angular momentum of the rod-sphere system as a result of the collision. Which of the following correctly predicts the change, if any, of these quantities?

A uniform rod is at rest on a horizontal surface. A student may launch a sphere of clay toward the rod along one of the three paths shown in the figure. Path X and path Z are directed toward the center of mass of the rod. In each case, the sphere of clay is launched with the same linear speed and sticks to the rod. In each case, the time of collision between the sphere of clay and the rod is time t0. A pivot is fixed to the end of the rod, representing the point at which the rod or clay-rod system may rotate. Frictional forces are considered to be negligible. Consider the case in which the sphere of clay is launched along path Y. The sphere of clay is launched with a speed v0 and collides with the rod a distance l away from the pivot. The length of the rod is L. The rotational inertia of the rod about the joint is IR, and the mass of the sphere of clay is mc. The sphere of clay is considered to be a point mass. What is the angular speed ωf of the clay-rod system immediately after the collision?

A uniform rod is at rest on a horizontal surface. A student may launch a sphere of clay toward the rod along one of the three paths shown in the figure. Path X and path Z are directed toward the center of mass of the rod. In each case, the sphere of clay is launched with the same linear speed and sticks to the rod. In each case, the time of collision between the sphere of clay and the rod is time t0. A pivot is fixed to the end of the rod, representing the point at which the rod or clay-rod system may rotate. Frictional forces are considered to be negligible. Consider the situation in which three identical spheres of clay are launched simultaneously, one along each possible path. All three spheres of clay are launched with the same initial linear speed and collide with the rod at the same time. The time of collision with the rod for each sphere is time t0. Which of the following predictions is correct about the motion of the system containing the rod and all three spheres of clay immediately after the collision?

A point on a disk rotates around the center axle of the disk. The table shows the angular speed of the point as a function of time. Which of the following graphs could represent the angular position of the point as a function of time?

A disk is fixed to a horizontal axle that extends between two supports, as shown in the figure. Frictional forces between the axle and the supports is not negligible. At time ts, the disk rotates about the center axle with an initial angular speed wd. A student measures the angular displacement Δθ0 of a point on the edge of the disk from time ts until the disk no longer rotates. The angular acceleration of the disk is determined to be αd, and this value remains constant. Based on the data, if possible, how could the student predict the angular displacement of a point on the edge of the disk from time ts until the disk no longer rotates if the initial angular speed is increased to 2ωd ? Justify your selection.

A point on a rotating object has an initial angular velocity ω0 and rotates with an angular acceleration α0 for a time interval from t=0 to time t=t0. The point then rotates at a constant angular speed until time t=t1. What is the angular displacement of the point from t=0 to t=t1? Express your answer in terms of ω0, α0, t0, t1, and/or any fundamental constants as appropriate.

An object of mass M hangs from a string that is looped around a pulley of negligible friction, as shown. The pulley has a mass 0.5M. The object is released from rest and it falls to the floor at time t1. Which of the following pairs of graphs best represents the angular speed as a function of time for the pulley and the vertical speed as a function of time for the falling object for a short time after it is released from rest?

A net force is applied to the edge of a disk that has a diameter of 0.5m. The disk is initially at rest. A graph of the net force as a function of time for the edge of the disk is shown. The net force is applied tangent to the edge of the disk. How can a student use the graph to determine the change in angular momentum of the disk after 8s? Justify your selection.

A net torque is applied to the edge of a spinning object as it rotates about its internal axis. The table shows the net torque exerted on the object at different instants in time. How can a student use the data table to determine the change in angular momentum of the object from 0s to 6s? Justify your selection

A rod is initially at rest on a rough horizontal surface. Three forces are exerted on the rod with the magnitudes and directions shown in the figure. The force exerted in the center of the rod is an equidistant 0.5m from both ends of the rod. If friction between the rod and the table prevents the rod from rotating, what is the magnitude of the torque exerted on the rod about its center from frictional forces?

A rod may freely rotate about an axis that is perpendicular to the rod and is along the plane of the page. The rod is divided into four sections of equal length of 0.2m each, and four forces are exerted on the rod, as shown in the figure. Frictional forces are considered to be negligible. Which of the following correctly describes an additional torque that must be applied in order to keep the rod from rotating?

A disk of radius R=0.5cm rests on a flat, horizontal surface such that frictional forces are considered to be negligible. Three forces of unknown magnitude are exerted on the edge of the disk, as shown in the figure. Which of the following lists the essential measuring devices that, when used together, are needed to determine the change in angular momentum of the disk after a known time of 5.0s?

A student conducts an experiment to test the relationship between the net torque exerted on an object and the change in angular momentum of the object. A variable net torque is exerted on the object to make it rotate about its internal axis. Data from the experiment are used to construct a graph of the net torque exerted on the object as a function of time, as shown in Figure 1. A graph is also created of the angular momentum of the object as a function of time, as shown in Figure 2. Which of the following statements about the change in the object's angular momentum for a given time interval is correct? Justify your selection.

During an experiment, students collect data about the angular momentum of a rigid, uniform spinning wheel about an axle as a function of time, which was used to create the graph that is shown. A frictional torque is exerted on the wheel. A student makes the following statement about the data. "The frictional torque exerted on the wheel is independent of the wheel's angular speed." Does the data from the graph support the student's statement? Justify your selection.

In an experiment, one end of a light string is attached and wrapped around a pulley of diameter 0.5 m. The other end of the string is connected to a block of mass 0.5 kg. The block is released from rest, and the pulley begins to spin in the counterclockwise direction, as shown in Figure 1. Students collect the necessary data to create the graph of the magnitude of the angular momentum of the pulley as a function of time shown in Figure 2. The students state that the graph shows that the net torque exerted on the pulley is constant. Do the data from the graph support the students' statement? Justify your selection.

A rod is at rest on a horizontal surface. One end of the rod is connected to a pivot that allows the rod to rotate around the pivot after a net external force is exerted on the rod. A lump of clay is launched horizontally toward the free end of the rod, as shown in Figure 1. The lump of clay collides with and sticks to the rod, and the clay-rod system rotates, as shown in Figure 2. Which of the following linear collisions is analogous to the rotational collision that is described?