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Assingment 1 (Dimension and Unit) a) b) Define terms of base quantity, derived quantity, unit and SI unit. State five (5); i) base quantities with dimension, symbol of quantity and SI units respectively ii) derived quantities with dimension, symbol and SI units respectively. c) The human heartbeat, as determined by the pulse rate, is normally about 60 beats/min. If the heart pumps 75 mL of blood per beat, calculate volume of blood pumped in one week. State your answer in cubic meter. How many (mm)2 are there in 4.0 (in)2 ? An old (and ridiculous) unit of thermal conductivity sometimes still encountered in building materials is Btu.hr-1.in.F-1.ft-2 where; 1 Btu = 1054.8 J , 1 in = 2.54 cm , 1 ft2 = 0.0929 m2, 9 F = 5 C . What is 1 (Btu.hr-1.in.F-1.ft-2) in proper units (W.m-1.C-1)? f) Show that the expression given below is dimensionally correct, where; (i) P = g) (ii) ln Nd/Na = - [ Vghd( - l)] / kT

d) e)

Given mv = Ft, where m is mass, v is speed, F is force, and t is time, what are the dimensions of each side of the equation? Is the equation dimensionally correct? Given P = kAT/l, where A is the area, T is difference in temperature, l is length, and k is a constant with SI units of watts pr (metrekelvin), what are the SI units for P (rate of thermal energy flow)?

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(Force and Motion) a) i) List THREE (3) examples of scalar and vector quantities respectively ii) Define: i) Law of inertia ii) Newtons Second Law iii) Newtons Third Law iii) Define force and balance force. b) i) Does the displacement of an object depend on the specific location of the origin of the coordinate system? ii) Does the speedometer in a car measure velocity or speed? iii) You throw a ball upward with an initial speed of 10 m/s. Assuming that there is no air resistance, what is its speed when it returns to you? iv) The graph of position versus time for a car is given in Figure 1. What can you say about the velocity of the car over time?

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c) i) If two vectors are given such that A + B = 0, what can you say about the magnitude and direction of vectors A and B? ii) Given that A + B = C, and that lAl 2 + lBl 2 = lCl 2, how are vectors A and B oriented with respect to each other? iii) Refer to figure 2, you (red) are trying to hit a friend (black) with a water balloon. He is sitting in the window of his dorm room directly across the street. You aim straight at him and shoot. Just when you shoot, he falls out of the window! Does the water balloon hit him?

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Figure 2. (Assume that the shot does have enough speed to reach the dorm across the street.)

d) i) A book is lying at rest on a table. The book will remain there at rest because .. ii) You kick a smooth flat stone out on a frozen pond. The stone slides, slows down and eventually stops. You conclude that . iii) Refer to the figure 3 below, what can you say about the force of gravity Fg acting on a stone and a feather?

Case 1

Case 2

Figure 3

Figure 4

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From figure 4 above you see two cases: a physics student pulling or pushing a sled with a force F which is applied at an angle q. In which case is the normal force greater?

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f)

a) If the velocity of a car is non-zero (v 0), can the acceleration of the car b zero?

b) You throw a ball upward with an initial speed of 10 m/s. Assuming that there is no air resistance, what is its speed when it returns to you? See Figure 5.1 . b) A block of mass m rests on the floor of an elevator that is accelerating upward. What is the relationship between the force due to gravity and the normal force on the block?

Figure 5 g) i) You are given three displacement vectors: A with magnitude 5.0 m in the direction of 60o below the negative x-axis, vector B , has an x-component of +2.5 m and a y-component of +6.0 m and vector C has magnitude of 2.5 m in the negative y-axis. (i) Find the vector D so that A + 2 B + C D = (3.0 m) x . (ii) Calculate the magnitude of vector D . ii) A force of 15.0 kgms-2 is applied at an angle of 45 to the horizontal on a 2.5 kg block initially at rest on a frictionless surface as shown in Figure 2.0. Calculate:

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(Given g = 9.8 ms-2) (i) Magnitude of the blocks acceleration. (ii) Magnitude of the normal force. F 45

Figure 6.0

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Consider two identical blocks A and B, one resting on a flat surface and the other resting on an inclined plane respectively as shown in Figure 2.1. Explain the relationship between normal force, N and weight, W for each block.

B A

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