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1. The neighbor's windows blew outward during a tornado despite no explosion. High winds from the tornado likely caused the windows to blow outward. 2. Hurricanes cause many roof repairs due to high winds lifting and tearing roofing materials off of houses. Using construction adhesive along roof supports could help hold roofs on better during hurricanes. 3. A stick figure drawing showing someone floating on their back in a swimming pool with vector arrows showing upward buoyant forces balancing the downward force of gravity.

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1. The neighbor's windows blew outward during a tornado despite no explosion. High winds from the tornado likely caused the windows to blow outward. 2. Hurricanes cause many roof repairs due to high winds lifting and tearing roofing materials off of houses. Using construction adhesive along roof supports could help hold roofs on better during hurricanes. 3. A stick figure drawing showing someone floating on their back in a swimming pool with vector arrows showing upward buoyant forces balancing the downward force of gravity.

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Lesson 9 Assignment

Questions
Respond to each of the following questions. Please use the prescribed method for working
through word problems (see example 1 in lesson 2). Show all work and diagrams.

1. Last summer during a tornado I watched the windows of my neighbor’s house blow
outward. There was no explosion, but it was quite windy. What might explain this
happening?

2. Explain the physics of why so many roofs are in need of repair after a hurricane. (I just
noticed in a news report the other day that it is now recommended for houses in areas where
hurricanes are a problem that they should use construction adhesive along the two-by-fours
and the roof sheeting to help hold them on better.)

3. I’m floating on the surface of my parents’ swimming pool. Draw a picture of this, using
vector arrows to explain why I’m floating. (Stick figures work just fine!)
4. What three statements can be made about an object that floats in a fluid?

5. What principle accounts for a curve ball? State the principle in your own words. A diagram
may benefit us both.

6. A boat full of people lazily drifts along in Lake Superior. The boat has a mass, including
people, of 15,450 kg.

a. What is the buoyant force on the boat?

b. What is the volume of the displaced water in cubic meters?


For questions 7–9, match each statement with the correct principle.

a. Pascal’s principle b. Bernoulli’s principle c. Archimedes’ principle

7. An immersed object is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces.

8. Changes in pressure at any point in an enclosed fluid at rest are transmitted undiminished to
all points in the fluid and act in all directions.

9. The pressure in a fluid decreases as the speed of the fluid increases.

10. I have a hydraulic lift. Piston 1 has an area of 24.6 cm2. I apply a force of 796 N to piston 1,
and piston 2 lifts an object weighing 13,575 N.

a. What is the minimum surface area of piston 2?

b. If piston 1 is made to move a distance of 215.7 cm, how far will piston 2 move?
11. Giraffes have very long necks, creating a difference in pressure between their heads and
hearts. Giraffes have evolved to deal with this difference. If the distance between a giraffe’s
head and heart is 1.95 m and its blood has a density of 1.05 kg/m3, what is the difference in
pressure between the head and heart?

12. A helium balloon starts out at sea level with a volume of 16 m3 and a pressure of 1 atm. It
rises up into the atmosphere until it reaches a pressure of 0.85 atm. What is the balloon’s
new volume?

13. An air bubble with a diameter of 0.010 m is released underwater at a depth of 15 m. How
large will the air bubble’s diameter be at the surface? (There is an increase of 1 atm for
every 10.3 m in depth in water; for a sphere, v = 43  3.14  r3. There is already 1 atm at the
surface.) Work slowly and think. You can do it!
14. The temperature increases in a container from 356 K to 575 K. The final pressure in the
container, which has a capacity of 75 L, is 98.5 kPa. What is the initial pressure?

15. If I take a fixed number of gas molecules and move them into a larger container, what will
happen to the pressure and temperature?

16. Explain why a gas in a container exerts a pressure.

17. Why do we have an atmospheric pressure, and why doesn’t our atmosphere just drift off into
space?

18. Suppose a container has an initial volume of 11.6 L and the gas contained within is exerting
a pressure 824 Pa. If we increase the volume of the container to 14.5 L, what will the
pressure exerted by the gas be in larger volume? (Temperature is being held constant.)
19. Write the correct units for the concepts given.

a. velocity

b. weight density

c. acceleration

d. work

e. pressure

f. volume

g. torque

h. speed

i. centripetal force

j. distance

k. mass

l. spring constant (k)

m. weight

n. speed of light

o. density

p. gravity

Lab Activity
Complete the following lab from Conceptual Physics Laboratory Manual.

 Lab 48, “Inflation”


Submit your answers to analysis questions 1–6.

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