Physics 211 Computer Intensive Physics Spring, 1998
Name
Second Hour Exam
The computer portionTotal points 40 points
An electronic version of the question is in the Exam Folder. Save your file
to this folder.
Laboratory Exam Question (20 points)
Interactive Video Activity
A video sequence of the collision of two pucks on an air table is shown. You may neglect friction. The original film was taken at 20 frames per second. You are being shown every other picture, so you can take 35 data points, if you wish.
a. Open VideoPoint and play the video sequence Exam-Collision through
once.
b. (12 pts) Collect data and compute the mass of the red puck in terms of the
mass of the blue puck. Show your data and your analyses.
c. ( 6 pts) Explain what physics
computations in part (b).		 principles you used to carry out the

d. ( 2 pts) What ways can you suggest to check your results in part (b)?

Maple Exam Question (20 points)

2. Open the Maple 2 file and complete the problem. Save it with your name on the file and in the Maple worksheet. Save your file to this folder.

When you have completed your work on both of these questions, place your answer files in the Submit folder.