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This document provides 15 practice problems related to work, energy, force, and motion. The problems calculate potential and kinetic energy values, speeds, masses, and forces for various objects including shot puts, water, baseballs, hammers, bullets, cars, pile drivers, and rollercoasters moving up and down hills. The document aims to help students practice applying physics concepts related to work, energy, and motion.

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This document provides 15 practice problems related to work, energy, force, and motion. The problems calculate potential and kinetic energy values, speeds, masses, and forces for various objects including shot puts, water, baseballs, hammers, bullets, cars, pile drivers, and rollercoasters moving up and down hills. The document aims to help students practice applying physics concepts related to work, energy, and motion.

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Tutorial (Work and Energy)

1. What is the potential energy of a 5.4 kg shot put that is 12 m in the air?
2. What mass of water must you elevate a distance of 500 m to get a potential
energy of 3.24 x 10
11
J?
3. To what height must a 0.5 kg baseball rise to get a potential energy of 300 J?
4. What is the kinetic energy of a 0.545 kg baseball going 38 m/s?
5. What speed must a 5 kg hammer have to have a kinetic energy of 500 J?
6. A speeding bullet with a speed of 582 m/s has a kinetic energy of 34,000 J.
What is its mass?
7. It takes 500 N of force to drive a nail. A 0.69 kg hammer going 5 m/s will drive
it in what distance?
8. A 1000 kg car going 12 m/s is stopped in a distance of 34 m. What force
stopped it?
9. A pile driver lifts a 45 kg pile driving head a distance of 6.6 m above a piling.
It drives the piling in a distance of 0.15 m. Calculate the amount of force does it
exert.
10. A 0.545 kg pop fly has an upward velocity of 34 m/s. How high in the air will
it go?
11. A 1 kg ball falls 20 m. What is its speed when it hits the ground?
12. A 1000 kg car is going 12 m/s at the bottom of a 5 m tall hill. How fast is it
going at the top?
13. A 100 kg rollercoaster is going 5 m/s at the top of a 7.5 m hill. What is its
velocity at the top of a 5.0 m tall hill?
14. A 200 kg rollercoaster is going 12 m/s at the top of a 3.0 m tall hill. What is its
velocity at the top of a 7.0 m tall hill?
15. A 300 kg rollercoaster is going 5 m/s at the top of an 8 m tall hill. What is its
speed at the bottom?

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