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Unit 3 FR Practice ANswers

This document contains practice problems and answers related to forces and motion. It includes 5 practice problems involving calculating acceleration, forces, and impulse from graphs of force over time or acceleration over time. The answers provide free body diagrams, calculations of acceleration, forces and impulse. Key concepts covered include Newton's second law, impulse, and interpreting graphs of force and acceleration versus time.

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Unit 3 FR Practice ANswers

This document contains practice problems and answers related to forces and motion. It includes 5 practice problems involving calculating acceleration, forces, and impulse from graphs of force over time or acceleration over time. The answers provide free body diagrams, calculations of acceleration, forces and impulse. Key concepts covered include Newton's second law, impulse, and interpreting graphs of force and acceleration versus time.

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Name-___________________________ Unit 3 Free Response Practice Answers

1) Two objects are connected by a very light flexible string as shown in the figure, where M = 0.60
kg and m = 0.40 kg. You can ignore friction and the mass of the pulley.

(a) Draw free-body diagrams for each object.


(b) Calculate the magnitude of the acceleration of each object.
(c) Calculate the tension in the string.
Answer:
(a) The force of gravity acts downward and tension acts upward on each object.
(b) 2.0 m/s2
(c) 4.7 N

2) Three boxes in contact rest side-by-side on a smooth, horizontal floor. Their masses are 5.0-kg,
3.0-kg, and 2.0-kg, with the 3.0-kg box in the center. A force of 50 N pushes on the 5.0-kg box,
which pushes against the other two boxes.
(a) Draw the free-body diagrams for each of the boxes.
(b) What magnitude force does the 3.0-kg box exert on the 5.0-kg box?
(c) What magnitude force does the 3.0-kg box exert on the 2.0-kg box?
Answer:
(a) The following forces act on the 5.0-kg box: the force due to gravity, normal force, contact force
between 5.0-kg mass and 3.0-kg mass, the force of 50 N pushing on the box. The following forces
act on the 3.0-kg box: the force due to gravity, normal force, contact force between the 5.0-kg box
and the 3.0-kg box, the contact force between the 3.0-kg box and the 2.0-kg box. The following
forces act on the 2.0-kg box: the force due to gravity, normal force, contact force between the 3.0-
kg box and the 2.0-kg box.
(b) 25 N
(c) 10 N
3) The figure shows a graph of the acceleration of a 125-g object as a function of the net force
acting on it. What is the acceleration at points A and B?

Answer: A: 16 m/s2, B: 4.0 m/s2

4) The graph in the figure shows the x component of the acceleration of a 2.4-kg object as a
function of time (in ms).
(a) At what time(s) does the x component of the net force on the object reach its maximum
magnitude, and what is that maximum magnitude?
(b) What is the x component of the net force on the object at time t = 0.0 ms and at t = 4.0 ms?
Answer: (a) At 3.0 ms, 48 N (b) 12 N, -24 N

4) The graph in the figure shows the net force acting on a 3.0-kg object as a function of time.
(a) What is the acceleration of this object at time t = 2.0 s?
(b) Draw, to scale, a graph of the acceleration of this object as a function of time over the range t =
0.00 s to t = 7.0 s.
Answer:
(a) 2.0 m/s2
(b) The acceleration-time graph looks the same as the force-time graph except on the vertical axis
the numbers (starting at 2.0) are replaced by 0.67, 1.3, 2.0, 2.7, 3.3, and 4.0.

5) A time-varying horizontal force F(t) = At4 + Bt2 acts for 0.500 s on a 12.25-kg object, starting at
time
t = 1.00 s. In the SI system, A has the numerical value 4.50 and B has the numerical value 8.75.
(a) What are the SI units of A and B?
(b) What impulse does this force impart to the object?
Answer: (a) A: N/s4 = kg m/s6 , B: N/s2 = kg m/s4 (b) 12.9 N s, horizontally

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