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Work and Power: Part 1 True or False

The document provides a worksheet with questions about work and power. It includes true/false questions and calculation problems involving work, power, forces, distances, times, and other variables. The document aims to help students learn concepts related to work and power through practicing sample problems and calculations.

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Work and Power

Name: __________________________________________ Grade and Section: _____________________ Score: __________


Subject: _________________________________________ Date: _________________ Parent’s Signature: _______________

Direction: Answer the following questions.


Part 1 True or False
Write YES if the statement is correct; and write No Way! if
the statement is false.
WORK Work and Power
_____ 1. Work is a form of energy.
_____ 2. A Watt is the standard metric unit of work. 1. Calculate the work done by a 47 N force pushing a pencil
_____ 3. Units of work would be equivalent to a Newton 0.26 m.
times a meter.
_____ 4. A kg•m2/s2 would be a unit of work.
_____ 5. Work is a time-based quantity; it is dependent upon
how fast a force displaces an object.
_____ 6. Superman applies a force on a truck to prevent it 2. Calculate the work done by a 47 N force pushing a 0.025
from moving down a hill. This is an example of work being
kg pencil 0.25 m against a force of 23 N.
done.
_____ 7. An upward force is applied to a bucket as it is carried
20 m across the yard. This is an example of work being done.
_____ 8. A force is applied by a chain to a roller coaster car to
carry it up the hill of the first drop of the Shockwave ride.
This is an example of work being done. 3. Calculate the work done by a 2.4 N force pushing a 400. g
_____9. The force of friction acts upon a softball player as she sandwich across a table 0.75 m wide.
makes a headfirst dive into third base. This is an example of
work being done.

Write YES if the statement is correct; and write No Way! if


the statement is false. 4. How far can a mother push a 20.0 kg baby carriage, using a
POWER force of 62.0 N at an angle of 30.0º to the horizontal, if she
______1. Power is a time-based quantity. can do 2920 J of work?
______2. Power refers to how fast work is done upon an
object.
______3. Powerful people or powerful machines are simply
people or machines which always do a lot of work.
______4. A force is exerted on an object to move it at a
constant speed. The power delivered by this force is the 5. How much work is it to lift a 20. kg sack of potatoes
magnitude of the force multiplied by the speed of the object. vertically 6.5 m?
______5. The standard metric unit of power is the Watt.
______6. If person A and person B do the same job but person
B does it faster, then person A does more work but person B
has more power.
______7. The Newton•meter is a unit of power. 6. If a small motor does 520. J of work to move a toy car 260.
______8. A 60-kg boy runs up a 2.0-meter staircase in 1.5 m, what force does it exert?
seconds. His power is approximately 80 Watt.
______9. A 300-Newton force is applied to a skier to drag her
up a ski hill at a constant speed of 1.5 m/s. The power
delivered by the toe rope is 450 Watts.
7. A girl pushes her little brother on his sled with a force of
Identify whether the indicated force does positive work,
300. N for 750. m. How much work is this if the force of
negative work or no work.
friction acting on the sled is (a) 200. N, (b) 300.
_______________1. A cable is attached to a bucket and the N?
force of tension is used to pull the bucket out of a well.
_______________2. Rusty Nales uses a hammer to exert an
applied force upon a stubborn nail to drive it into the wall.
_______________3. Near the end of the Shockwave ride, a
braking system exerts an applied force upon the coaster car to
bring it to a stop.
_______________4. The force of friction acts upon a baseball
player as he slides into third base.
_______________5. A busy spider hangs motionless from a
silk thread, supported by the tension in the thread.
14. You move a 25 N object 5.0 meters. How much work did
you do?

8. A 75.0 kg man pushes on a 5.0 x 105 ton wall for 250 s but
it does not move. How much work does he do on the wall? 15. You carry a 20. N bag of dog food up a 6.0 m flight of
(2000 lb = 1 ton; 0.454 kg = 1 lb) stairs. How much work was done?

9. A boy on a bicycle drags a wagon full of newspapers at 16. You push down on a 3.0 N box for 10. minutes. How
0.800 m/s for 30.0 min using a force of 40.0 N. How much much work was done?
work has the boy done?

17. You use 35 J of energy to move a 7.0 N object. How far


Consider a 10 kg mass sitting on the ramp shown to the right. did you move it?
Use the following diagram for questions 10 and 11.

20. m
5.0 m
18. You do 45 J of work in 3.0 seconds. How much power do
you use?

10. If it takes 25 N to slide the box up the ramp, how much


work will it take to slide the box up?

19. A car uses 2,500 Joules in 25 seconds. Find power

11. Instead of sliding, how much work will it take to lift the
box to the top of the ramp?

12. How much power does it take to lift 30.0 N 10.0 m high
in 5.00 s?

13. How much power does it take to lift 30.0 kg 10.0 m high
in 5.00 s?
Prepared by: ORIEL H. VALENCIANO

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