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This document provides a practical worksheet for a physics course, with 7 multi-part questions covering topics like collisions, momentum, impulse, and conservation of energy and momentum. Students are asked to analyze examples of objects colliding or interacting using concepts from Newton's laws of motion. They must determine things like the velocity of objects after collisions, the impulse exerted on objects, and whether energy is conserved in various scenarios.

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Worksheet 08

This document provides a practical worksheet for a physics course, with 7 multi-part questions covering topics like collisions, momentum, impulse, and conservation of energy and momentum. Students are asked to analyze examples of objects colliding or interacting using concepts from Newton's laws of motion. They must determine things like the velocity of objects after collisions, the impulse exerted on objects, and whether energy is conserved in various scenarios.

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PHYA10 - Physics I (Physical Sciences)

Practical Worksheet #08


Week #09: Monday, Nov. 08 - Friday, Nov. 12

Reading Material: Chapter 9 (9.1 - 9.8)

1. Two objects collide, one of which was initially moving and the other initially at rest.

(a) Is it possible for both objects to be at rest after the collision? If it is possible, describe an example. If
it is not possible explain why.
(b) Is it possible for one object to be at rest after the collision? If it is possible, describe an example. If
it is not possible explain why.

2. You are asleep in your room, but a fire has broken out in the hall and smoke is pouring in through the
partially open door. You need to close the door as soon as possible.

The room is so messy that you cannot get to the door. You have a ball of clay and a super-ball, each
with the same mass.

If you throw the clay at the door, it will stick to it; if you throw the super-ball at the door it will bounce
off. You only have time to throw one thing at the door.

(a) Which should you throw at the door, the clay or the super-ball? Explain.
(b) Which ball will experience the largest impulse during the collision? Explain.
(c) From Newton’s Third Law, the impulse that the door exerts on the ball during the collision is equal
in magnitude although opposite in direction to the impulse the ball exerts on the door. Which ball
exerts the largest impulse on the door? Explain.

3. Three identical balls slide on a table and hit a block that is fixed to the table. In the figures we are looking
down from above. In each case the ball is going at the same speed before it hits the block.

Rank in order from the largest to the small-


est the magnitude of the force exerted on the
block by the ball. Explain your answer.

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4. Dan (mD = 70. kg) is snowboarding on level frictionless snow, moving to the right at 6 m/s. His straps are
undone and he suddenly jumps off the snowboard backwards. The snowboard (mS = 6.5 kg) now moves
forward at 11 m/s.
(a) How fast is Dan moving as his feet hit the ground?
(b) How much work does Dan do on the snowboard?

5. Two cars of the same mass collide and stick together. Before the collision one car was moving north at
speed 2v, while the other car was moving at speed v at an φ angle as illustrated. After they stick together
the cars travel at speed vfinal at an angle θ as illustrated.

(a) In terms of the the speed v and the angle φ, find the
speed vfinal of the joined cars after the collision.

(b) In terms of the angle φ, find the angle θ made by the


velocity vector of the two cars after the collision.

6. A curling stone (M = 19 kg) moves with a speed of 5 m/s to a head-on collision with a stationary stone
(m = 18 kg). After the collision the first curling stone stops while the second stone is broken in two pieces.

The larger fragment (m1 = 12 kg) moves away with a speed of 2 m/s at an angle θ1 = 30◦ .

(a) How fast and in what direction is the smaller fragment moving?
(b) Find explicitly whether energy is conserved or not during the collision. Explain.

7. A small cube of mass m slides down a circular path of radius R cut into a large block of mass M as shown.

M rests on a table, and both blocks move without friction. The


blocks are initially at rest, and m starts from the top of the path.

Making sure to justify all your calculations and assump-


tions, find the velocity v of the cube as it leaves the block.

Hint: You will need to use both conservation of energy


and conservation of momentum.

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