DP Physics

Questions from Chapter 2

1. A man is pulling a sled full of coal. He uses a rope

which is 3m long and hitches it over his shoulder which
is 1.5m from the ground as shown in the diagram:
He pulls with a force of 50.N
and manages to move the sled forward by 40 m. How
much work has he done?

Answer: 1.7 kJ

2. At terminal velocity, how is displacement related to time?

A. s ∝ t
B. s ∝ t2
C. s ∝ t3
D.

Answer: A

3. The graph shows the variation with time t of the

magnitude of the net force F acting on a body moving along
a straight line. What does the shaded area represent?
A. The change in the momentum of the body.
B. The total work done by F
C. The change in the kinetic energy of the body.
D. The change in the velocity of the body.

Answer: A

4. The impulse given to a body of mass 1.5kg , is 6.0kg⋅m⋅s−1 If the body was initially at
rest, what will its resulting kinetic energy be?

Answer: 12 J

5. A body collides with an identical body that is initially at rest. They stick together. What
is the percentage of kinetic energy that has been transferred to other forms of energy in
the collision?

Answer: 50%

6. Under what circumstances is the momentum of a system conserved?

A. When no friction forces act within the system
C. When no kinetic energy is lost or gained by the system
C. When no resultant external force acts on the system
D. When there are no resultant forces acting on the objects in the system

Answer: C
7. The momentum of an object changes by Δp in a time Δt. What is the impulse felt by
the object during this change?
A. Δp
B. Δt
C. ΔpΔt
D. Δp/Δt

Answer: A

8. A collision occurs in a closed system. How often are linear momentum, kinetic energy
and total energy conserved?
Linear Momentum Kinetic Energy Total Energy
A Always Always Always
B Always Sometimes Always
C Always Sometimes Sometimes
D Sometimes Sometimes Always

Answer: B

9. Dave and Paula are outside, playing upon frictionless ice provided by their physics
teacher. Paula is stationary when Dave, sliding with velocity v suddenly crashes into
her. They move off together. Dave has twice the mass of Paula. What percentage of his
initial kinetic energy remains after the collision? Give your answer to two significant
figures.

Answer: 67%

10. An explosion in an initially stationary spaceship in deep, empty space causes it to

split in two pieces. One piece has three times the mass of the other. What is the ratio of
the magnitudes of momentum and kinetic energy of the light piece to the heavy piece?
Assume a negligible quantity of energy is converted to internal or thermal energy.
Ratio of Moments Ratio of Kinetic Energy
A 1:3 1:3
B 1:1 3:1
C 1:1 1:9
D 1:3 1:9

Answer: B

11. How can force–time and force–displacement graphs be used to find the impulse or
work done?
 Choice Impulse Work Done
A Area under force–time graph Area under force–displacement graph
B Area under force–displacement graph Area under force–time graph
C Gradient of force–time graph Gradient of force–displacement graph
D Gradient of force–displacement graph Gradient of force–time graph

Answer: A

12. A soccer ball, mass 600g, is sliding to the right on a wet pitch at a velocity of 2m⋅s−1,
until it is kicked to the left. A force of 20N is applied in the kick for a duration of 150ms.
What is the new velocity of the ball? Give your answer to one significant figure, with a
sign (+or−) and without units.

Answer: -3 ms-1

13. A particle collides with a wall as shown below. The particle has
constant mass, m and velocity, v throughout. What is the
magnitude of the change in momentum of the particle?

A. 0
B. 2mvcosθ
C. 2mv
D. 2mvsinθ

Answer: B

14. A force is applied to an object. The force

varies with time according to the following curve.
What is the impulse delivered by the force?
A. 1.8 kg⋅m⋅s−1
B. 3600 kg⋅m⋅s−1
C. 20 kg⋅m⋅s−1
D. 180 kg⋅m⋅s−1

Answer: A

15. A pressure washer uses a high-velocity jet of water to clean surfaces. Every
second, 17.0kg of water is expelled at a velocity of 24.0m⋅s−1. What is the magnitude of
the force from the water onto a surface? Assume that the water velocity is reduced to
zero when it hits a surface. Give your answer correct to three significant figures without
a unit.

Answer: 408 N
16. Consider the situation shown. The velocity of
the heavier ball after the collision is 3.50m⋅s−1 to
the right. Is the collision elastic; yes or no?

Answer: yes

17. An explosion occurs in a closed system. What happens to the total momentum and
the total kinetic energy of the system?
Total Momentum Total Kinetic Energy
A unchanged unchanged
B unchanged increases
C increases unchanged
D increases increases

Answer: A

18. A tennis ball is lightly thrown vertically upwards to be struck by the racquet at the
peak of the trajectory of the ball. A 350 g tennis racquet hits the ball with a velocity of
30 m⋅s−1. Both racquet and ball move with a horizontal velocity of 25 m⋅s−1 immediately
after the collision. What is the mass of the ball, in grams?

Answer: 70 g

19. A net force acts in a constant direction on a 2.5kg object initially at rest. The force
increases linearly for 5.0s, from zero to a maximum force of 8.0N. The force is then
maintained at 8.0N for time, t. If the mass was originally at rest and is accelerated to a
velocity of 24.m⋅s−1what is the value of t? Give your answer to one significant figuret.

Answer: 5 sec

20. A model air rocket with a mass of 50 g is free to travel along a horizontal track. It
begins from rest. After 2.0 s, the rocket has lost 10% of its mass by expelling air at an
average velocity of 53.m⋅s−1. What is the velocity of the rocket at that moment? Give
your answer to two significant figures.

Answer: 5.9 ms-1

21. A train coasts into a station stop. To slow it down, two braking forces are applied:
initially, a 5MN force is applied for 10s, and then a 7.5MN force is applied until it stops.
If the train is travelling at 40.m⋅s−1 before the breaks are applied and has a mass of
3.4×106 kg, for how long must the 7.5 MN force be applied, to the nearest second?
Give your answer to two significant figures.

Answer: 11 sec
22. A net horizontal force acts upon a stationary ball for 25ms when it is kicked by a
soccer player. If the magnitude of the momentum of the ball after being kicked is
2.6kg⋅m⋅s−1, what is the size of the force on the ball? Give your answer correct to the
nearest Newton.

Answer: 104 N

23. A 6kg object accelerates from 5m⋅s−1to 25m⋅s−1in 30 seconds. What was the net
force acting on the object? Give your answer in Newtons to one significant figure.

Answer: 4 N

24. A rocket engine uses 275kg⋅s−1 of fuel and expels gas particles at an average speed
of 1250m⋅s−1. What is the thrust produced by the engine? Give your answer to an
appropriate number of significant figures.

Answer: 344 kN

25. A 2500kg train carriage is coasting, unpowered, at 3.0m⋅s−1 when 1500kg of

gravel is dropped into it as it passes by. What is the final speed of the carriage? Give
your answer in m⋅s−1.

Answer: 1.9 ms-1

26. A car coasting at 25m⋅s−1, has a mass of 730kg and collides with another stationary
car of mass 1800kg. If the two cars stick together, what is their final velocity 7.2

Answer: 7.2 ms-1

27. A loaded gun, with mass 975g, fires a 9.15 g bullet horizontally with a muzzle
velocity of 300m⋅s−1. What is the recoil velocity of the gun? Give your answer in m⋅s−1
correct to two significant figures with the correct sign.

Answer: -2.8 ms-1

28. A baseball is travelling horizontally when it strikes a wall with a speed u and
rebounds, back the way it came, with the same speed. If the baseball has a mass m,
what is the magnitude of its change in momentum?
A. mu
B. 2mu
C. 0
D. mu/2

Answer: B