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This document contains a physics assignment for a medical school foundation physics course. The assignment includes 10 problems related to linear motion, projectile motion, and forces. Students are asked to calculate values like acceleration, time, velocity, distance, tension, and coefficients of friction using principles of kinematics and Newton's laws of motion. The assignment is due on June 1st, 2020 at 10:00 and notes that late submissions will result in lost marks.

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Pyc101 Assignment One

This document contains a physics assignment for a medical school foundation physics course. The assignment includes 10 problems related to linear motion, projectile motion, and forces. Students are asked to calculate values like acceleration, time, velocity, distance, tension, and coefficients of friction using principles of kinematics and Newton's laws of motion. The assignment is due on June 1st, 2020 at 10:00 and notes that late submissions will result in lost marks.

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CAVENDISH UNIVERSITY

MEDICAL SCHOOL
FOUNDATION PHYSICS

PHYSICS (PYC101)

ASSIGNMENT ONE

DUE DATE: 01/06/2020 AT 10:00

NOTE: LATE SUBMISION ATTRACTS LOSS OF MARKS

Linear motion, Projectile motion and Forces

1. The speed of a train is reduced uniformly from to while travelling a


distance of 90 m.
a. Compute the deceleration [2]
b. How much further will the train travel before coming to rest, provided the
acceleration remains constant?[3]

2. A car travelling at a constant speed of passes a police car hidden behind a


billboard. One second after the spending car passes the billboard, the police car sets out
from the billboard to catch it, accelerating at a constant rate of . How long does
it take the police officer to catch up with the speeding car? [5]

3. A baseball is thrown straight upward with a speed of .


a. How long will it rise? [3]
b. How high will it rise? [3]
c. How long after it leaves the hand will it return to the starting point?[5]

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4. An airplane is in level flight and an altitude of 1525 m when it drops a bomb as
shown in the figure below.

a. How long does the bomb take to reach the ground?[4]


b. What will the bomb’s velocity be on impact? [5]

5. A stunt flier is moving at parallel to the flat ground 100 m below, as shown in the
figure below.

How large must the distance x from plane to target be if a sack of flour released from the
plane is to strike the target? [7]

6. For the situation shown in the figure below, find the values of and if the objects
weight is 600 N.[8]

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7. A 500 kg load is suspended from the end of a horizontal beam, as shown in the figure
below.

Assuming that the beam’s mass can be neglected compared with that of the load; find the
tension in the cable.[10]
8. Consider the situation shown in the figure below.

The uniform 0.60 kN beam of length L is hinged at P. Find the tension in the rope.[10]

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9. A force of 200 N is just sufficient to start a 50 kg steel trunk moving across a wooden
floor. Find the coefficient of static friction. [5]

10. A 50 N box is slid straight across the floor at constant speed by a force of 25 N, as shown
in the figure below.

a. How large a friction force impedes the motion of the box?[5]


b. How large is the normal force? [3]
c. Find between the box and the floor.[2]

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